The glory of the self is seen by the grace of the Divine, not by your effort

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷

       

      Chapter no 3

      The grace of the divine

     🌻 Day 29 🌻

कष्तस्य सुकस्य न कोऽपि धात्

I heard this from elderly people. I spent my young days with older people. All my other friends would wonder why I go and sit with elderly people. They wouldn’t understand; they would make fun of me.

Nobody gives you happiness and sorrow. Sorrow is a making of your own mind and when you go beyond sorrow and then the joy that comes out of you is your true nature! Nobody is giving you joy. When you are in touch with your Being, you are joyful. Why are you happy when you are in touch with the Guru? Guru and Self have same vibrations. Your innermost and the teacher have the same frequency. That is why you feel comfortable with the Guru, because you feel comfortable with the Self. 

Why does Guru give joy? Your self is joy. When you are with the Guru, your mind opens, your ego opens; it can’t stand there fully, unless you try so hard to keep it. Joy wells up. A streak of light shines through, that’s all. That’s the mechanism, that is the science behind it. 

पश्यति वीतशोको – One who has crossed sorrow.

धातुप्रसादान् – Here धातु has many meanings. In the material sense, we have seven धातु, seven substances in our body. Our body is made up of seven धातु. In metallurgy, metal is called धातु. In the body, blood, bone, bone marrow, muscles – all these aspects in the body are धातु. When these seven parts of the body gives way, they don’t obstruct you. धातु also means, the Divine, the giver. Everything is given through His grace or by the compliance of the seven धातु in your body. Layer by layer

there would be so many meanings that could come out of this. When there is balance in your body then your mind is calm and even and free from sorrow.

महिमानमात्मनः 

The glory of the self is seen by the grace of the Divine, not by your effort. You do all your effort and then finally it happens by the grace. Again, “I leave my dharma also at your feet.”

माम् एकम् शरणम् व्रज् 

Take refuge is Me. That refuge will bring that Grace. 

धातुप्रसादान्

At a very materialistic level, all your doshas have to be equal. If pitta is high, you get angry. If you vata is high, you have restlessness and you can’t sleep. With all the seven धातु, with their grace, with their gift you can know the Self.

आसीनो दूरं व्रजति शयानो याति सर्वतः ।

कस्तं मदामदं देवं मदन्यो ज्ञातुर्मर्हति ॥

Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self can exercise his influence far away. Though still, he moves everything everywhere.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

Katho Upanishad