Saturday, June 24, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 14
14. Be a good host to your emotions
We should behave with equipoise when dealing with sense organs and subjects that are sensual. All the dualities such as hot-cold; happiness-sorrow and loss-gains, etc., come and go as they cannot be permanent. Don’t get identified with them; but be a good host to them.
We should be like mirrors. If a ‘miss universe’ or an ugly person comes in front of it, it will not capture any image for it to keep and enjoy later. It will reflect and show the true image well. Whatever stays stationary amidst actions, whatever is changeless in the world of change and whatever exists as a witness to all experiences, it is the true spirit, energy or chaithanya. He who realizes this ‘knows’ immortality.
Those who are swayed by the happiness and sorrow of the sensory perceptions do not deserve to know immortality. This doesn’t mean that one should be sorrowful when feeling happy! Recognize the happy state of the mind; but internalizing such emotions must come out of courageous choices, not from helplessness.
‘Unreal’ things cannot have a permanent existence and those which are ‘real’ cannot be destroyed ever. Gita declares that whatever is omnipresent in the universe is something that cannot be destroyed. God is not in any objects nor objects are in God; but everything is God.
When we realize that a bubble is not ‘really’ a bubble, rather it is water in a different form, the root ‘cause’ of the sea itself, the notion of ‘bubble-ness’ vanishes. When we see the bubble as ‘real’, there will be birth, death and sorrow. When a potter makes a pot, there is a pot in his mind as imagination, there is an evolution happening to the clay through his action and the resulting stuff has a name too - a pot. But these three are ‘unreal’; clay alone is ‘real’.
But the body changes and decays - the ‘boy’ dies to become a ‘youth’. The ‘young man’ dies to become ‘an old man’. If we act knowing the truth that the body decays, but not the spirit, it becomes a noble action (yagna). Without this knowledge, an action becomes a battle.
I cannot kill anyone; nor can I be killed by anyone. Actions by those who know this truth are done not by the limited individual in him, but by the universal energy. This is really non-violence in practice.
We should behave with equipoise when dealing with sense organs and subjects that are sensual. All the dualities such as hot-cold; happiness-sorrow and loss-gains, etc., come and go as they cannot be permanent. Don’t get identified with them; but be a good host to them.
We should be like mirrors. If a ‘miss universe’ or an ugly person comes in front of it, it will not capture any image for it to keep and enjoy later. It will reflect and show the true image well. Whatever stays stationary amidst actions, whatever is changeless in the world of change and whatever exists as a witness to all experiences, it is the true spirit, energy or chaithanya. He who realizes this ‘knows’ immortality.
Those who are swayed by the happiness and sorrow of the sensory perceptions do not deserve to know immortality. This doesn’t mean that one should be sorrowful when feeling happy! Recognize the happy state of the mind; but internalizing such emotions must come out of courageous choices, not from helplessness.
‘Unreal’ things cannot have a permanent existence and those which are ‘real’ cannot be destroyed ever. Gita declares that whatever is omnipresent in the universe is something that cannot be destroyed. God is not in any objects nor objects are in God; but everything is God.
When we realize that a bubble is not ‘really’ a bubble, rather it is water in a different form, the root ‘cause’ of the sea itself, the notion of ‘bubble-ness’ vanishes. When we see the bubble as ‘real’, there will be birth, death and sorrow. When a potter makes a pot, there is a pot in his mind as imagination, there is an evolution happening to the clay through his action and the resulting stuff has a name too - a pot. But these three are ‘unreal’; clay alone is ‘real’.
But the body changes and decays - the ‘boy’ dies to become a ‘youth’. The ‘young man’ dies to become ‘an old man’. If we act knowing the truth that the body decays, but not the spirit, it becomes a noble action (yagna). Without this knowledge, an action becomes a battle.
I cannot kill anyone; nor can I be killed by anyone. Actions by those who know this truth are done not by the limited individual in him, but by the universal energy. This is really non-violence in practice.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 12:03 PM 
