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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 22🌿
~ Live In Amazement ~
🌱 Day - 127 🌱
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निर्वासनः स्फुर्तिमात्रो । It is very beautiful. Vasanas are impressions, or cravings. A vasana is a limited pull in a limited direction. Suppose, you are used to drinking coffee every morning. So, as soon as you wake up in the morning, you must have coffee otherwise you might get a headache. This is a vasana. Limited or small attractions as from smell, touch, tatse, or sight, are called vasana.
The five senses draw you into a small and limited awareness. You do not just enjoy them, but your mind gets entangled, thinking about them all the time. It is normal to eat food at the prescribed times. But to think about food all time is a vasana. It is the same with sex and other interests and preoccupations. A vasana is that in which you get entangled, which limits your potential to small limitations, leaving you empty and without joy afterwards. It does not completely satisfy you. निर्वासनः स्फुर्तिमात्रो । You may take nirvasana to mean having no interest and enthusiasm in anything, a totally unenthusiastic and dull sort of behavior - very cold or disinterested. In fact this results out of vasana. When the vasanas are fulfilled, disinterest follows. When your stomach is full you will not want to eat even the tastiest food. You will not be able to enjoy it. So disinterest and apathy is the other extreme that results if one is not in vasana.
There are two poles we swing between. Either we are apathetic, dull and inertia-bound, or we are engaged in a vasana that grips our mind with feverishness, and which clouds our whole consciousness. At this time, all that you can think about is your vasana, you want coffee or ice cream. There is nothing else in your mind. So, either your mind gets clogged by vasana or complete disinterest. These are the two opposite poles. Neither gives any joy. There is no end to the fulfilment of vasana. It's like addiction.
स्फुर्तिमात्रो । Be the source of enthusiasm. निर्वासनः । Be away from the void of vasana, and then be a source of enlightenment, a source of light, joy, bliss, enthusiasm. It's very beautiful - just enthusiasm, joy, sensation and experience. You experienced bliss by eating ice cream. Now, having the bliss without the ice cream is स्फुर्तिमात्रो । Just the thought of it should bring the bliss. Something happens inside just by thinking about ice cream. Your bliss - which was connected to ice cream - is rising. Now drop the ice cream, and observe. Just watch the bliss. You'll see that bliss overcomes you. You become just bliss, only bliss. If you think of someone very near and dear to you, immediately bliss engulfs you. Just be with that very bliss that has arisen inside you, then you become स्फुर्तिमात्रो ।
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