CHARIOT AND THE HORSES

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              CHARIOT AND THE HORSES

 

Sense-organs act upon the inner implements, especially on the mind.The mind is

conditioned from all the five sides throught the senses and it is always busy

with its reactions to the environment.So it is highly having a reflection of the

environment and not its own original existences.It is always having a reflection

of the environment like a mirror and we have not time to have the mirror with

out reflection.So it is always in the state of reflecting the enivironment and

there is not time for  it  to exist as it is, with out reflection.We are

looking at a Sun,The mirror is  reflecting a Sun.You can see only

Sun-reflection and not a mirror.When we  are listening, there is only the image

of the sound and not the mind.When we are smelling, there is only the image of

the smell and there is no original mind.(Is it clear?)When we are tasting

something, there is the image of the smell and there is no original mind.When we

are experiencing something hot or

cold in touch , there is only the image of external touch, but the sense of

touch-pure is not there.Thus mind does not exist when it comes into contact with

the environment.So immediately only reaction comes forth.The secretary is

working instead of the proprietor; and not allowing him to act.This is the

impact of Kali Age.It is the sectetary that is preparing everthing and asking

the proprietor to sign the paper without reading it.When questioned,he says,

‘’It has been going on for generations.You have no right to

question.’’That is  what he says.(Laugh)Now what to do? This fellow is

compared with a man sitting in a chariot.He has five horses to the chariot.From

five different direction,nice grass is shown to each horse of these five

separately. Every horse is pulling towards the grass, it is looking at.It is

producing the same sounds.(Here Master demonstrated the sound of ahorse, to the

laugh of the students).Then the Chariot moves.Can you

call it a journey ? When the five horses are drawing the chariot to five

different directions and we are made to travel like that, can this be called a

journey ? So our lives are like this.That is why in the case of Bhagavadgita,

the initiation is given in a horse-chariot ,drawn by five horses .This episode

is an allegory denoting a supra-physical phenomenon.The man in the chariot is

just helpless when the horses are   drawing.That is how years are passing to

us, age is advancing.We are dashing towards a wall called death,beyond which we

do not know, what is there.There is no question of informing death before it

occurs.It is straight death.Such are the rules.

 

This fellow who is suffering  this way is called, the Ahamkara, the ninth

one.(5+4=9).He can be called Jiva. He can also be called the negative  ‘I

AM’’. He has only a receiving pole and no transmitting pole.He always

receives information from outside.He has nothing to transmit.Thus he is negative

..Inside there is another fellow.He is what is called the Light, the tenth one.He

is the only light.All the other things are just reflection.Reflection, Reflector

and the apparatus of everything are there.Highly sophisticated but

unfortunately, it is only apparatus; and He is radiatng light outside.He is

expanding,Himself expanding.What is it that is radiated.It is called ‘’ I

AM’’ .I t is He from whom the light shines forth in the form of the mind,in

the form of the capacity of the senses.It isonly due to electricity that is

flowing through this,each part of the sophisticated machine is working with out

which the machine is a corpse.We have to

lives as that fellow.Now we are living like fools wandering around. There is no

except ourself  inside  .There is only  one side . We are living like fools

wandering around.There should come a time when we live as He.To attain that,

there is path.

 

He is called in the Yoga science ‘ ‘ Iswara  ‘’ or ‘’Isha’’ .He

is the greater‘’I AM’’, true ‘’I AM’’. Jiva is false‘’I

AM’’ .What does ‘’Iswara means ? Iswara means the Lord. He is the Lord

and he cannot be anything else . So if you begin to live with Him, you will be

Himself .What happens when a light falls upon another bigger light ? It will

live only as a light , not lights.This is what is required . The purpose of Yoga

  practice is instead of living like a conditioned fool, living as the Lord of

all these, i.e. Lord of mind,Lord of senses, Lord of Buddhi etc.

 

Tobe continued……

 

Courtesy-Master E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A