14/7/2014. Jay Shri Krishna As per Vedant renunciation doesn’t mean to leave the object, but relinquishment of the attribute where that object was felt necessary. This is very important. Renunciation is a negative process. Here you are restraining the mind; you are compelling the mind to leave something. So the mind gets hurt. For a time being it may abbey you. But it will try to recoup it the next time. This is not a permanent solution. When you forbid your children to open a particular box, they will be perplexed. They will be intrigued. That banishment will make them haunt day and night, turning them abnormal. They will always be in search of favourable occasion when you are away, so that they can lay their hand on the box. Same way when you restrain the mind, it will always be waiting for opportunity to re-taste it. Vedant talks differently. It says you enquire whether that object is a thing of necessity or a thing of luxury? Necessities are very few. Bread, cloth, dwelling, security, thirst, medicines and the likes are necessities. They must be provided with. Nature is very generous. It has inbuilt mechanism to suffice the necessities of almost everybody. Bread is necessary, but to apply butter on it is luxury. The entire strife in the society is for the fulfillment of butter only. The bread is simple, everybody can comprehend it. Even a lay man can understand what the bread means. But butter is very complicated. It has no limit. Only sky is the limit. You can’t demark where the butter ceases. Even the greatest philosophers prove unable in defining the butter. If the object is a thing of necessity, then there can be no objection in availing it. There arises no question of abandoning it. But if it is a thing of luxury then intellect can take decision whether to insist for it or not. Allow space to intellect to decide rationally. If you compelled the intellect in deciding in a particular way, the mind will be annoyed and revolt. So put all pros and cons against the case before the intellect, and the intellect after careful consideration can come to conclusion that the object is a thing of luxury and it is no more necessary, and its necessity is relinquished. When the intellect takes this decision, the mind is also a very much part of that decision making process, and so behaviour of the mind in such cases will be as if nothing has happened and it will no longer remember the incident. There is a much playing space in deciding whether an object is a thing of necessity or a thing of luxury? Here your wisdom plays a greater role. This is a way to realization. The more you succeed in transferring things included in the necessity list to luxury list, the sooner you will reach to realization. When you have nothing in necessity list, your list of necessary things is empty, you are King of King. You have reached the Bhagvadpadam. Shruti says: अमृतत्वं समाप्नोति यदा कामात्प्रमुच्यते। You attain the Bhagavdpadam when you are free of all the desires. So this life is just a play of mind. Entire Sansar stands as long as mind provides base for it. the moment the mind withdraws the support to the Sansar, it will come down all of sudden, as if it never was there. You can tame the mind with wisdom only. what is wisdom, will be discussed tomorrow. May God bless you.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:45:30 +0000
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