||ShriHari:||

How to be Free of Attraction to the Fleeting and Perishing

continued.....

Stay firm and unshakable on the point, that these transient things will not stay with us all the time.... avoid this mistake of seeing them as permanent.  

Questioner -  How can we get rid of this mistake?   

Swamiji -   From today onwards give importance to this point, that this is innate, and there is benefits that are seen at present.  What gains or benefits are seen, is that previously when you used to lose something, then you would get extremely worried, isn't it?   And now when such things get lost, then how much do you worry?  If you weigh the two, then according to my understanding, you will come to know the difference.  If there is a difference, then you have left that much at least.   Then why do you say that you cannot get rid off it?  Previously the way you would hold onto things, are you holding onto them as much now?   Then it is surely going away!  Yes ! It is not entirely gone away, that point is also true.  Do not become contented with your progress, but how can you believe and think that it is not going away?   Do not believe or accept that you are unable to let go of it, and also don't accept that it has gone away altogether,  because it has not gone away altogether; but it is surely going away.   

 

Understand this with absolute certainty that this is going to go away, because there is weakness in this relationship.  Therefore it is the kind that will eventually end.  If it was not the kind to end , then how would the hold on it be weakened?   Gita says -  "Naabhaavo vidyate satah".  The real never ceases to exist, but the unreal is moving towards non-existence.   If it is decreasing then it is moving towards non-existence, isn't it?   Then one must get power from this  that this is going to leave.  If it was not the kind to leave, then why would it decrease?   And if it has decreased then it will eventually go away. It will surely go away  Where is the question of it staying! That which decreases will surely end.   If it is diminishing,  then it will also end.  If its lifespan reduces then it will surely die, how can   it continue to live?       

 

We know how to attach and detach in relationships.  We got into a relationship with  mother - father, with wife and son,  we continue to establish new worldly relationships, and relieve ourselves of older relationships, but our relationship with God is innate and natural.  Our relationship with the world is not natural and innate.   We get to know this from the scriptures and from the saints.   If we experience this,  then though our relationship with God is out of faith, as He is not seen, but worldly relationships are parting, this is most evidently seen, therefore one must not loose hope and strength that it does not leave.   This is surely going away.   Even if you do not leave it, then too it will part ways.  However, if you don't leave it, and it leaves, then it can be held on to again,  and if you leave it, then it will not be grasped again.  Simply, do not accept that it does not go away.  It is going away,  accept this point from today onwards.  Sentiments that it does not go away are not good, therefore accept that it is departing, and we are letting go.   The satsang that we are doing right now, it is going away.  All in all is coming to an end.      Now who to love,  who to keep,  who to regard as our very own!  

Rajjab roven kaun ko hase se kaun vichaar |

Gaye so aavanke nahi rahe so jaavan haar ||

 

This is all going away,  remain firm on this point.  Do not believe that it is not leaving,  it is surely leaving right now,  accept this.   Why to believe the opposite point that it is not going away!  Believe that it is going away !  

 

     (to be continued)

Ram Ram 

From book in hindi "Bhagwat Praapti Sahaj Hai"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji.