It was pouring heavily so Guruji started to take some question and answers and in one of the questions started linking the Ashtavakra Gita.He said ,”Why should we adopt forgiveness, forbearance and being natural in our nature. We do work out of impulse and after that we regret. Lot of inauspicious (anartha) things happens due to anger. The more the forbearance the more happy a human will be. Think and do every work else you shall be unhappy. Earth has got its other name as forgiveness. It gives water events after you dig it. It says dig further deep you will get more water. That’s why it`s other name is forbearance. Forbearance (sahan sheelta) is very important. It`s the sign of divinity. When you do any wok with forbearance it has integrity and is done with heart and soul .The work done with our forbearance is an act without integrity. It is then done just for the sake of doing. Pour your emotions into your actions and do it with integrity. Now a days puja is done for show off. There is no honesty in it. You offer one incense, one lamp and some rice and you say you have done your puja. Even if you do I for two three minutes put your heart and soul into it. Not necessary that the puja must long for hours. Even if you do it for a short span do it with integrity. Puja should be done out of fullness, during that duration not even your eyes should move here and there. There is no reason and no use in showing off while you do puja.
The next word is kind. If you don’t have kindness and compassion, if you are not moved by other`s sorrow you are stone hearted. How is being kind helpful in liberation. Say someone commits a mistake and you are not kind enough to forgive him, you will flare up at him and then lose your balance and start pouring abuses at him. So consider kindness as nectar. The next virtue is being happy. Being happy, nobody or nothing will make you happy. It will not drop from outside things and situations. It is you who need to be happy. Of course, sadhna and pranayam and meditation will help you but you can only make yourself happy (santoshi).In the best of the situation also you can be miserable. It’s up to you to be happy. Take this sankalpa “Come what may, how much ever anybody may abuse me or scold me I decide that I will be happy today. Nobody can take away my happiness today” Take this sankalpa for one day and see the wonders. Take a thought that no one can make me sad. Happiness must be brought from ourselves. Once for three years there was no rain fall so Mullah Nasiruddin was sad and in the fourth year suddenly rains poured (as it was pouring today in the ashramJ) then also some one spotted mullah to be sad. When asked for the reason Mullah replied “All these years I had no work, now have to work” So we decide to be unhappy with the things we have and we decide to be unhappy with the things we don’t have also. All these virtues are like the eight legs of the chair. So we need to balance all of them. Don’t attach your happiness with people, situation and things. It should come within you. Being happy should become a habit. It should come from inside. If something happens or nothing happens also we are sad. Happiness is our very nature. Children are like being happy always. Happiness which when becomes habit is a natural way of being free.
Bhajan means to bind together. When we sing that one word and the emotions bind us to the entire universe, to the entire nature and we are bond to nature and god by that. It is getting united. When we bind with that word of bhajans we get sparked by that divinity. It happens at the level of heart(man).and this yashti gets united with samashti. What is truth? One which is untouched by time. For example if one person comes and say there is an apple on the table , after sometime if somebody else lifts it then the same person will not find that apple again. So certain times the apple might be there certain times, it will not be there. However if it is said that the apple was there, then also it is false. If they say, it is not there then also it is false. However if an enlightened being says a false it also becomes truth. So a Saadhak should be very careful with his words when he speaks. He should not use foul language and abuse. What are blessing? It happens the moment a sentence comes from a liberated person. Thats why a GURUS word is a blessing as well as an order. It is always that a guru`s word is both an order as well as a blessing. This universe and prapanch will stay or not Body is truth also and false also. There is nothing in this world which is not damaged by time. You have to realize that you are not the five elements, then who are you? You are the living consciousness (chid rup).Know that and become liberated. This word from Ashtavakra is an order as well as a blessing.”BE liberated”
From the food has come this body. Five elements (fire, earth, water, space and ether) support has brought this prapanch. This body is a part of this prapanch. There is no liberation for people who live lives of extremes as they cannot practice yoga. Guruji gave the example of a person who came and asked for liberation by starving and then said if you starve pitta element rises high and then it will be difficult to handle that person as he will be mentally imbalanced. The extremities are like eating too much or not eating anything. Or doing so much work or not doing anything, only relaxing all through is also not going to work. Remember by troubling the body you can’t get liberation. Tread the middle path (yuktaahara vihaarasya,yukta swapnavabodhasya : bhagvad gita ) .You become a seer of this body. Let this body walk on the principle of nature. You are the saakshi. The moment we become saakshi nature works as per law and you become liberated and you automatically drop all the extremes. Consider yourself as the pure light. How to become Saakshi. When you rest in yourself, you are liberated that moment itself, but for that you need to rest and not run. You can get it now if you rest right now. It’s easy to say to rest within yourself, but how???What is that stops us from seeing ourselves as saakshi that we will see tomorrow.
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