Monday, June 3, 2013

Way to be Free of Sorrow


||  Shri Hari ||

Way to be Free of Sorrow
(दुःख-नाशका उपाय)






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I go as far as to say that circumstances do not have the time to give pleasure - pain ! Poor thing! the circumstances are engrossed in flowing, it does not even touch us, then how can it give us pleasure and pain? Therefore with “satsang,” (association with truth), with holy thoughts, with good feelings and sentiments, a man can be ever joyful, ever blissful; because circumstances cannot give one sorrow. You are grabbing hold of sorrow and

becoming unhappy. If we get favorable circumstances, we become happy, and when we get unfavorable circumstances, then we regard them as unpleasing, this is the mistake that we make. In reality, circumstances are going away. Just like day and night, these favorable and unfavorable circumstances will keep coming. Just as after day, comes night, and after night comes day. In the same way, after pleasure comes pain, and after pain comes pleasure and so on.

From book in Hindi “Nitya Yog ki Praapti” by Swami Ramsukhdasji.

Talks pertaining to one’s salvation are open to all. Human body is only for one’s salvation, not for sense enjoyment. “yahin tana kar phal bishaya na bhaayi.” (Manas 7/44/1). Pleasure and pain are of two kinds. When we have money, wealth, glories, son, grandson, house, etc and such favorable things, then seeing these, people say that he is very

happy. If we don’t have these things ; if we do not have food to eat, clothes to wear, a house to stay, if such is our state, then seeing this, people say that he is very unhappy. In this manner, the name of various pleasure giving things is called happiness, and the name of various pain giving things is called unhappiness. And the feeling of joy in one’s heart is called happiness and the feeling of envy in the heart is called unhappiness. In this the pleasure and pain resulting from objects is circumstantial, and the pleasure and pain of the heart is out of foolishness. It is man’s main responsibility to get rid of this foolishness. Just as when you do not know a language, then to get rid of that ignorance, we can learn the language, in the same way, pleasure and pain are not in us at all - this art can be

learned by every man. It is for this knowledge that human body has been attained. Therefore on being born as a human, one must not become pleased and displeased, rather we are to rise above both pleasure and pain. What does it mean to rise above pleasure and pain? Where no pleasure can reach, nor pain can reach. A verse has come in the Patanjali Yoga Darshan of Vyas -

Pragyaapraasaadmaaruhayaashochyah sochato janaan |

bhoomishthaaniva shailstah sarvaanpraagyonupashyati || (1/47 ka)

In other words, just a when a man who stands on top of a mountain sees the men in the plains below, similarly, a man standing in the palace, sees both the suffering and not suffering.

In deep trance (samadhi) state, the Yogi’s intellect is able to grasp the Truth - “Rutambharaa tatra pragyaa” (Yogadarshan 1/48). Through discrimination thought one can gain such an intellect. Just as sometimes there is a flood, sometimes there is fire, sometimes favorable circumstances, sometimes unfavorable circumstances and various different circumstances, but when one is standing on top of a hill, no circumstance reaches that man. He is only observing the pleasure and pain, but not becoming happy and sad. This is called rising above the pleasure and pain and you and

me, and all of us we can be in this state.

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