Whatever you are, good or bad, whatever qualities get manifested in your very body, the same thing is being manifested in someone else's body. You have some likes, dislikes, tastes, frustrations, anger, anguish, joy, sorrow, love, hate, etc. The same thing that Is reflected in this body, can be reflected in another. How you are special and different from the others?

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 27🌿

       ~ I Am In All These Forms ~

                  🌱 Day - 154 🌱

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विभागमिति सन्त्यज । Drop this division in your mind. You have big compartments in it - innumerable compartments. So you put everything, your experiences into various compartments, thereby making concepts and getting stuck there. You may feel that nobody loves you and everybody is against you and nobody accepts you; you have a compartment for that, and you pick up any such experiences and put them there.

You feel that people are very nasty. You have a compartment which is labelled - "People are very nasty". So any such experience or event is put there. You may have a compartment, labelled "Guruji never answers any questions, especially mine". Others may agree with you.

विभागमिति सन्त्यज । Drop all divisions from your mind. Your ideas about people are dividing your own mind. Nobody is a fixed statue you can label with any unchanging characteristic. Everybody is changing all the time. Every mind is a flow, and changing every second. So never label anybody. If you label anyone, you are keeping a compartment in your mind. You're not fresh. You're not like a child. You are not new. Don't label yourself either. You don't know yourself! You don't know how you were yesterday. Perhaps you think you know how you were yesterday, but certainly not how you will be tomorrow. Any number of consultations with astrologist, psychics or psychologists will not help. Your mind is a flow; a continuum which is ever-changing. Neither have any concepts about yourself, nor about anybody else. Drop this division. This very division of 'me and another' is an illusion. Whatever you are, good or bad, whatever qualities get manifested in your very body, the same thing is being manifested in someone else's body. You have some likes, dislikes, tastes, frustrations, anger, anguish, joy, sorrow, love, hate, etc. The same thing that Is reflected in this body, can be reflected in another. How you are special and different from the others? You may think that you are very knowledgeable; very cultured and systematic. You may feel that you are. Rey talented and well-read. You may feel that you have been meditating for so long, and that you have purified your body and tour mind. That you are very special and not like so-and-so person who is short-tempered.

Or you may be depressed and feel the opposite - that you are not like some others who are good; that you are bad and worthless and are always grumbling and depressed. You may feel that you are not worthy, and will need several lifetimes to be alright.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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