Monday, 07 October 2019
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Mind according to Vedanta
You have to reach the superconcious level through effort;
you have to go beyond ego through ego; you have to go beyond reason though reason.
Not by discarding reason, you have to go beyond action though action. Sri
Krishna declares in the Bhagvad gita that you cannot reach the state or
worklessness by simply giving up work. If you want to attain serenity of mind
and the ability to live a contemplative life, you have to attain it through the
right kind of work. Simply by giving up your duties or by not undertaking duties’
you cannot reach that state. Through work you go beyond work . if the work is rightly
directed it can lead you beyond work . Similarly, your reason , rightly
directed can lead you beyond its scope . Reason has a limited range, beyond
that it is helpless. if you lose your way , you ask a traffic policeman for
directions. He will direct you , but will not take you there personally .
Reason functions in the same way. A man of God tells you of the nature of God
and the world and of the path to take to realize God, but he cannot take you
all the way. You reason on his works and eventually reach the goal, thus using
reason to go beyond reason. 
Through will you surrender the will . Self surrender does
not mean that you are nothing. A simpleton. There are different kinds of self-surrender
in this world. A robber enters your house and says that you have to give all
your money to him otherwise he will kill you . you give him all the money you
have. You surrender to him a compulsory self-surrender. In another case you
understand the worthiness of a great noble laudable cause and you dedicate all
you have to that cause; a voluntary self-surrender. Perhaps you find a person
who can really guide you and you submit to his superior knowledge; another kind
of self-surrender. or another man come and gets you to do certain things by
bribing you; another kind of self-surrender . our will in the foregoing cases
is overcoming through will .
The Speaking Tree | ET
By S P Mehta
There are only two
things in existence. One is the ‘happening’ that we know as physical creation.
And the other is the ‘lap’ in which such creation happens. A ‘happening’ —
small or big — always happens in time.
That which happens in
time is fleeting in nature and, hence, is temporary. Being temporary, physical
creation is always subject to rise and fall. In a certain period of time, a
‘happening’ becomes happened.
The important thing is
the lap in which creation happens. In yogic lore, though this lap is named
variously such as Consciousness, Reality and Truth, we can simply call it as
the ‘Sakshi’, or witnessing. It’s non-physical and, hence, is never a part of
the time. Sakshi is like the cinema screen on which entire creation appears and
disappears and, yet, the screen remains unaffected. Also, the screen is there
all the time. It never changes — neither appears nor disappears like physical
existence.
Spirituality means to go
beyond the physical. Because if you are lost in the physical, then you will belong
to samsara that means continue moving in circles but not reaching any place.
Being a sakshi means
becoming the very screen on which are projected all the happenings including
what happens within you and, yet, remaining untouched by such happenings. An
enlightened being is one who is always rooted in sakshi.
Liberation — mukti as we
know in yogic wisdom — from physical existence is possible only by becoming a
sakshi to the physical world. Meditation is the way forward to becoming a
sakshi.
DISCLAIMER : Views
expressed above are the author's own.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7
minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his
colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting
ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The
doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten
minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire
lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you
grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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