🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀
~ Who Is God ~
🌀DAY - 24🌀
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Vipaaka is fruit of the action; consequences of the action. Enjoying or suffering the fruit of an action is not applicable here. This does not touch that core of your being and existence, which is the Lord of creation; that consciousness which is free from this.
And Aashaya. Aashaya means latent desires or impressions, opinions, seeds, etc. So when a consciousness or a being is free from klesha, misery, karma, vipaaka - the fruit of action, and aashaya, the impressions of actions, then that being or consciousness is Eshwara or Lord. And the Lord is not somewhere in the sky but in your heart. It is in every being's heart. Your actions and the events taking place around you do not touch the central point of your life. The central core remains a virgin. Jesus was born to a virgin. This means that Jesus, the Lord was born to this virgin area deep inside you which is untouched by any events or happening in life.
पुरूषविशेष - that special being is the Lord when your external mind is worshipping the core of your being. All worship is done by the mind to its Being. It is like the circumference collapsing into the center. When a boundary collapses to the center, what happens? The area, which had been enclosed by the circumference, becomes infinite; becomes limitless. When out little chattering mind prays, it does so to the Infinite Being that you are. That is prayer - when you ask your Lord to help you.
Krishna meant this when He said that one may pray to whoever he wants. But the prayer goes only Him because he is the core of existence. You may worship one form of God. Another may worship a different form. A third person may worship yet another form. Essentially, worship is just an act of dissolution - a sugar doll or candy getting dissolved in water. It does not matter which point it gets into the water. It is going to dissolve and merge. Just like this, worship dissolves the mind of the worshipper. it is the act of dissolving the mind into its being which is free from klesha, karma, aashaya and vippaka. This takes place almost instantaneously. That is why there is no difference between God, Guru and your self.
Eshwaro gururatmeti murti bheda vibhagine.
It is just a matter of using different words which are synonymous. The Master is the core of your being. And so is the Divine who rules entire creation.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
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