Satsang is the only practice !: Way to be Free of Mental Agitation

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Way to be Free of Mental Agitation

|| Shree Hari ||

(Vikaaronse Chootneka Upaaya)

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Questioner - On attaining enlightenment, how does the body-world appear?

Swamiji - The body and the world appear the same on the surface, but the sense of existence in them are wiped out. Just as even on seeing the face in the mirror one has a clear sense that the face is not present (existing) in the mirror. The enlightened great souls see the body – world as a burnt stringy rope or like a paper stuck to a heated iron rod. One sees the burnt rope, but it cannot tie. The moment you touch it, it crumbles and perishes. Similarly, one can read the lettering on the paper that is stuck to the heated rod, but it cannot be lifted. From a Jnani's perspective, through the inner senses (antahkaran), there is a great deal of absence of the independent existence of the world and there is eternal and constant awakening of the feeling of the existence of God. Just as the moment the metal wire in the light bulb are lit, it burns, but that burning radiates immense light, in the same way, in the "antahkaran" inner-senses of the Jnani that are burning with knowledge, there is immense light that is radiated. Something exceptional comes in his conduct, and in his words. Through him there is a certain decorum and code of conduct that takes place automatically and naturally, which is a role model for all and is for the supreme good of all.

You think ! if liberation was from attaining knowledge, then it is proven that liberation is natural and axiomatic. Only one has realized it. Liberation is not occur due to knowledge. Liberation is ever as-is and present, but due to our sight not being on it, we were unable to experience it. On having our eye-sight on it, i.e. on attaining knowledge, one experiences liberation. There that essence that can be attained through knowledge, that essence was present from the very beginning. Even in a state of ignorance the self (swaroop) remains as-is. There is no changes in it. Whether you know or you don't know, whether you believe or don't believe, whether you accept or don't accept, it ever remains. The moment your sight goes towards it, you can have realization of it.

Sankar sahaj sarup samhaaraa | Laagi samaadhi akhand apaaraa || (Manas 1/58/4)

On attaining knowledge there is no change in the essence. The change is in that intellect, in which there is ignorance. If you have no relationship with the intellect whatsoever, then whether there is ignorance in the intellect or not, what difference does it make to you? In reality, you have no relationship with the intellect. You only have assumed a relationship with it.

Questioner - Is liberation natural?

Swamiji - Yes ! Liberation is innate and natural. However, if you accept bondage with a firm conviction, then how will liberation be innate and natural? Bondage does not go away naturally and on its own; because you yourself (swayam) are a "satyasankalp" true to your own resolves. Since you caught hold of bondage, then that bondage also becomes firm and fixed like the truth.

Questioner - Will this bondage be eradicated by doing spiritual practices?

Swamiji - A spiritual practice is "kaaran saapeksh" (dependent on doing something) and it is also "kaaran nirpeksh" (without the aid of instruments, such as mind, intellect etc). There is, there never was, and there never will be any greater spiritual practice than the "karan nirpeksh saadhan" that I have shown just now. All the various "karan saapeksh saadhans" that you will do, they are all dependent on Nature. They take the support of the unreal (asat) i.e. support of the mind, intellect, etc. Now, how will you be able to renounce the mind-intellect etc, if your spiritual practices are done through them? Not accepting your affinity, relationship with mind-intellect, is "karan-nirpeksh-saadhan" , by which bondage is immediately wiped out.

The "self" that is void of all modifications, was existent as-is and will remain existent. Though being existent (ever-attained), it appears as unattained, only due to not having our sight on it. The reason your sight does not go towards it is because of giving importance to the unreal (that which is born and later destroyed). All the mental agitations, they all only arise due to giving significance to the unreal things. As such there is nothing significant about the unreal things. That which does not last even for a moment, what significance do they have? It is only due to lack of thinking that it's significance is perceived. Through thinking if an aspirant gets rid of the sense of importance of the unreal (temporal, perishable), then he will become naturally established in his self, that is free of any defects and mental agitation.

Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayan !!!

From book in Hindi "Nityayog ki Praapti" by Swami Ramsukhdasji

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