Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 170 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Ashtavakra had said, Vigata jwara. They are very precious words. Just two words - vigatat jwara. And now he says - prakrteh parah. That is the skill of a Master. He mentions both the opposites and keeps you in the middle; in the right place. He gives a blow from one side and then from the other side. So there is nowhere for you to escape, but to be where you ought to be. There is nothing that you can do. Vigatat jwara and then prakrteh parah. Prakrteh parah - that you are beyond the prakriti, the nature and the qualities. How much can you purify? However,you go on purifying yourself. This is what the Buddhists, Zen Buddhists, meditators, and other people who are so stuck i...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 169 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There was this Sufi saint whose name was Mansoor Hallaj. He said that he was God, and he was also crucified. The only mistake he made was being born in the wrong place. If he was born in India, people would have thought he wasn't avadhut, and great master. In his country, they thought that he was a stupid and a mad person. It was his experience. And even in his last moments, Mansoor was told to declare that he was not God. And he asked how he could say that he was not God. All was God. That everything was made up of God. He said that it did not matter if his head and arms were chopped off. That he was not worried about it. It is a state. It is reality. Bhagavan tvam. You ar...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 168 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 श्रद्धस्व तात श्रद्धस्व नात्र मोहं कुरूष्व भोः । When you don't have trust in yourself, in the love that you have been given by the Divine or by the society, and the people around you, then you get cravings, attachments and entanglements. Your entanglement is the doubt that whoever you are entangled with doesn't love you, or you don't love them enough. That's where the entanglement begins. Then you want more,more and more. You are not reposing in your Self. This is where love curdled itself. Love becomes sour and becomes an entanglement. You look at someone or something and love springs up in you. Then, you start being with that person or that object that you possess. And t...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 167 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There's an event, an instance in Bhagvad when a yogi talked to the gopis about yoga and meditation. They told him not to talk to them about meditation or yoga. That they were so intoxicated with love for the Lord that they saw only Him in the trees, in the green, in the leaves, in the yogi, in themselves. They saw only Him everywhere. That they were intoxicated and drunk in His love, and felt His presence all the time, everywhere. Even the body did not seem to be their own. It seemed to be His. That He lived in them and breathed through it. And that He ate, looked, smelt and did everything through them. That means yoga has already happened. Knowledge has dawned. Union has h...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 166 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 It has taken several months for the body to form and several years for it to be in the form it is in right now. It did not happen in one day. It took nine months to have all organs formed, and probably nineteen years to be in the current shape. It has taken several years for the intellect to mature, and for the emotions to culture. And it has taken 84 lifetimes for the mind to be formed. Mind has taken much longer. This very consciousness, this mind has passed through many bodies to be able to be in this body, as it is now. This consciousness is very old, ancient. The life in you is not new. When a baby is born, it is said that a new life has come to the house. A new life h...

Question - Gurudev, what is the force that keeps the material things in their shapes? I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning, all the furniture is still there. What is holding the outside world together? The explanation I found in Physics was not satisfactory. Gurudev Sri Sri - That is called intelligence. There is some intelligence that is making you ask this question, that is holding your brain together. That which is keeping the brain together is the same intelligence which is keeping the furniture together also. Brain is also a furniture for consciousness to sit on. Got it? If you have one, you have got it. I am sure you have one, otherwise you couldn't have asked this brilliant question. Usually ordinary people take things for granted. It needs that extraordinary brain to get intrigued by the realities of life. Question these things in the universe and don't just be satisfied with what comes in the so called science books because they keep cha...

Question - Gurudev, our friends in Europe are trying to get rid of religion entirely. What's your view on that? Gurudev Sri Sri - Religion has its own place, but I feel that spirituality is something that rises above religion and unites people's hearts and minds. religion has got spiritual values in it. This is what needs to be highlighted much more than the practices that the different sects practice. I would say we need to have unity in diversity, at the same time, enrich the diversity because that is the beauty of our planet. We are so different, and there are different rituals and different practices, none of it should be lost. Everything has its own value. There is a unifying force in all religions, and that is of the values of compassion, love, and togetherness. These values need to take the front seat.