ASHTAVAKRA GITA | By the knowledge of Self, you discover you are love; the source of love. All is love.

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                🌿Chapter - 11🌿

  Give Everything And Take Nothing

                   🌱 Day - 59 🌱

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अात्माज्ञानादहो प्रीतिर्विषयभ्रमगोचरे ।

An old example people often used to give in India, is the mother of pearl. Mother of pearl gives you the impression of being shining silver. When you see it from a distance on the beach ( or anywhere ) and the sun shines on it, it gives a false impression of being silver. As you go near it, you find it's not silver. The glitter is an optical illusion. In the same way he said that, not knowing your Self, you start finding joy in all the sense pleasures. Where is the source of pleasure? You are unaware of that. You think by eating lots of gulab jamun ( a sweet ), you will be happy. How many gulab jamun can you eat - three, four, five....then? How many can you have? You have a limitation to your experience. Food is nice but how much can you eat? You eat and eat and the food that gave you pleasure and joy will give you problems and cause pain after a while. It is the same thing with music and all the other senses. Consider the eyes. You see something very beautiful and what do you do? You look, touch, feel it - then? Consider a good scenery. You go to Kashmir and it is all so beautiful there. What do you do with the mountains? You don't know. You get thoroughly confused and go on repeating mechanically how beautiful they are. First, you felt beautiful. Then when you started putting it into words, even the beauty disappeared and only a concept remained in the mind, it was beautiful; it was nice. Everything is burning you down and leaving your hands empty. You are left with ashes; with nothing. But then why do all these things appear to be so nice and wonderful? Why are our minds attracted and pulled in all these directions? You are pulled in these directions because you are ignorant of the Being; of the Self, of the consciousness, of the Divinity.

If you get joy from any experience, it arises from somewhere deep within you. That is you; you are the joy. You get joy whether from music or sex. The joy in sex is not in the sex; it is in your Self. The joy in company is not in the company. The joy in alcohol is not in the alcohol. You are simply unaware of where that delicate inner whirlpool of sensation that enables or enlivens the whole body, comes from. When the inner sensation arises, it enlivens every cell. Most of our body so dead, it's not alive. You have experienced this in Sudarshan Kriya. How is the mind at that moment? How do you feel? What is the taste of your Being? Light, loving and joyful. Sometimes, there is current flowing in a wire even if the switch is off. But that current is not sufficient to make the bulb glow. What happens if you turn the switch on and a the power moves through the line? You can get a shock, but the light will not turn on. Sometimes it gives you a shock but doesn't heat the water. There is current passing into the boiler through the wire. But the water is not getting heated. It's not alive.

So everyone is living. There is some current, otherwise you can't be alive and there won't be anything. There will be no movements. Everybody is living but with a feeble current. The bodies are getting older and weaker. And then it all ends. It's unlit. It's not energized and power does not arise in it. What is sadhana, practices and meditation for? They are needed to remove the inertia in the body. It is the inertia that puts you down and makes you like a rock. If you have even once gone through the Sudarshan Kriya, you will understand. You know what happens at the time. You become more and more alive. Even by meditating a few times, one knows what it does, and what is meant by silence or peace. Many do not even know this because they are so used to being agitated. And they continue being so. Then, it appears as though it is life. One's own access to the source is blocked.

अात्माज्ञानादहो प्रीतिर्विषयभ्रमगोचरे । By the knowledge of Self, you discover you are love; the source of love. All is love. Joy appears to be in this little things or that little thing but it is just illusion; like the silver in the mother of pearl. What do you think joy is? Joy is an intense sensation arising in you. Observe and you'll realize that all the sensations are arising here.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA 

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