AVG - Day 7

Once Mullah Nasirudeen had lost his donkey and was very happy and when people asked him why are you thanking GOD on loosing the donkey? Mullah replied “I am thanking because I was not riding the donkey when it got lost”. Then after a long time he started searching for the donkey long and deep and every where he could search, he didn’t find the donkey. He pasted posters everywhere saying that “those who find the donkey will get the donkey and an extra amount” Now people were surprised, they asked mullah “Mullah its ok that you are giving a price for the donkey but why are you giving away the donkey also” Mullah replies “Let them also experience the joy of searching”
Loosing has its own fun (mazaa).Gaining something also has its own fun (mazaa).You have to learn to loose also. There is happiness in loosing away something. Only search is also a pleasant experience. And where will you search? You will find it in person, things and situations then you won’t get anything. We tell “RAM NAAM STYA HAI” in the ears of a dead person, we don’t realize it when we are alive. How will the dead realize? Don’t leave satsang at any cost. You have boarded a bus and you have been told to get down at particular stop then you need to get down there, right. Why do you board a bus? You board it because you board it at a different place and you get down at a different place. But desires will take in a MERRY GO ROUND trip. They make you drive in circles and circles and you finally land up where you started. Every desire brings you back to the same state where you were before the desire arose in you. After so many gymnastics to fulfill the desire you land being where you were before. You have heard some knowledge, then become empty. Don’t keep on holding to the knowledge(bodh swaroop mein tik jao)Every atom of this universe is filled with knowledge.(chaitanya sansaar mein prakat hai).You happen to see a rope in the form of a snake. What seems to be so different is nothing but the same ONE. For e.g. Your mobile takes your voice in and changes it into vibrations and these vibrations go into the sky and then again reaches another cell phone and again converts itself to voice. This is actually now called as string theory. This whole world is like a rope. Even if ne thread in the rope is removed then it becomes difficult for the rope to be there. But however this world keeps changing its shape and colors. There is nothing permanent here and there is nothing that is changing here. Nothing is destroyed in this plane of existence. At the same nothing is permanent here. What is that essence (tatwwa).It is anirvachniya. It can be explained or expressed. It is there, yet it is not there, this is maaya. You are above these, you are the master of these, and you are permanent. This bodh(knowledge) will dawn on you only when you rest(vishraam) (man vikshipt bana rahe to anubhooti nahi hoti).Dharm-adharm, pleasure – sorrow are all in plane of mind. In pure buddhi(intelligence) is only witness(shudh buddhi mein bodh hoga).I am not in any kind of bondage. Loosing has its own fun (mazaa).Gaining something also has its own fun (mazaa).
We have that illusion “to see rope as a snake” The moment the light of knowledge came to us we moved from fearfulness to humor and we started laughing at ourselves on our childish thinking. Inside and outside us is the same tattwa(substance). Realize that. Inside and outside us is the same aakash. The value of a pot is for the space that it carries inside and not for the outer clay. There is a value for its emptiness inside it. (Guruji spoke about some plastic elements and bio-degradable substances and told how plastic is harming the environment)The space within you has the real value. If you don’t respect this fact then you will be in a heavy loss. Don’t go by the outer covering (skin).There is nothing inside and outside except for aakash. Your consciousness is within you and outside you. It is like the flame of a candle surrounding the wick. The body is the wick and the mind is the flame. Recognize this flame of light. Once you come out of this illusion you will realize that you are liberated. Once Mullah was suffering from a pshycomatic disorder and he considered himself as dead. Now you can understand the condition of the family members. Then his wife took him to a psychiatrist and told him about mullah`s problem. The psychiatrist said “You know, mullah” Mullah interrupted saying “how can a dead man know anything, I am dead”. Then the psychiatrist replied “You understand that there is only water in the veins of a dead man, right?” Mullah nodded he said Yes. And then feeling happy that his treatment was working he said to Mullah`s wife “Keep my money ready” and he took a needle and poked the finger of Mullah and said to him “Look blood is coming out of you finger that means you are alive and not dead.”Mullah replied “That is not the case. Today I realized that even the dead have blood running in their veins.”
That means to say the inner pride(abhimaan) has caught us so tightly. The way you think is the way you become. Worries just drop down from our faces like sweat .With the sword of knowledge destroy your worries. Leave the bonding and things that bind you. Cut the rope of ignorance with the sword of knowledge. We all are made up of aanand. Its just like cleaning the dust on the mirror and for that only knowledge is the tool by which that dirt is going to be cleansed. Some people relax in material work but there are some people who get stuck up in religious work (ekadashi vrat and all that).Say if we don’t do fasting or puja, this and that god will get angry and we get afraid and we can’t relax. There are so many different types of illusion. If the materialistic person is bound by something then so is the righteous man who follows all the rituals also is bound. By giving the body unnecessary pain and torturing the self they do fasting and all that. Even this is a kind of bondage. In the same way to relax the vikshiipt man the technique is Samadhi. Samaadhi doesn’t mean burying yourself under the ground and keeping your legs inside the ground and keeping the other half above the ground, and all that. What you are achieving out of this is nothing but you are also taking away the space provided by nature for the small insects and other lives.(mein bodh swaroop hoon,aananad swaroophoon iska bodh hote hi tum mukt ho)To come out of the fluttering mind, heavy sorrow and inexpressible sadness the answer is Samadhi. But then why do you hold on to Samadhi. The moment you hold thoughts about samadhi ,you become bound by them. Become a witness to the thoughts. You are a witness to all the actions.(prakruti mein kriya chalti rahegi)Yes of course all the activities in the body will calm down when you meditate. However all the natural activities that are involuntary in nature keep happening, right? But if you consider that when all the activities stop then only Samadhi will happen, then it’s wrong. Through meditation you can access control on para synthetic system. But all these are not happening in you. You are like the vast sky which is a witness to all. Let all the activities happen. Don’t hold a preconceived notion about Samadhi in your mind which is nothing but your foolishness. There is no action happening in you. Just sit till and witness that nothing is happening to you. You are listening, reading and yet there is nothing that is happening inside you. There are some actions happening in your body and mind but nothing is happening IN you. I am asangha. I am doing nothing(nishkriya).I am myself the illumined one(prakaash swaroop).I am niranjana. Today before you sleep feel that you are Narayna all these days you slept like nar(human).Narayan hokar thodi der shaant hokar baith jao. Neend bhi Samadhi jaisi hoti hai. Bodh ho to neeend bhi Samadhi hai.