Just spontaneously respond to a situation as it demands from you. Which mind can be that way? The mind that is hollow and empty i.e. the mind which is not caught up in any concepts or ideas. That mind can act spontaneously by its very nature.
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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 25🌿
~ Acting Spontaneously ~
🌱 Day - 142 🌱
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कृतं किमपि नैव स्यादिति । Ashtavakra says, 'Turn back and look at your lives.' What all you have done? Have you done anything or has it all just happened? Has it not all just 'happened'? Events keep happening. Janaka said that he had understood it very well. And that it was very beautiful. He said that he simply did whatever action he was supposed to do and what time demanded of him.
Janaka says, ' If I am in a garden and I see a child running around playing and it falls. I do not wonder if it is good and righteous to help the child. I will pick the child up and comfort her. I do not sit, judge, decide and discriminate if I should do this or that, if it is meritorious or unmeritorious, good or bad. I spontaneously respond to that situation.' Just spontaneously respond to a situation as it demands from you. Which mind can be that way? The mind that is hollow and empty i.e. the mind which is not caught up in any concepts or ideas. That mind can act spontaneously by its very nature.
A Catholic priest was walking on the streets of New York and he heard someone shouting for help. Being a nice, kind person, the priest went to help. As he approached, he saw the person who was crying for help had fallen into a ditch. This person appeared to be devil (he looked like the devil he has seen in a painting somewhere). Now the priest started thinking whether he should help him or not. Was it right to help this person who looked very devilish. He wondered if he should let him die there. He was in a dilemma. Should he rescue him or just let him be? What if he rescued him and he did something evil. It is said that the rescuer gets half of that sin. So what was he to do?
Even in Jain philosophy, it's said that if you feed a thief (someone who loots) or a bad guy comes, and then he goes and steals, half of that sin comes to you for having fed thief. By feeding him, you have made him stronger and enabled him to steal more. What will you do in this case? Rescue him?
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