Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 40 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Just hankering for knowledge, for unity, for love will not get you that. Thinking that you don't hanker or care for anything, and dropping everything, will also not help. This is what we do. People say they will meditate but are hankering after what they can do. We get more and more restless, because we want to do something to get there, to get closer and closer. How close can you go? You have done whatever you could to get as close as you could go, but you still feel you are not close enough! So you still feel frustrated. And the other way is when we say that it's impossible. Drop it, run away and go somewhere. There is no need to meditate o...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 39 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 यथैवेक्षुरसे क्लृप्ता तेन व्याप्तैव शर्करा । तथा विश्वं मयि क्लृप्तं मया व्याप्तं निरन्तरम् ॥ अात्माज्ञानाज्जद्भाति अात्माज्ञानान्न भासते । रज्जज्ञानादहिर्भाति तज्ज्ञानाद्भासते न हि ॥ He goes on, to give several examples. Sugar is present in sugar cane juice. Sugar is present all over in the cane. The more you press the sugar cane, more juice is got. It is of the same taste throughout. Sea water is salty, wherever you take the water from. Whether from the side, or you travel to the middle of the ocean and take water from there, it is also salty. Like that, I am present all over in everything. He had the sudden realization : 'Aho!' You have...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 38 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 यथा न तोयतो भिन्नास्तरङ्गाः फेनबुद्बुदाः । आत्मनो न तथा भिन्नं विश्वमात्मविनिर्गतम् ॥ Threads make up a cloth. If you seperate the thread, where is cloth? It's all just thread. Just look at cloth. You don't see it as thread. You see it as cloth. But if you take the threads one-by-one, you will see them only as threads. In the same way, you've made a world within your world with differences of opinions, concepts, emotions, feelings about the way things should be; about the way things should not be. These concepts are all woven in that one substance, consciousness. Your mind is jammed together; woven into knots. That knotted mind is angry, frus...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 37 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अहो निरंजनः शान्तो । See it both the ways. When you become very peaceful and quiet, you perceive the existence. 'Oh,this is my nature,my true Self. All I was doing, the chit-chatting, getting agitated, yelling and shouting is not me.' Many of you have felt and experienced this. You lost your temper, you shouted and yelled, and later on said that it was unlike you. "That's not me. It just happened. I don't know why it happened." You'll find restlessness is foreign to your nature. And this is the reality. It is truth. When you have even once experienced the quietness of the inner Self, you will see the rest is not you. Here,the skill is needed....

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 36 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Janaka said, 'Of course! A skill is needed. You just have to tilt your eyes.' An ornament can be seen as different things-as a bangle, necklace or earings, or as gold like a goldsmith would. He puts all the gold into one weighing pan and says, 'This is gold.' It doesn't matter to him if it is in the shape of a bangle, long or short, in biscuit or in coin form. He says, 'This is gold.' A skill is needed. Tilt your eyes and see all is God. Tilt your eyes and see this is all universe. This is a world with so many diversities. Conflicting things are put together in this world. Diametrically opposite values co-exist, like in a circle. In a circle,...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 7🌿              ~ Everything Is God ~                    🌱 Day - 35 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 जनक उवाच अहो निरंजनः शान्तो बोधोऽहं प्रकृतेः परः । एतावन्तमहं कालं मोहेनैव विडम्बितः ॥ यथा प्रकाशयाम्येको देहमेनं तथा जगत् । अतो मम जगत्सर्वमथवा न च किंचन ॥ सशीरमहो विश्वं परित्यज्य मयाधुना । कुतश्चित् कौशलादेव परमात्मा विलोक्यते ॥ यथा न तोयतो भिन्नास्तरङ्गाः फेनबुद्बुदाः । अात्मनो न तथा भिन्नं विश्वमात्मविनिर्गतम् ॥ तन्तुमात्रो भवेदेव पटो यद्वद्विचारितः । अात्मतन्मात्रमेवेदं तद्वद्विश्वं विचारितम् ॥ When Janaka discovered this he said, 'Oh! This is it. I was mistaken all these days! I have the vision now. This is it!' He immediately discovered that a skill was needed to see this. Some pictures have a hologram. If you look from one angle, on...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 6🌿                ~ Fountain Of Joy ~                    🌱 Day - 34 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अहो निरंजनः शान्तो बोधोऽहं प्रकृतेः परः । एतावन्तमहं कालं मोहेनैव विडम्बितः ॥ Janaka said what a joke it had been! That, he was beyond the qualities, the three Gunas and the nature of his body. That, his body was restless because rajoguna was dominating. That it felt tired and sleepy when tamoguna dominated. And, when he felt very clear and very joyful, sattvaguna was dominating. And that these never stayed constant. They arose and subsided but that he had nothing to do with them. He was seperate from them. He was untouched. निरंजनः अहो!  He felt that he had been kept captive by time, and deep inside him he was so peaceful! His natu...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 6🌿                ~ Fountain Of Joy ~                    🌱 Day - 33 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 This is what happened with Janaka. As he heard Ashtavakra, it immediately touched somewhere deep in his heart and he said, 'Yes, this is reality, it's not empty talk! What Ashtavakra is saying I see right here! So an exclamation came from Janaka, 'Aho! Niranjanaha! Oh! I am untouched! I am untarnished! I am ever so pure! Oh!' He said, 'Aho!' He started exclaiming, and jumping out of its seat. 'This is true!' Now no power could shake his faith. No power could shake his knowledge,because it had touched deep inside his heart. Let the whole world stand on one side and say, that you are not Nitanjanaha; you are not pure. Then one would say, '...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 6🌿                ~ Fountain Of Joy ~                    🌱 Day - 32 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Now, wake up and see the same thing is spread all over. Don't limit it only to meditation. Otherwise we'll close our eyes and meditate in wonder and bliss but when it comes to activity, we will be the same, as old as ever. It's of no use. With eyes open, see that you are floating in that non-changing something, that lively consciousness present in every particle of creation. त्वया व्याप्तमिदं विश्वं त्वयि प्रोतं यथार्थतः By limiting your experience in meditation to be reality, you are bound again. Seeing that experience as a living reality, even when in our activity, is freedom. शुद्धबुद्धस्वरूपस्त्वं मा गमः क्षुद्रचित्तताम् The small li...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 6🌿                ~ Fountain Of Joy ~                    🌱 Day - 31 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 This universe is very dynamic. Nothing is static here. What appears to be static is an apparent illusion. Everything is dynamic. Everything is moving, growing and changing constantly. But we don't see it that way. When someone meets you after some time, he tells you that you have gotten fat or become thin. Otherwise, you look at your clothes and notice that the pants (or shirts) have become loose, tight or whatever. Change is always visible with a reference. You need something as a reference. It is because of the reference point you are able to perceive the change. So when we see everything is changing then there must be something that i...