8th November, 2011, Tuesday
Kartik Shukla Trsyodashi, Mangalvar, Vikram Samvat 2068
Gita's Yoga of Detachment (continued)
Question - Sometimes to teach someone, we have to take help (service) from others, is this good?
Answer - To take help (service) in order to teach children etc., is in fact doing service. It appears as an act of taking, but as such it is not taking, rather, it is teaching a lesson.
Question - All the bodies are perishable and impermanent, then why are we to serve them?
Answer - By serving the perishable and impermanent, the attraction and attachment to the perishable is renounced. And when the attraction and attachment is renounced, the imperishable is attained. In reality, service is not only of the perishable body, rather it is of the indweller (shariri, the one having the body). In relationships, the inert things only reach as far as the inert body, not the sentient; but the one who takes help, assuming himself as the body, for him, service is of the sentient. "Jimi abibeki purush sareerahi" (Manas, Ayodhyaa. 142/1) The point is, when the body is assumed as ours, then that which reaches the body, reaches us.
A devotee considers everyone to be an appearance of God and serves accordingly - "Svakarmanaa tamabhyarchya" (Gita 18/46), "mein sewak sacharaachar roop swami bhagawant" (Manas, Kishkindhaakaand 4). On feeling a sense of oneness with God, one attains equanimity in the world -
Tulasi mamataa Ram so, samataa sab sansaar |
Raag na rosh na dosh dukh das bhay bhav paar || (Dohaavali 94)
On attaining equanimity in the world, attraction (attachment) for it goes away. This is Yoga of Detachment.
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!
From book in Hindi "Jit Dekhu Tit Tu" By Swami Ramsukhdasji
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