Quality # 23
Tulya nindaa Stutir maunee
Equal in censure or praise
Ninda and stuti mean the same thing to him. “You are the worst of fellows”— “all right, accepted”.
“There is nobody like you in the whole world”—"that is also good, fine”.
He takes both of them as prasad.
Chinmaya writes,
“A situation is judged by the intellect as honorable or dishonorable with reference to its own existing values and cultivated habits of thinking.
That which is ordinarily considered dishonorable can itself come to be estimated by the same person as honorable in a new pattern of circumstances ordered by a change in time and place.
On the whole, these are all different tides in the intellect; and those who are living in that realm ( of BMI) are affected by them.”
That which is ordinarily considered dishonorable can itself come to be estimated by the same person as honorable in a new pattern of circumstances ordered by a change in time and place.
On the whole, these are all different tides in the intellect; and those who are living in that realm ( of BMI) are affected by them.”
Dear All,
When the world praises you or curses you, actually what is that they are praising or cursing??
They are looking at you as a person, as an individual, with a BMI, with a personality of your own, a nature of your own, acting in the society with desires, expectations etc.
This is the world of beings , they can look at you only with their limited mind , their limited vision of seeing you with limitations, since they see themselves also with limitations.
They are looking at you as a person, as an individual, with a BMI, with a personality of your own, a nature of your own, acting in the society with desires, expectations etc.
This is the world of beings , they can look at you only with their limited mind , their limited vision of seeing you with limitations, since they see themselves also with limitations.
Here is the true devotee who has surrendered to the lord, who takes up no action with expectations, which we have understood in earlier qualities.
He exists moment to moment, acts moment to moment, propelled only by intuition and not by Ego, hatred, attachment or inherent tendencies.
He exists moment to moment, acts moment to moment, propelled only by intuition and not by Ego, hatred, attachment or inherent tendencies.
So, when any praise or any dishonor/censure is showered at him, he is not able to even recognize that they are pointed towards him, as he does not exist as a human being. Will the SELF that he exists as, have any mind to grasp any praise or censure??
Sri Chinmaya , in his commentary on a verse in viveka chudamani on Stitaprajna writes, “Adoration and censures, flowers or a garland of slippers, when heaped on him/ presented to him, all of them, the praises as well as censure, disappear from his bosom in no time and there , he exists, rooted in consciousness (Stitaprajna).
How wonderful is it to note that all the qualities described as that of a true bhakta in this chapter, exactly matches all the qualities of a Jivanmukhta, in Jnana!. The path is different but the culmination, the end result , the inner state of the one who has pursued path of devotion and reached the goal or a sadhaka who pursues the path of jnana and reaches the goal, are exactly the same.
Love
