VAIRAGYA
contd....
When
Vairagya appears in the mind, it opens the gate to Divine Wisdom.
From dis-satisfaction
(with the sense-objects and worldly sense-enjoyments) comes aspiration.
From aspiration
comes abstraction.
From abstraction
comes the concentration of the mind.
From the concentration
of the mind comes meditation or contemplation.
From contemplation
comes Samadhi or Self-realisation.
Without dis-satisfaction or Vairagya, nothing is possible.
Just as
water, when it leaks into the rat-holes, instead of running into the proper
channels in agricultural fields, becomes wasted and does not help the growth of
plants, grains, etc., so also, the efforts of an aspirant become wastage if he
has not got the virtue Vairagya. He gets no spiritual advancement.
Enemies Of
Vairagya
The Curse
of Affection
Delusion
proceeds from affection. It is a common observation that a person is distressed,
if the cat eats his domestic fowl; but when his affections are not touched, for
instance, if the cat eats a sparrow or a mouse, he expresses no sorrow.
At the
back of affection and love, there is grief and sorrow.
Affection is mixed with sorrow.
Affection is mixed with sorrow.
At the
back of pleasure, there is pain.
Pain is mixed with pleasure.
Pain is mixed with pleasure.
Man sows
the poisonous seed of sorrow under the name of love, from which quickly spring
up shoots of affection which contain a fire dangerous as lightning; and from
these shoots, grow trees of sorrow with innumerable branches which, burning
like a heap of covered straw, slowly consume the body.
The knot
of affection is strengthened by long indulgence. Affection has entwined its
threads around the hearts of men.
The
principal means to get rid of affection is to consider that this is a fleeting
existence.
In this
wide world, how many millions of parents, wives, children, uncles and
grandfathers have passed away. You should consider the Society of Friends as a
momentary flash of lightning and, revolving this often in your mind, enjoy
felicity.
Hope and
Anticipation
Hope and Anticipation
are the opposite of Vairagya and Tyaga. They fatten the mind. To be perfectly
hopeless is a very high state for a philosopher.
They
always say with contempt: "He is a hopeless man". Worldlings and
philosophers move towards diametrically opposite poles.
Swami says "Life is lost in dreaming,
BEING is lost in becoming".
Man spoils
a perfect today by thinking about future, planning for the future, hoping for
better things in future.
As long as
man continues to hope to get more and more in worldly aspects, he gets
lesser and lesser capable to develop dispassion / vairagya.
How many
times, on how many occasions, the author has talked / given sessions to so
many, on this viveka and vairagya!!
Other than
the sessions, whenever Viveka, Vairagya topic has been taken up spontaneously
by the author while conversing with many beings, their conscience from within
says "YES" to whatever he advises / tells them.
But Maya
is so powerful, they get caught up in Maya which binds them to the world and
its glitter that the VIVEKA required does not arise and stays!!!
The call of
conscience from within that "this is real and this is unreal" (viveka)
and the momentary feeling for discarding want is unreal (vairagya) is what
is called in common parlance as "masana vairagya" or "prasava vairagya".
Masana
vairagya - When we see a dead body being burnt in the ghat, intense vairagya
crops up from within "chi, what is this world, what is the significance of
this body, once prana leaves the body, see, how my own dear friend /
relative's body is getting burnt there. Why do we give so much importance
to our body and this world" and there comes the uttering of "God is
the only Reality"!!!
The
intense vairagya stays only for the 13 days from the death of our near ones.
After that, we are back to this world, dreaming and losing our vairagya.
Prasava
vairagya - The word is self explanatory. The pregnant woman during
the labour pain cries out, "enough, enough, no more children, can't
bear this pain" and there, after few months, her husband conveys to
his Father in law, "Be blessed and happy to know that your daughter
is pregnant (AGAIN!!)”.
Continued........
Love.
