ASHTAVAKRA GITA | Whatever storms come, let them, I'm here.' You grow out of them. You become bigger.

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                🌿Chapter - 10🌿

           ~ Storms Of Emotion ~

                   🌱 Day - 54 🌱

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नाहं देहो न मे देहो जीवो नाहमहं हि चित् ।

अयमेव हि मे बन्ध अासीद् या जीविते स्पृहा ॥

अहो भुवनकल्लोलैर्विचित्रैर्द्राक् समुत्थितम् ।

मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ चित्तवाते समुद्यते ॥

There cannot be an ocean without waves. Every event touches life somewhere on its surface. It creates movement. Take all that comes with both your hands. Don't say that it is impossible or not possible for you. This thought of something being not possible means that you are resisting. This is making the storms stay for long periods. Stand there with your arms open. Say, 'Whatever storms come, let them, I'm here.' You grow out of them. You become bigger. That is crucifixion. Crucifixion is not just Jesus hanging on the cross. Jesus said, 'What can crucify or destroy me? Come what may, there is nothing that can destroy me. It may be excruciatingly painful, but it doesn't matter. It still cannot destroy or kill me. I am here. I am much, much bigger than all these emotions, commotions or waves. They all rise inside me, in me, and in no way can they destroy me. Let them be.' 

See the broader perspective of one's Self, otherwise we keep running away from small things. Pleasant sensations arise, unpleasant sensations arise. Good feelings arise, not so good feelings arise. Just this is enough for you to become more feverish and to start blaming your Self. You feel that it should not have happened to you - मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ, 'In the ocean of my Self, many such lives are rising and dissolving. All those whom I see are part of me. All the lives I see are just my own form. I have taken so many forms. My own consciousness, my own mind is acting this way in that mind and that way in this mind. All these different minds are playing different roles, but they all are me. A wave arises and another wave comes back, recedes.' 

मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ चित्तवाते समुद्यते । The storms arose in him but they never stayed in him forever. They subside in him too. He said that he had got the clue! He had thought that he was peaceful only when the storms were gone. If the ocean thinks that it is nice and blue only when there is no storm, then it's mistaken. Even when there were storms, he was still deep. He was still the ocean.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA 

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