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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 19🌿     ~ Without You Where Will I Be? ~                   🌱 Day - 109 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कृतं न कति जन्मानि कायेन मनसा गिरा । दुःखमायासदं कर्म तदद्याप्युपरम्यताम् ॥ You have been working with your body for several lifetimes; working with speech, with words, with your mind. These are the three places for action: body and mind, and speech between the two. If you are physically not working, the same energy is diverted into talking. People who talk a lot, work less. People who don't do any physical work and don't talk much either, lose their mind. You may notice, some people are very quiet. There is a volcano inside them. A dormant volcano! People who talk a lot are less dangerous than those who don't talk at all, because their minds are ever cooking and cooking. Yo...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 19🌿     ~ Without You Where Will I Be? ~                   🌱 Day - 108 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Ashtavakra reminded Janaka that he had had this experience over and over again in so many lifetimes with his wife, son, daughter, family. He was not against Janaka having a family. But, he wanted to know how many times Janaka had fallen in love with x, y or z? They had come and gone, and he had wasted several lifetimes like that. He has wasted several years on 'I' and 'mine'. Maybe, he had been trying to do many religious deeds or services like making a pond here and a traveller's bungalow there; building hostels for people. You have done a lot of charity, too. Ashtavakra said that Janaka could not rest with none of this. He was continuously occupied, never leaving his mind ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 19🌿     ~ Without You Where Will I Be? ~                   🌱 Day - 107 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 त्वमेकश्चेतनः शुद्धो जडं विश्वमसत्तथा । अविद्यापि न किञ्चित सा का बुभुत्सा तथापि ते ॥ राज्यं सुताः कलत्राणि शरीराणि सुखानि च । संसक्तस्यापि नष्टानि तव जन्मनि जन्मनि ॥ अलमर्थेन कामेन सुकृतेनापि कर्मणा । एभ्यः संसारकान्तारे न विश्रान्तमभून्मनः ॥ कृतं न कति जन्मानि कायेन मनसा गिरा । दुःखमायासदं कर्म तदद्याप्युपरम्यताम् ॥ Here, Ashtavakra talks about the nature of purity and impurity. He says the life is purity, and inertia is impurity and impermanence. Whatever is inert, is impure. And whatever is dynamic or active, is pure. When you are dull, you are impure. When you are alive, you are pure. When you do Kriya, you might have experienced a feeling of cleansing; a feeling of pu...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 19🌿     ~ Without You Where Will I Be? ~                   🌱 Day - 106 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Without you where will I be? A fish without water  Sky without the stars or the sun A tree without sap A microphone without sound A word that doesn't sound Without you where will I be? A body without life Mud without moisture Air that doesn't blow Fire that doesn't light Without you where will I be? A body without life A fish without water Without you where will I be? A devotee cannot even imagine his existence, without the Divine. It is so intoxicating. The intoxication never reduces. It is such an addiction. It is hard to put into words. Without you, where will I be? Eyes without sight, ears that cannot hear, a tongue that cannot taste. I can go on adding. Only a devo...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 105 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 वासना एव संसार इति सर्वा विमुञ्ज ताः । तत्त्यागो वासनात्यागात् स्थितिरद्य यथा तथा ॥ Drop these impressions of the past experiences with different people. They may have been wonderful. They may have seemed to be your soulmate for so many lifetimes! You may never felt like that with anybody else before. When you talk of your soulmates, you talk in terms of lifetimes; not today! The mind goes on empty talk. It's the vasana (your expectations) that propel you. There is no weight behind them. Even when you tell somebody you love them, make sure that you are not saying out of your vasana, your own impressions, your own cravings for some joy. You say that you love somebody. But do you...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 104 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 वासना एव संसार इति सर्वा विमुञ्ज ताः । तत्त्यागो वासनात्यागात् स्थितिरद्य यथा तथा ॥ What is your world? How big is your world? Have you ever really thought about it? Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this? You may have eaten pizza from your childhood. Now when you crave food, you only crave the food you have had so many times e.g. pizza. (if you offer pizza to some Indians, they'll say that parathas are so much better. They like masala dosa and much better than pizza. Pizza doesn't taste good to Indians. They go for masala dosa which tastes better for them.) The world is so big, but you have a set of experiences that your mind...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 103 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Arjuna was a friend of Krishna and knew him quite well. (He thought he knew Krishna well). So, Krishna could tell him to be with him totally. Krishna said that he would take care of everything for him. Normally, you strive to get something that you don't have, and you want to preserve what you already have. So Krishna promised Arjuna that he would do both for him. That he would get him what he needed, and he would maintain what he had. Such promises can only come from a crazy or an enlightened mind. Otherwise, one does not make such promises! An enlightened being, so hollow and empty, can speak with the authority of the entire universe. That is the fight. The fight is always be...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 102 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 After listening to Ashtavakra's points never feel low in front of any holy or enlightened people. Never feel low, but be very humble. It is different. Don't become stiff and egoistic. It's very easy to misinterpret the whole knowledge. This is what has happened. Many saints, the sanyasis, are not suppose to bow down before anybody other than Shankaracharya. And many people and sanyasis mistake it totally. They become so stiff! They don't need to bow down to anybody other than Shankaracharya. And sanyasis of other groups don't even do that. They don't even bow down to Shankaracharya. It's not the physical bowing down, but the inner state of consciousness that matters. It is holl...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 101 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 पश्य भूतविकारांस्त्वं भूतमात्रान् यथार्थतः । तत्क्षणाद्बन्धनिर्मुक्तः स्वरूपस्थो भविष्यसि ॥ You will be able to get into your Self when you see this distortion of consciousness. The entire universe is the distortion of one consciousness; the modification of one consciousness. तत्क्षणाद्बन्धनिर्मुक्तः स्वरूपस्थो भविष्यसि । Don't get down from your royal seat. Don't be tempted by anything in this world, whether material or spiritual. The smile on your face, the evenness in you and the royalty in you will establish you in your Self, free from all bondages. There are two things. One is being humble and the other is feeling low. They are very different. None of our practitioners, te...