You are liberated this very moment, but it’s attached with an “IF”. If we consider ourselves as chaitanya (chid roop) then we are liberated this moment.”Doing” any action is done to get out off rajo guna, to get off rajo guna you need to have sattva guna.Yoga`s first step is KARMA (doing) .If you have to catch a train, you have to reach the station, book a ticket, go to the platform, board the train however after climbing the train you need to sit at your place and rest. Just think if you see somebody boarded the train and he is running from compartment to compartment carrying his luggage on his head just thinking that he will reach his destination fast, what would you call him ? .you would call him a mad. Once you have climbed, be relaxed and sit.
“I am not this body” this thought comes only when rajo guna relaxes in us. You generally say that at times “I FEEL RESTLESS” that means you are the seer of that restlessness, right. And how does this saakshi bhaav arise in you? It is through dhyaan, sadhna, seva and satsang. Saakshi bhaav can be arisen in satsang. If there is a pain in the body, then you are able to see it. For e.g. If an infant is taken to the doctor what happens the child starts crying because of its previous experience of pain it had got because of injection. The moment the child sees it, it starts crying but what would an adult do, he would say ”give me a prick “because he understands that the injection will cure him faster. The body is going as per the law of nature. Even an enlightened being feels hungry, feels sleepy; however he is a seer of all these happenings. If you get this feeling, you are right now this moment liberated. But for that you need to rest(vishraaam).I am different from this body. I am resting, or I am this body. All these feelings of seer can happen only when you are resting. We keep this thought strongly in our mind “I AM SOMEONE “ It might be a Brahmin,dalit,shudra,vaishy or anybody from these classes or we think that we are a part of any of the four ashrams(brahmacharya,grihasta,vaanaprastha or sanyaas).But ashtavakra tells us we are neither a part of varnas nor the ashrams. These are all the dictums (dharma) of society and the body. You are a mere witness to all these. We have a common perception that we want to see god. This is mistaken statement. We are in process of seeing god. The one who experiences is the AATMA. You are the one who is inside the atma that is paramaatma. Our own consciousness comes in front of the us in the form we like (ex. Krishna,ram,hanuman).These are just reflections of the same you that gives you a glimpse of that form that you are worshipping. What ever you see (darshan) is just reflection (pratibimb) .The seer is only the truth. You are the one who sees and not the one who is seen.
You are ASANG(one without any company) .for ex. In a train if you are going you see everything is moving but you are seated at your place itself. It seems as if everything is running away and we are sitting like that only we also feel that all events are changing but the truth is that we are only the pure witness (saakshi).Just by our mere presence everything is happening. Are you doing anything? There are people around you whose mind is working just by your presence, right? In everybody`s mind there is something going on right, some thoughts some emotions. There are 7 billion people who are the same point of time thinking different thoughts and experiencing different emotions right and all these heads will be in the ganges or in the mud one day. And every moment in all these heads thoughts and emotions are changing ,but how does it effect you .You are like a mountain just still and unmovable even if there are trees and birds coming and sitting and moving out of them.
The next word is nirakaar. You are the one without form. You have no shape or form. These forms or shapes keep changing. Your face glows after you do your Sadhna. Compare the face of a person who does sadhna and the person who sits in front of cinema for a long long time and see the difference in their faces. You will find the changes and you call that movie as entertainment (manoranjanJ).Seeing them you feel so pitiable & go those movies you have given so much stress to your mind. Whenever we are in sleep, we are in that state of niraakaara unknowingly we touch those realms of niraakara. When you rest in that niraakaara swaroop you get relaxed, rejuvenated. Just do that relaxation with awareness. Do it in jaagrat awastha. jaagte jaagte vishraam karna hi mukti hai.jaagte huye ,sone jaise haalat mein,vishraam karna hi mukti hai .Sleep is quite a pleasant experience. But much more pleasant experience than that is the experience of knowledge and Samadhi. While walking, eating , sleeping ,sitting and doing any action you just become a witness and the moment you become a witness you are liberated. And don’t think you will get it after along tine ,after a doing a lot of actions ,NO NOT LIKE THAT just think that you are free this moment ,that’s it. We put our whole life in proving this “ I AM SOMEONE/SOMEBODY”. This TAADATMYA (identification/identity) is ego which keeps us awaya from our niraakar swaroop. We have understood from our intellect,mind is relaxed. but we don’t realize that we need to keep our ego away. We are so much into our identity that when somebody calls us in our sleep we respond to them. Out of ten people sleeping if someone calls your name you will respond ,right. See how deep is our identity (taadatmya) with our name. Ashtavakra says that you are not your name.You are niraakar. ”SHVA” means yesterday(beeta hua kal) and tomorrow(aane waala kal) . Ghatnaao ki bhoomika(playground/ backdrop for the events to happen) jo panch bhoot se bana hai who yeh vishv hai.You are a witness to all these(in sabke tum saakshi ho).Good or bad events you are a witness(saaskshi) . Is saakshi bhaav ka uday tab hota hai jab taadatmya chooth tha hai(saakshi bhhav arises when identity is dropped). Realizing this, you become happy(isko jaankar tum sukhi ho jao).Something expands when you are happy and something contracts when you are sad. What is that ,that expands and contracts .Actually you only feel that something expands and contracts because your mind is n identity with it actually it neither contracts nor expands it is just there. All these feelings happen due to our identity. You are the witness of these actions which brings happiness or sadness, realizing this you become happy((isko jaankar tum sukhi ho jao).Often people say that god this that and I bore the fruit of it. If god has done any action through you, god only will bear the fruit also, where did you come in between from?(yadi hum karta nahi hai to hum bhokta bhi nahi hai).righteousness/unrightousness, good /bad, is all of your mind. Don’t bear it on yourself. You are neither the doer nor the enjoyer. You are liberated (tum mukt ho).If you have done some good to someone or something bad to someone, it is the mind that has done it. YOU ARE FREE FOR EVER. everyone is free. The husk is stuck to the rice grain. Only that husk has to be removed. You need to make an attempt to remove that husk however in this case you just \need to be a witness and nothing else. Don’t consider yourself as the husk. You need to be the witness and then see you are ever free. You were ever free.
sukh dukh sab man ka hai,tum sarvada se mukt ho.
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