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'Will
you please stop for a while and listen to my word? Where are you
going, why are you in such a hurry? After all what is that you are
endlessly toiling for? Where do you want to reach? Where will you
stop; what is your destination; do you really know? Have you ever
thought upon this even for a moment? No', would be the sure answer
by you. Having got this sublime human self, you are frustrated; but
why, what for? What makes you feel so? What is that you are lacking?
May be that you are anxious to know the mystery of this
life.
How
strange and sad it is that the unlucky man is endlessly running
about without any rest or pause on this uneven and thorny path of
life without even caring to know and think upon his destination. O
dear, try to think over it calmly. Do you like this constant
restlessness, caused through baseless hurry and worry? If you do not
like it that means it is not your own, it is not your real self. It
is definitely something alien to you, which you seem to have
accepted through some misunderstanding. That which can be separated
from you or which can be disliked by you at any moment, at any place
and/or under any circumstances, can never in fact be your own real
self. Whatever is not your own can be separated at any moment since
there is no basic unity between two alien objects. This apparent
unity is sheer delusion, which can be ended only by the dawn of
wisdom, by the knowledge of the Real Self, exactly as the darkness
is dispelled with the rise of the sun.
This
Wisdom, the knowledge of the reality alone can end all suffering.
This knowledge cannot be attained from external sources, because
whatever is gained from outside is transitory and temporary and that
which is not permanent, cannot be the means of achieving the
Eternal. Wisdom (Viveka) is some internal awareness that is inherent
in the soul and cannot be separated from it at any moment as the
illuminator cannot be separated from the illumination. The fact is
that the identification of the individual self with the material
objects is but an illusion (Aviveka) which has no real existence in
life; but under its damaging influence the individual, considers the
transient as the intransient, impure as pure, painful as pleasurable
and the illusory individual self as the real self. This
contradiction is nothing but Avidya that is in fact the root cause
of all human misery.
The
individual being is the mere manifestation of that Supreme soul
which is nothing but Truth, Knowledge and Infinity (Satyam, Gyanam,
Anantam). These divine attributes of the self are universal and
eternal. They can therefore undoubtedly be realized at any time,
anywhere and in any situation. But one must feel its real necessity,
since an ardent desire followed by faith and devotion is a must for
any action to succeed. So in order to be free from constant
sufferings of life one should endeavor with full devotion to realize
that divine self which remains lying within unmanifested. This is
what is known as self-realization, self-knowledge and realization of
Brahma.
Just
as the feelings of guilt, fear and pain aroused out of killing of
the parents etc. in dreams vanish on awakening, similarly the
innumerous impressions of countless births full of pleasure and
pains etc. end up with the dawn of pure
knowledge.
It
is the main duty of an individual to fully evolve life with the
light divine and reach Him, but the ignorant do not know this fact.
An ignorant person is not able to perform even his ordinary worldly
duties well, how then it is possible for him to attain a life
divine! The flame of pure knowledge is always there within the soul
but that cannot be felt enlivened without the air of self-control.
In a disciplined life, wisdom itself wakes up
spontaneously.
On
seeing the baseless glitter of this transitory trigunatmak
(possessing the three qualities) world, the materialistic man is
himself inclined towards that and that is why being troubled by a
variety of pains, he remains restless, though he does not like this
at any time, place, and under any circumstances. Therefore, day and
night to get rid of it he remains busy in a variety of actions. But
whatever means he devises to get free of this restlessness, he goes
on entangling himself more and more; since the defective remedies,
instead of eradicating the disease, continuously go on adding to
it.
Man’s
fate to-day is like that of Arjuna, curious to know the path of
peace, but got puzzled due to ignorance and has become restive,
indecisive not knowing what to do and what not to do. This
magnificent message of divine path of (Yoga) in plain and simple
words is meant for the man who on the basis of the past should think
in the present how to make his future bright; that is whether the
actions done in the past have led life towards divinity. Can we even
now fulfill our inner desires by those actions. Similarly, to
fulfill those desires, which keep him, restless he should ask a
number of other questions to himself. And when he is disappointed
with himself in this regard then he should seek guidance of some
real Guru. A real Guru is one who is free from the worldly desires
and properly guides the man who is curious to know the secret of
life.
The
divine message of the Guru and the lord is proper and useful for
both, whether they are worldly-minded or are those who seek
salvation. Man need not worry about his actions good or bad, done in
the past due to previous impressions under total ignorance since in
the history of the world among the life story of the holy men, there
has not been a single one whose past can be considered to be as
wholly pure. But all of them became great by attaining wisdom
through their present efforts.
There
is no room for frustration in life. Just listen with love the
message of the Lord Krishna:-
Api
chedasi papebhyah sarvebhyah Papakrittamah
Sarvam
gyanaplavenaiva vrijinam samtrishyasi !(Gita
4-36)
My dear Arjuna! Even if you are worst among all the sinners you need
not be disappointed in life. With the help of the raft of knowledge
you will undoubtedly sail over all the sins well. If you suspect
that you have to suffer the past deeds that is not correct. Because,
as the flames of fire reduce the entire fuel into ashes, in the same
way this fire of knowledge shall burn all the good and bad deeds.
Like that of knowledge there is no other means in this world to
purify. Only the man well accomplished in Yoga can attain that
knowledge within himself.
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