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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                 🌿Chapter - 9🌿

         ~ Ego Dissolves In Love ~

                   🌱 Day - 52 🌱

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अहो जनसमूहेऽपि न द्वैतं पश्यतो मम ।

अरण्यमिव संवृत्तं क्व रतिं करवाण्यहम् ॥

People want to run away into the forests in order to avoid other people. A fearful person always wants to be amidst a group of people. There are others who cannot tolerate people and wish to be alone by themselves. These tendencies rise and fall in you. You don't want to be with people; yet at another time you can't be alone. What if I told you to be yourself - without talking or communicating with anybody; to be in silence? You can't be that either! After a few days, you start making signs with your hands, looking at people, holding their hands and walking around doing things. You want to be with people; want to talk to them. So, people who want to go away into the forests in order to find God can never find Him. Later, they realize that it was a foolish thing. This realization comes and then they come back. 'Aho! In the midst of people, I find nobody!' It's very beautiful. I don't see anybody in the midst of the people. I see big crowds like the forest. अरण्यमिव संवृत्तं । Just as in the forest, I can see all the trees as living begins; so, too, all these people. Even in the forest, I can feel they all are alive, and amidst life. Even trees express their emotions. When you go near or under a tree, they express their emotions. You can feel the vibrations. Many people feel the tree is inviting them. You want to go and visit it; to go round it and just feel it. Trees are like people, only they can't move away from where they are.

अरण्यमिव संवृत्तं । "I feel this is a forest." Just as the animals and trees are separate in a forest, here trees and animals are one as human beings. People behave like animals at different times! Human beings are cheetahs, monkeys, lions, elephants, tigers or crocodiles, all put into one. You can predict animals and what they will do; they have a set pattern of behavior. But you cannot predict with human beings. So it's more fun! अरण्यमिव संवृत्तं । 'I feel this is like a forest. I don't need to go anywhere!' Janaka must have thought to renounce the kingdom and go into the forest. The forest is very inviting, especially, being in the concrete jungle nature is very inviting. He said, 'Thus is nature!' अहो जनसमूहेऽपि । He suddenly realized, even staying amidst people, he did not feel different; no duality. That is ब्रह्म ज्ञान । क्व रतिं करवाण्यहम् ।

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