|| Shri Hari ||
Exceptional Point in Gita
(Gita ki Vilakshan Baat)
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I had heard about a saint named Bakhatnaathji Maharaj in Ratangadh.He was a great soul of a very high caliber.One man brought a very good shawl from Assam, and said, that in winter you can put it to good use. Some time later a pandit (teacher) came to visit him. Feeling the shawl with his hands, he said - Maharaj, this shawl is of extremely good quality ! An seeing it, he placed it next to him.When the "pandit" was leaving, the Maharaj said,you please take this shawl with you.The Pandit said, that this was very lovingly brought by someone for you.
The Mahatma said - this is of no use to me now.Do not be offended, but since you have liked it, it is now yours.The Pandit was very hesitant to take it,but the Mahatma,forcibly gave it away to him.The reason being, when the Pandit's mind was attracted to this shawl, that shawl became impure, and it was no longer of any use to the Mahatma. In the same way, whatever thing our mind gets attracted to,that we gravitate towards,that thing becomes impure.
The moment we think a thing is ours, it becomes impure,and when we think the thing is God's then it becomes pure and divine. In the same the moment we regard ourselves as separate from God,we become impure and the moment we believe we are God's then we become pure and divine.In reality every thing is God's and is divine.We have regarded it as separate from God and belonging to us.This is our mistake. We have to correct this mistake. if we correct this mistake, then we will be released from the bondage of good and bad actions, and realize "Vasudeva Sarvam" - All is God.
Question - The things that we receive as fruit of our actions, they are ours only ! Then why should we not assume these as ours?
Answer -
That with which we perform actions, that power to perform actions is also not ours, and that which is received as fruit of those actions, is also not ours. The reason being that the power to perform actions and the fruit they are both received from God and will depart someday. If the body becomes weak, if it becomes paralyzed, then what can we do? Even the fruits of actions are not ours.It is the enjoyment of these that is binding - "Phale sakto nobadhyate" (Gita 5/12). Actions,the materials for performing actions, the ability to act, the strength / power, etc.,nothing is ours.Not only that, even the faculty to discriminate in performing actions, is not ours, rather it has been received from God.
Those things that cannot remain with us forever and that we cannot stay with forever, which we have no control over, which we have received and which will part, how can those things be ours? Never ever ! Those things that are not ours at all,how can you desire those things? How can there be any pride in renouncing it? Assuming these things as our own is itself dishonesty. If you renounce it, then you have only renounced your dishonesty. Then what is the pride in it? The name for renunciation of dishonesty is itself liberation.
If it is also difficult to give up what is not ours, rather which is someone else's (God's) and which is constantly separating and renouncing us,then what is easy? Keeping it, assuming it to be ours is itself difficult, then what is the difficulty in renouncing it? If you believe that it is difficult to give it up, then keeping it with you impossible.Compared to the impossible,the difficult is also easy.
One youthful boy said to me "a young girl living in our building was time and again alluring me, but I remained unshaken and unaffected. I said to him, you have gained victory over your senses.The boy replied, that - " It is not that I have control over my senses, rather, I remained firm on the point that I have no rights over that girl ! " That is, I have no rights over this thing. In other words, those things that are not ours, how can we exert our rights on it? To accept these as ours and for us, is dishonesty. All sorrows, burning, hell, birth and death etc. are the fruits of this dishonesty.It is due to this dishonesty that the world appears to be filled with sorrow, which as such is a form of God (divine). If you give up this dishonesty, i.e. do not accept anyone other than God as your own, then realization of "Vasudeva Sarvam" (All is God) will take place.
Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayana !!!
From book in Hindi "Sab Jagah Ishvar Roop Hai" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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(Gita ki Vilakshan Baat)