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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 21🌿           ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~                   🌱 Day - 117 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 चिन्तया जायते दुःखं नान्यथेहेति निश्चयी । तया हीनः सुखी शान्तः सर्वत्र गलितस्पृहः ॥ नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी । कैवल्यमिव संप्राप्तो न स्मरत्यकृतं कृतम् ॥ अाब्रह्मस्तम्बपर्यन्तमहमेवेति निश्चयी । निर्विकल्पः शुचिः शान्तः प्राप्ताप्राप्तविर्निवृतः ॥ नानाश्चर्यमिदं विश्वं न किञ्चिदितिनिश्चयी । निर्वासनः स्फुर्तिमात्रो न किञ्चिदिव शाम्यति ॥ चिन्तया जायते दुःख । Worrying causes sorrow. What is a worry? Look at old gramophone records. Sometimes, the needle gets stuck in one particular groove. So the same part of the song is repeated again and again. Just like that, streams of thoughts come and pass through your mind. Many thoughts are not even yours. The...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 116 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अन्तर्गलितसर्वाशः शान्तः क्वापि न सज्जते । अन्तर्गलित - means inside. There are two types of desire. One is a surface desire which is essential for any activity. There is a desire to drink water and you do so. You want to go to sleep and you sleep. You can call it an intention. All your actions are prompted or instigated by your intentions. But there is another desire which is very deep within you. This is called a craving. A craving is like a whirlwind, creating anger, restlessness, depression or distress in you. That anger which has penetrated deep inside. अन्तर्गलितसर्वाशः । Desires which are deeply rooted in you should melt away. If they remai...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 114 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 भावाभावविकारश्च स्वभावादिति निश्चयी । निर्विकारो गतक्लेशः सुखेनैवोपशाम्यति ॥ This is wonderful. Just these words are sufficient. With this thorough understanding - not just thought - you will stop blaming yourself for having feelings; or for not having feelings, for having bad feelings or self pity, and praising yourself for your good feelings. You will never get into any of these mental trips. You will go through and see this is caused by nature. Nirvikaro. Then, you will become devoid of any flaws. You'll be the flawless consciousness at any time and at all times. Gatakleshaha. All the sadness, sorrow and distress will disappear from your consc...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 113 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 The doshas change all the time. They even change during the morning, the afternoon and the evening. They change with the sun. During the mid-noon the pitta increases. So everyone should eat at that time. People should eat something before one o'clock. Between the breakfast and lunchtime, too, one must eat. That's when the pitta is higher. Everything is a unit. Doshas changes. They change in your body in so many ways. Weather changes the doshas e.g. if it is a little hotter pitta increases of if it's colder vata increases. What can you do about that? You think if you sit in an air-conditioned room you'll be rid of it? It is not possible! These dos...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 112 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There is a sutra in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras where Patanjali says to meditate on the Realised One; on the Master. This means, when you meditate on the Realised One, a change beings to happen in your own body physiology. Check your pulse, and then think about somebody who is very lustful, or very jealous, or extremely agitated. That very thought creates a sort of chemical reaction in your body and the whole system and the vibration change. Even the body, which we think is very solid, is not so! It is changing on a regular basis. Blood changes every twenty-four hours. In three months the bone marrow changes. The skin changes every seven days or les...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 111 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अष्टावक्र उवाच भावाभावविकारश्च स्वभावादिति निश्चयी । निर्विकारो गतक्लेशः सुखेनैवोपशाम्यति ॥ ईश्वरः सर्वनिर्माता नेहान्य इति निश्चयी । अन्तर्गलितसर्वाशः शान्तः क्वापि न सज्जते ॥ भावाभावविकारश्च स्वभावादिति निश्चयी । These few words contain a huge amount of knowledge wealth. All science is contained in this one sentence. What do those who are well aware of the science of life [Ayurveda] do? They look and observe. They may feel that Pitta or Kapha is increasing in people and that could be the reason for their feeling of dull or stiff. Or may be Vata is increasing, and that could explain their restlessness. They attribute illness to the imbalanced i...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 20🌿                ~ Repose In Being ~                   🌱 Day - 110 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 This creation is made up of five elements. Our body is made up of five elements, seven substances, three qualities and three modes. The *five* *elements* [gross classification] are; earth, water, ether, fire and air. The *seven* *dhatus* *or* *substances* are rasa (blood plasma), rakta (blood), mamsa (muscle), meda (fat), asthi (bone and skeleton), majja (bone marrow and nervous tissue) and shukra (reproductive tissue). The *three* *gunas* *[qualities]* are : sattva guna, rajogun and tamogun. The *three* *doshas* [distortions, modulations or variations] : vata, pitta and kapha. When they are in balance, you feel very well, wonderful. When they are...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_5.1)_ मन की स्थिति के अनुसार हम ग्रहण करते है। देखनेवाले के आँखों में सुंदरता है...मन मीठा तो जग मीठा। और जब तब मन अपने हृदय में डुबकी नही लगाता तब तक वह मीठा नहीं हो सकता। जब चित्त, मन दिल में डूबता है तब जो भी देखते है वह अपना लगता है, अपनापन का उदय होता है, सारा दृश्य सजीव हो उठता है। एक वैज्ञानिक के दृष्टिकोण से देखें तो हर चीज एक वस्तु है ....और आध्यात्मिक य्या भाव से देखो तो हर चीज जीवंत है। इसीलिए बच्चे चाँद को चांदमामा बोलते है। सारा संसार अपना लगना लगें इसके लिए उपाय ये है कि दिल से देखना शुरू करो। जब हम ध्यानस्थ होते है, चित्त को दिल में रखके लय होते हो तब अपनापन उदय होता है, सब कुछ अपना ही अंग लगना लगेगा। शुद्ध1 तत्व से देखने से अपशु शक्ति का उदय होता है। शक्ति में दो प्रकार है...पशु शक्ति और अपशु शक्ति। पशु शक्ति आक्रामक शक्ति है। अपशु शक्ति जीवंत शक्ति है। पशु शक्ति सीमित होती है, आक्रोश से भरी हुई है। पर अपशु शक्ति सहज है, सजग है, अलौकिक है। शुद्ध तत्व से जब देखते है परायापन नहीं लगता, अपनापन लगता है....तब अपशु शक्ति जागृत होने लगती ह...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.6)_ शुद्धि का अर्थ है अपनापन। अशुद्धि का अर्थ है जहाँ अपनापन नहीं है, परायापन हो वह अशुद्धि है। जैसे तेल और पानी मिलागे तो वह मिलते नहीं है...वह अशुद्धि है ... वैसे ही रेत और चीनी। मगर दूध और पानी, नींबू और पानी।मिलाओगे तो वह एक हो जाते है...यह शुद्धि है। तो जो एक दूसरे मे मिलते नहीं है, उनका स्वभाव मिलता नहीं है...उसको अशुद्धि कहते है। शुद्ध तत्व को अपने में लाने का अर्थ यहीं है कि सबमें अपनापन उदय हो गया । सब मेरा ही हैं, परायापन मिट गया, एक हो जाए, योग हो जाए... जब तत्व जुड़ जाते है तब तुम्हारे भीतर अपशु शक्ति का उदय होने लगता है। अपशु शक्ति जिसमें आक्रामकता नहीं है, आक्रोश नहीं ही....उसमें प्यार है....जो सबकों जोड़ देती है...वह अमानुष शक्ति है, अलौकिक शक्ति का उदय होता है।  Shiv Sutra_4.6_ Shuddhi means familiarity. Ashuddhi means where there is no belongingness, there is impurity. Just as oil and water are mixed, but they are not homogeneous… that is impurity… so is sand and sugar. But milk and water, lemon and water... they are homogeneo...

Chapter 4 - Honour Desire Day 26 The essence of Shiva is joy. People often say, "When you remove the energy of desire, then you can see Shiva." That wish to remove the desire itself becomes a desire.  When you say, "I want to eliminate desire," what happens? Desires do not need your permission to arise.  Do they arise by themselves or do they request your permission to appear? You are hungry, and so there is a desire to eat, and when you are thirsty, there is a desire to drink.  Desires seem to arise automatically. When you struggle with a desire, how is it possible to relinquish the desire? You may feel that once you fulfill a desire.  Then you will be happy and contented, but this situation never happens. If you want contentment, then be content right now and do not wait until all your desires are fulfilled.  People run after desires, constantly seeking contentment. Knowledge of the self, or yoga, is knowing, "I am l contentment. My nature is l c...