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September 10, 2009

Six stages of realization enabled by Krishna (1 of 2)

Good morning friends.  Sometimes in our life, we hardly accept  reality.  We don’t want to fail.  We always expect for the best.  But life is not like that.  Everyone of us will experience failure and success in life.  All we have to do is to accept whole heartedly the reality in life. 

When Parama Purusa incarnates as Taraka Brahma, the liberating Supreme Entity, at a certain transitional period, the people of that period invariably enjoy some special privileges. As Vraja Krishna and Parthasarathi, the Lord helps people find the path of spirituality. 

When people attain progress in the realm of spiritual realization, that progress is divided into six stages. At the stage of salokya, people feel that they have come onto the earth at the same time as Parama Purusa. This brings a sense of ecstasy. This state of bliss is termed salokya. When Krishna was in Vraja, the people felt intense joy and a sense of pride that a great personality in the form of a young man had chosen to live in their midst.

Duryodhana, even though he was apparently Krishna’s enemy, was convinced that Krishna was not an ordinary person. He thought that he would be fortunate indeed if he could win Krishna’s support. So on the eve of the Kurukshetra war he went to Krishna to ask Him for help. Arjuna was there, too, for the same reason.

Duryodhana arrived at Krishna’s palace before Arjuna to find Krishna lying in bed with His eyes closed. He seemed to be fast asleep. Duryodhana sat near Krishna’s head. Arjuna came afterwards and took his seat near Krishna’s feet. Suddenly Krishna sat up. He was awake. He looked first towards Arjuna sitting near His feet and said, “Welcome Arjuna, you’ve come. It’s good to see you.” Then He caught sight of Duryodhana and said, “Welcome Duryodhana, you have come too.

 

July 21, 2009

Working mind and the thinking mind (1)

Good morning friends.  Thinking mind may consider as a hard thing and as an easy thing.  It depends to a person when he can have a hard time to think or an easy time think.  It will depend on the situation of life or incident should he wanted to think.  But working the mind is surely be difficult.  Even if we want to think things easily, if our mind didn’t work properly we can’t do a rightful things.

How to differentiate between ego and mind?

You can’t. They are the same. The thinking mind and the ego are the same. In the ordinary body-mind organism mind can be both working mind and thinking mind. In the case of the sage it is only the working mind.

Is the body-mind organism like the programme in a data machine that produces thinking?

The thinking happens according to the way the body-mind organism has been programmed. Why does a thought occur? It occurs because that is supposed to produce an output. So the equation E = mc2 was there all the time, but only that body-mind organism named Einstein was programmed to receive the equation, that got that thought.

The term “body-mind organism” means body and, in the case of an ordinary person, both the working mind and the thinking kind, but only the working mind in the case of the sage.

The wanting to know is the individual sense of doership. Ramana Maharshi repeatedly said, “If the question arises, find out who wants to know.” If you really go into “who wants to know”, the “who” will disappear because there is truly no “who”.

The arising of the question is not in your control, or whether you take delivery of that question and get yourself horizontally involved. It is a vertical happening. Getting involved in that question is a horizontal involvement. So the horizontal involvement is avoided with this question: “Who wants to know?”  - The Times of India

Satsang: Ramesh S Balsekar

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