When you are established in your Self, you are not holding onto concepts. You are loose, free, easy, and open like a child.

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 24🌿

        ~ The Secret Of Mistakes ~

                  🌱 Day - 135 🌱

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हेयोपादेयविरहादेवं हर्षविषादयोः ।

अभावादद्य हे ब्रह्मन्नेवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥

आश्रमानाश्रमं ध्यानं चित्तस्वीकृतवर्जनम् ।

विक्लपं मम वीक्ष्यैतैरेवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥

कर्मानुष्ठानमज्ञानाद्यथैवोपरमस्तथा ।

बुध्वा सम्यगिदं तत्तवमेवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥

अचिन्त्यं चिन्त्यमानोऽपि चिन्तारूपं भजत्यसौ ।

त्यक्तवा तद्भावनं तस्मादेवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥

एवमेव कृतं येन स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ ।

एवमेव स्वभावो यः स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ ॥

Your concept that things should be in a certain way, causes pain in your mind. Set concepts in the mind are the cause of distress. And nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun! He always gives you surprises; sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant! You grow because of both unpleasant as well as pleasant ones. In fact, you grow much more because of unpleasant surprises than from pleasant ones. So, behind each surprise there is a big message for you. When you know that all joy and sorrow is the result of concepts, you are able to see the reality as it is, without making concepts out of it also. Nothing is predictable in this world, especially people's mind. You don't know who is what, and when, and where. You cannot even predict the weather accurately. Although people do predict it, it is just the opposite, sometimes!

All the other things that we predict in this world is just like a predicting the weather. There is always a chance that things don't go the way they are predicted. When you are established in your Self, you are not holding onto concepts. You are loose, free, easy, and open like a child. A child may be crying, but a few minutes later it is laughing, smiling, and jumping up and down. You may be surprised at how happy the child is after crying. Yet it does not take much time for it to cry for nothing! Maybe another child sitting next to him has started crying, and he will start crying, too. Have you observed this? So living in the present moment is only possible when you can drop these concepts. Stop judging the past. However, you can learn from the past.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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