Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

On Being Free from Sense of Mine-ness - Part 2

 

In Mahabharat it has been clearly stated -

 

Dwayaksharastu Bhavenmrityustrayak shar Brahma Sashvatam

Mameti Chha Bhavenmrityurna Mameti Chha Sashvatam

(Mahabharat Shantiparva 13/4)

 

'Two words Mama (This is mine) is death and three words Na Mama

(This is not mine) is bliss, eternal Brahma.'

 

These are words of Ved Vyasji Maharaj, who has been the greatest saint! Of all

the authors of spiritual literature there has been none like Vyasji.

 

Proprietary interest (mine-ness) is for leaving and you know how to

leave it. Who doesn't know how to leave mine-ness (mamta)? If any

ascetic comes to your home, and you give him roti (Indian wheat-bread), then do

you consider that roti as yours after giving it? You say that after giving it,

yes it so happens that you do not consider it as yours anymore. But the truth is

that when you don't give, then too it happens; in adheek maas (13th month which

comes every four years of Hindu calendar) if 20-30 things have to be given in

charity then sisters-mothers buy it beforehand and keep it in home, but is there

proprietary interest (mine-ness) in it? If your son even picks up one glass from

those things, then you tell him to put it back where it was kept, it has to be

given away, it is not ours.

 

Similarly, whatever things that are there in the house, you protect

them and value them; do everything but don't consider them as your

own. When daughter is given away in marriage (kanyadaan), clothes are

given, roti is given and things lying in the house are also to be given – with

this thought you renounce mine-ness. Similarly I say to you that you will have

to leave everything including body one of these days.

 

They will definitely leave one day, and you cannot stay without leaving them.

Are you able to keep money, house, this body etc. with you at all times? You

simply cannot keep it. In such a helpless state if you renounce these ahead of

time, then what is the extent of the effort involved?

 

Antahun Tohi Tajenge Paama Tu Na Taje Tabhi Te

 

" Even if you don't leave them, in the end, they will definitely

leave you. "

 

If you will not leave then you will be made to leave them all forcibly

and you will grieve, you will worry. If you leave then infinite

happiness will be attained –

 

`Swayam Tyaktva Hyate Shamsukhamanantam Vidadhati.' (Bhartri

Vairagyashatak)

 

Please think a bit about this point. Look, you heard the Katha

(life-elevating stories esp. of Puranas) and you heard the stories, then now you

move on – this is not so here. The points I am bringing up are not simply like

katha-stories. Listen to these vital points and

benefit instantly – this is how it is ! But this doesn't always

suit everyone. They say that how can it happen! Arre, if it cannot

happen, then why would I say so? If it cannot happen then you think

about making it happen. If you find any difficulty then ask !

 

Look, there are two things – necessity and desire. Necessity is

always fulfilled but desire is never fulfilled. Kanyaadaan (charity in

form of giving daughter to in-laws in marriage) is " necessity " but there is no

need to worry about it. Wherever the daughter has to go, her engagement will be

arranged. You have to work hard, but not to worry.

 

Your rights is only to your duty, but not to fruit thereof –

 

`Karmanyaadhikarast e Maa Faleshu Kadachan' (Gita 2/47).

 

Making an effort towards Kanyaadaan is your work. However Kanyaadaan

will certainly happen – this is not in your hands.