YV SUMMARY
Our parents have gone to the planet of Bliss
eternal. They have gone to greater joy. Neither anyone was your mother nor
father, nor anyone will be. Out of ignorance upon many you assumed this
relationship. Not only with them but with many others. You had thousands of
mothers and thousands of fathers. Why don't you lament for them. It is a mirage.
Brother, see neither you are nor world nor these sights. Toss away these from
your heart. It is born out of your will. It is no truth. World is a river of mirage in
the desert. It evolves innumerable waves of good and bad, auspicious and
inauspicious, and submerges at last.
"As dust particles you see wavering in there so that many friends and parents
you had before. "Many times you became a deer, you had parents and friends then also. Why
don't you cry for them too? You were an elephant, you had a family then too. You
were a tree once. Other trees were your kinsmen. You were a crocodile in a lake.
In Dasarna State you were a crow. In Tusarna State you were a Prince. In Bengal
you were an elephant, in Siberia you were a donkey. In Malava State you were a
snake and a tree. In Kosal you were a bramhin. In China you were a business man.
In Poland you were a woman. In Italy's Vatican garden you were a spiritual master.
In England you became a king again in the Druid race. In Egypt you were a
minister. In Gaul you were a laborer. In Himalayas you were a pond. In Kashmir
you were a lotus in Dale lake.
as passionate clinging you evolved in your mind strong enough to
become your last thought at times of death those bodies you got. And there and
there you became involved in them, instead of trying hard to get free. You
developed relationships with wife, kids, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, their kids,
keeping your prestige up you remained busy. Terribly busy. And that foolish
busyness remained the matter of your dignity. Never you felt ashamed to say
yourself is too busy to do the right thing to search for the Self. You remained dull
and a dunce.
"Brother, me too like yourself, I also went on transmigrating body after body
after body. In the same these forests I strolled as a camel. I remember being a
tree, bird, swan, king, deer; you were then my elder brother, for ten years we lived
together. But now I am awakened. I wish you too, wiping out your fantasy and
illusion, be enlightened."
This mind is intoxicated by joys of the five senses of perception... seeing
various things, hearing music or sweet words, feeling nice touch, tasting, smelling
nice smell etc. It is like an elephant drunk with this wine. When you withdraw your
fascination from these five you encounter the aatmaa in the state of Mystic
Trance (samadhi).
How to do it?
⦁ Close your eyes, that is conquering the eyes.
⦁ Do not think of the past, that is conquering the rest of the senses.
⦁ Do not worry. Just stay in the present.
⦁ Relinquish sense gratifications.
Then you see the Self, and then the mind is okay; he never bothers.
janak
"The King: 'Thou hast known what shouldst be known, but still thou
asketh me—although thy father has instructed thee aright. The
enlightenment we have given to thee is the real one. Atma alone, is that
which is everywhere, just as the ether pervades all space and
atmosphere. Wisdom is bound by naught else but its own thought.
Freeing thyself from sensual thoughts, is freeing thyself from bondage.
Thou hast clearly realized the Atmic wisdom for thou hast given up all
longing for sensual objects. Thou hast by thine own efforts, through the
higher mind, reached the highest Brahmic State; thou hast become a
Jivanmukta (the state of emancipated embodiment). But one thing thou
hast yet to accomplish—that of giving up the delusion of the illusion
which has arisen through doubt in thy mind.
When thou hast
accomplished this, then thou wilt be free.' King Janak thus initiated
Rishi Suka into the Atmic mysteries
Ram: "I am under control of desires, which I have made in my past lives.
My efforts have not been in the right direction. O Master, what am I to
do?"
Master Vashisht: "O Ram, by one's own efforts alone, can the Brahmic or
Divine state be achieved, and by none else. Desires can be classed under
two divisions: that of pure and impure. These desires will cling to future
births. If the impure desires are upper-most in one's life then misery is
experienced by its future lives. In case that pure desires prevail, then
liberation is easily acquired. O Ram, with all thy power, cultivate the
Brahmic science. Free thyself of impure desires and retain the pure. See
all things with equal vision and strive to bar that door of the mind from
whence cometh the impure desires; but open all other doors through
which cometh the pure desires. Cast out all impure desires and generate
the pure ones. If doubt arises as to where these pure desires shall lead,
thou shouldst continue to hold them, as no bad can come from them
until thy mind has realized the Reality of Brahm. Always follow the path
of Brahm by Veda (the Sacred Knowledge). Let Guru (spiritual teacher)
initiate thee into Brahm. O Ram, may thou remain immovable in the
study of Realization. Free thy mind of impure desires, and with pure
desires attain the Atmic state which is free of all pain and suffering. Kill
all thy illusory thoughts so that they may never be resurrected again.
Develop peace or mind and bliss within thyself. Free thyself of worldly
desires and become One with Brahm. Try to understand the significance
of the Holy sentence, "Tat Twamasi" (thou art that), and meditate upon
the Reality."
"There are four soldiers who guard the road to liberation. They are
Patience (or peace of mind), Atmic Inquiry, Contentment, and
Association with the Wise. If you can succeed in making one of the above
a friend, then the others will be easy. That one will introduce you to the
others. Without gaining their friendship, they will not. permit you to
enter upon the road to liberation. So by all means, gain the friendship of
one of the above and start on the road to liberation, for without
liberation there is no end to rebirths.
Association with the Wise will mean to you, what Garuda Mantra means to the persons who have been bitten by the Cobra. (In India people are cured of the cobra's poisonous
bite by chanting Garuda Mantra). Once that wisdom is attained then that
person is safe—no harm can come to that person.
No one can achieve
that blissful state by merely inquiring about the Atmic Wisdom. It must
come through self experience or through the help of a Guru. Merely
reading books of wisdom breeds more ignorance.
if only one of the four guards is made your
friend—namely, Patience is mastered—then all your miseries and
sorrows will fly from you as darkness flies from the light. Those who
have mastered patience will never be upset by poverty or wealth.
They
will remain the same in peace or war. They will not make a distinction
between birth and death. These noble people will be higher than the man
of mere knowledge, and will surely attain liberation.
May thou attain patience!
If Atmic Inquiry along with patience should be
developed, then surely the state of the highest wisdom will be acquired.
This Atmic-inquiry enables one to understand cause and effect, which is
the seed of rebirth. One must rid themselves of all doubt by the power of
discrimination, which is always a shining light. One should always make
inquiry of, 'whence came I?' 'Whence came the universe?' Such inquiries
dispel that dark cloud of ignorance.
"Contentment is the Noble who will set us free of all grief, for such arises
only from the sensual objects of desire. One who has mastered noble
contentment will always be happy. His mind will ever seek the Atmic
Wisdom.
The Wise are like ships that help us safely across the ocean of rebirths.