(Excerpts form the satsang of param pujya Bapuji)
Jivas experience misery due to ignorance about their self. Just as there is no forest in the sky nor heat in the lunar realm so also is there no body or senses in the Atman. All the jivas are Atman. Hidden in a seed is the existence of a tree and vice versa. Similarly the jiva exists in God and Vice versa. However, the jiva is miserable for want of this knowledge. The chitta or mind stuff exists in the Atman and the Atman exists in the mind stuff, just as a seed is hidden in a tree and tree in a seed. Just as it is impossible to squeeze oil out of sand; for the son of a barren woman to beget a child or to press the sky under the armpit so also is it impossible for any body to become free form all bondages without self-knowledge. Once one attains knowledge of and gets established in the Self, he remains blissful in his Self irrespective of whether he is engaged in activity or whether be is engaged inactivity or remains absorbed in Samadhi, whether he delivers precepts or remains silent. He may then rule as king while beings reposed in his self at the same time.
Suppose there are ten people sleeping in a hall. Everyone sees a different dream and believes it to be true accordingly. Similarly, in the waking state everyone takes his own perception to be true.
Some people went for a walk in a forest. They heard a partridge singing something. One of them a vegetable vendor, was asked, the partridge saying? He said “Dhadadhad ….. Dhadadhad … Dhadadhad.” (As he used to hear incessant noise in the market.)
The Wrestler said, no it is saying ‘Dand baithak Dand baithak Dand baithak, (a type of physical exercise)’
The third one who was a devotee said, ‘It is saying, ‘Sita Ram Sita Ram Sita Ram.”
The fourth one, who was a philosopher, said no it is saying, ‘All in one, one is all. You and only You, you and only You.”
Each saw according to his own imagination. Similarly the jivas wander in this world according to there own imagination. If only these imagination. If only these imaginations were to be diverted to their soul the supreme Soul, to attain repose in the same or if one realizes that they are just imaginations (Mental projections) and becomes a witness to them, it would lead one to beatitude his ultimate good.
Devotees’ And He proves it with His conduct. Devotees have the same power over the Lord a s the child has over his parents grandparents ad neighbors.
‘Love is not grown it green plantations, nor can it in the market place be bought. Whether you are a sovereign ruler or a subject, remember this that only he who gives his head can buy it.’
Why do we prostate ourselves before the Lord? To destroy our ego. Other wise what use does God have for our throwing ourselves before Him? As our ego slowly gets effaced as we begin to relies the importance of God and open ourselves to God’s mercy and company God real nature, Love and shelter become available to us. The more peaceful and repose one’s heart is the more one considers the Lord as one’s own the more intense is the bhava and love in the heart. On the strength of this bhava and love the Supreme Brahman yields to devotee’s’ feelings and dance to the devotes tunes. There is no other technique or method.
Jivas experience misery due to ignorance about their self. Just as there is no forest in the sky nor heat in the lunar realm so also is there no body or senses in the Atman. All the jivas are Atman. Hidden in a seed is the existence of a tree and vice versa. Similarly the jiva exists in God and Vice versa. However, the jiva is miserable for want of this knowledge. The chitta or mind stuff exists in the Atman and the Atman exists in the mind stuff, just as a seed is hidden in a tree and tree in a seed. Just as it is impossible to squeeze oil out of sand; for the son of a barren woman to beget a child or to press the sky under the armpit so also is it impossible for any body to become free form all bondages without self-knowledge. Once one attains knowledge of and gets established in the Self, he remains blissful in his Self irrespective of whether he is engaged in activity or whether be is engaged inactivity or remains absorbed in Samadhi, whether he delivers precepts or remains silent. He may then rule as king while beings reposed in his self at the same time.
Suppose there are ten people sleeping in a hall. Everyone sees a different dream and believes it to be true accordingly. Similarly, in the waking state everyone takes his own perception to be true.
Some people went for a walk in a forest. They heard a partridge singing something. One of them a vegetable vendor, was asked, the partridge saying? He said “Dhadadhad ….. Dhadadhad … Dhadadhad.” (As he used to hear incessant noise in the market.)
The Wrestler said, no it is saying ‘Dand baithak Dand baithak Dand baithak, (a type of physical exercise)’
The third one who was a devotee said, ‘It is saying, ‘Sita Ram Sita Ram Sita Ram.”
The fourth one, who was a philosopher, said no it is saying, ‘All in one, one is all. You and only You, you and only You.”
Each saw according to his own imagination. Similarly the jivas wander in this world according to there own imagination. If only these imagination. If only these imaginations were to be diverted to their soul the supreme Soul, to attain repose in the same or if one realizes that they are just imaginations (Mental projections) and becomes a witness to them, it would lead one to beatitude his ultimate good.
Devotees’ And He proves it with His conduct. Devotees have the same power over the Lord a s the child has over his parents grandparents ad neighbors.
‘Love is not grown it green plantations, nor can it in the market place be bought. Whether you are a sovereign ruler or a subject, remember this that only he who gives his head can buy it.’
Why do we prostate ourselves before the Lord? To destroy our ego. Other wise what use does God have for our throwing ourselves before Him? As our ego slowly gets effaced as we begin to relies the importance of God and open ourselves to God’s mercy and company God real nature, Love and shelter become available to us. The more peaceful and repose one’s heart is the more one considers the Lord as one’s own the more intense is the bhava and love in the heart. On the strength of this bhava and love the Supreme Brahman yields to devotee’s’ feelings and dance to the devotes tunes. There is no other technique or method.
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