Saint Kabirji made a pithy observation:
‘Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact.’
He further says, ‘Let the duel of wheels go on. Why do you lament?
If you stay close to the pivotal pin; you will escape all harm.’
Any grain – Wheat, maize, millet, millet… you put in the mill-stone is ground but the grain that clings to the pivotal pin, the immutable on, remains unharmed.
The world is ever changing and is constantly in motion but the motion is owing to the motionless. There is the pivotal pin in the centre on which the mill-stone rotates. The wheel of a cycle or a motorbike rotates being fixed to the hub. The hub rotates on the axle which remains where it is. The wheel rotates but the axle on which it rotates doesn’t the rotation is on the strength of the non-rotating. Similarly, all motion is on the strength of the motionless; all change is on the strength of the changeless. The childhood changed on the strength of the changeless Atman. Happiness changes; sorrow changes; the mind and the intellect keep on changing; the ego too changes – it becomes inflated now and modest then.
The changeless is the reality; the changing one is unreal, the Maya. Whenever sorrow comes, know that it will go; whenever happiness or pleasure or worry comes, know that it is transient. Whatever comes is bound to go.
The transient is experienced on the ground of the Eternal. The Eternal is changeless; the transient keeps changing. So there are two things – the manifest world is transient and the Atman, God is Eternal. The Eternal is the abode of bliss, Knowledge, potence and by virtue of these the transient is functioning. What is experienced by the senses is transient; the Eternal is beyond perception. The mind is perceived on the strength of the intellect; the intellect too is perceived on the strength of reason; reason too is perceived on the strength of the Eternal. One says, ‘my reasoning faculty is developed (or not developed).’
The transient is perceived by virtue of the Eternal. All the transient things combined together cannot cognize the Eternal. ‘One Universal Creator God… The Name I Truth… Creative Being…’ The Eternal is the only doer. He is Ajooni saivan… ‘Beyond Birth, self-Existent’ the transient alone is born, the Eternal is Self-Existent. How to realize Him? “By Guru’s Grace’ He was there before the transient came into being; He is there while the transient continues to exist and will exist even after the transient comes to an end. ‘True In The Primal Beginning, True Throughout The Ages, True Here And Now, Forever And Even True.’
Lord Vishnu reposes in the Eternal Brahman in the four month period from Deva-Shayani (God sleeping) Ekadashi to Deva-uthi (God waking up) Ekadashi. Saints and ascetics too spend a good part of these four moths in solitude and meditation aimed at reposing in the Eternal Brahman. Lord. Krishna abided in the Eternal Brahman for as long as thirteen years.
If you chant Hari O… m… in a protracted tone and become silent thereafter, your mind abides in the Eternal for that much time. You experience freedom from tension and worry in a short time. This is a method of meditation.
The method of Knowledge is to distinguish between the Eternal and the transient. The atman is Eternal and the body, the world mind and the intellect are transient. The transient keeps on changing; the Eternal is witnessing it. The Eternal alone knows happiness and sorrow. If we develop love for that Eternal, if we engage ourselves in attaining the knowledge of that Eternal or in Self enquiry ‘who am I?’ we shall get the Eternal Brahman revealed. And if we engage ourselves in the search of supreme self, we shall know our Real Self, our real ‘I’. Our real ‘I’ is the same as the Atman and the atman is the same as Supreme Brahman. Where there is the bubble, the water is also there and where there is water, there is the ocean also.
Somebody asks. “How can the bubble be the ocean?”
The bubble is not the ocean but water, the essences of bubble is ocean. Similarly, the Eternal Atman is inseparable part of Supreme Brahman. The sky in the pitcher looks small but it is exactly same as the infinite sky and in inseparable from it.
If you abide in the Eternal, the transient will not be able to cause any trouble to you. Otherwise, howsoever well you manage the transient; your body is never free from troubles. Do get treatment for the body but don't’ think the bodily pain as occurring to you knowing that it is occurring to the body not to you. Similarly don't attribute mental problems to you, the Eternal Atman. You will get blessed sooner rather than later.
‘Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact.’
He further says, ‘Let the duel of wheels go on. Why do you lament?
If you stay close to the pivotal pin; you will escape all harm.’
Any grain – Wheat, maize, millet, millet… you put in the mill-stone is ground but the grain that clings to the pivotal pin, the immutable on, remains unharmed.
The world is ever changing and is constantly in motion but the motion is owing to the motionless. There is the pivotal pin in the centre on which the mill-stone rotates. The wheel of a cycle or a motorbike rotates being fixed to the hub. The hub rotates on the axle which remains where it is. The wheel rotates but the axle on which it rotates doesn’t the rotation is on the strength of the non-rotating. Similarly, all motion is on the strength of the motionless; all change is on the strength of the changeless. The childhood changed on the strength of the changeless Atman. Happiness changes; sorrow changes; the mind and the intellect keep on changing; the ego too changes – it becomes inflated now and modest then.
The changeless is the reality; the changing one is unreal, the Maya. Whenever sorrow comes, know that it will go; whenever happiness or pleasure or worry comes, know that it is transient. Whatever comes is bound to go.
The transient is experienced on the ground of the Eternal. The Eternal is changeless; the transient keeps changing. So there are two things – the manifest world is transient and the Atman, God is Eternal. The Eternal is the abode of bliss, Knowledge, potence and by virtue of these the transient is functioning. What is experienced by the senses is transient; the Eternal is beyond perception. The mind is perceived on the strength of the intellect; the intellect too is perceived on the strength of reason; reason too is perceived on the strength of the Eternal. One says, ‘my reasoning faculty is developed (or not developed).’
The transient is perceived by virtue of the Eternal. All the transient things combined together cannot cognize the Eternal. ‘One Universal Creator God… The Name I Truth… Creative Being…’ The Eternal is the only doer. He is Ajooni saivan… ‘Beyond Birth, self-Existent’ the transient alone is born, the Eternal is Self-Existent. How to realize Him? “By Guru’s Grace’ He was there before the transient came into being; He is there while the transient continues to exist and will exist even after the transient comes to an end. ‘True In The Primal Beginning, True Throughout The Ages, True Here And Now, Forever And Even True.’
Lord Vishnu reposes in the Eternal Brahman in the four month period from Deva-Shayani (God sleeping) Ekadashi to Deva-uthi (God waking up) Ekadashi. Saints and ascetics too spend a good part of these four moths in solitude and meditation aimed at reposing in the Eternal Brahman. Lord. Krishna abided in the Eternal Brahman for as long as thirteen years.
If you chant Hari O… m… in a protracted tone and become silent thereafter, your mind abides in the Eternal for that much time. You experience freedom from tension and worry in a short time. This is a method of meditation.
The method of Knowledge is to distinguish between the Eternal and the transient. The atman is Eternal and the body, the world mind and the intellect are transient. The transient keeps on changing; the Eternal is witnessing it. The Eternal alone knows happiness and sorrow. If we develop love for that Eternal, if we engage ourselves in attaining the knowledge of that Eternal or in Self enquiry ‘who am I?’ we shall get the Eternal Brahman revealed. And if we engage ourselves in the search of supreme self, we shall know our Real Self, our real ‘I’. Our real ‘I’ is the same as the Atman and the atman is the same as Supreme Brahman. Where there is the bubble, the water is also there and where there is water, there is the ocean also.
Somebody asks. “How can the bubble be the ocean?”
The bubble is not the ocean but water, the essences of bubble is ocean. Similarly, the Eternal Atman is inseparable part of Supreme Brahman. The sky in the pitcher looks small but it is exactly same as the infinite sky and in inseparable from it.
If you abide in the Eternal, the transient will not be able to cause any trouble to you. Otherwise, howsoever well you manage the transient; your body is never free from troubles. Do get treatment for the body but don't’ think the bodily pain as occurring to you knowing that it is occurring to the body not to you. Similarly don't attribute mental problems to you, the Eternal Atman. You will get blessed sooner rather than later.
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