ASHTAVAKRA GITA | You are moved by people's words. If someone says something, you go mad and lose yourself. Why were you so shaken by these words?

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 12🌿

        ~ The Nature Of The Mind ~

                   🌱 Day - 66 🌱

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धीरस्तु भोज्यमानोऽपि पीड्यमानोऽपि सर्वदा ।

आत्मानं केवलं पश्यन् न तुष्यति न कुप्यति ॥

A brave person abides in his Self all the time, even while enjoying the senses (sensory enjoyments) or being bothered by anything (circumstances, surroundings). The fulfilment of desires will neither give him any great joy nor will the unfulfilment of the desires in any way annoy him. You are against some things. Whatever you are against, press those buttons in you - making you angry. Behind your anger is your desire. Anger is the other end of your desire. Either you hang onto the desire or you get angry. Either you like sex or you get angry about sex. Either you like the feeling of mine-ness and are totally engrossed in it, or you are too much against it.

धीरस्तु, the brave one, though he is amidst everything, is not shaken, fulfilled, satisfied, agitated or angered by the events. That is the golden light you come to. With these four points, Ashtavakra removed all the concepts of enlightenment from Janaka's mind - about how things should and should not be. By telling him to wonder if things are the way they are. Ashtavakra lifted Janaka above all the ideas and the concepts of the mind. आत्मानं केवलं पश्यन् न तुष्यति न कुप्यति । See the Self, the one Self everywhere and in everything. And there will be no anger, disturbance or fulfilment by the things around. The while thing is like a game.

चेष्टमानं शरीरं स्वं पश्यत्यन्यशरीरवत् ।

संस्तवे चापि निन्दायां कथं क्षुभ्येत् महाशयः ॥

When activities and actions happen in the body, look at them as though they are happening in some other body. Look at hunger in the stomach as though it is happening in another body. Likewise, feel the same about thought, sleep, etc.

Janaka sees all this, the phenomenon in the body, as though happening elsewhere. And how could such an enlightened, such a soul, be moved by somebody's words? You are moved by people's words. If someone says something, you go mad and lose yourself. Why were you so shaken by these words? When someone says how much they love you, then also you are shaken! You are sold out for their words. If someone says how much they dislike you, you are so caught up by their words! How could that established person be carried away by people's words? This is the clue - detach the connection you have with the words of others i.e. being the football of others' opinions. It is so deep. It is a lifetime's experience. It takes a lifetime to work on it. Every day, every minute you have to keep reminding yourself about it, over and over again, in your life. Are you accepting every situation? Are you being the football of others'opinions? These simple sutras and simple sentences are not to be taken lightly.

If you take them lightly, you will drown. Take these words into your heart, not just the head.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA 

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