|| Shri Hari ||

How to be Free of Sense of Me and Mine? 

continued.....

The point is that charity takes place when there is a needy person (eligible recipient), at proper time and place,  and you do not establish a relationship with him.  If there is expectation of something in return, then the charity becomes "Rajas daan" (charity based on mode of passion), due to relationship with it -  

"yuttu pratyupakaaraartham .... taddaanam raajasam smrutam"  ||  (Gita 17/21).  

Because it is the nature of "rajogun" (attraction, mode of passion) to establish a relation -  

"Rajo raagaatmakam viddhi"  (Gita 14/7).  

On there being no relation with charity "saatvik daan" (i.e. charity based on mode of purity),  it does not remain charity, rather it is renunciation (sacrifice).

Just as, when there is no relation with the charity, similarly, let there be no relation with divine name recitation-meditation, serving others etc.  By serving someone, if we think that we have done some great work, then it is a mistake.  This is because he has entitlement over what we have.  If we have strength, then, that strength is collective strength.  Do we have any individual strength at all,  other than the collective strength?  Knowledge, education, intelligence, abilities, condition etc. and all that has been attained by us has been attained from the collective mass, from all.  Therefore if you put to use those things that have been acquired from others in the service of others then what favors have you done?   Taking his things and utilizing it to serve him is honesty.  If you establish a relation with that thing, then a sense of me (mein pan) will come.  On there being a sense of me, a "sense of mine-ness"  (merapan) will also come, as well as, "it is for me" (mere liye).  

Neither is this "me" nor is it "mine".  That which is ‘this’, it cannot be ‘me’ and that which is ‘me’ it cannot be ‘this’.  The body is ‘this’, the mind is ‘this’, the intellect is ‘this’, the life breath is ‘this’, even the sense of mine is ‘this’; thus,  how can all of these be ‘me’ (the Self) ? The assumed affinity with the body and the world which is the relationship of me-mine is the main cause of birth and death, therefore one should very quickly wipe out that relationship.

Narayana !  Narayana !  Narayana !  

From "Kalyaankari Pravachan"  in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji