Think you are enlightened. Move like a cloud. Everything is done and finished! The whole journey is complete. Go to bed blissfully. Act as though you have been enlightened.

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 21🌿

          ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~

                  🌱 Day - 122 🌱

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नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी । You are the mind, the consciousness, you are the energy inside the body, you are neither the body, nor this body is yours. The body has come into existence through the parents; they made this body for you and this body will go back to and remain in the world. When you have an eye on this reality, the energy, and the consciousnesses feels itself separate from the body, and experiences the body as a third factor - as something separate, as the second thing, as an object. Then also joy and happiness will dawn on you. You will feel that you are knowledge,the awareness,the light and the consciousness. कैवल्यमिव संप्राप्तो । Ashtavakra says that the awareness that you are not this body will be like enlightenment. Even being aware of this will give you a glimpse of what is Being, is just your Self [कैवल्यम].

Walk as though you are already enlightened. The iva is very meaningful, is as though you have attained enlightenment. You will not worry. You will not think about things you have done, or things you will have or want to do. There is one more technique to do this. Think you are enlightened. Move like a cloud. Everything is done and finished! The whole journey is complete. Go to bed blissfully. Act as though you have been enlightened. Although your acting now if just a play, enlightenment is already there in you. In fact, the Divine is deep inside you. So, it does not matter if you act as though you are enlightened. कैवल्यम । All your worries will disappear. It's very beautiful.

Your wants arise when you feel you are not that enlightened. You want a particular shawl which you feel is not yours. You buy it and hang it in your closet. If it is in the closet, you feel satisfied that it is yours. It gives you a sense of possession. A wrong sense or thought that you possess it right now. Alternately, you may think that the shawl is yours, anyway. The other person has it and you let her have it. Your desire for it disappears and dissolves in the mind. अाब्रह्मस्तम्बपर्यन्तमहमेवेति निश्चयी । See that everything is only you. It's you. It's you. You are there. You are in this role or that role. Then how can you feel jealous? Getting this satisfaction is just a knack. It is a skill. Otherwise, the mind goes on comparing endlessly.

Understand that it is only you in the form of the people you are jealous of. Otherwise, you will feel isolated from them. This will cause all the commotion inside you. Then, competition, jealousy and discomfort arise, one after the other, and you start blaming yourself. Your self-esteem goes down. You think you are bad, and then you try to show off said you are something great.

In trying to do something and showing off, you lose your naturalness. All these complications arise in your mind. Drop them. Don't try to show off. It is all you. Becoming aware of this, just relax. You know that fulfilment itself is so beautiful! And it's the fulfilment that draws everything towards you.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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