Monday, July 31, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 30
30. Likes and dislikes are a seeker’s enemies
A seeker should never succumb to ‘likes and dislikes’. His duty is to submit everything to the Lord to get the full freedom in his actions.
Senses have a tendency to reach out to the subject matter of their nature. The liking we develop due to this is ‘ragam’. Whereas when we don’t like the sensory experience, that creates ‘dwesham’. We should not be swayed under the conflicts of ‘bad and good’ perceived by the sense organs.
Once we realize that this world and everything in it is the energy and aura of the Lord, all worries due to senses that are extroverts will cease to exist. Then our mind will fly freely like a kite in the open sky. The thread that controls the kite must be the constant awareness that “Isaavasam idam sarvam” – that, ‘all that is’, is the Lord and nothing but the Lord. Because of this knowledge ‘likes and dislikes’ brought about by the senses will not have any place in our mind.
All actions must be submitted unto the Lord and in order to do that we must extinguish the “I”, the ego. When the ego dies, self awareness dawns. The freedom one gets thus is indeed the liberation- “moksham” itself. When a monk takes ‘samnyaasa’ (renounciation), he does a ritual commemorating his own death, symbolically annihilating the ego. What is left is the intellect that is capable of self inquiry.
Jealousy is a hindrance in annihilating ego. The best way to overcome jealousy is to develop respect towards the very cause that made you jealous.
A seeker should never succumb to ‘likes and dislikes’. His duty is to submit everything to the Lord to get the full freedom in his actions.
Senses have a tendency to reach out to the subject matter of their nature. The liking we develop due to this is ‘ragam’. Whereas when we don’t like the sensory experience, that creates ‘dwesham’. We should not be swayed under the conflicts of ‘bad and good’ perceived by the sense organs.
Once we realize that this world and everything in it is the energy and aura of the Lord, all worries due to senses that are extroverts will cease to exist. Then our mind will fly freely like a kite in the open sky. The thread that controls the kite must be the constant awareness that “Isaavasam idam sarvam” – that, ‘all that is’, is the Lord and nothing but the Lord. Because of this knowledge ‘likes and dislikes’ brought about by the senses will not have any place in our mind.
All actions must be submitted unto the Lord and in order to do that we must extinguish the “I”, the ego. When the ego dies, self awareness dawns. The freedom one gets thus is indeed the liberation- “moksham” itself. When a monk takes ‘samnyaasa’ (renounciation), he does a ritual commemorating his own death, symbolically annihilating the ego. What is left is the intellect that is capable of self inquiry.
Jealousy is a hindrance in annihilating ego. The best way to overcome jealousy is to develop respect towards the very cause that made you jealous.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 5:30 PM 
