Whatever happens, remain in 'now', 'now', 'now'.... Cultivate the habit of dropping the past! Then you can smile all the time. All these different desires - for experiences, for living , for knowing - arise, get fulfilled and move on.
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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 17🌿
~ Honouring The Secret ~
🌱 Day - 95 🌱
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Knowledge dawns as not just in the intellect,but as an experience. An experience dawns in your whole Self; in your whole body. A nuclear scientist may say that everything is quantum and vibrations; just energy. But when a saint says it's all energy, there is joy and bliss because a saint knows it as energy. A saint knows himself as energy in the experiential level. These dualities have never stopped. The ocean has never been without waves. The waves come and go. The wind blows and waves rise according to their strength and disappear.
Knowing and also being aware that knowing why it happens is useless, you will attain peace. You will be able to drop the past. Do you know what makes you not to drop the past? Your mind which wonders why did something happen, and why did you become so restless; you might have been doing something wrong. You have not left what happened but are carrying it on, hooking it with the question 'why'. 'Why' is like a hook; question mark is like a hook. It means you are hooked to the past. You hook the past with a question,and you'll go on grumbling it in your mind. Know that this is nature of the world. There are thorns in the world. It's a rose bush and it is very obvious,the stem has thorns. So never try to find joy here. This is a thorny bush. Crawl up - through it to the top. You will see the flowers blossoming there. Your eyes are stuck down below. They don't look up to see the beauty of the flowers. The flowers have not yet blossomed. Wait a while. The buds are already there. This is a thorny bush, don't get stuck here. Crawl your way through and see the rose blossoming.
You look down with every question 'why'. You hook yourself to the past. Have you noticed when you get very tense, you immediately want to ask a question? It doesn't matter what the time is. You want to ask why something is happening. 'Why? Why? Why?'
Ashtavakra says, 'एवं ज्ञात्वेह निर्वेदाद्भव त्यागपरोऽव्रती ।' Take the vow of dropping the past. Whatever happens, remain in 'now', 'now', 'now'.... Cultivate the habit of dropping the past! Then you can smile all the time. All these different desires - for experiences, for living , for knowing - arise, get fulfilled and move on. Is there anybody who has not fulfilled any desire? Or is there anybody who has fulfilled every desire? Is there any end to it? Ashtavakra asks not to anchor yourself to this; not to think that this is 'the thing' for your life. Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop, smile and move on.
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