People are having different sensations as a game. It is already happening. If you can watch, energy is oozing out of every pore of your body. If you watch, it flows in an even manner. It creates balance.
And you realise vou are not this bod or these sensations. You have been alwavs reacung to the sensations. You are like that, year after year, life after life. Now, when you watch, that is liberation.
Watch all the feelings and sensations in your body. You go beyond. "Now, Eureka, I have found it" What was happening? An emotion used to give rise to some sensation, the sensation, in turn, used to create an impression, another emotion.
So these circles of craving and aversion with sensation and emotion, made your life, both subtle body and gross body, and that took you from life to life. Every sensation has its own quality and nature. When you feel pleasant, what is happening?
Those sensations are moving upward. Whenever vou feel unpleasant, the same sensations are moving downward. A pleasant sensation is pushing you up, an unpleasant sensation is pushing you down, just watch it.
When all the energy goes down, an unpleasant sensation occurs and your head feels fuzzy and empty. Your body has certain centers with emotions associated with them. When you feel jealousy, joy, arrogance or attachment, you feel the sensation in the stomach.
It churns your stomach. When you experience love, fear or hatred, you feel the sensation in the heart region. Grief is in the throat. There is a choking sensation in the throat. Gratitude is also in the throat.
Being full of gratitude chokes the throat. You can't speak. Anger is in the forehead and so is awareness. People who are alert, get angry. Each emotion has a particular pattern of sensation in the body.
Your body is enough of a thing to watch. There is no time to think about others if you could just watch your body. There is no time to think about anything else or to form any opinion about anybody. Somebody came and asked a saint, "What do you think about this particular situation?"
The saint said, "Where is the time to think about anything? I have no time to think." This statement is difficult to understand : "I have no time to think." But how can you think when you are in the present, when you are aware, when you are in the now totally?
Thinking is like chewing gum. It doesn't produce anything. You can think about only those things which you know. And once you know, what is the need to think about it ? And you can't think something which you don't know.
Ultimately, thinking is useless. Knowing this difference is Bheda. The third thing that you can do is differentiate between the permanent and the impermanent. Buddha said, "Look into every sensation, this is impermanent. You disassociate yourself from the sensation. What is happening in the body, let it happen."
A grief is coming. He says, "This is impermanent. This is something that is changing. I shall not associate with it. I'll watch the sensation instead." It becomes very intense and disappears. It is the same with a pleasant sensation.
Hang on to it, grab it and you will see that all pleasant sensations vanish and become painful a little later on. Bheda means seeing the permanence and the impermanence. This very body is impermanent and, with the very attention into it, you become a glow of consciousness.
It is not the body it is the glow, it's the consciousness. It is Chetana, Chitta, that is coming out of every pore of the body. There is a wick coming out of the candle. The wick is not the glow, is not the light. See, the wick is dark and ugly, but the glow is so beautiful.
So are you. The wick is the body and you are the glow. Any moment you are walking, eating or sitting, just become aware that your body is hollow and empty. The body is nothing but a handful of ashes, would-be ashes.
You will see, when you shift from the wick to the glow, your mind becomes stable Bheda. You say your mind is wandering very much. I don't think so. Mind is not wandering. It is your lack of understanding.
Bheda Buddhi, this Bheda is not there. You don't know what is impermanent and what is permanent. You have never put attention on it. If somebody's life is in danger and you ask them, "What do think about politics? Who do you want to vote for?"
They would say, "I don't care. Rescue me" Your mind will go according to Bheda, according to your discrimination. Then comes Danda - Dada means support. Determination and commitment are the Danda.
Your spiritual discipline is Danda. Mind is like a vine (creeper), it needs a support. Listening to spiritual discourses, satsangs, practice, Guru's presence are all the support, the Danda.
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