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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 18🌿

   ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~

                  🌱 Day - 104 🌱

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वासना एव संसार इति सर्वा विमुञ्ज ताः ।

तत्त्यागो वासनात्यागात् स्थितिरद्य यथा तथा ॥

What is your world? How big is your world? Have you ever really thought about it? Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this? You may have eaten pizza from your childhood. Now when you crave food, you only crave the food you have had so many times e.g. pizza. (if you offer pizza to some Indians, they'll say that parathas are so much better. They like masala dosa and much better than pizza. Pizza doesn't taste good to Indians. They go for masala dosa which tastes better for them.) The world is so big, but you have a set of experiences that your mind is caught up in; even regarding food. It shrinks to those experiences ; those experiences of food and does not expand. It does not move forward. It does not go further.

What music do you like? You began liking one kind of music (western, eastern, jazz, Hindustani, or Karnatic) and now you only like listening to that music. You only listen to other music because it's forced on you by a situation or a circumstance. You try to listen and tolerate it, but if you are given chance to choose for yourself you'll pick the music you have always listened to. What do you feel is the most beautiful music? Maybe the Beatles, because you listen to them over and over again! Many of you sing bhajans at satsangs. But in your room, you listen to Beatles! You enjoy it because your experience of music is limited. Your taste for music is shrunk.

It's very difficult for programmers to make radio programs in India because they have to balance various types of music. They put on music from all the languages, one after another. All people wait to hear music they like and then they turn the radio off. They don't listen to any other music. People do not like to listen other music because their experiences are shrunken.

It is the same with fragrances. Even with people.

Who do you think of regularly? You think of only those people who have been in touch with you - your friends. The same friends will turn into enemies and the same enemies will turn into friends. This is because your world is so small, that there is no space for new friends or enemies. It is the same person who turns from friend to enemy and from enemy to friend. This Is because your mind has shrunk! Millions of people are coming into this world every day. And million are leaving. Have you connected yourself with this entire world and all the people here? At least with the people; leave alone the other creatures and animals? At least with the people of one nation or one nationality? Or at least with the people you have seen with your eyes - met and spoken to. Do they all occupy your mind? In fact, it is stuck with not more than four people. These four or five people reel in your mind, and bother and trouble you. Your world is so small, so limited. Anyway they are going to die and you are going to follow or precede them, either way. The whole world is going to be finished and you are so bothered! This is called vasana. You have had some pleasant or unpleasant experience with them and that experience has stuck with super glue in your mind.

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