Nigra means control.
Agra means insistence.
Satyagra means steadfast determination.
Duragra means blind adamancy, reckless stubbornness.
These four will give you progress when practiced for a limited period of time. They give limited results, positive or negative. But if they stay on for a longer period, they eat away the potential of life. One has to transcend all these four to attain peace.
Freedom is when you transcend all four. They are inevitable to streamline life but you need to transcend them to be free.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Several Types of Dispassion
There are several types of dispassion:
# You are dispassionate because you realize the misery in the world. (You have a fear of misery.) The events in life -- the pain, the suffering one experiences or sees -- brings dispassion.
# The second type of dispassion is born out of the desire to reach something higher. Some consider dispassion as a path to enlightenment. If you renounce something here you gain something out there. Those who are seeking enlightenment practice austerities and take vows for a better place in heaven.
# The third type of dispassion comes out of wisdom or knowledge. A broader understanding of the transient nature of things brings a state of non-attachment to any events, objects, people or situations that lets you remain calm and unperturbed.
Divine love does not let the dispassion manifest. The attainment of love brings such bliss and such intoxication, it not only takes away your passion, but dispassion as well.
This is the problem with Art of Living members. Many feel they have attained the highest and remain blissed out! (laughter!)
# You are dispassionate because you realize the misery in the world. (You have a fear of misery.) The events in life -- the pain, the suffering one experiences or sees -- brings dispassion.
# The second type of dispassion is born out of the desire to reach something higher. Some consider dispassion as a path to enlightenment. If you renounce something here you gain something out there. Those who are seeking enlightenment practice austerities and take vows for a better place in heaven.
# The third type of dispassion comes out of wisdom or knowledge. A broader understanding of the transient nature of things brings a state of non-attachment to any events, objects, people or situations that lets you remain calm and unperturbed.
Divine love does not let the dispassion manifest. The attainment of love brings such bliss and such intoxication, it not only takes away your passion, but dispassion as well.
This is the problem with Art of Living members. Many feel they have attained the highest and remain blissed out! (laughter!)
Your Nature is Shiva
Peace is your nature, yet you remain restless.
Freedom is your nature, yet you remain in bondage.
Happiness is your nature, yet you become miserable for some reason or another.
Contentment is your nature, yet you continue to reel in desires.
Benevolence is your nature, yet you don’t reach out.
Going towards your nature is Sadhana.
Sadhana is becoming what you truly Are!
Your true nature is Shiva.
And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual One.
Ratri means "to take refuge." Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva.
Freedom is your nature, yet you remain in bondage.
Happiness is your nature, yet you become miserable for some reason or another.
Contentment is your nature, yet you continue to reel in desires.
Benevolence is your nature, yet you don’t reach out.
Going towards your nature is Sadhana.
Sadhana is becoming what you truly Are!
Your true nature is Shiva.
And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual One.
Ratri means "to take refuge." Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva.
The True Yagya
Rage has no ears, nor does it have vision.
It only leads to reaction.
And reaction leads to regret.
Regret causes frustration.
Frustration clouds the reason.
Unreasonable acts provoke rage, and start a vicious cycle.
Self Knowledge and Devotion alone can free you from this vicious cycle.
In the fire of Knowledge, when rage and revenge are offered, the warmth of the blemishless Self shines forth.
This is the true Yagya.
It only leads to reaction.
And reaction leads to regret.
Regret causes frustration.
Frustration clouds the reason.
Unreasonable acts provoke rage, and start a vicious cycle.
Self Knowledge and Devotion alone can free you from this vicious cycle.
In the fire of Knowledge, when rage and revenge are offered, the warmth of the blemishless Self shines forth.
This is the true Yagya.
Aishwarya and Madhury
In the world, usually where there is Aishwarya (Lordship), there is no Madhurya (Sweetness) and where there is Madhurya, there is no Aishwarya.
Where life has blossomed fully, there is both Aishwarya and Madhurya.
Aishwarya means Ishwaratva – Lordship of that which IS. Wealth, too, is referred to as Aishwarya because wealth does command a certain amount of authority.
Can love and authority co-exist?
Only in a fully blossomed Being, there is both Lordship and Sweetness.
There was Aishwarya in Sri Rama, but only glimpses of Madhurya.
Parshuram’s life shows only Lordship, but no Madhurya.
Buddha manifested more of Madhurya – the sweetness, and less of authority.
But Krishna manifested both Aishwarya and Madhurya. So did Jesus.
There is Lordship when they said, "I am the way!"
And there is Sweetness in their expression of Prayer and Love.
Where life has blossomed fully, there is both Aishwarya and Madhurya.
Aishwarya means Ishwaratva – Lordship of that which IS. Wealth, too, is referred to as Aishwarya because wealth does command a certain amount of authority.
Can love and authority co-exist?
Only in a fully blossomed Being, there is both Lordship and Sweetness.
There was Aishwarya in Sri Rama, but only glimpses of Madhurya.
Parshuram’s life shows only Lordship, but no Madhurya.
Buddha manifested more of Madhurya – the sweetness, and less of authority.
But Krishna manifested both Aishwarya and Madhurya. So did Jesus.
There is Lordship when they said, "I am the way!"
And there is Sweetness in their expression of Prayer and Love.
HONEY
Let the wind that blows be sweet
Let the oceans flow honey
Let all the herbs and plant kingdom be favourable to us
Let the nights be sweet and let the days be sweet
Let the dust of this planet be sweet to us
Let the heavens and our forefathers be sweet to us
Let all the trees be laden with honey
Let the Sun be sweet to us (Let all the radiations be favourable to us)
Let all the animals be sweet to us
Let our food be favourable to us
Let all our thoughts and our speech be sweet like honey
Let our life be pure and divine,
Let it be sweet like honey.
Let the oceans flow honey
Let all the herbs and plant kingdom be favourable to us
Let the nights be sweet and let the days be sweet
Let the dust of this planet be sweet to us
Let the heavens and our forefathers be sweet to us
Let all the trees be laden with honey
Let the Sun be sweet to us (Let all the radiations be favourable to us)
Let all the animals be sweet to us
Let our food be favourable to us
Let all our thoughts and our speech be sweet like honey
Let our life be pure and divine,
Let it be sweet like honey.
Joy and Sorrow
The inability to experience joy and sorrow is inertia.
Experiencing joy and sorrow is a trait of consciousness.
Being happy in one's own joy and sad in one's own sorrow is a trait of animals.
Being happy at another's joy and saddened by another's sorrow is a trait of humans.
If you are saddened by other’s sorrow then sorrow will never come to you.
If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.
Seeing that every relative joy is also a misery is a sign of dispassion.
And seeing both joy and sorrow as just a technique is a sign of the wise.
Considering sorrow as mere illusion is divinity.
Transcending joy and sorrow and being established in the self is perfection.
As the late Swami Sharanananda used to say, "Pray for the strength to serve in joy and to sacrifice in sorrow."
Experiencing joy and sorrow is a trait of consciousness.
Being happy in one's own joy and sad in one's own sorrow is a trait of animals.
Being happy at another's joy and saddened by another's sorrow is a trait of humans.
If you are saddened by other’s sorrow then sorrow will never come to you.
If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.
Seeing that every relative joy is also a misery is a sign of dispassion.
And seeing both joy and sorrow as just a technique is a sign of the wise.
Considering sorrow as mere illusion is divinity.
Transcending joy and sorrow and being established in the self is perfection.
As the late Swami Sharanananda used to say, "Pray for the strength to serve in joy and to sacrifice in sorrow."
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