Scuffle between small mind and big mind
Sometimes small mind wins over the big mind and then later it becomes miserable and come back to big mind. e.g: sometimes we want our smallest wish to get fulfilled and we become very feverish about it and later when it gets fulfilled we say oh may be I could have not wished for this. Because we see just short term benefits of a thing and not the bigger picture which big mind has idea about.
We become more miserable and comes back to the divine.
QUESTION TO PONDER UPON_ : How big is our world? Have we ever thought?
Our world is bundle of our experiences. Our mind is caught up with those experiences and doesn’t go further. e.g: We crave for food that we have eaten so many times, we like music that we have heard many times.
Our experiences with all the 5 senses are limited and same with people. Even people those come into our thoughts are same whom we have interacted with. Our world is so limited. We are stuck with 4 or 5 people. They come in our mind and bother us. *THIS IS CALLED VASANA* .
We had some experience with people and those experiences get stuck into our mind(be it good or bad). *Let us just drop those experiences of past with people* .
About Relationships : Even when we tell somebody we love them, make sure that is not out of vasana or craving. True love won’t bring sorrow, misery but VASANA will bring misery, pain, sorrow, discomfort. As in when we water a plant we don’t expect anything from that in return we do that out of love but in case of people our cravings aversions come in between. We have to just become aware of them.
When we drop all past impressions from mind we become free right now. This very moment
*Technique* : When we feel that we are stuck with some people. Observe the nature stones, trees, sea, mountains. How big this world or universe is but nothing is permanent here then how come our miseries be!! We have come alone and will also go alone, then at that vey moment mind will be relaxed .
Expand our world and our vasanas will drop away. BE OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES. Let us not get stuck with anything.
WONDER how small mind is shrunk into pocket of limited experiences.
*WITHOUT YOU WHERE WILL I BE*
A devotee can’t imagine their existence without divine.
We can have both depth of silence and dynamic action together. Enlightened people like Buddha just use to smile, chaitanya mahaprabhu and meera bai they use to dance, sing - they were all complete.
What is purity and what is impurity_ ?
Life is purity and inertia is impure and impermanent. Whatever is inert is impure and whatever is dynamic and active is pure. When we DO KRIYA WHAT EVERYONE EXPERIENCE is sense of cleansing because every cell in the body has become alive.
All our hankerings and concerns are nothing as everything is changing. Entire world is changing like river water, we can not have same water at the same place in the flowing river *then what is that we are trying to catch on to* ????
We must give it a thought like how many times we have come to this planet, how many spouse children we had, we have to wake up and see from lifetimes we have done this over and over again and again, same experiences we have gone through. *And still we are stuck in same* .
How many lives we have had earlier, how many times we have fallen in love with XYZ and how they all have come and gone and several lifetimes have been like this. _Several years have been wasted on same thing_ - I, MINE . NOW WAKE UP
*ACTIVITY* : Recollect our experience how it felt before eating an ice cream(having any desire) - *anxious* , while eating ice cream(when desire fulfils) - *joy* and after eating(after desire got fulfilled) - *inertia* . Just think about any one desire of ours for which we got feverish , that desire got fulfilled and then above cycle got repeated.
*BECOMING HOLLOW AND EMPTY*
When we do any religious service like make pond, hostels for people, do lot of charity, with none of these also we could rest. We are continuously occupied in our mind and it never becomes HOLLOW AND EMPTY. We cannot drop anything for a while. Even when we sit for meditation we crave to achieve higher state of mind and keep on thinking.
AYURVEDA | YOGA | MEDITATION
