Saturday, April 23, 2016

Abstracts from Vivekachudamani - I

Don't forget your goal of attaining Self Realization. Are you forgetting to take food? No. Are you forgetting to wear clothes? No. Are you forgetting to take bath? No. Are you forgetting to watch movies? No. Similarly don’t forget the goal that needs to be attained. Describing the hardships that approach us on forgetting the goal, Sri Acharya says: " If the mind once forgets its own object, it goes out (& out & out, it goes out & out & out) just as a ball if it falls, rolls down (and down and down) the stairs and does not stop until it reaches the lowest step. Therefore, if you forget your very goal and your very nature ie Self; if you lose the yearning to attain God, the remembrance of God and thereby the goal of attaining God, Sri Acharya describes the hardships that descend upon you. Sri Acharya says: "Suppose the ball in your hand slips down, it will not stay here. Where will it go? It searches for the slope and moves down towards it. Thus it searches for the slope and moves down but does not remain still in the place where it initially fell down. Similarly once you forget your goal of attaining God realization, the eternal bliss, the eternal peace and the ideal of attaining Self Knowledge, you will degrade (in every birth, in every year and on every day) and attain the darker worlds resembling a ball that falls down from the hands and moves down towards the slope.

Look at the water. Suppose you pour down water, it does not stay still. It searches for the slope and travels down towards it. The same is the case even with a ball. You cannot stop the ball. Once you lose the yearning to attain the Supreme, the Self, the Divine, you will not know where it will lead you. You will deteriorate in this very birth. Therefore Sri Acharya says: "It goes, rolls down & down & down and does not stop until it teaches the lowest & lowest step." Sri Acharya implies that when you forget your goal of Self Realization, your life will degrade more in the forthcoming births; further and further in the births thereafter. Your journey will not stop until you get completely degraded. Thus you keep falling down on forgetting your goal.

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