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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 23🌿
~ Stepping Into The Big Mind ~
🌱 Day - 134 🌱
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Someone asked Buddha why he still meditated if he was enlightened. Why did he need to meditate if he has realized God? Buddha smiled and said that he was not doing anything but it was happening. And whatever happened there would happen in so many other minds, too. So many things were happening in every mind. Therefore, he was tasting them all and meditating. That was why Jesus had said that he has died for your sins. It means that if you sin, it destroys something inside Jesus. So it is said that it is better not to sin, because your sin puts something into that Infinite Consciousness that you are part of and which you are not away from. Jesus died for your sins. On one level, it is ridiculous if someone makes s mistake and somebody else takes the punishment. But if you probe it, there is another thing that comes up - that he could take all your sins, and destroy them. Disturbances in the small mind vanish when they are in the assembly of the Big Mind, in the Sangha.
Buddha also said this. Sangham sharanam gacchami. If you totally involve yourself and participate, merge and mix into the assembly, in the satsang, all your sins vanish. You are part of the Divine. You will see that is why many people are very strict. In many ashrams, people are very strict, and do not hesitate to give corporal punishment. They carry canes! They say it does not matter if there is some fear as long as there is discipline. Then, your mind will become alert. In some ashrams, the rules are not too strict and play and fun is encouraged. Make life easy and joyful! But if you cross the limit on the spiritual path, then a stick will be used. Know this is the rule for the mind; for your Self.
समाध्यासादिविक्षिप्तौ । What do we do when the mind is distributed? You should not get caught up in thinking that it is disturbed. There may have been something disturbing in the environment; something that may have happened. So you should meditate or chant more instead of yelling, screaming, shouting or blaming other people. You should love more people around you. This is samadhya vyavaharaha, i.e. bringing the evenness in vyavahara, behaviour. That is what service is. Be aware that you're doing service. Asking people what seva you can do will benefit them. Asking someone what you can do for them, when you are feeling wonderful will benefit the other person but it won't have that much benefit for you. But the day you feel hopeless and horrible, and that very day you go and ask somebody, 'What can I do for you?' Is service and it will bring a revolution in you. It's very important. Don't think you should do service only when you feel good. The day when you feel bad is the day you should go out and ask what you can do for others.
This body is there for service. Let this burn like incense. The incense stick itself burns and spreads fragrance all around. A wick burns and spreads light. A tree absorbs all the heat from the sun and gives you shade. A cow eats grass and other waste, and gives you most nutritious milk. It just eats grass! It eats straw ( which has no nutrition in it ) and gives you milk! Whatever is needed for your body is present in milk. And we are human beings much lower in the stage of evolution than them? Are we not even capable of this? This must be constant reminder to ourselves. You should have a yearning to be useful; to let your every breathe be useful to everybody; to let it spread fragrance around you. The 'I' has a foul smell. But when you are hollow and empty, the fragrance spreads around you. Then each and every one of you is Divine, and God is ever present in every one of us. Evamevahamasthitaha. Knowing this, repose in your Self.
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