When the wise realise the Self, Formless in the midst of form, Changeless in the midst of change, Omnipresent and Supreme, they go beyond sorrow.

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       Chapter 3

     

      The grace of the divine

      🌻 Day 30 🌻

अशरीरँ शरीरेष्वनवस्थेष्ववस्थितम् ।

महान्तं विभुमात्मानं मत्वा धीरो न शोचति ॥

When the wise realise the Self, Formless in the midst of form, Changeless in the midst of change, Omnipresent and Supreme, they go beyond sorrow.

If you really dislike somebody, hate somebody; just imagine them in your mind without the head. This is one of the tantric techniques. When somebody has great

animosity, hatred against somebody, what do they want to do? They just want to

take the sword and chop their head off. Instead of physically doing that, just imagine that his head is chopped off. This is a human tendency from ages. What did

they do in the middle ages? Anybody they didn’t like, they chopped their head off. In the tantric technique, imagine that the person who is bothering you has had his head chopped off. Then your whole relation with that person finishes. You can’t have a relation with just the head and you can’t have relation just with the body without a head. Your problem with that person is gone. You are free!

There are ten great lines of knowledge, “Dasha Mahavidhya”. In that, one is called, “chin mastha.” It is one of the mahavidhyas. Tantra is mainly made for people who are very gross, who cannot get wordly things out from their head. Today we hear that tantra means only sex. It is not only sex. People who are also obsessed with sex, for them tantra is a way to get out of that obsession. It is just a treatment for a short period of time. They would use these techniques so that they can get over the obsession and reach the light. One is sex, another is hatred. Some people can’t get rid of hatred. To get it out of their head, they sit and feel that the person whom they hate, their head has been chopped off.

In Indian astrology, out of the nine planets, one is without head and one is without

body. They are called rahu and ketu – the nodes of moon. 

Going beyond sorrow is most important. Our sorrow is our own making. Only we have to get rid of it. How do we do that? Knowing everything is maya, sound and form.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

Katho Upanishad