Geeta Dhara – My Path

Eternal peace is apostrophe’d by conflicts.

It’s a long journey.
Most interesting is that we are least interested in such attainment
though always cry for peace and the everlasting, ultimate bliss. 

Probably a fake reflex action of our mind’s generation
without calculation of a reasoned base
and
reasonable spiritual base.

The only happiness is in God and eternal peace is there.

Certainly in that case,any initiation for such spiritual achievement has to start
from deep within the soul
resulting for total accomplishment
which is beyond the boundaries of human imagination.

In fact,the real base of the body is constituted by sanskar,
the merits-the influences and impressions-earned during a previous existence.
And sanskar rests upon the mind.

Perfect subjugation of the mind,
so that it can be changeless, firm, and constant,
and
the dissolution of the last sanskar, are all different aspects
of
the same process.

The disintegration of the last crust of this sanskar
marks the end of physical existence.
To bring about this dissolution we have to undertake
aradhana, worship and adoration, of the desired God.

Careful well planned deterrents & actions are must
and
one can never reach to the stage of eternal peace
without execution
of
such an ordained action.

Lord Krishn teaches in Chapter 18 of Bhagavad Gita:

“Propelling all living things
that bestride a body-which is but a contrivance-by his maya,
O Arjun,
God abides in the hearts of all beings.’’

But if God lives in our hearts and is so close to us,
why are we ignorant of his presence?
This is so because the contraptions we call body are driven
by the power of maya, the universal ignorance or illusion
by virtue of which we consider the unreal universe as real
and
distinct from the Supreme Spirit.
So this physical mechanism is a grave impediment
and it takes us round endlessly through one birth after another.

Where, then, can we find shelter or refuge?

Lord Krishn concludes:

tameva śaraṇaṁ gaccha sarvabhāvena bhārata
tatprasādātparāṁ śāntiṁ sthānaṁ prāpsyasi śāśvatam

“Seek refuge with all your heart, O Bharat,
in that God
by whose grace
you will attain to repose and the everlasting, ultimate bliss.’’

Sri Krishn sings ……. “tatprasādātparāṁ śāntiṁ”……by whose grace you will attain to repose…….the desired eternal peace.

Hence, Eternal Peace is here and in order to reach to this state in mind,
one will have to seek refuge with all his/her heart in God.

So if we have to meditate, we should do it within the realm of the heart.
The heart is the true abode of God.
God is all-pervading,
he is realized only by meditation in the realm of heart.

This is the only way out to find the Eternal Peace.

_/l\_
Humble Wishes.
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Spiritual path is practical path and one can never experience it’s depth
till
the real “Walk” does not get properly initiated.
This is one to one journey.
Theory can not help much till one does not come to real practice.

Why not to initiate the spiritual journey and explore what is what in true terms?

We must know our total syllabus and try to understand
it’s real dimensions to be totally doubt free.

That Soul which has resolved his doubts is in the state of samadhi
or
perfect absorption of thought in the Supreme Spirit,
the one worthy object of meditation.

One who has achieved even- minded discrimination
by
identification with the eternal essence,
which has neither a beginning nor an end, is said to be
in
the state of abstract contemplation of the nature of the Supreme Spirit.

Only by reaching to this stage,
one can truly experience the real truth,not before that in any case.

 _/l\_

Humble Wishes!!!  

God is immanent and transcendent at the same time,
immanent as pervading everything and transcendent as its the cause
and
principle of everything.

Let me share Verse four and five from Chapter Nine of Bhagavad Gita first which may help in understanding this context.

Lord Krishn sings:

“The whole world is pervaded by me, 
the unmanifest Supreme Being, 
and
all beings dwell within my will but I am not in them.”

The unmanifest form in which Sri Krishn exists spreads through every atom of the universe and all beings have their life within him.
But he is not in them because he exists in an unmanifest form.
Since accomplished sages are one with the unmanifest God,
they discard their bodies and act in the same divine state.

And then:

“And even all beings are not within me, 
and such is the power of my yog-maya that my Spirit,
the creator and preserver of all beings, 
is
not within them.”

Even all beings are not within Sri Krishn,
because they are mortal and dependent on nature.
But such is the greatness of his yog that although he creates and sustains all beings, his Spirit is not in them.
I am in the form of the Self not within those beings.
This is the achievement of yog.

This is practical and this great gap that is being mortal in physical form dependent on nature and being in the form of Self which is immortal unmanifest state can be experienced only in deep state of meditation at very higher level.

And now transcendent as its the cause and principle of everything .

As per Bhagavad Gita, there are the five principles that Sankhya acknowledges as accomplishers of all action.

The mind is supposed to be the doer.
Virtuous and evil inclinations are the agents.

Performance of righteous action demands a predisposition to discernment, non-attachment, tranquility  self-restraint, sacrifice, and constant meditation.

But lust, anger, infatuation, aversion, and avarice are the agents that effect unrighteous deeds.

There are then the manifold efforts-the endless desires-and the means.
That aspiration begins to be fulfilled which is supported by means.

And last of all there is the fifth principle, providence or sanskar-the outcome of all that
has happened to the Soul in the past.

These are the five causes of whatever action a man accomplishes with his mind, speech, and body, either in accordance with or even in contravention of scripture.

Now adds Bhagavad Gita:

“Despite this, 
however he who-out of his immature judgement-
views the consummate, 
detached Self as the doer is dull-minded 
and he sees not.”

As the Soul is identical with God,
the pronouncement also implies that God does not act.

Lord Krishn has said in Chapter Five that God neither acts himself nor impels others to act, nor does he bring about even the association of actions.

Then why do we say that everything is done by God? 

It is only because our minds are clouded by delusion.
We just say whatever comes to our mind.
However, as Sri Krishn has affirmed, there are five causes of action.
Yet the ignorant man, incapable of perceiving the reality,
views the lone, Godlike Soul as the doer.

He fails to realize that God does not perform any deed.
Paradoxically, however, while saying all this,Sri Krishn also girds up his loins for Arjun and assures him that he has just to play the part of an instrument, for he (Krishn) is the real doer-arbiter.
What after all is the sage’s import?

In truth, there is a line of gravity that separates God from nature.
So long as the seeker is within the boundaries of nature, of the three properties, God does not act.

While abiding close by the worshipper, he is yet only an onlooker.
But when the seeker gets hold of the cherished goal with firm intentness,
God begins to regulate his inner life.

The seeker then breaks free from the gravity of nature and enters the realm of God. God ever stands by such a seeker.
But he acts only for a worshipper such as this.
So let us always meditate on him.

I very sincerely bow down in lotus feet of revered Gurudev for all these learnings by HIS grace.

Humble Wishes!!!