THE BRIEF ABOUT BRAIN !

 

                                                  WHAT IS FEELING?  

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                            FEELINGS ARE DANGEROUS. THEY HAVE NO UTILITY. THINKING IS UTILITARIAN. IT MAKES YOU CAPABLE OF LIVING IN THE WORLD, OF FIGHTING IN THE WORLD FOR SURVIVAL, FOR YOUR AMBITIONS. IT MAKES YOU CALCULATING, CUNNING, CLEVER. IT GIVES YOU POWER. FEELING? FEELING DOES NOT GIVE YOU ANY POWER. FEELING HAS NO POLITICS IN IT THAT IS THE PROBLEM.  THINKING IS POLITICAL FEELING IS RELIGIOUS. AND I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS A POLITICAL PERSON WHO IS RELIGIOUS OR CAN BE RELIGIOUS, UNLESS HE RENOUNCES POLITICS. I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS A RELIGIOUS PERSON WHO CAN BE POLITICAL. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. IF HE IS POLITICAL, THEN HIS RELIGION IS FALSE. THEN HIS BEING RELIGIOUS IS ALSO PART OF HIS POLITICS.

                WHO ARE YOU GOING INTO THE DEPTHS OF FEELING? THE HEAD, THE MIND, THE THINKING, THE LOGIC. YES, IF YOU GO INTO FEELINGS WITH LOGIC... LOGIC IS A CHRONIC SYSTEMATIZER, IT IS OBSESSED WITH SYSTEMATIZATION. WHEREVER IT GOES, IT SYSTEMATIZES, IT IMMEDIATELY STARTS CATEGORIZING. IT CANNOT ALLOW CHAOS -CHAOS SEEMS TO BE LIKE A DEATH. IT IMMEDIATELY STARTS PUTTING THINGS IN ORDER.

                             

                   WHAT IS QUANTUM LEAP? A QUANTUM LEAP IS GOING FROM SYSTEM TO NO SYSTEM, GOING FROM COSMOS TO CHAOS, GOING FROM THE FINITE TO THE INFINITE, GOING FROM THE KNOWLEDGEABLE TO THE UNKNOWABLE. A QUANTUM LEAP CANNOT BE FROM LOGIC TO SUPRA-LOGIC WHAT LEAP IS THERE? THERE IS NO LEAP. THERE IS A CONNECTION, IT IS A CONTINUITY. LOGIC AND SUPRALOGIC ARE IN ONE CONTINUM WHERE IS THE QUANTUM LEAP? THE QUANTUM LEAP IS WHEN YOU BREAK AWAY FROM THE CONTINUITY, WHEN THE OLD DISAPPEARS AND THE NEW SUDDENLY EXISTS AND THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN THE TWO, THERE IS NO CONNECTION. THAT NEEDS COURAGE. THAT'S WHY I INSIST AGAIN AND AGAIN: RELIGION IS ONLY FOR THE COURAGEOUS PEOPLE. RELIGION IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO DARE ENOUGH.

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                                                THE MIND ....

                                  WHAT SHALL WE CALL IT?

                                             IT IS THE SOUND OF THE BREEZE

                                   THAT BLOWS THROUGH THE PINES

                                             IN THE INDIAN - INK PICTURE.

                      IKKYU HAS EXPRESSED IT PERFECTLY WELL. WHAT IS THIS MIND, THIS ILLUSION IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING? WHAT TO CALL IT? THE MIND IS NOT SOMETHING AND IT IS NOT NOTHING IT IS SOMETHING BETWEEN THE TWO. IT IS NOT REAL, OTHERWISE YOU COULD NOT GET OUT OF IT. IT IS NOT UNREAL EITHER, OTHERWISE IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE. THEN WHAT IS IT?

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                                                             THE MIND ... 

                                                                 WHAT SHALL WE CALL IT?

                             IT IS JUST IN BETWEEN THE TWO. IT IS UNREAL AND APPEARS AS REAL - IT IS AN APPEARANCE. YOU SEE.. ONE EVENING, THE SUN HAS SET AND IT IS DARKENING. THE NIGHT IS DESCENDING, AND IN A FOREST ON A FOOTPATH YOU COME ACROSS, YOU SEE A ROPE. BUT YOU DON'T SEE THE ROPE, YOU SEE A SNAKE. THE ROPE IS THERE, BUT THE ROPE HAS TRIGGERED THE IDEA OF A SNAKE IN YOU. MANY THINGS MUST HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IT. YOU WERE AFRAID, IT WAS GETTING DARK AND YOU ARE NOT YET HOME AND THE FOREST IS DANGEROUS, AND THE ANIMALS AND SNAKES AND LIONS AND WHO KNOWS? AND GHOSTS. AND WHEN YOU ARE ALONE IN A FOREST ALL KINDS OF THINGS START BECOMING. TAKING SHAPE IN YOUR MIND. AND OUT OF THAT FEARING MIND YOU SEE A ROPE, BUT YOU CAN'T SEE THE ROPE. YOUR EYES ARE SO FULL OF FEAR, IDEAS, IMAGINATIONS, YOU SEE A SNAKE. AND MAYBE THE WIND WAS BLOWING AND THE ROPE HAD SHAKEN A LITTLE BIT, WAS TREMBLING. AND YOU START RUNNING AWAY, AND YOU SCREAM, AND YOU ARE IN DANGER.

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                                                         TELL A LIE,

                                             AND YOU GALL INTO HELL.

                                                          THEN WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BUDDHA

                                             WHO CONTRIVED

                                                        THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST?

THE TRUTH ABOUT NOTHINGNESS! (OSHO)

                           

             

                                    DO'S AND DONT'S

                  THE GREAT SCIENTIST OSHO'S SPEACH

                           

                       TO ATTAIN TO THAT MIRROR IS TO KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS.

                                       ALL THE SINS COMMITTED

                                         IN THE THREE WORLDS

                                   WILL FADE AND DISAPPEAR

                                      TOGETHER WITH MYSELF:

       

                   THE THREE WORDS ARE THE WORLDS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE THE WORLD OF TIME. THE SUTRA IS GREAT REVOLUNTIONARY MEANING.

                                        ALL THE SINS COMMITTED

                                         IN THE THREE WORLDS

                                   WILL FADE AND DISAPPEAR

                                      TOGETHER WITH MYSELF:

                        THE MOMENT YOU NOW THAT YOU ARE NOT, THEN ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE IN THE PAST, ARE DOING IN THE PRESENT, OR WILL BE DOING IN THE FUTURE, HAS ALSO DISAPPEARED. WHEN THE DOER DISAPPEARS, THE DOINGS HAVE DISAPPEARED.

                         IN THE EAST, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TOO MUCH CONCERNED WITH KARMAS, ACTIONS. THEY HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH AFRAID BECAUSE WHATEVER BAD THINGS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST, THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM, THEY HAVE TO SUFFER FOR THEM.

                                 IKKYU IS GIVING YOU A GREAT KEY : DON'T BE AFRAID BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT, SO YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING! HOW CAN YOU DO? BECAUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE NOT. HE IS TAKING THE VERY GROUND FROM UNDERNEATH YOUR FEET WITH IT, ALL DISAPPEARS.

                                         ALL THE SINS COMMITTED 

                                            IN THE THREE WORLDS

                                      WILL FADE AND DISAPPEAR

                                          TOGETHER WITH MYSELF:

                      SO THE ONLY THING IS TO GO DEEP INTO YOURSELF AND TO SEE YOUR NOTHINGNESS. YOU NEED NOT DO GOOD THINGS TO WEIGH AGAINST THE BAD THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE. YOU ARE NOT TO GO AND DO GOOD DEEDS BECAUSE WHETHER YOU DO BAD OR GOOD,  YOU REMAIN THE THE ILLUSION OF THE DOER. SEE THE DIFFERENCE!

                       ORDINARY RELIGIONS TEACH YOU TO BE MORAL, DO GOOD, AVOID SINS. REMEMBER RELIGION. TEN COMMANDMENTS THEY CONSIST OF THE ORDINARY RELIGION. DON'TDO THIS, DO THAT. THE EXTRAORDINARY RELIGION SAYS: DISAPPEAR AS A DOER - DONT BE BOTHERED ABOUT DOING GOOD OR BAD. AND WHO KNOWS WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD?

                          IN FACT, NOTHING IS GOOD AND NOTHING IS BAD. BECAUSE EXISTENCE IS ONE-HOW CAN THERE BE TWO? IT IS ALL ONE. GOOD TURNS INTO BAD, BAD TURNS INTO GOOD, ONE NEVER KNOWS WHAT IS WHAT.  THINGS ARE CHANGING CONTINUOULSY INTO EACH OTHER. YOIU CAN WATCH IT...

                          YOU WERE DOING SOMETHING GOOD, AND SOMETHING BAD TURNS OUT. A MOTHER TRIES TO PROTECT HER CHILD FROM ALL THE BAD THINGS OF THE WORLD. AND JUST BECAUSE SHE IS PROTECTING SHE IS FORCING HER TO GO INTO THEM BECAUSE SHE IS CREATING THE TEMPTATION.

                        THE PERSON HAS NO IDEA HOW TO LIVE THEN A PERSON LIVES WITHOUT MIND. THEN A PERSON LIVES WITH NOTHINGNESS IN HIM, THIS IS THE GOAL OF BUDDHISM. TO LIVE AS NOTHINGNESS IS NIRVANA.

                       BUDDHAS TALK VERY LOGICALLY BECAUE THEIR GOAL IS ILLOGIC. AND YOU CAN SEE MODERN PHYSICISTS TALKING VERY ILLOGICALLY. THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS ILLOGIC. THE THEORY OF UNCERTAINTY IS ILLOGIC. NON EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY IS ILLOGIC. HIGHER MATHEMATICS IS ILLOGIC. THEY TALK VERY ILLOGICALLY AND THEY CREATE LOGIC, THEIR GOAL IS LOGIC. THEY ARE MOVING TOWARDS ORDER.

THE GREAT SCIENTIST OSHO!

 

                         WHAT IS  THE NATURE? 

                           THE OSHO'S PERCEPTION!

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                                     BUDDHA IS A TOTALLY DIFFEREND KIND OF PERSON. HE IS THE ARCH ENEMY OF SHOW-BIZ. HE IS SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO TELL THE TRUTH, AND AS IT IS HE WANTS TO TELL IT. HE SHATTERS ALL RUBBISH RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES. HE SIMPLY SHOCKS YOU TO THE VERY ROOTS. AND IF YOU BECOME AVAILABLE TO HIM, HE CAN BECOME A DOOR A DOOR BACK HOME, A DOOR, A THREHOLD, THAT CAN MAKE YOU ABLE TO FALL BACK INTO NATURE.

 

                            IN EVERY COMPLICATED CULTURE, IN EVERY COMPLICATED CIVILIZATION, THERE ARE PROFESSIONAL LIARS AND PROFESSIONAL TRTH-TELLERS, BUT THEY ARE NOT VERY DIFFERENT, THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE. THE PROFESSIONAL LIARS ARE CALLED  LAWYERS, AND THE PROFESSIONAL TRUTH-TELLERS ARE KNOWN AS PRIESTS. THEY SIMPLY REPEAT SCRIPTURES.

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                         BUDDHA IS NEITHER A LIAR NOR A PROFESSIONAL TRUTH-TELLER. HE SIMPLY MAKES HIS HEART AVAILABLE TO YOU, HE WANTS TO SHARE. HENCE, THE WHOLE INDIAN PRIETHOOD WAS AGAINST HIM. HE WAS THROWN OUT OF HIS OWN COUNTRY. HIS TEMPLES WERE BURNT, HIS STATUES WERE DESTROYED. MANY BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES ARE AVAILABLE NOW ONLY IN CHINESE TRANSLATIONS OR TIBETAN TRANSLATIONS,.

             THEIR ORIGINALS ARE LOST, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN BURNT.

                               THOUSANDS OF BUDDHISTS WERE KILLED IN THIS NON-VIOLENT COUNTRY. THEY WERE BURNT ALIVE. BUDDHA SHOCKED THE PROFESSIONAL TRUTH-TELLERS VERY DEEPLY. HE WAS BENT UPON IT TO DESTROY THEIR WHOLE BUSINESS. HE SIMPLY MADE IT AN OPEN SECRET. 

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                       LISTEN TO THESE WORDS OF IKKYU. THEY DESCRIBE THE BUDDHIST APPROACH PROFOUNDLY.

                            OF HEAVEN OR HELL WE HAVE

                                   NO RECOLLECTION, NO KNOWLEDGE,

                            WE MUST BECOME WHAT WE WERE

                                     BEFORE WE WERE BORN.

                                        EVERYTHING FINALLY RETURNS TO ITS SOURCE. THAT'S THE LAW OF NATURE. NATURE MOVES IN A PERFECT CIRCLE, SO EVERYTHING HAS TO RETURN TO ITS SOURCE. KNOWING THE SOURCE, YOU CAN KNOW THE GOAL-BECAUSE THE GOAL CAN NEVER BE OTHER THAN THE SOURCE.

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                      YOU PLANT A SEED, AND THEN THE TREES ARISES. YEARS IT WILL TAKE, AND THE TREE WILL SPREAD ITS WINGS IN THE SKY AND WILL. HAVE DIALOGUES WITH THE STARS, AND WILL LIVE A LONG LIFE... AND FINALLY WHAT HAPPENS? THE TREE PRODUCES SEEDS AGAIN AND THE SEEDS FALL INTO THE EARTH AND AGAIN NEW TREES ARISE. IT IS A SIMPLE MOVEMENT.

                           THE SOURCE IS THE GOAL!

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                         SOMEBODY WANTS TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED - THAT IS AN ARTIFICIAL GOAL. I AM NOT SAYING THAT PEOPLE DON'T BECOME ENLIGHTENED, BUT I AM SAYING DON'T MAKE IT A GOAL. PEOPL BECOME ENLIGHTENED ONLY WHEN THEY HAVE FALLEN BACK TO THEIR ORIGINAL SOURCE, WHEN THEY HAVE BECOME NATURAL THEY ARE ENLIGHTENED.

                    LET ME REPEAT AGAIN. ENLIGHTENMENT IS A NATURAL STATE. IT IS NOT SOME SUPRA-CONSCIOUS STATE, SUPRA-MENTAL. AVOID SRI AUROBIDO AND HIS TERMINOLOGY, THAT IS ALL MIND GAME. IT IS NOT SOMETHIG VERY SPECIAL. IT IS VERY ORDINARY. IT IS SO ORDINARY THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT IN IT.

                               EVERYTHING FINALLY RETURNS TO ITS SOURCE, SO HEAVEN AND HELL ARE ARBITRARY GOALS, CREATED, INVENTED BY THE PRIESTS TO DOMINATE PEOPLE. A GREAT STRATEGY- IT WORKED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

THE AWARENESS OF KARMA YOGAM!

 

                                 KARMA YOGAM AWARENESS

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                              KARMA CAN BE SHED IN TWO WAYS: EITHER BY ACTING WITH AWARENESS OR BY ACTING WITH TOTAL ABANDON. IF YOU CAN DO IT WITH BOTH, YOU ARE LIBERATED. THESE ARE THE TWO APPROACHES TO KARMA YOGA. BUT WITHOUT THESE TWO, EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO IS AN ACCUMULATION OF KARMA.

                             ABONDON IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT QUALITIES TO FIND IN THE WORLD TODAY. THE LEVEL OF INHIBITION THAT PEOPLE LIVE WITH IS TRULY AMAZING. IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERAL OF THE DISEASES - BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL - WE SEE AROUND US.

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                       I OFTEN ASK PEOPLE, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GROWN UP IN FAMILIES WHERE YOU HEARD YOUR PARENTS LAUGHING MANY TIMES A DAY? MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE DEAD SERIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE BURDENED BY THIS DREADFUL DUTY OF HAVING TO BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN RIGHT.

                              AWARENESS IS A FAR DEEPER DIMENSION. IT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU DO. IT IS NOT AN ACTION. IT IS A STATE OF BEING . IT IS THE WAY YOIU ARE. AWARENESS IS INCLUSIVENESS, A WAY OF EMBRACING THIS ENTIRE EXISTENCE. YOU CAN SET THE RIGHT CONDITIONS FOR IT TO HAPPEN, BUT YOU CANNOT DO IT. IF YOU BRING THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND ENERGY BODIES INTO ALIGNMENT, THERE WILL BE ROOM FOR AWARENESS FOR YOU, YOU EXPLODE INTO THE ONENESS OF EXISTENCE. THIS IS YOGA, THE ULTIMATE UNION.

                        WHAT ABOUT ABANDON? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

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                       IT MEANS THAT YOUR INVOLVEMENT HAS BECOME SO INTENSE THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO ABANDON YOURSELF. MOST PEOPLE THINK THE WORD REFERS TO ABANDONING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING! BUT THIS IS ABOUT ABANDONING YOURSELF. YOU ARE WILLING TO JUST GIVE UP EVERYTHING THAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE YOURSELF.

                        NOW, ABANDON CAN CERTAINLY HAPPEN BY SIMPLY SITTING STILL, BUT IT IS NOT EASY. IT TAKES AWARENESS TO DO THIS IN A STATE OF INACTION. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN INTENSE STATES OF ACTIVITY - WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING, DANCING, OR PLAYING A GAME - YOU CAN GIVE YOURSELF UP WITH TOTAL ABANDON. IN SUCH MOMENTS, THERE IS A DISCONNECT BETWEEN YOUR PAST AND YOU. WHEN YOU ARE COMPLETELY LOST OR IMMERSED IN ANY ACTIVITY, THE INFLUENCE OF YOUR PAST KARMA IS NO LONGER UPON YOU. MANY SPORTSPERSONS AND ARTISTS KNOW THIS STATE OF IMMERSION, BUT THE FRUSTRATION IS THAT THEY ARE UNABLE TO SUSTAIN IT. UMMERSIVE ACTIVITY CAN GIVE YOU A TASTE OF FREEDOM, BUT IT CANNOT LAST. YOGA IS THE SCIENCE OF SUSTAINING THAT EXPERIENCE.

                         MANY BELIEVE THAT A STATE OF RESTLESSNESS IS A PREREQUISITE FOR ACTION. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. THE PARADOX IS THAT THE BASIS OF ACTIVITY IS IN RESTFULNESS. ACTION THAT IS BORN OF RESTLESSNESS IS LIFE-TAKING, NOT LIFE-GIVING. IT DESTROYS A HUMAN BEING IN THE PROCESS. IF ACTION IS PERFORMED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT IS NOT ABOUT YOURSELF ANYMORE, YOU WILL SEE THAT ABILITY TO WORK IS ALMOST LIMITLESS. YOU CAN BE ACTIVE ALMOST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY WITHOUT EXHAUSION. THIS IS THE REMARKABLE THING ABOUT KARMA YOGA.

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                     KARMA YOGA WORKS IN THREE WAYS. IT IS A MEANS TO GENERATE GOOD KARMA FOR ONESELF. IT OFFERS A WAY TO DISTANCE ONESELF FROM THE OPPRESSIVE ASPECTS OF ONE'S KARMIC INHERITANCE. AND IT IS A MEANS OF SHEDDING KARMA AND MOVING TOWARD ONE'S ULTIMATE LIBERATION FROM CYCLICAL EXISTENCE. ALL THESE THREE POSSIBILITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO THE KARMA YOGI, THE COMMITTED PRACTITIONER OF THE ALCHEMY OF WELL-BEING.

THE SIMPLE MANTRAS AND ITS MEANING!

 

                                     SHANTHI MANTRA

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                            NOW LET'S  TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE SHANTI MANTRAS THAT OCCUR IN THE UPANISHADS, THE CORE AND ESSENCE OF THE VEDAS. THEY ARE MOSTLY ASSERTIONS, AFFIRMATIONS AND WISHES TO ASCEND SPIRITUALLY AND DERIVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STRENGTH TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS, RATHER THAN THROUGH PRAYERS TO AN ALMIGHTY CREATOR . MANY OF THEM END WITH THE SINCERE WISH FOR PEACE - SHANTI - AND THE WISH TO IMPROVE THE WORLD AND THE BEINGS THAT LIVE IN IT.

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                                     ASATOMA SADGAMAYA

                        FROM THE UNREAL MAY I ASCEND TO THE REAL,

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                                     TAMASO MA JYOTIRGAMAYA

                              FROM DARKNESS, MAY I ASCEND TO LIGHT,

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                                      MRTYOR MA AMRTAM GAMAYA

                                   FROM DEATH MAY I ASCEND TO DEATHLESSNESS,

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                                       OM SHANTI SHANTI SHATIH

  

                                       OM! PEACE, PEACE, PEACE.

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                              OM SARVE BHAVANTU SUKHINAH

                                MAY ALL BE HAPPY.

                                IN THE ABOVE MANTRA, THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO A CREATOR GOD. IT IS A STATEMENT OF COMPLETENESS OR FULLNESS OF THE TRUTH OR ULTIMATELY REALITY. SANKHYA AND YOGA WOULD CALL IT THE FULLNESS OF PURUSHA, OUR TRUE BEING WHEN FREE FROM THE CONDITIONING OF PRAKRITI, THE WORLD OF MATTER. VEDANTISTS WOULD PREFER THE WORD BRAHMAN, ALL THAT REMAINS AFTER THE NEGATION OF ALL TANGIBLE OBJECTS. 

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                            THE GOAL OF YOGA IS TO FIND THAT FULLNESS OF THE ETERNALLY FREE PURUSHA, RARELY CALLED ISHWARA IS ONE'S OWN SELF, FREED OF ALL CONDITIONING CAUSED BY PRAKRITI.

                  ACCORDING TO THE COMMENTARY OF VYASA, THE SEVEN-FOLD UNDERSTANDING IS :

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                       1. THAT WHICH IS TO BE KNOWN IS KNOWN NOW.

                       2. THAT WHICH IS TO BE AVOIDED IS AVOIDED.

                        3. WHAT HAS TO BE ATTAINED IS ATTAINED.

                        4. THE ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE AND DISCERN IS.

                       5. THE INTELLECT (BUDDHI) HAS REALISED, FINISHED ITS PURPOSE, FIRST BY PROVIDING EXPERIENCE AND THEN  LIBERATION.

                       6. ALL THE FLUCTUATIONS CAUSED BY THE GUNAS HAVE CEASED.

                      7. THE PURUSHA, THE SEER ABIDES IN SPLENDID ALONENESS.

HOW TO WORK HARD WITHOUT KARMA!

                              THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

                                       (KARMA YOGAM)

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                                 ACCORDING TO KARMA-YOGA, THE ACTION ONE HAS DONE CANNOT BE DESTROYED UNTIL IT HAS BORNE ITS FRUIT,  NO POWER IN NATURE CAN STOP IF FROM YIELDING ITS RESULTS. IF I DO AN EVIL ACTION, I MUST SUFFER FOR IT, THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. SIMILARLY, IF I DO A GOOD ACTION, THERE IS NO POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH CAN STOP ITS BEARING GOOD RESULTS. THE CAUSE MUST HAVE ITS EFFECT, NOTHING CAN PREVENT OR RESTRAIN THIS. NOW COMES A VERY FINE AND SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT KARMA-YOGA-NAMELY, THAT THESE ACTIONS OF OURS, BOTH GOOD AND EVIL, ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER. WE CANNOT PUT A LINE OF DEMARCATION AND SAY, THIS ACTION IS ENTIRELY GOOD AND THIS ENTIRELY EVIL.

                         THERE IS NO ACTION WHICH DOES NOT BEAR GOOD AND EVIL FRUITS AT THE SAME TIME.  TO TAKE THE NEAREST EXAMPLE. I AM TAKING TO YOU, AND SOME OF YOU, PERHAPS, THINK I AM DOING GOOD, AND AT THE SAME TIME I AM , PERHAPS, KILLING THOUSANDS OF MICROBES IN THE ATMOSPHERE, I AM THUS DOING EVIL TO SOMETHING ELSE. WHEN IT IS VERY NEAR TO US AND AFFECTS THOSE WE KNOW, WE SAY THAT IT IS VERY GOOD ACTION IF IT AFFECTS THEM IN A GOOD MANNER. FOR INSTANCE, YOU MAY CALL MY SPEAKING TO YOU VERY GOOD, BUT THE MICROBES WILL NOT, THE MICROBES YOU DO NOT SEE, BUT YOURSELVES YOU DO SEE. THE WAY IN WHICH MY TALK AFFECTS YOU IS OBVIOUS TO YOU, BUT HOW IT AFFECTS THE MICROBES IS NOT SO OBVIOUS. AND SO, IF WE ANALYSE OUR EVIL ACTIONS ALSO, WE MAY FIND THAT SOME GOOD POSSIBLY RESULTS FROM THEM SOMEWHERE. HE WHO IS GOOD ACTION SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING EVIL IN IT, AND IN THE MIDST OF EVIL SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN IT SOMEWHERE, HAS KNOWN THE SECRET OF WORK.

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                         THE SECOND POINT TO CONSIDER IT, WHAT IS THE END OF WORK? WE FIND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN EVERY COUNTRY BELIEVING THAT THERE WILL BE A TIME WHEN THIS WORLD WILL BECOME PERFECT, WHEN THERE WILL BE NO DISEASE, NOR DEATH, NOR UNHAPPINESS NOR WICKEDNESS. THAT IS A VERY GOOD IDEA, A VERY GOOD MOTIVE POWER TO INSPIRE AND UPLIFT THE IGNORANT, BUT IF WE THINK FOR A MOMENT, WE SHALL FIND ON THE VERY FACE OF IT THAT IT CANNOT BE SO. HOW CAN IT BE, SEEING THAT GOOD AND EVIL ARE THE OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE SAME COIN? HOW CAN YOU HAVE GOOD WITHOUT EVIL AT THE SAME TIME? WHAT IS MEANT BY PERFECTION? A PERFECT LIFE IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. LIFE ITSELF IS A STATE OF CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE BETWEEN OURSELVES AND EVERYTHING OUTSIDE. 

                        EVERY MOMENT WE ARE FIGHTING ACTUALLY WITH EXTERNAL NATURE, AND IF WE ARE DEFEATED, OUR LIFE HAS TO GO. IT IS, FOR INSTANCE, A CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE FOR FOOD AND AIR. IF FOOD OR AIR FAILS, WE DIE. LIFE IS NOT A SIMPLE AND SMOOTHLY FLOWING THING, BUT IT IS A COMPOUND EFFECT. THIS COMPLEX STRUGGLE FLOWING BETWEEN SOMETHING INSIDE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD IS WHAT WE CALL LIFE. SO IT IS CLEAR THAT WHEN THIS STRUGGLE CEASES, THERE WILL BE AN END OF LIFE.

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                    THUS THE MAN THAT HAS PRACTICED CONTROL OVER HIMSELF CANNOT BE ACTED UPON BY ANYTHING OUTSIDE, THERE IS NO MORE SLAVERY FOR HIM. HIS MIND HAS BECOME FREE. SUCH A MAN ALONE IS FIT TO LIVE WELL IN THE WORLD. WE GENERALLY FIND MEN HOLDING TWO OPINIONS REGARDING THE WORLD. SOME ARE PESSIMISTS AND SAY, "HOW HORRIBLE THIS WORLD IS, HOW WICKED". SOME OTHERS ARE OPTIMISTS AND SAY, 

                      "HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS WORLD IS, HOW WONDERFUL". TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT CONTROLLED THEIR OWN MINDS, THE WORLD IS EITHER FULL OF EVIL OR AT BEST A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL. THIS VERY WORLD WILL BECOME TO US AN OPTIMISTIC WORLD WHN WE BECOME MASTERS OF OUR OWN MINDS. NOTHING WILL THEN WORK UPON US GOOD OR EVIL, WE SHALL FIND EVERYTHING TO BE IN ITS PROPER PLACE, TO BE HARMONIOUS. SOME MEN, WHO BEGIN BY SAYING THAT THE WORLD IS A HELL, OFTEN END BY SAYING THAT IT IS A HEAVEN WHEN THEY SUCCEED IN THE PRACTICE OF SELF-CONTROL. IF WE ARE GENIUNE KARMA-YOGIS AND WISH TO TRAIN OURSELVES TO THAT ATTAINMENT OF THIS STATE,

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                 WHEREVER WE MAY BEGIN WE ARE SURE TO END IN PERFECT SELF-ABNEGATION, AND AS SOON AS THIS SEEMING SELF HAS GONE, THE WHOLE WORLD, WHICH AT FIRST APPEARS TO US TO BE FILLED WITH EVIL, WILL APPEAR TO BE HEAVEN ITSELF AND FULL OF BLESSEDNESS. ITS VERY ATMOSPHERE WILL BE BLESSED, EVERY HUMAN FACE THERE WILL BE GOD. SUCH IS THE END AND AIM OF KARMA-YOGA, AND SUCH IS ITS PERFECTION IN PRACTICAL LIFE.

HOW TO LOVE YOUR WORK! (LORD KRISHNA SAYS)

 

                                     LORD KRISHNA SAYS !

                               LOVE YOUR WORK WITHOUT ATTACHMENT !

                               KRISHNA SAYS, "LOOK AT ME, ARJUNA! IF I STOP FROM WORK FOR ONE MOMENT, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WILL DIE. I HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN FROM WORK, I AM THE ONE LORD, BUT WHY DO I WORK? BECAUSE I LOVE THE WORLD". GOD IS UNATTACHED BECAUSE HE LOVES, THAT REAL LOVE MAKES US UNATTACHED. WHEREEVER THERE IS ATTACHMENT, THE CLINGING TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, YOU MUST KNOW THAT IT IS ALL PHYSICAL ATTRACTION BETWEEN SETS OF PARTICLES OF MATTER - SOMETHING THAT ATTRACTS TWO BODIES NEARER AND NEARER ALL THE TIME AND, IF THEY CANNOT GET NEAR ENOUGH, PRODUCES PAIN, BUT WHERE THERE IS REAL LOVE, IT DOES NOT REST ON PHYSICAL ATTACHMENT AT ALL. SUCH LOVERS MAY BE A THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEIR LOVE WILL BE ALL THE SAME, IT DOES NOT DIE, AND WILL NEVER PRODUCE ANY PAINFUL REACTION.

                    TO ATTAIN THIS UNATTACHMENT IS ALMOST A LIFE-WORK, BUT AS SOON AS WE HAVE REACHED THIS POINT, WE HAVE ATTAINED THE GOAL OF LOVE AND BECOME FREE, THE BONDAGE OF NATURE FALLS FROM US, AND WE SEE NATURE AS SHE IS, SHE FORGES NO MORE CHAINS FROM US, WE STAND ENTIRELY FREE AND TAKE NOT THE RESULTS OF WORK INTO CONSIDERATION, WHO THEN CARES FOR WHAT THE RESULTS MAY BE?

                      DO YOU ASK ANYTHING FROM YOUR CHILDREN IN RETURN FOR WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM? IT IS YOUR DUTY TO WORK FOR THEM, AND THERE THE MATTER ENDS. IN WHATEVER YOU DO FOR A PARTICULAR PERSON, A CITY, OR A STATE, ASSUME THE SAME ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT YOU HAVE TOWARDS YOUR CHILDREN - EXPECT NOTHING IN RETURN. IF YOU CAN INVARIABLY TAKE THE POSITION OF A GIVER , IN WHICH EVERYTHING GIVEN BY YOU IS A FREE OFFERING TO THE WORLD, WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT OF RETURN, THEN WILL YOUR WORK BRING YOU NO ATTACHMENT. ATTACHMENT COMES ONLY WHERE WE EXPECT A RETURN.

                      IF WORKING LIKE SLAVES RESULTS IN SELFISHNESS AND ATTACHMENT, WORKING AS MASTER OF OUR OWN MIND GIVES RISE TO THE BLISS OF NON-ATTACHMENT. WE OFTEN TALK OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE, BUT WE FIND THAT IN THE WORLD RIGHT AND JUSTICE ARE MERE BABY'S TALK. THERE ARE TWO THINGS WHICH GUIDE THE CONDUCT OF MEN. MIGHT AND MERCY/ THE EXERCISE OF MIGHT S UNVARIABLY THE EXERCISE OF SELFISHNESS. ALL MEN AND WOMEN TRY TO MAKE THE MOST OF WHATEVER POWER OR ADVANTAGE THEY HAVE.MERCY IS HEAVEN ITSELF, TO BE GOOD, WE HAVE ALL TO BE MERCIFUL. EVEN JUSTICE AND RIGHT SHOULD STAND ON MERCY. 

                        ALL THOUGHT OF OBTAINING RETURN FOR THE WORK WE DO HINDERS OUR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, NAY, IN THE END IT BRINGS MISERY. THERE IS ANOTHER WAY IN WHICH THIS IDEA OF MERCY AND SELFLESS CHARITY CAN BE PUT INTO PRACTICE, THAT IS, BY LOOKING UPON WORK AS "WORSHIP" IN CASE WE BELIEVE IN A PERSONAL GOD. HERE WE GIVE UP ALL THE FRUITS OUR WORK UNTO THE LORD, AND WORSHIPPING HIM THUS, WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPECT ANYTHING FROM MAN KIND FOR THE WORK WE DO. THE LORD HIMSELF WORKS INCESSANTLY AND IS EVER WITHOUT ATTACHMENT. JUST AS WATER CANNOT WET THE LOTUS LEAF, SO WORK CANNOT BIND THE UNSELFISH MAN BY GIVING RISE TO ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS. THE SELFISH MAN BY GIVING RISE TO ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS. THE SELFLESS AND UNATTACHED MAN MAY LIVE IN THE VERY HEART OF A CROWDED AND SINFUL CITY, HE WILL NOT BE TOUCHED BY SIN.

                      NOW YOU SEE WHAT KARMA-YOGA MEANS, EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH TO HELP ANY ONE, WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS. BE CHEATED MILLIONS OF TIMES AND NEVER ASK A QUESTION, AND NEVER THINK OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING, NEVER VAUNT OF YOUR GIFTS TO THE POOR OR EXPECT THEIR GRATITUDE, BUT RATHER BE GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR GIVING YOU THE OCCASION OF PRACTICING CHARITY TO THEM. THUS IT IS PLAIN THAT TO BE AN IDEAL HOUSEHOLDER IS A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TASK THAN TO BE AN IDEAL SANNYASIN, THE TRUE LIFE OF WORK IS INDEED AS HARD AS, IF NOT HARDER THAN, THE EQUALLY TRUE LIFE OF RENUNCIATION.

                           KARMA - YOGA, THEREFORE, IS A SYSTEM OF ETHICS AND RELIGION INTENDED TO ATTAIN FREEDOM THROUGH UNSELFISHNESS, AND BY GOOD WORKS. THE KARMA-YOGI NEED NOT BELIEVE IN ANY DOCTRINE WHATEVER. HE MAY NOT BELIEVE EVEN IN GOD, MAY NOT ASK WHAT HIS SOUL IS, NOR THINK OF ANY METAPHYSICAL SPECULATION. HE HAS GOT HI OWN SPECIAL AIM OF REALISING SELFISHNESS, AND HE HAS TO WORK IT OUT HIMSELF. EVERY MOMENT OF HIS LIFE MUST BE REALISATION, BECAUSE HE HAS TO SOLVE BY MERE WORK, WITHOUT THE HELP OF DOCTRINE OR THEORY, THE VERY SAME PROBLEM TO WHICH THE JNANI APPLIES HIS REASON AND INSPIRATION AND THE BHAKTA HIS LOVE.