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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 150 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There is a story about Narada. He was once walking on the earth somewhere in a mountainous area. He saw a young boy meditating, praying and dancing, and he saw an old man also sitting and meditating. He went to the old man and told him that he was going to heaven, to God. Did he have any questions for Him? The old man said that he wanted to know when God was going to liberate him. For how many more days, months or years would have to do all the practices? Narada agreed to do so. Then he went to the body. The body did not even notice Narada since he was dancing in ecstasy and joyfully meditating. But when Narada insisted and asked several times if he had any que...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 149 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 विश्वं स्फुरति यत्रेदं तरंगा इव सागरे । तत्त्वमेव न सन्देहश्चिन्मूर्ते विज्वरो भव ॥ This is such a precious statement. Have you ever seen yourself as a life, not just as somebody? You never put thoughts on you. You are always thinking about your circumstances. Even if you think about yourself, you think in terms of what others think about you. You think about yourself in terms of others. What is your relationship to yourself? Throw everything out for five minutes. Just for five minutes; even five seconds will do! What are you? Who are you? What do you want? I am life. Have you experienced that life burning in this body, in your very body? तत्त्वमेव न सन्देहश्चि...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 148 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 विश्वं स्फुरति यत्रेदं तरंगा इव सागरे । तत्त्वमेव न सन्देहश्चिन्मूर्ते विज्वरो भव ॥ When a wind blows on the lake or ocean of your consciousness, so many forms, thoughts, ideas, ideologies and feelings arise like the waves which arise on the surface of water when the wind blows. Do an experiment with one of your very good friends. Tell him or her something. Push a button in him, and in a couple of days or nights, he will be off his sleep and off himself. He will lose his peace of mind because of few words you said. Just say that somebody said that he was a hopeless person. Or you could tell him that Guruji has said that he had become a devil and would never get...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 147 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 In Sanskrit, doubts are called sandeha, Deha means body. Sandeha means doubt. They're very close. It is a state of mind. Doubt is a state of mind. Do you know when there is this state of mind? It is when we are body-conscious or body-bound, and are not aware of the life within us. When a child starts becoming aware of its own body, it start asking more and more questions. And when the body matures into adolescent stage,there are ever so many questions that reel in the mind. Doubt is that state of mind where it's not fully alive. Answers cannot satisfy doubt. Hearing and seeing cannot eliminate doubt. Only prana can eliminate doubt. When a doubt arises in your m...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 146 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Where are you? Which planet are you on? What is your world? Are you sure you are not dreaming? Are you sure you are here on this planet? Are you sure earth is beneath you? What is it you are hanging on to? How long will we continue this play, this drama? What is happening? What is the origin of the mind?  Where do all these thoughts arise from? Where does all this grumbling arise from? Where do all your concepts rise? How do they rise? How do they fall off? How do your likes and dislikes of people arise and fall off? If we don't get these doubts, we will not ask ourselves these questions. Not that they don't arise; they do but we brush them aside. We don't...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 25🌿          ~ Acting Spontaneously ~                   🌱 Day - 145 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Some yogis make you work day and night, while others tell you not to do anything; to just sit still and meditate all the time and that they will take care of everything. Christian missionaries have no time to relax. They work a lot all day with only half an hour in the morning and half and hour in the evening for mass and prayers. They work and work the whole day. Many have nervous problems. They have renounced the world, but they are so busy working, they don't even have time to breathe! Some of the Zen and Buddhist meditators don't stir out at all. They don't move around. They sit still all day and just meditate, meditate and just meditate. They start meditatin...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 25🌿          ~ Acting Spontaneously ~                   🌱 Day - 144 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धभावा देहस्थयोगिनः । संयोगायोगविरहादहमासे यथासुखम् ॥ Janaka said that many yogis and saints had advised him to do various things. He had done them all. He has surpassed and come away from them. That there was nothing that he wanted to achieve and nothing that he wanted to lose. He was at peace and at rest. Whenever the time is not right, you are asked to do various things - japa, chanting, meditation, mudra, or pranayam. You are kept busy and engaged in so many things. It has a purpose. It is there for you - toy for you to play with; for a period.  This is all there for you to mature, to fall in deep love with the Divine. Once you have f...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 25🌿          ~ Acting Spontaneously ~                   🌱 Day - 143 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 If you start thinking this way - that everybody may commit some or other sin - how can you do service to anybody at all? How do you know the person you are helping will not turn against you or somebody else? If there any way of knowing? So, what is the choice here? Do you have to judge,discriminate, and then act? Or do you act spontaneously? This is very beautiful. All the scriptures preach about being good and doing good. Then, concepts fill your mind, and you struggle with them all your life. All this is getting stuck in what we consider mortality. But when you go little deeper into it, there is big confusion. Someone asks you for food and out of compassion, yo...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 25🌿          ~ Acting Spontaneously ~                   🌱 Day - 142 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कृतं किमपि नैव स्यादिति । Ashtavakra says, 'Turn back and look at your lives.' What all you have done? Have you done anything or has it all just happened? Has it not all just 'happened'? Events keep happening. Janaka said that he had understood it very well. And that it was very beautiful. He said that he simply did whatever action he was supposed to do and what time demanded of him. Janaka says, ' If I am in a garden and I see a child running around playing and it falls. I do not wonder if it is good and righteous to help the child. I will pick the child up and comfort her. I do not sit, judge, decide and discriminate if I should do this or that, if it is merito...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 25🌿          ~ Acting Spontaneously ~                   🌱 Day - 141 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There is a story. Once there was a potter who made many pots. He took much time in making them, making each pot artistically and even painting some of them. He put them all in a basket to take to the market. It was quite some distance to the place. Usually the mind does not keep quiet. The potter started daydreaming as he was walking along. He began to make various plans what he would do with the money that he would earn by selling the pots. He imagined that he would become a millionaire. That his friend would respect him a lot. He would give them a lot of money and he would be able to just relax and lean on a chair doing nothing. While dreaming he dropped both h...