Two Ways In Front Of A Jeevatma

There are two ways in front of Jeevatma one towards samsaar and another towards God. This is why Jeev is called Tatathashakti meaning the power situated in between two ways, or at the bank. On one side there is Infinite Ocean and on the other side, there is land. If you want to keep on take births one after the other as insects, birds, animals and humans, then follow the path of samsaar. If you want to become free from this vicious endless cycle, then take the path to God. If you go towards samsaar, you will receive only sadness because thats all that there is in samsaar. There is no shanti here, no peace here. No one has ever experienced shanti, is not experiencing shanti and will never experience shanti ever here. This is because shanti is related to and conforms withAtma. But we have forgotten that and accepted that there is shanti in this chaotic samsaar, in this body and things related to body, in Shabd (=sound), Sparsh (=touch), Roop (=appearance), Ras (=flavor), Gandha (=smell) and we are running behind these? Run as much as you want! There is infinite time to run! The Time Cycle (Kaal Chakra) does not rotate beyond this universe. Here, when sun rises we say its day, and when sun sets we say its night. When we go beyond this universe, the Time Cycle is stationary there; there is no day and no night. Run as much as you want, but Shanti is not there in samsaar! Here is only infinite sadness is search of shanti. And where there is Shanti, it goes unnoticed from us; we dont even try to accept that there is Shanti only in God. So, Our Relationship with god was always there, is there and will always be there. There is no doubt in that! What new relationship you will establish with God? He was never a stranger! You have to correct your mistake and the mistake is that you have forgotten your relationship with God. Correcting this mistake itself is Sadhana. You must offer yourself at the feet of God.

What Sadhana will you do? You dont have much power to do Sadhana so that you can reach God with your own commitment. God has not given such power in Jeev.

In Bhagwat Gita, Krishna says,

Arjuna, God resides in every creature and through Maya makes every creature dance like puppets.

So what should we do? So Bhagwat Gita says:

Just become samarpita, take his shelter. Then with his Kripa you will receive the supreme Shanti. But what is Samarpan? Suppose you have sold your cow to someone. Now you cannot direct that person on how he must look after the cow. You cannot tell him, you dont give the cow water and food on right time. This is very wrong. You must do like this and like that. No, you cannot say that because you have sold your cow and now you have no right on her. Similarly, when we offer ourselves at the feet of God, our desires and thoughts have no place there. We have to destroy all our desires even become a Drashta(=one who watches) and watch what He wants to do, what is his desire. Whatever is happening, it is his desire to happen. What shall we do? We must only see if we have any independent desire that indicates we still make way for new Karma. We have to stop being doers and make god the doer. We are servants of god. Whatever is happening, we are acting as you want us to act. We dont want anything back as its results. We are slaves and we want nothing back. Now your Karmas have finished! Any Karma. How will we understand if our Karmas have finished?
There are symptoms indicating that.

As you receive, as is happening, be happy in that. ‘Dwandhatit’ means happiness-sadness, honor-dishonor, cold-warm, profit-loss- being unaffected by all these. These are laws of samsaar. They will keep happening and have occurred in every life. If there is happiness, then there is unhappiness also. If there is profit, then there is loss also. If there is cold, then there is warmth also. If there is honor, along comes dishonor too. We must not be affected by these. We must weigh them as equal.

‘Dukheshusnudwignamanah sukheshuvigataspriha,
veetraagbhayakrodh sthitadhiramuniruchyate’ (Bhagwat-Gita)

When comes unhappiness, don’t be disappointed or worried and when comes happiness, don’t appreciate that too. Because that happiness will not remain for long, it is very short-lived. The worldly happiness is in fact an illusion. We think we will receive happiness now, now- but no one has ever really received happiness in samsaar. Suppose you think you have received happiness, don’t appreciate it because it is a fraud. There’s no telling when it will throw you in the ocean of unhappiness.

‘Dukheshuunudwingnamanah’

Means when comes unhappiness, don’t be affected by it. ‘Sukheshuvigataspriha’ means don’t appreciate it if comes happiness.

‘Veetraagbhayakrodha’ means: ‘Veetraag’ means unattached to samsaar, ‘bhaya’ means the fear of losing materialistic things and ‘krodha’ means when we face an obstacle in achieving what is desirous to us, anger arises. These three things when destroyed in a person, such a person is called ‘sthir buddhi’, one whose mind is unmoved. Only then there can be samarpan. Then Radha rani will automatically start looking after you. Just like a mother always looks after her child, the child need not say, “Mother please look after me. Mother, please give me some food.” Because the child is dear to mother and the child doesn’t know anything other than and is dependent on the mother. Similarly when we become samarpit, Radha rani thinks that this child knows nothing other than me. So she looks after the sadhak every second of his life.

‘Kaunteyapratijanihina me bhaktahpranashyati’ (Bhagwat-Gita)

 

God promises that his bhakta never gets destroyed. He promises himself! This is Samarpan. Accept whatever is happening as desire of God. Be unaffected in all situations. If an unfavorable situation comes, accept that too because who knows how God is showering Kripa on you? There are types of kripa. One is ‘Anukul Kripa’ and another is ‘Pratikul Kripa’. ‘Anukul Kripa’ means which can be well perceived as Kripa. No Obstacles in doing Bhajan, the mind is getting absorbed in bhajan, receiving bliss on ‘Bhagwat-Chintan’ (=Brooding about God), etc. –these are favorable, or ‘Anukul Kripa’. Another is ‘Pratikul Kripa’ that does not seem to be Kripa but afterwards, we realize that it was all kripa. Suppose there is great restlessness, chaos, wars in life and it is impossible to say as you are. Then what happiness is you become afraid of samsaar as a place of unhappiness. Then sadhaks tries his best to become free from samsaar and offers himself/herself at God’s feet. “Now I’m in your shelter, please protect me.” So this thought of offering yourself to god came due to all the unkind events. If you have experienced good fortune at that time, you wouldn’t have decided to take his shelter, Because Jeev is habituated to like this samsaar and be fooled by Maya. It is a habit from time unknown. For a little materialistic pleasure Jeev forgets all about God. If your son, daughter, wife, husband, etc. all behave well with you and love you, you wouldn’t be able to do bhajan really. You will chant ‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna’ only for names sake. Your mind will roam only in materialistic thoughts. And as they start behaving unfavorably with you, you will try becoming free from all them as soon as you can. Who is your son, daughter, wife, husband, etc. here? All are maya, an illusion. Leave them from your heart. So ‘Pratikul Kripa’ causes ‘Vairagya’ (=renunciation) and makes you anxious to reach God. Sadhak becomes samarpit fast and whenever Maya attacks he/she becomes careful, thinking this is unpleasing samsaar. I have already experienced that. It is very unpleasing. This is ‘Pratikul Kripa’. Only afterwards we come to know, oho! It was actually kripa! Without all these happening I would not have become samarpit. Oho, Oho! God, you are so kind! You shower so Kripa!

I was not sadhu from childhood. In childhood, I was so badly hurt by samsaar. When I was 7 year old, my father dead, when I was 10 years old, my mother died. Then my brother went away and everyone else left me. At the age of 10! Life becomes full of unhappiness. Whenever I went I was only hurt. Nobody to see what happens to me. Nobody guided me in proper direction; Roaming on roads, no guarantee of getting the next meal, no place to sleep at night. Everyone thought of me as a great problem. If I lived at their house, they would have to find me, give me place to sleep. Wherever I went, I was only hurt! Today, I have not really become a sadhu, but whatever I have is due to radharani’s Pratikul Kripa at that time. Now no samsaric love can be fool me into its trap. It is the fruit of the tree that was planted at that time. Now see how much peace there is. The world is short-lived, prone to be destroyed. No one belongs to me here. Let’s do bhajan. It’s all a fraud and we have nothing to do with it.

‘Na Lena, Na dena, Magana Rehna’

Means, we have nothing to do here, except being constantly connected to God.