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(Ek Nayi Baat )
(Ek Nayi Baat )
Shree Hari
Continued …
Divinity (Existence) can't rest in the body or Prakriti. It is all pervading like the ether - "nitya sarvagatah" (Gita 2/24). It pervades all bodies within and without.
That all pervading divinity is our nature.
Yathaa prakaashayatyekah krutsnam lokamiman ravih |
Kshetram kshetree tathaa krutsnam prakaashayati bhaarat || (Gita 13/33)
"O scion of the Bharata (Arjuna) as the Sun illumines the entire universe, so does the Lord of the Kshetra (spirit) light up the whole Kshetra (field)".
In the light of the Sun all virtuous and sinful actions are performed. In the light of the sun someone recites the hymns of the Vedas, while some other person hunts animals. But the Sun is neither held responsible for reciting the hymns of the Vedas or for hunting. It incurs neither virtue nor sin. The reason is that the sun does not become either a doer or an enjoyer. Similarly the soul (all pervading Divinity) illumines all bodies but it neither acts nor is tainted. Therefore the Lord declares –
Yasya naahamkrto bhaavo budhiryasya na lipyate |
Hatvaapi sa imaamllokaannam hanta na nibadhyate (Gita 18/17)
"He who is free from the egoistic notion (I am a doer) and whose intellect is not tainted, though he may slay all creatures, he neither slays nor is bound."
As in the Ganges, someone drowns, but the Ganges does not incur sin and someone else bathes in it, but it does not incur virtue. The reason is that the Ganges has neither the notion of egoism (doership) not the taintedness of intellect (enjoyership).
Doership and enjoyership are in Prakriti (nature) not in the self. Therefore an enlightened exalted soul who remains established in the self holds "I do nothing" - Naiva kinchitkaromiti yukto manyet tatvavit" (Gita 5/8) . All the worldly activities such as eating, drinking, sleeping, awakening and jobs such as service and business etc., as well as, all the spiritual activities such as listening to Vedantic texts, cognition and assimilation etc., take palce in Prakriti. In the self no action is possible. therefore an aspirant should not renounce the world and spiritual activities sanctioned by the scriptures physically but he should not regard himself as the doer of those activities. i.e. he should not regard them for him and to be performed by him. Attaching importance to activities means attaching importance to the insentient. If an aspirant attaches importance to action in spite of practicing the spiritual disciple for years, obvious progress is not perceived in him. Therefore an aspirant should attaché importance to the sentient rather than the insentient. An aspirant is not the body while an action is performed by the body, The nature of an aspirant (self) is Divinity (Existence) and in Divinity there is no action. The nature of the world is action and objects.
Doership and enjoyership are not in the self but because of ignorance they have been assumed in the self. In spite of this assumption we are free from doership and enjoyership - "sharirastopi kaunteya ne karoti na lipyate" It means that in spite of assuming that we (the self) are established in the body, in facat we are detached fron the body. Inspite of the assumption that we are in bondage, really we are liberated. It is very essential for an aspirant to accept this fact.
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!
From book in hindi "Ek Nayi Baat" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 6th October, 2012 (Ek Nayi Baat ) at http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/
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That all pervading divinity is our nature.
Yathaa prakaashayatyekah krutsnam lokamiman ravih |
Kshetram kshetree tathaa krutsnam prakaashayati bhaarat || (Gita 13/33)
"O scion of the Bharata (Arjuna) as the Sun illumines the entire universe, so does the Lord of the Kshetra (spirit) light up the whole Kshetra (field)".
In the light of the Sun all virtuous and sinful actions are performed. In the light of the sun someone recites the hymns of the Vedas, while some other person hunts animals. But the Sun is neither held responsible for reciting the hymns of the Vedas or for hunting. It incurs neither virtue nor sin. The reason is that the sun does not become either a doer or an enjoyer. Similarly the soul (all pervading Divinity) illumines all bodies but it neither acts nor is tainted. Therefore the Lord declares –
Yasya naahamkrto bhaavo budhiryasya na lipyate |
Hatvaapi sa imaamllokaannam hanta na nibadhyate (Gita 18/17)
"He who is free from the egoistic notion (I am a doer) and whose intellect is not tainted, though he may slay all creatures, he neither slays nor is bound."
As in the Ganges, someone drowns, but the Ganges does not incur sin and someone else bathes in it, but it does not incur virtue. The reason is that the Ganges has neither the notion of egoism (doership) not the taintedness of intellect (enjoyership).
Doership and enjoyership are in Prakriti (nature) not in the self. Therefore an enlightened exalted soul who remains established in the self holds "I do nothing" - Naiva kinchitkaromiti yukto manyet tatvavit" (Gita 5/8) . All the worldly activities such as eating, drinking, sleeping, awakening and jobs such as service and business etc., as well as, all the spiritual activities such as listening to Vedantic texts, cognition and assimilation etc., take palce in Prakriti. In the self no action is possible. therefore an aspirant should not renounce the world and spiritual activities sanctioned by the scriptures physically but he should not regard himself as the doer of those activities. i.e. he should not regard them for him and to be performed by him. Attaching importance to activities means attaching importance to the insentient. If an aspirant attaches importance to action in spite of practicing the spiritual disciple for years, obvious progress is not perceived in him. Therefore an aspirant should attaché importance to the sentient rather than the insentient. An aspirant is not the body while an action is performed by the body, The nature of an aspirant (self) is Divinity (Existence) and in Divinity there is no action. The nature of the world is action and objects.
Doership and enjoyership are not in the self but because of ignorance they have been assumed in the self. In spite of this assumption we are free from doership and enjoyership - "sharirastopi kaunteya ne karoti na lipyate" It means that in spite of assuming that we (the self) are established in the body, in facat we are detached fron the body. Inspite of the assumption that we are in bondage, really we are liberated. It is very essential for an aspirant to accept this fact.
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!
From book in hindi "Ek Nayi Baat" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 6th October, 2012 (Ek Nayi Baat ) at http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/
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