Keep yourself
established in spirit
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| Spiritual divine wealth (Maya) |
Honour and ignominy attach
to the ‘form’ or ‘body’ while praise and obloquy relate to the ‘name’ , and
neither of these two, viz., the ‘form’
and ‘name’ constitutes yourself. The body is brought into existence in
the mother’s womb during the period of gestation, while a name is given only
after birth. Names are changed as well. Hence the said form and name do not
belong to the spirit, while a name is given only after birth.
Names are changed
as well. Hence the said form and name do not belong to the spirit, while you
are the spirit. You existed as the Spirit even before this body was brought
into existence and will survive even after death, none can do honour to the
Spirit or subject it to ignominy nor can anyone applaud or denounce it. Hence
do not exult on being honoured or applauded not get perturbed over ignominy or
obloquy. Treating them as alike, do not accept them.
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| Spiritual Guide |
Unkind treatment and ignominy
as well as obloquy and abuse are as unpalatable as kind treatment and honour as
well as applause and praise are palatable and partially and prejudice are
engendered accordingly. Partiality and prejudiced result in the loss of the
spiritual divine wealth and the augmentation of the material demoniacal wealth.
Where the production and promotion of the demoniacal wealth begin to take
place, immoral practices and evil thoughts, sins and anguish inevitably appear
and grow. In this way human life becomes an unfailing means to sorrows and
hellish tortures. If you ponder a bit deeply you will come to perceive directly
that you are neither the body nor the name and that not only honour and ignominy
or praise and obloquy but all other pairs of opposites such as gain and loss,
victory and discomfiture, auspicious and inauspicious, agreeable and
disagreeable, joy and sorrow, friend and foe, life and death relate only to the
body and name and form alone. Take these pairs of opposites to be the Maya
(deluding potency) of the Lord or His divine drama and you will transcend this
state of susceptibility to pairs of opposites.
This play of the pairs of
opposites itself constitute the world—Maya, while the state which transcends
the pairs of opposite or the state which transcends the pairs of opposites or
the state of equilibrium is Brahma (the Absolute). The pairs of opposites are
eternal and indestructible. This latter alone constitutes your being. Being your
very self, it is easily realizable; nevertheless in the state of your being
established in Matter the Truth remains veiled. Therefore at present endeavor
in the aforesaid manner to remain free from infatuation for the pairs of
opposites; neither exults over honour and applause nor feel troubled by ignominy
and obloquy. Likewise strive to remain balanced in the midst of all pairs of
opposites.
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| Diversity in function |
Even though in your dealings
with the world (even as notwithstanding the diversity in the functions of the
various limbs of the body no diversity exists in them from the point of view of
their self hood) diversity may appears on the surface according to the diversity
of circumstances, yet inwardly no pair of opposites should react favourably or
unfavourably on you. The sense of possession and
attachment expands and the feelings of agreeability and disagreeability are engendered
because of your identification with the body and the name, which is altogether
false and unwarranted. Therefore, ever strive to look upon yourself established
in the Spirit, as the Spirit itself, and, recognizing the false name and form
to be utterly assumed, realize you to be wholly distinct from them.
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| Diverse form and its Name |
All diversities relate to
the name and form. The name and form are intended only for worldly dealings.
The even nature of the Self, which is altogether free from diversity, does not
change because of these. Remaining established in the equipoise self, which
constitutes your very being, deal according to the deserts of everyone in the
phenomenal world. Diversity will ever remain free from pairs of opposite under
all circumstances. The diversities in your tranquil self; they will rather
serve as an embellishment to the pacific ocean of yourself.
- About God
- Keep yourself established in spirit
- Understanding god
understanding god, about god, god the father, grace of god, Honour and ignominy attach to the ‘form’ or ‘body’ while praise and obloquy relate to the ‘name’ , and neither of these two, viz., the ‘form’ and ‘name’ constitutes yourself.
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