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Diksha
(Deeksha) - Section A – Article #8
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Bhagavan on Carry Over -
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A Sadhak
once asked his teacher, “Master, Why can’t I remain peaceful,
in spite of doing so many spiritual sadhanas. Why can’t I be
devoid of suffering in spite of reading so many spiritual books and
listening to religious discourses? Is enlightenment possible for such
as I?”
‘To be liberated from suffering you must first understand what suffering
is’. Sri Bhagavan says, “Suffering is nothing but the continuous
thought processing that happens in the mind over an event or incident of the
past. Suffering is nothing but the ‘carry over’ of the past events
of our life.
There are two kinds of people who have walked on these sands, enlightened
and unenlightened. Enlightened ones are those who are ‘ordinary’ and
unenlightened are those who are ‘extraordinary’ (extra suffering).
An enlightened one, does not suffer because he is constantly living in
the present, experiencing every bit of what life is offering him. But
for those who are unenlightened, life itself is reduced to nothing but
suffering.
To be aware is to be enlightened. The whole purpose of life itself is
to live life moment to moment. If one observes the thought process in
oneself, then it can easily be discovered that the ‘CARRY OVER’ is
the suffering. For instance, there were two friends who were very close
right from their childhood. Out of sheer misunderstanding, they landed
in a bitter quarrel and they broke up. The fight by itself is nothing
but mere ‘calling names’. But it doesn’t end there,
the event continues to plague the mind, be it at kitchen, office, watching
TV or even at a party! It follows… It continues. The suffering
springs only when our mind indulges in unnecessary thoughts about living
in past or future, without living in the present. This constant commentary
or dialogue in the mind is the cause for all suffering, where even after
an event has ended, it is continued within where we still talk to the
other person, who has hurt us.
An enlightened person experiences everything, which makes his life rich,
eternal and ever fresh, but for an unenlightened, life is mechanical
and repetitive, hence boring. One who is enlightened enjoys the ice cream
whereas one who is unenlightened does not enjoy the ice cream because
he would be busy with the question – who made the ice cream? Which
factory? Which cow’s milk? Which grass did the cow ate? One who
is living will never question the purpose of life. Why would he! He is
only experiencing.
Now the question is how to end this unnecessary thought process. Any
effort in this direction is a futile endeavour, because any effort to
silence the mind would only create more noise - “THOUGHT CANNOT
END THOUGHT”.
Buddha was Buddha not because he read books. Venkataramana didn’t
become Ramana Maharishi because he attended religious discourses. Enlightenment
is something that is beyond the purview of the mind. It is not transformation
within the mind; Enlightenment is a state where you transcend the mind
and its limitations. Such a happening is a benediction.
“To experience is to believe.’ Enlightenment is a benediction bestowed
today upon thousands by Sri Bhagavan and Sri Padmavathi Devi.
Come! Alive into the waters of immense grace and experience, because…..
“Man cannot make it on His own … It has to be given to Him.”
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