|| Shree Hari ||
(Satsang Sunneki Vidya)
continued ......
It has come in the Gita
-
Manushyaanaam
sahasstrshu kaschidhyatati sidhyaye
Yatataamapi siddhaanaam kaschinmaam vetti tattvatah (Gita 7/3)
Yatataamapi siddhaanaam kaschinmaam vetti tattvatah (Gita 7/3)
Among thousands of men, hardly one
strives for perfection and of those who do, scarcely one knows Me in
Essence. (Gita 7/3)
It
does not mean that enlightenment is difficult. It means that the
listener does not pay
attention. Out of thousands of men, a
single individual listens properly, and does spiritual practices for
attaining
enlightenment. Those who have reached
an advanced state after doing much spiritual practice, out of such
accomplished persons, one person knows the Essence. In this way, in
this verse man's general state and case has been described. The
description is not of the difficulty in
attaining enlightenment. After
describing the super-natural state of enlightenment, God says –
Aascharyavatpashyati
kashrichden –
Maashcharyavadveti
tathaiva chaanyah |
Aashcharyachainmanyah
shrunoti |
Shrutvaapyenam
veda na chaiva kashchit || (Gita
2/29)
"One beholds the in-dweller in the body as astonishing,
another speaks of It as marvelous; another hears of It as a phenomenon, yet
another having heard, knows It not."
Experience,
description of that Essence etc. all
happens in a remarkable way, not like worldly talks. The reason for saying "anya"
is that of the many who have realized the Essence, there is only one who can
describe it. All who have realized
cannot describe it. Even on hearing, no one knows; because he
does not listen with concentration and with a genuine quest to know.
"Out of those
perfected souls that were endeavoring,
only one knows Me in Essence"
- the meaning of this is that by
endeavoring, in other words, it is
only on having an intense longing that one can know enlightenment, and "on
hearing this too no one knows", by saying this it means, that simply by
listening, i.e. through practice no one
can know the Essence. In practice the
predominance is of the mind-intellect, whereas through longing automatically on
it own the Eternal Essence that is present manifests itself.
If
this is heard
through an experienced person, then there is a certain power that
enters. But all men cannot grasp his
talks. Because the experience that the
speaker has he cannot convey that
through his speech. Whatever is his
experience, that much cannot come into his intellect. And whatever
comes into his intellect, that much does not come into his mind. The
amount that enters the mind, that much does not come into his speech.
Whatever comes in his speech, that much does
not reach the listeners ears. Whatever
reaches the ears, that much the mind
cannot contemplate. The extent of talks
that the mind contemplates on, that much the intellect cannot make
decisions
on. The decision that are firmed in the
intellect, that much does not come into
the listeners experience. In this
manner if you look from the perspective of the entire sequence of events, there
is vast gap in experience of the speaker and that of the listener. But if
the listener has a deep quest and if he listens attentively with concentration,
then very quickly he can experience the same. (to be
continued)
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