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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 10🌿

           ~ Storms Of Emotion ~

                   🌱 Day - 56 🌱

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मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधावाश्चर्यं जीववीचयः ।

उद्यन्ति ध्नन्ति खेलन्ति प्रविशन्ति स्वभावतः ॥

It's so beautiful. Eight to ten thousand years ago, Janaka shared the same experience and said it so beautifully. 'I am so taken by surprise. It's awesome. It's so wonderful! In my Self so many different lives are springing up, playing and dissolving in me. By its very nature, it's me who is coming in this person - as this person, as that person, as all these people and personalities with lifestyles, acting in various dramas and soap operas. They rise and clash with each other.'

Just sit and watch wrestling matches on the television. Can you feel as if both of them are your own Self? If you have ever acted in a drama or the theater, you can play two different roles; a monologue where you act both as the hero and the villain. You act in many roles; completely opposite person pushing all his buttons. Then you act the other person and push all his buttons. Let us see what happens. Will the sun fall on your head? Like waves, the personalities clash with each other.

It's in you; in your own nature; in your own form. Different waves arise; different beings arise and different souls arise. They rise and clash with each other. They play and dissolve and go back into you. This life and world is full of opposites. The sun is hot. The snow is cold. Fire evaporates water. Water puts out the fire. They are completely opposite in nature. Water flows down. Water always flows toward the mud, and mud stops the water. They have opposite natures. That is their nature. It is ridiculous to say water should not flow down because it is its nature to flow down. You cannot say fire should not go up or rise up. It's impossible, as it is its nature to rise. So, too, with every name and form that has come in this ocean; this consciousness. When you don't perceive people as lives, but as floating shells in the ocean of life, then there is no personality. In a big ocean, there are so many things; so many shells floating around, hollow and empty coconut shells, and that is what this universe is; what the world is.

What a wonder! Janaka was wonder-stuck. He did not ask a question. He was nor asking questions anymore. After the first question. This questioning stopped! His ears and heart were open. He experienced whatever Ashtavakra said without words. The substance is really in-between these verses; these words. This is all a play. उद्यन्ति ध्नन्ति खेलन्ति प्रविशन्ति स्वभावतः । By its very nature, the individual mind has arisen. But it settles down after playing for a while; settles deep down inside. So when a storm arises, just be with it. Do not try to get rid of the storm. Be with it; go into it. And, of course, you have the practices (Kriya, meditation, singing and pranayama) to help purify your whole system. It's such a blessing.

You would have noticed that when you are restless, and you start singing, there is a settling effect. Something settles down. Something really pulls you down, cools you down and brings you back to your true nature, your real Self. Your craving for perfection creates imperfection inside you. What happens when you want perfection? You become imperfect. You are craving for perfection, but you have become imperfect. You want peace, but you have become restless craving for peace. You want everybody to be peaceful; a situation to be peaceful, but you have created a big turmoil inside you. How is peace possible? It comes from within, not from without. If you are peaceful,your surroundings become peaceful; your situation becomes peaceful and people around you become peaceful. You are the center of this universe. Why are you looking for peace anywhere else, with anybody else and with any other set up? Wherever you go, you carry your own mind. And wherever you go, you create the same storms. It may appear to be calm and quiet for some time in some place but then it will be the same again there too. Unless you see this, realize it and look into it, nothing will help in the long term. There is no other permanent solution. Janaka did not feel that the storm should not rise in his mind. He just wondered how the storm rose and subside. He wondered what an amazing play of the personality it was inside his big, huge and unbounded nature! He was awestruck and became silent.

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