Hari OM
'Text-days' are for delving into the
words and theory of Advaita Vedanta.
Parts one, two and three of the
transcription from Gurudev's introduction to BMI was covered. Please review
them as we now move on to part four.
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[Gurudev makes a few more examples of impermanence and then asks…]
Even after loss is there a sportsman who has not continued playing a
sport? No. He will continue, saying it is a beautiful sport and better luck next
time! His opponent says "today you were not in your mood, but better luck
next time". This is called
sportsmanship. So sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, play again till the end!
Think.
So the great Rsis pondered why is this Man suffering...it is because
of his ego. He refuses to make use of his intellectual capacity to analyse. He
is very good at analysing the outer world, in science he progresses, but when
he turns upon himself he feels unhappy…[some more comments on the matter of
this lack in Man]... You are so preoccupied with the world of objects, seeking
permanent happiness amongst the world of impermanent things, so fully engaged
that your attention cannot be turned away.
When they have thus understood it they realise that so long as I am
identified with the body, mind and intellect, I am in the realm of time,
change. So if I want a changeless state of bliss and happiness, I must go
beyond change. Beyond time. Going beyond BMI you realise that Timeless, The
Permanent, The Immutable, The Bliss.
"Uhhuh, okay swamiji, this Sunday. Today I have office, but this weekend I am
going to meditate and go beyond the BMI and realise the Brahman and Monday
onwards I will tell you all about Brahman."
(Gurudev could tease well! He gives a lengthy comic scenario of 'how it is' for
the would-be meditator...)
...Look, you are a slave to all the demands, that is the point. So long as you are a slave, you will not be
allowed to 'go out' (to OM), why? Because the BMI continue to persecute you.
You are trying to become master of them. They are now today masters of you,
they don't want to give up their chairs, Hari Om Hari Om… oh I think there is
coffee ready in the kitchen…[picks up the scenario once more…]
The more you try to meditate, the more the mind will persecute. At
this moment, even though I am allowed to say that these BMI are mine, honestly
speaking, I belong to them!
The local constitution may give you freedom. It is the freedom of a slave. None of us is
free. All of us, utter, silent slaves...to our own physical, mental and
intellectual persecution. … I am a
diabetic and not allowed to eat sweets which I love. People invite me for bhiksha ** and Indian
bhiksha means a feast and in India a feast unless there are three or four types
of sweets it is not a feast. ...I am at swami's special table, everything is
there… I see enchanting sweets… now begins the internal dialogue!...
"These people don't know, they have presented to you so eat!" … so I
think I will wait and eat other courses first so thought of sweet can linger in
the mind… after getting through all the other food, on looking to the place
where the sweets were, it is found that all of them have disappeared. The host
may not know but the constant devotees have taken it away to save the swami!
But supposing they were there and the
body demanded? ...as I pick the sweet the internal battle rages… intellect says
no, mind says 'pleaseeeeee', body says 'c'mon, c'mon!'
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Think! If I satisfy the body demand, it lasts only as long as the
digestion. But I can't run from mind and
intellect which are constantly with me… the moment my head hits the pillow the
mind says 'why did you do it?' and the intellect goes through all the doctors
information about the condition, … if someone else is criticising at least you
can do something; but this is your own mind and intellect persecuting you.
Suppose I did not eat; now it is found the mind congratulates me, intellect is
happy, but now the body persecutes!... "don't you know you are born to
die, why don't you die sweetly..?"!!!
Anyway, I get the whip… this is only one, my own example, there are
many more. The body wants, the mind
wants, the intellect wants… ….[repetition of the points]
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** Bhiksha is the alms meal offered to spiritual teachers and
priests.
Next week the concluding part of the transcription and also the video itself will be added.