You are just the pure consciousness - untouched and unstained by any event or any happening; pure like the space | ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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                 🌿Chapter - 3🌿

       ~ The Secret Of Elements ~

                   🌱 Day - 15 🌱

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Ether element - you walk into a place of meditation and there is akasha, there is a space. Immediately you feel spaced out. What happened? The ether element - space is dawning or dominant.

We get carried away by all these elements when we identify ourselves with them.

You shouted angrily, and then you regretted it. You identified with it. 'Oh, I feel so heavy. I shouldn't be feeling like this. I have to get rid of it'. You have identified yourself both with the state of the body and the mind. These things are the features in the silence programme. The more you go into the silence programme, several times, the more will you be able to appreciate this. In silence you can very clearly observe this happening.

न पृथवी न जलं नाग्निर्न वीयुर्द्यौर्न वा भवान् 

You are none of these five elements. And know that none if the elements stay all the time. If yoy observe, they stay for the time that have to stay and then vanish; they change. But if you are ignorant of this, then a particular element can continue for a long period of time, because you don't let it go. You try to hold them back. That is bondage. In fact, nothing is binding you. You are binding something that is moving! The irony of it is that the elements are not binding you; you are binding them! A fly is trying to get out of your room, and you are holding on to it. You are shutting the door! Something wants to escape but you don't want it to. You are trying to control it. You are binding them. Infact it's the other way round.

एषां साक्षिणमात्मानं चिद्रूपं विद्धि मुक्तये 

There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening. If you could just see that all the states of the mind are temporary. चिद्रूपं विद्धि मुक्तये. You are just the pure consciousness - untouched and unstained by any event or any happening; pure like the space. When this becomes well founded in you, then you are totally liberated. And when is this possible? Right now!

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

 ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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