CHAPTER - 4
~ Who Is God ~
DAY - 22
Surrendering to the Lord, you can achieve the fully blossomed state of consciousness.
Now,
what is the Lord?
Who is the Lord?
Where is He?
It is easy to say surrender to God, but what is
God?
Where is God?
Nobody has ever seen God.
What is it that rules this world?
You will find that it is love that rules the world.
The centre core of the existence rules whole
universe.
Just like the sun is the center of the solar system and rules all the planets,
love is the
core of your life.
Love is beyond your changing body, changing thoughts, and changing feelings.
It is the very center, core, of your existence, which is very subtle and delicate.
It can be called
love or anything else.
That consciousness, the core of existence is responsible for this whole
creation.
There lies the Lordship.
A bird feeds its young ones because of love.
A flower
blossoms because of love.
Ducks hatch eggs because of love.
Cows take care of their calves
because of love.
Kittens are taken care of by cats because of love.
Have you seen how monkeys
care for their young ones?
Love is in-built in creation.
This is how creation is functioning.
That is why Jesus said, " Love is God."
They are synonymous.
Patanjali analysed this very beautifully in the next sutra.
What is that state of consciousness?
Who is Lord?
That consciousness is free from misery or suffering.
What is suffering?
"लेशकमॅवपाकाशयैरपरामृः पुषवशेष ईरः"
Klesha karma vipaaka aashaya aparamrishtah purusha vishesha eeshwarah.
It indicates that core of consciousness which is free from suffering.
There are five types of
suffering.
One is ignorance, avidya.
When your consciousness is filled with ignorance, then there is
restlessness.
There is unhappiness and suffering.
Misery is due to ignorance.
Ignorance is
giving importance to something which is not important; that which is not worthy of that
importance - thinking that something that is changing to be permanent, imagining something
which is not joyful to be joyful, considering something impure to be pure, etc.
Someone may
have said something unpleasant to you.
Those were just words that came out of his mouth and
vanished.
But, to regard them as permanent and brooding over them is ignorance.
Someone's
comment about you is a fleeting wave of thought or energy which came and went.
He may not
even have that opinion later.
But you keep that ever in your mind as his opinion about you, which
is not true.
This is one example of ignorance.
So, the consciousness needs to be devoid of
ignorance and free from misery.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
