Thought waves cause ripples on the surface of the lake of our mind. |
The ancient
heritage of India - Yoga – teaches us
that we are souls, not the body. Soul is eternal and the fragment of God, which
is undying and indestructible by any means. This is not only detailed in the
Yogic literatures like Patanjali Yog Sutra, but also also in all the sacred scriptures
and Upanishads including Bhagavad Gita and Shrimad Bhagavatam. As we have forgotten ourselves as souls and
considered as the physical bodies, we have trapped ourselves into the bondage
of Maya (Prakriti). The soul is the seer and when it does not abide in in its
true nature as the fragment/son of God, it appears to take the shape of
whatever the content of mind is.
Meditating on God and His area is the only path to happiness. |
Our many different
thoughts and personalities are like little voices in our heads. They can become
problem if we erroneously link these thoughts with “I-am-ness” (asmita), which
is also called ego. For example – the thousands of thoughts we have every day
do not trouble us as long as we do not attach ourselves to them or own them.
The problem starts when a person identifies himself with the objects and the
situations. This identification or attachment is the wrong knowledge
(viparyaya) of us being the phenomena. If this identification persists, there
is nothing that stops us from listening to the voices in our heads. The voices
told Adolf Hitler to kill six million Jews; similar voices told Josef Stalin to
kill twenty million of his own people, and the next similar voices told
Christians to kill millions of “infidels/non-Chirstians” via the Inquisition
and Crusades.
No more listening to the voice of the mind |
So the wise
are those who understand the life changing message of Yoga, theme of the
scriptures and the preaching of the Saints –who are God realized - and follow
them practically in daily life in order to get a true happiness that is eternal.
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Jai Shree Swami Mukundananda !