Eternal Union with God and Its Realization
(नित्ययोग तथा उसका अनुभव)
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How to wipe out this attraction (attachment) for contact born pleasures? There are three methods for it. They are the Disciplines of Action, of Knowledge and of Devotion*. In the Discipline of Action we have to perform
actions for the welfare of others, not for ourselves. If we perform all actions with our gross, subtle and causal bodies for the welfare of others, our attachment for actions and objects will go away. In the Discipline of Knowledge, all actions occur in Nature and its evolutes while the self remains totally free from all actions. If we attach importance to this fact (discrimination), our attraction (attachment) for the mundane will vanish. In the Discipline of Devotion all actions are performed for God’s pleasure and thus attachment vanishes. Thus either perform actions for the sake of the world, or hold that they occur in Nature, or perform them for God’s pleasure and happiness. Don’t associate yourself at all with any action as by this association you become a doer and an enjoyer. But if you don’t accept this association with actions, your taste
(attraction) for actions and gains will die out and you will realize your eternal union with God.
We have attraction for mundane objects, pleasures and riches but this contact with them can’t last as they are continuously departing from us. They were neither with us, nor will stay with us and are vanishing at present also. This contact with the mundane is transitory and uncertain while their departure is permanent and inevitable.
This contact with the world is full of sorrows and sufferings. So the Lord declares the world as the abode of sorrows - “This disconnection from contact with pain should be known by this name Yoga. (Gita 6/23) and “The world is the abode of suffering” (Gita 8/15). The reason is that every kind of association ends in separation and separation leads to sorrow - this is a common experience. If we renounce the desire for mundane contact, we shall not feel sad in separation. The desire for contact is the abode of suffering. Now the question arises why there is desire for contact. The answer is that when we enjoy contact
born pleasures, they leave their impression in the form of latent desire. This desire is aroused when the objects of pleasure appear before us. So the Lord declares - “The pleasure that are born of contact (with objects) are only sources of pain. They are transitory, no wise man relishes them (Gita 5/22). Separation from contact born pleasures is inevitable. So the desire to relish them will certainly lead to misery. (to be continued...)
From Book in English "Sahaj Sadhana" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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