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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 7🌿
~ Everything Is God ~
🌱 Day - 36 🌱
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Janaka said, 'Of course! A skill is needed. You just have to tilt your eyes.' An ornament can be seen as different things-as a bangle, necklace or earings, or as gold like a goldsmith would. He puts all the gold into one weighing pan and says, 'This is gold.' It doesn't matter to him if it is in the shape of a bangle, long or short, in biscuit or in coin form. He says, 'This is gold.' A skill is needed. Tilt your eyes and see all is God. Tilt your eyes and see this is all universe. This is a world with so many diversities. Conflicting things are put together in this world. Diametrically opposite values co-exist, like in a circle. In a circle, two points from the centre are opposite and only if they exist can a circle be formed, can something be total. All opposite values-creation and destruction, compassion and violence-exist in this universe. They all exist within God, as God.
This is very difficult for those people to understand who think God is this and not that. You can ask them a simple question. If God is omnipresent, He is all over. He is everywhere. Then He is in everything; good and bad. Good and bad is what a label, but God is in all. If He is omnipresent then where did Satan come from? Is Satan outside God? Then God js not omnipresent and omnipotent. If God is within Satan, then there is no question. God is also present inside Satan! Theologians struggle with this idea. On the one hand they say God is omnipresent and omnipotent. On the other hand, they say Satan exist outside God, causing God trouble and working against God! Someone is working against Him! Where does that God go? Then He is not omnipresent, all-powerful, or omnipotent! If God only loves compassion, why did He creates beasts in the forest? There are lions, tigers and other very cruel animals. Every day they go and hunt deer-very soft, quiet animals. If God is only compassionate, then why did He create an immune system inside you? The immune system destroys many germs all the time, every day, every moment! Your own body is a place of violence! Isn't it?
God doesn't seem to know economics. He brings leaves to the trees, they fall off in three months, and then again new leaves come. Why so much wastage? Why all this? Keep the leaves as they are, all the time! Why should we go on producing more and more people on this planet? Just have one set of people and be done with! Give them an ever-long life. Never get bored.
What is this universe? When we think about events, they become so big for us, that existence loses its significance. When existence becomes predominant in our awareness, events lose their value and significance. Events bring you small joy while existence brings you bliss. Events can cause pain and suffering, but existence can only bring joy, bliss and truth. So the whole shift is getting stuck with the events. And you can't really be stuck with events because they are flowing. It's like trying to catch hold of a river. How can you catch hold of a river? You can catch hold of the banks-sit on the banks of a river-but the river is never the same. It is different every moment, changing...
Do the pleasant or unpleasant event you hold onto stay long? Its intensity vanishes. You forget that event because new events happen, super-impose and take it away from you. New people come and different impressions arise in you. The past gets erased. You move on. But existence is not that. Existence remains the same.
When Shankara was asked to define truth, he said all that exists is Truth; all events are falsehood, Because the don't exist, they move. That which is changeless is truth; that which changes is an illusion. Illusion doesn't mean nonexistence, but it is ever-changing.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
ASHTAVAKRA GITA
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