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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 25🌿
~ Acting Spontaneously ~
🌱 Day - 145 🌱
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Some yogis make you work day and night, while others tell you not to do anything; to just sit still and meditate all the time and that they will take care of everything. Christian missionaries have no time to relax. They work a lot all day with only half an hour in the morning and half and hour in the evening for mass and prayers. They work and work the whole day. Many have nervous problems. They have renounced the world, but they are so busy working, they don't even have time to breathe! Some of the Zen and Buddhist meditators don't stir out at all. They don't move around. They sit still all day and just meditate, meditate and just meditate. They start meditating in the morning for five hours, from five to ten o'clock. They eat a little bit in the afternoon, relax and sit again for another six or seven hours of meditation. They don't eat anything in the evening. Again they meditate. There's no need to eat, because the food doesn't get digested! The little food they eat once a day is in the stomach like a Buddha. Buddha is a big belly. So one day he has to lift hands up!
So, some yogis recommend action and others recommend inaction and make you sit and meditate all the time. Janaka said that these methods were bound with the body. They took care of bodily conditions. When you are so adamant to sit and meditate all the time, all your attention is on the body. You are bound in the body. It is the same when you are always interested in acting(doing something).
One of our course participants said how unhappy her mother and father are because they can't do any work. Both are very old (eighty-years-old) and are well taken care of by a nurse. All their requirements are available. But they are unhappy because they are unable to do the chores that they had been doing for a long time. They don't want to just sit around. They become very restless.
The body is incapable of acting. How long will it act? But you have only been given training for acting. Throughout a life of seventy or eighty years, it has been a life of action. And now at the end,the mind is active and wants to do a lot of things, but the body is not cooperating. There is a restlessness in the mind to do something, but the body has no strength to act. This makes old people very miserable.
They cannot be quiet for even a little while. They can't even listen to music quietly or sleep. Insomnia affects them because of being bound by the body. If your interest is in action or inaction, you are bound by the body. So Ashtavakra says that he was neutral about it. He is very happy. He did not mind action or inaction. He is comfortable when in action, and even when at rest, and even when he sits quietly in silence. He is at ease always. And therefore, he's so contented and happy.
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