Chapter 8 - Play Of The Divine
Day 46
Your mind is your self. Do not leave your mind in search of the divine. This mind also belongs to God, and the disturbances in the mind are also a play of the divine. We should treat them as a play or entertainment.
If you read any old purana, or ancient story, you find only anger and jealousy. Lakshmi got angry with Sarasvati. It was a fight between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Sarasvati is the daughter-in-law of Lakshmi. That is how we trap the Gods in the anger and hatred that is in us. All the puranas contain anger and hatred - whatever happens on earth also happens in heaven.
Chandra stole the wife of Guru, also known as Brihaspati. A fight ensued between Guru and Chandra. "Chandra" in Sanskrit means the mind, and "Guru" knowledge.
Knowledge says one thing, and the mind says something else. That is why everyone knows that smoking is a bad habit, but people cannot stop.
Day, night, clouds and colours all appear in the sky and later disappear. Similarly the mind imagines many things, which disappear just as they came.
You may have gotten angry many times, but do you stay angry forever? Just as light fades away in the evening, anger also fades away. It is the same with envy.
There is a limit to everything. When one thought rises, another falls away. Where does it go? All is in our mind. That mind is the self. Clouds may cover the sky, but the purity of the sky remains untouched.
Whatever may be the state of mind, the self is pure. There is no such thing as a bad self. As anger is a quality of the divine, it is also a quality of the self.
The mind itself is the self and is part of the divine. When we say, "Do your sadhana," it means sadhana needs to be done daily. This is because there are millions of cells in our brain.
Some work today, and others work tomorrow just like workers take shifts in a factory. The factory is running continually, but the workers have shifts - they come, work and leave.
Similarly, in our brain, neurons work in shifts. We can only say Jayanagar is educated when everyone there has received an education. There are millions of neurons in your brain.
For them to gain knowledge, all the neurons need to be trained. When we are educating the neurons we say, "Om namah shivaya," over and over again.
Some neurons are trained today, others will get trained tomorrow and others will be trained the day after tomorrow. Through this process, one day you will reach perfection, siddhi.
Do you understand? This will happen only if japa, repeated chanting, or meditation is regularly done. That is why this is emphasised.
If you skip a day, then those cells that are on duty that day will not be trained. They will have to wait for their next turn, and until then, they sit there untrained.
That is why we daily practice is necessar. Everything is of the very nature of the self. This is a very valuable sutra, and when we understand it, it leads to discrimination and knowledge.
When we see a situation in a limited way, the knowledge obtained will also be limited, and we feel, "My life is only this." Do you know why we have astrology, or jyotisa? Do you know the meaning of jyotisa?
When you face problems, if you look at the problem from a broader angle, you say, "Oh, I am under the influence of saturn." When we recognise this, we accept that a situation happened according to our fate and do not blame others.
We simply think that someone made such a comment because of fate. It means to look at any situation with broad vision and not with narrow vision.
In the Kannada language, we say, "My grahachar, my fate." It is a very valuable phrase. We pass over an incident saying it was because of fate. The aim of astrology is to find a reason for why ideas arise in the mind and situations happen.
It could be that they happen because of the movement of certain planets. To remove the negativity, some methods may be given, such as to do meditation or japa.
There are millions of cells in your brain. Educate all of them. We say purusha - ‘puru’ means town and "purusha" means the one who lives in town.
Purusha does not only mean man, but includes women also. Similarly, our body is also a town. Do you know how many worms and bacteria live in your body?
The intestine alone has more than 50,000 types of bacteria, which number in the millions. There itself they have water and electricity supply. They experience an earthquake when we eat spicy food.
What for you is dysentery is a flood for them. They have established their own towns inside you. We do not know about it. Similarly, the incidents that happen in consciousness can be known only through the principles of kalaa akaala.
Many elements are produced in our body - elements of fire, air, water and so forth. One element starts in our body and the other in the environment.
If the fire element arises in a place where everybody is quiet and happy then a fight breaks out. A wise person understands this well before it happens.
