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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Renunciation is the only way to please the Lord as per Gita (“Samnyasena Adhi

Gachchati”). This does not mean orange coloured dress and a stick. “Sam” means

completely. “Nyasa” means both attachment and detachment. Attachment to God

and detachment from world are the meanings. World means both qualities and

deeds caused by qualities. Both attachment and detachment must take place

simultaneously. Each one is a cause for the other. Unless the detachment from

world is completed one cannot attach to God. Unless one attaches to God, he

cannot simultaneously detach himself from the world. Both are simultaneous as

you see by both the eyes simultaneously. Those who cannot resist the world

should detach from the world. Such detachment is external as well as internal.

“Dama” is external detachment, which is like not going to cinema theatre in the

world. “Sama” is internal detachment, which is like resisting the T.V. cinema

in the house. The old feelings in “Chittam” appear on

the screen of mind as cinema.

 

Resisting the mental activity though senses is Yoga as told by Patanjali

(Chittavrutii Nirodhah). If you resist seeing, hearing etc., the entry of

external poison into mind is stopped. But the poison was already precipitated

in “Chittam” (storing capacity of mind) since from several births. Thus the

mental activity (Chitta Vrutti) is both external as well as internal. This

activity is called as “Sphota” by Sanskrit grammar, according to which the

“Chittam” has two meanings. One is addition of poison from outside (Samjnanam)

and other is digestion of already existing poison (Smaranam). The poison is the

bundle of worldly matters. Resistance of mental activity is to be done by the

soul, which can be effected by the poison. But a Scholar (Jnani) does not

resist this poison. He digests the poison and so takes it from outside also.

Both these activities are done by the subtle body (Sukshma Sareeram), which is

made of qualities or mind. The gross body (Sthula Sareeram) is a

composite of senses, which do actions initiated by qualities.

 

A “Jnani” separates from these two bodies and enters the third causal body

(Karana Sareeram), which is pure awareness. He will not cross the boundaries of

this third body, which is also called as “Atman” and such a Scholar is called

“Sthita Prajna”. “Prajna” means pure awareness. “Sthita” means the person

limited to pure awareness. Since he takes the decision of himself to be Atman,

“Buddhi” (Intelligence) also becomes the pure awareness. Since he decides the

meaning of “I” as pure awareness, the “Ahankara” (I) also becomes pure

awareness. You must note that “Prajna” also means Bhuddhi. The remaining two

internal items (Antahkaranams) are “Chittam” which is the C.D. cassette of

precipitated feelings and “Manas” (mind) which is the screen. The internal T.V.

show goes on and the Spectator (Aatman) sees the show and enjoys it. His gross

body is his own house which is the cinema theatre. The whole show is the subtle

body and the causal body is the spectator. The spectator

has no link with the T.V. Show and is only entertained. The Spectator is not

disturbed by the show and is only entertained. The spectator is not disturbed

by the show and is called “Gunateeta” by Gita (Guna Guneshu Vartante…). This

T.V. show initiates the senses of the gross body, which do deeds according to

the qualities of show. The Atman or Spectator (I) is separated from the gross

body also and so is not linked to the deeds and the qualities. Such soul is

detached from qualities, deeds and their corresponding results. This does not

mean that he does not receive the results of his deeds. The subtle and gross

bodies did the deeds and so enjoy the results. But this soul detached from

these two bodies is a spectator of such enjoyment of the enjoyer. The soul is

not enjoyer since it is not the doer of the deeds.

 

The wheel that constitutes the deeds and results (Karma Chakra) is also not

effected, which is related to his subtle and gross bodies only and not to his

causal body or Atman. Subtle and gross bodies are the “doer” and “enjoyer”,

constituting a show for the entertainment of the causal body, which is just a

spectator. Since the subtle body is also made of awareness, it enjoys the

results through its gross body. But an ordinary human being identifies himself

with the subtle body and gross body as “I” and therefore becomes doer and

enjoyer. But the Scholar fixes “I” to the causal body only and de-links himself

from doer and enjoyer.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

epston wrote:

In a message dated 12/31/2005 2:14:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, ADHHUB

writes:

 

> It's like the telescope thing. From one side large, from the other >

small.> >When I want or need someone to complain to, they exist, if I don't

want

> >them there, they don't exist. In that sense, both are true. I think >

you are > >stuck in the large ide point of view, which is no point of view.

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