Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

CHAPTER - 4  ~ Who Is God ~   DAY - 23  ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  "Asmita" means "me" or "I."  This feeling of "me,  I" is the second cause of suffering.  That is the reason we do the Hollow and Empty process.  When we do it, there is no "I".  You exist as though you are not there.  You exist like a flower; like a cloud.  You exist like the space - free, and hollow and empty, rather than as if you are somebody - "I,  I, me, me." Asmita is feeling what people think about you, what you want from them, how you could take advantage of them, whether they consider you to be good or bad, etc.  This gives you misery.  Nothing else can give you misery - need give you misery.  Your own idea of "me, mine, me, mine," not being one with the existence, having a separate feeling and identity, or having a superiority or inferiority complex give you misery.  In fact, all those people who consider themselves intelligent and...

CHAPTER - 4  ~ Who Is God ~  DAY - 22 ­ Surrendering to the Lord, you can achieve the fully blossomed state of consciousness.  Now, what is the Lord?  Who is the Lord?  Where is He?  It is easy to say surrender to God, but what is God?  Where is God?  Nobody has ever seen God.  What is it that rules this world?  You will find that it is love that rules the world.  The centre core of the existence rules whole universe.  Just like the sun is the center of the solar system and rules all the planets,  love is the core of your life.  Love is beyond your changing body, changing thoughts, and changing feelings.  It is the very center, core, of your existence, which is very subtle and delicate.  It can be called love or anything else.  That consciousness, the core of existence is responsible for this whole creation.  There lies the Lordship.  A bird feeds its young ones because of love.  A flower...