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๐บ ASHTAVAKRA GITA๐บ
๐ฟChapter - 11๐ฟ
~ Give Everything And Take Nothing ~
๐ฑ Day - 57 ๐ฑ
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Janaka asked how the businessman get drowned in these tidal waves. The individual Self, the soul, is trying to do business all the time. What is business? Giving less and getting more. You buy something for two rupees and sell it for three or four rupees. That is business. Otherwise, how can a business thrive? If you buy for more - buy for four rupees and sell for two rupees - that is no business! Business means giving less and taking more.
Love is the opposite. Love is giving everything and taking nothing. The limited mind always does business anywhere - even with one's own life; even with the breath. We don't even breathe properly. A soul is trying to do business. The limited mind is trying to do business in the name of love. In every relationship you will find that people should receive much more than what they have given! One feels that he has given enough!
In any relationship, everybody feels that they had done everything for their relatives, their family and so they must love them. Everything that we do so in order to get love, attention, recognition or something. This is business. Doing something in order to get something is business - even a blessing or grace. You feel that you must get some grace; that you must get a private audience with Guruji because you are doing so much work. You get down to business. You must enjoy these privileges because you are a dedicated worker. You have become a businessman. In the name of devotion, the individual soul is doing business. It either wants material gain, or it wants some unseen, spiritual, experiential gain. But it all boils down to business, whether joy, bliss, ananda or anything else. In these tidal waves, the poor businessman is drowned.
Janaka exclaimed that it was a wonder. He was wonderstruck with the entire phenomenon. Only in love can you become one. Only when you are ready to lose yourself in your infinite nature, are you totally united with Brhama, the Infinity, the Divine. The whole mechanics need to be reversed - the limited individual becoming the Infinite assuming back its true nature. Janaka said that it was amazing how all the little minds, desires, feelings and situations arose in him and played in him and dissolved by their very nature.
เคธ्เคตเคญाเคตเคคः Now it was Ashtavakra's turn. He smiles at Janaka - the smile of a gardener who sees the garden is now full of flowers. All that he had worked for was fulfilling. The bud had blossomed, and the joy of he gardener was immense, inexpressible. Ashtavakra said that, indeed, as a king, Janaka has recognized this.
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