Rest should be the criterion of power. A man of power is absolutely at rest, he has no restlessness in him. Because restlessness is nothing but dissipation of energy. When you are feeling restless, you are dissipating energy.
You create energy everyday, a tremendous amount of it, but you waste- sometimes in anger, sometimes in sexuality, sometimes in greed, sometimes in competition, sometimes for no reason at all…. just because you have it, what to do with it? When you do not put your energy to any purpose whatsoever, then energy itself starts moving upwards. If you put it in work, some action, it moves in a horizontal line. So, when you simply take delight in the presence of the energy in you, you do not put it to any work, you are happy that it is there, it moves vertically upwards. Do work, but let for some periods your energy move vertically too. It is necessary for life- you cannot live by bread alone. So, sometimes just sit, do nothing. And something grows within you. You become a reservoir, you start throbbing with an unknown delight. When you are full of energy, then you are in contact with the whole.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
From Yoga Vasistha
A Child superimposes a real elephant on a clay elephant and plays with it; similarly an ignorant man superimposes the body, mind and intellect conglomerate on the self and carries on his activities. Like the organs of the body or vessels of clay, non-duality appears as duality/ multiplicity in the form of moving and unmoving objects. Just as a single face is reflected as many in the mirror, crystal, and water simultaneously; so also the one self is reflected in the many intellects or minds. When water and fire come together they acquire the qualities of each other. Similarly when the self and the inert body come together, the self looks like the non-self and the non-self looks like the self. The self, is realized in the body only with effort like sugar from sugarcane, fire from wood and iron from ore. It can only be experienced, not known. There is neither bondage nor liberation, neither duality nor non-duality. There is only God always shining as consciousness. Awareness is God. The “idea” of a consciousness is bondage, freedom from it is liberation. Consciousness is the self. There is only consciousness here; this universe is nothing but consciousness; you are consciousness; I am consciousness; the worlds are consciousness- that is the conclusion.
Discipling Oneself in perseverance
WHENEVER YOU ARE TIRED, FRUSTRATED, FINISHED WITH SOMETHING, REMAIN ALERT – THE MIND WILL TEND TO GO TO THE OPPOSITE.
If you are tired of your efforts, it simply means that you are pushing yourself too hard. You are bound to get tired. You are in lots of haste. STOP THIS. Calm down. Slow down. Balance yourself. Do one thing at a time. Gauge your energies. Conserve more energy. Move again. Very slowly and cautiously. Try to find the middle path. Remember the middle, and you will always be right. Don’t be result-oriented. Don’t shift to the other extreme. Don’t stop your efforts – be firm in your endeavors. Do it joyously and willfully.
If you are tired of your efforts, it simply means that you are pushing yourself too hard. You are bound to get tired. You are in lots of haste. STOP THIS. Calm down. Slow down. Balance yourself. Do one thing at a time. Gauge your energies. Conserve more energy. Move again. Very slowly and cautiously. Try to find the middle path. Remember the middle, and you will always be right. Don’t be result-oriented. Don’t shift to the other extreme. Don’t stop your efforts – be firm in your endeavors. Do it joyously and willfully.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
MIND:
Just like I believe that I have absolutely no relation with my dog's mind; similarly, I acknowledge that there is a no relation between me (Self, swayam) and my mind. The dog's mind and my mind are of the same nature and class (jaati). When the dog's mind is not mine, then this mind is also not mine. Mind is a fragment of nature and abides in nature (jada prakriti), whereas I (self, swayam) am consciousness and God's very own fragment. Just like the worldly impressions left on a dog's mind have no affect on me, similarly this mind too should make no difference to me (self, swayam). In dreams, when there is no actual contact with the external world, the mind alone creates the whole universe consisting of the experiencer etc. Similarly in the waking state also; there is no difference. Therefore all this (phenomenal universe) is the projection of the mind. In dreamless sleep, when the mind is reduced to its causal state, there exists nothing (for the person asleep), as is evident from universal experience. Hence man’s relative existence is simply the creation of his mind, and has no objective reality.
Just like I believe that I have absolutely no relation with my dog's mind; similarly, I acknowledge that there is a no relation between me (Self, swayam) and my mind. The dog's mind and my mind are of the same nature and class (jaati). When the dog's mind is not mine, then this mind is also not mine. Mind is a fragment of nature and abides in nature (jada prakriti), whereas I (self, swayam) am consciousness and God's very own fragment. Just like the worldly impressions left on a dog's mind have no affect on me, similarly this mind too should make no difference to me (self, swayam). In dreams, when there is no actual contact with the external world, the mind alone creates the whole universe consisting of the experiencer etc. Similarly in the waking state also; there is no difference. Therefore all this (phenomenal universe) is the projection of the mind. In dreamless sleep, when the mind is reduced to its causal state, there exists nothing (for the person asleep), as is evident from universal experience. Hence man’s relative existence is simply the creation of his mind, and has no objective reality.
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BODY:
Just as I do not identify myself with the shadow-body, the image-body, the dream-body, or the body I see in the imaginations of my heart, similarly, I must do likewise with this living body also.Identifications with the body alone is the root that produces the misery of birth etc. of people who are attached to the unreal; therefore I must destroy this with the utmost care. When this identification caused by the mind is given up, there is no more chance for rebirth. I, therefore, look upon this body in-action as the body of another.
BODY:
Just as I do not identify myself with the shadow-body, the image-body, the dream-body, or the body I see in the imaginations of my heart, similarly, I must do likewise with this living body also.Identifications with the body alone is the root that produces the misery of birth etc. of people who are attached to the unreal; therefore I must destroy this with the utmost care. When this identification caused by the mind is given up, there is no more chance for rebirth. I, therefore, look upon this body in-action as the body of another.
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