5/10/2021 0 Comments Sri Chakra Ashram In Kerala
But you must help the man as a means of worshipping God in that man.Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.There is a screen.On that screen first appears the figure of a king.
Then before him on that same screen a play begins with various figures and objects, and the king on the screen watches the play on the same screen. The seer and the seen are mere shadows on the screen which is the only reality, supporting all the pictures. In the world also, the seer and the seen together constitute the mind, and the mind is supported by or based on the Self. There is no birth or death, no projection or drawing in, no sadhaka (aspirant), no mumukshu (one who desires to be liberated), no mukta (one who is liberated), no bondage, no liberation. To those who find it difficult to grasp this truth and ask, How can we ignore this solid world we see all around us the dream experience is pointed out and they are told, All that you see depends on the seer. This is called drishti-srishti vada, or the argument that one first creates out of his mind and then sees what his mind itself has created. But the world is felt and seen not only by me but by so many and we cannot call such a world nonexistent, the argument called srishti-drishti vada is addressed and they are told, God first created such and such a thing out of such and such an element and then something else and so forth. Their minds are not otherwise satisfied and they ask themselves, How can all geography, all maps, all sciences, stars, planets and the rules governing or relating to them, and all knowledge be totally untrue To such it is best to say, Yes. Then there is also total darkness (avidya) in which no obj ects are seen. But from the Self proceeds a reflected light, the light of pure mind (manas), and it is this light which gives room for the existence of all the film of the world, which is seen neither in total light nor in total darkness, but only in the subdued or reflected light. You feed yourself, and moved by pity feed the others whom you find suffering from hunger. So long as the dream lasted, all those pains were as real as you now think the pain in the world to be. It was only when you woke up that you discovered that the pain in the dream was unreal. You dream that you work hard and long in the hot sun all day, are tired and hungry and want to eat a lot. The hunger in the dream has to be assuaged by the food in the dream. You can never mix up the two states, the dream and the waking state. Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of I am the doer, but with the feeling I am the Lords tool. Similarly one must not be conceited by thinking, I am helping a man below me.
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