‘Grief and infatuation, pleasure and pain, and change of condition of the body (viz. birth and death and change of body) are the work of Maya (and are not real, but are wrongly attributed to the Soul). Just as a dream is only an unreal appearance (vivarta) of the mind (or intellect s) so is samsara illusory, illusory, unreal.’
Vedanta says the phenomenal world is not real; it is illusory. Illusory is what was not there earlier and will not be there later and that which is constantly changing. This body too is illusory and your intellect too is illusory having risen from Maya. Therefore, those who attribute the lamentation, sorrow, worry affecting the intellect to their won Self become miserable. Whenever worry, sorry or happiness comes, know that these are transient; they come and go. Know that these transient things have come to (affect) the body, mind or the intellect even if all the people in the world become friendly to you, so long as you do not resort to Veedantic thought, you cannot eradicate all miseries. And even if all the people in the world turn inimical to you, if your mind is firmly established in Vedantic thought, whatever people may say or do, to be happy or unhappy is your own choice. If people praise you, it is up to you to become conceited believing yourself to be the body or to see it as a witness. And it is up to you to take the praiser’s noble virtue and to know the oneness of the praiser and the praised in their substratum, the Absolute Consciousness. It is up to you to become depressed or to remain equanimous in the face of slanderous remarks. All the people of the world with their collective efforts cannot make you miserable. People may hurl abuses at you but if by contemplating the thought of Vedanta, you come to your Real Self, the abusive worlds will reach your body and may reach your mind and intellect, but no misery or trouble of the world can reach you.
You are so pure at the moment that no trouble of the world can reach you. The bombs, millions or even billions of bombs, even all the bombs or the world put together nay even thousand times of these bombs cannot cause the slightest harm to you. Such is your real nature. But when you identify yourself with the body, even without these bombs being dropped, even without these bombs being dropped, a small bomb of negative thought will trigger explosions in your heart.
The ignorant one creates for himself such miseries which are not to be found even in hells. And the enlightened one bestows on all those who come in his contact such bliss as can not be found even in the heaven.
‘Whatever is perceived by mind, speech, eyes, ears (and other cognitive senses), know that to be a product of Maya, a mental construct, and that it is transient.’
One, who thinks this illusory world to be real, even if he achieves the highest of posts or ranks, cannot find eternal peace. And so long as one is unable to find eternal peace, one continues to be miserable.
As a brother you discharge your duty to your brother; as a father you discharge your duty towards your son; as a son, you carry out your duty towards your duty at the office; as a Seth, you are careful about duty to wards the business and to he employees all these performances of duties along with their gains will be swept away by the relentless current of time. The doer performed his duty towards so many people but at the time of death, the doer doesn’t carry with him any satisfaction or joy of performing the duties. The doer remains unfortunate and unprotected at the time of death.
All these duties have been imposed by the doer on himself. As the doer considers himself to be at a particular time, he is saddled with duties accordingly. If he thinks he is a father, he straightaway gets the duty of bringing up his children. If he considers himself to be a son –in-law, he is saddled with the duty of keeping his parents-in-law in good humour. If he considers himself to be a family head, he naturally has the duty to take care of other family members and to keep them happy. Man is burdened with endless duties depending on what he considers himself to be, but if the doer seeks his Real Self, in substance one and the same as the Supreme Brahman, he is left with no duty at all. He finds him absolute nature and his life becomes easy and spontaneous.
Lord Krishna says; “What is contemplated through mind and perceived through the senses see, heard, smelt, tasted and touched is all illusory, is Maya.”
Whatever you get through the triad of your mind, senses and their contact with objects of sense pleasures, suppresses your distress for the time being; it doesn’t destroy it. Therefore don’t go after them; rather find some time to repose in your Real Self, from where they all originate. Even if you give all things of the world to somebody, if he is bereft of solitude, contemplation on Real Self and the grace of a Self-Realized Guru, he will be orphaned in the end. And one having solitude, contemplation on Real self and the grace of a Self-Realized guru will attain Supreme Good even if he is deprived of all things of the world for nobody can seize the Supreme Self nor has anybody permanently possessed worldly things till this day. If somebody seizes from us some thing that we cannot permanently hold on to, what is the big loss? But if you find some time and know the one, who is eternally with you, you will be delivered. The same thing was said by Lord Rama to Lakshmanaji:
‘Whatever is perceived by the senses and that which lies within the reach of mind, know it al to be Maya.’
‘Go’ means senses and ‘gochar’ means their objects. The sense-objects and all that is within the range of mind acting through the senses or without them is Maya. It is Maya, much like a dream. Without mental concepts or ideas, there is no world, no friends or foes, no Sindhi, Punjabi or aggrawal, no kinsman or stranger. It is all the play of mind.
There was a renowned saint reveling in Self, in Sindh province by the name of Sant Bodhraj. He wrote a Vedantic Bhajan:
‘‘Nobody knows when the condition of ignorant Jiva will change. Nobody knows where his thoughts will lead him. But if he becomes kind to himself, the whole things can be transformed forthwith.’
Vedanta says the phenomenal world is not real; it is illusory. Illusory is what was not there earlier and will not be there later and that which is constantly changing. This body too is illusory and your intellect too is illusory having risen from Maya. Therefore, those who attribute the lamentation, sorrow, worry affecting the intellect to their won Self become miserable. Whenever worry, sorry or happiness comes, know that these are transient; they come and go. Know that these transient things have come to (affect) the body, mind or the intellect even if all the people in the world become friendly to you, so long as you do not resort to Veedantic thought, you cannot eradicate all miseries. And even if all the people in the world turn inimical to you, if your mind is firmly established in Vedantic thought, whatever people may say or do, to be happy or unhappy is your own choice. If people praise you, it is up to you to become conceited believing yourself to be the body or to see it as a witness. And it is up to you to take the praiser’s noble virtue and to know the oneness of the praiser and the praised in their substratum, the Absolute Consciousness. It is up to you to become depressed or to remain equanimous in the face of slanderous remarks. All the people of the world with their collective efforts cannot make you miserable. People may hurl abuses at you but if by contemplating the thought of Vedanta, you come to your Real Self, the abusive worlds will reach your body and may reach your mind and intellect, but no misery or trouble of the world can reach you.
You are so pure at the moment that no trouble of the world can reach you. The bombs, millions or even billions of bombs, even all the bombs or the world put together nay even thousand times of these bombs cannot cause the slightest harm to you. Such is your real nature. But when you identify yourself with the body, even without these bombs being dropped, even without these bombs being dropped, a small bomb of negative thought will trigger explosions in your heart.
The ignorant one creates for himself such miseries which are not to be found even in hells. And the enlightened one bestows on all those who come in his contact such bliss as can not be found even in the heaven.
‘Whatever is perceived by mind, speech, eyes, ears (and other cognitive senses), know that to be a product of Maya, a mental construct, and that it is transient.’
One, who thinks this illusory world to be real, even if he achieves the highest of posts or ranks, cannot find eternal peace. And so long as one is unable to find eternal peace, one continues to be miserable.
As a brother you discharge your duty to your brother; as a father you discharge your duty towards your son; as a son, you carry out your duty towards your duty at the office; as a Seth, you are careful about duty to wards the business and to he employees all these performances of duties along with their gains will be swept away by the relentless current of time. The doer performed his duty towards so many people but at the time of death, the doer doesn’t carry with him any satisfaction or joy of performing the duties. The doer remains unfortunate and unprotected at the time of death.
All these duties have been imposed by the doer on himself. As the doer considers himself to be at a particular time, he is saddled with duties accordingly. If he thinks he is a father, he straightaway gets the duty of bringing up his children. If he considers himself to be a son –in-law, he is saddled with the duty of keeping his parents-in-law in good humour. If he considers himself to be a family head, he naturally has the duty to take care of other family members and to keep them happy. Man is burdened with endless duties depending on what he considers himself to be, but if the doer seeks his Real Self, in substance one and the same as the Supreme Brahman, he is left with no duty at all. He finds him absolute nature and his life becomes easy and spontaneous.
Lord Krishna says; “What is contemplated through mind and perceived through the senses see, heard, smelt, tasted and touched is all illusory, is Maya.”
Whatever you get through the triad of your mind, senses and their contact with objects of sense pleasures, suppresses your distress for the time being; it doesn’t destroy it. Therefore don’t go after them; rather find some time to repose in your Real Self, from where they all originate. Even if you give all things of the world to somebody, if he is bereft of solitude, contemplation on Real Self and the grace of a Self-Realized Guru, he will be orphaned in the end. And one having solitude, contemplation on Real self and the grace of a Self-Realized guru will attain Supreme Good even if he is deprived of all things of the world for nobody can seize the Supreme Self nor has anybody permanently possessed worldly things till this day. If somebody seizes from us some thing that we cannot permanently hold on to, what is the big loss? But if you find some time and know the one, who is eternally with you, you will be delivered. The same thing was said by Lord Rama to Lakshmanaji:
‘Whatever is perceived by the senses and that which lies within the reach of mind, know it al to be Maya.’
‘Go’ means senses and ‘gochar’ means their objects. The sense-objects and all that is within the range of mind acting through the senses or without them is Maya. It is Maya, much like a dream. Without mental concepts or ideas, there is no world, no friends or foes, no Sindhi, Punjabi or aggrawal, no kinsman or stranger. It is all the play of mind.
There was a renowned saint reveling in Self, in Sindh province by the name of Sant Bodhraj. He wrote a Vedantic Bhajan:
‘‘Nobody knows when the condition of ignorant Jiva will change. Nobody knows where his thoughts will lead him. But if he becomes kind to himself, the whole things can be transformed forthwith.’
A song says:
‘You meet now and part now; this world is a fair for just a couple of days.’
So this is a fair for just a couple of days. Take it as a fair and spare some time to live in seclusion and practices Self-enquiry and get repose in Self.
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