Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Agitations are NOT in You, Endure Them.

 

You know both happiness and unhappiness. Both can be understood only

by he who is separate from the two. He who becomes one with either may

remain eternally happy or he may remain eternally unhappy. But he who

remains even-minded in happiness and in unhappiness, he can know both,

that happiness and that sorrow. Happiness is separate and unhappiness

is separate. And the one who remains apart from both these, can know

them both. If we blend with them, then he will be unable to know both

happiness and unhappiness. Rather we will know only one, the state in

which we settle.

 

Second point, while experiencing happiness you are the same one as

while experiencing unhappiness. And it is only because you are the

same one, that you are able to experience them both separately. The

experiencer of both happiness and sorrow separately, is apart from

happiness and unhappiness. Now when will you have separate experience

of happiness and unhappiness ? When you no longer remain established

in Nature (Prakriti), and become established in Self " swa " .

" Samdukhasukha swasthah " (Gita 14:24). Nature is constantly changing.

If you become established in it, then you will constantly undergo

agitations and changes. But that agitation will never be in you

(self). Even in a state of ignorance, these disturbances are not in

you and even in state of perfect knowledge, these disturbances are not

in you. In your Self (swarup) there has never been any agitations, can

never ever be any agitations. If there were agitations and

disturbances then they could never

be wiped out. These agitations, disturbances and changes are happening

in Nature (Prakriti). To experience your Self as being separate from

Nature (Prakriti) is the essence of Knowledge. It is to attain Salvation.

 

In reality you are apart from Nature (Prakriti). To understand this

point, you please have mercy, please pay a little attention. You are

not the one to come and go.

 

It is the subject of the sense organs to give happiness and sorrow

through favorable and unfavorable situations. They come and go and

they are not permanent; therefore you endure them.

 

" Maatresparshaarstu kaunteya, shitoshnasukhadukhadaa

Aagamapaayinonityaa staanstitikshasva bharat. " (Gita 2:14)

 

It is not a rule that before realizing God, all agitations of the mind

come to an end. But after God Realization, all agitations of the mind

definitely come to an end. " Rasoyapyasya param drushtvaa nivartate "

(Gita 2:59). " The agitations of the mind in the form of relish,

pleasure and delight come to an end, on realizing God. " (Gita 2:59).

There is one very important and extremely beneficial point in this

verse. I pray, that you inquire into this deeply and try to understand.

 

We desire to come across favorable individuals, things, situations,

circumstances etc. and we do not want to come across unfavorable

individuals, things, situations etc. - this is life. This world and

this life is nothing beyond the favorable and unfavorable situations.

The impression that favorable and unfavorable situations, individuals

etc. have on us, that in itself is called changes for the worse like

" agitations of the mind " (vikaar). We need to become free from these

destructive changes, because as long as there are these agitations,

there will not be any peace.

 

Try to inquire into where exactly are these agitations ? The

agitations are in the mind , intellect, and in the inner faculties

(antahakaran). Rather these deteriorating states are in the instrument

(karan), they are not in the one who is using the instrument (kartaa).

This is the most important point to understand. You received a

favorable situation and you became happy, and when something

unfavorable came your way, you became unhappy. There are two states -

the happy state and the unhappy state. In these two states, were you

two or did you remain one ? Contemplate on this point. You remained

the same one both in favorable times and unfavorable times - isn't

that true?

 

In essence, those changing states are happening in the mind -

intellect, but you believe them to be happening in you (Self) - this

is the mistake. In happy or unhappy states you believe your self to be

happy or unhappy. The impressions of happiness and sorrow happen in

the inner faculties, but do you (Self) become happy or sad? You

consider all these agitations of the mind to be in you. In reality,

these changing states, these agitations are not in the you (Self) at

all, they are in the inner faculty.