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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 17🌿
~ Honouring The Secret ~
🌱 Day - 97 🌱
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We sing : Nissar yeh samsara mein shiva naam ek hi saar hai. Samsara saram bhujagendra haram. It means that Shiva, the consciousness, is the only real juice or essence of this whole world. When this becomes confirmed in your mind, you will become peaceful. You will become quiet. Till this does not get confirmed, you will run here and there, biting this bone and that. They cause scars and wounds. And when you cannot take another bite, you'll rest. At least at some time or the other, you will have to realize there is no essence anywhere else. There is no juice anywhere else. Your very divine nature is the only juice. That is the only love possible on this planet. Then, dispassion will dawn on you. Then nothing on this planet can shake you. You become like the sun. Until you flower into your ultimate nature, there is no fulfilment. There is no satisfaction.
So don't wait for the time. Tell me at which age in your life were you free from conflicts and choices. At every age, you have had choices. Even a small child of two or three who wants chocolate, will have to make a choice. Have you seen children in a toy shop? They drive their parents crazy! Initially, the child will choose a doll. While the mother is billing for it, they will change their mind. Then, halfway home they will suddenly change their mind again. The mother will refuse and the child will, maybe, go on a hunger strike! Children are very good at pushing the buttons of their parents. Parents get very embarrassed. They may not have enough money with them, but the child wants the doll immediately. In India they do much more! The parents have to tell them so many lies or pull the children out of the shop.
Where is there no choice to be made? You grow up and have so many choices. You go to a shop and buy a dress. You come home and decide you don't like it. So the next day you go to change it. Even in the shop, there's a conflict : Should you buy this or that? Would it suit you? This is true for even the clothes worn everyday! You should see this difficulty of people who have so many clothes hanging in their wardrobes. They are confused. These conflicts of the mind have never left. They go on and on in all age groups. Items may change but the conflict remains. You are not choosing toys now but dresses. And if you are not choosing that, you are choosing something else. You are choosing company. You are choosing this or that.
Even in spiritual practices, you choose what to do each day - siddhi, kriya or pranayama. Sometimes it is better to do nothing. Otherwise, the mind is busy trying to choose. We create conflicts even in practices where all conflicts should be dropped. If there is no shraddha, nothing is going to benefit you. And if you do nothing and there is shraddha, that in itself becomes a sadhana, the practice for you.
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