Friday, August 22, 2014

SAMADHI PAD SUTRA -15

            DRISHTA ANUSHRAVIK VISHAYA VAITRISHNASYA VASHIKAR SAUDNYA                         VAIRAGYAM

THINGS (WE HAVE )SEEN,AND THING (WE HAVE) KNOWN THROUGH SCIENCE,--WE HAVE THE ATTRACTION FOR-WHEN THAT ATTRACTION IS GONE FROM THE CHITTA,MIND,THAT DISPASSION IS CALLED VASHIKAR

    We in this world know things through our sense organs . So we see ,we  touch , we hear , and we smell,and we taste.So when we have contact of external objects to our mind,,through our sense organs, we either have 'good' or 'bad' feeling. We either like it or we hate it. This leads to the desire to have it, if the experience was happy and desire to avoid it if the experience was painful.As we have seen before , this causes thought waves . So if we like Pizza and have tasted , then when we see pizza or when we are hungry , we have a desire to eat pizza.The repeated experiences will lead to more firm impression and that leads to more firm desire. This is called circle of mind.So the action leads to experience , that leads to impression and impression leads to desire,which leads to action again.So this is 1st of the attractions.
    The second one is what has been told to us by scriptures or learned people or saints.So this is called ANUSHRAVIK , the one that we have 'heard'.The concept of heaven or hell ,concept of Satan so on are some of the examples of this type. Then there are thing that are told to us .Foe example ,we are told that if we practice the meditation for long time we will have powers to read mind or see in the future or cure a disease or we can transfer ourselves from one place to another in no time etc..Again these are experienced by others and we are told that we can experience them. So we develop desires to acquire these powers. We want to experience the Heaven and we want to have the powers to do things that we normally can not, the powers that we are told we can have .This is also an attachments.And then when we are meditating, the thoughts will come related to it.(thoughts of having powers or experiencing Heaven etc.)So when we have no thoughts related to either one of these then we have achieved some level of dispassion.
    Now the questions arise what is the difference between the animals and the human beings.This is important to understand as although we are 'animals' and we have 'evolved 'over several lives,we are still animals.The animals act on instinct. So when they are hungry , they will eat , whatever is front of them. (as long as they can eat it ). If it is hot, they will go in shade , if it is raining they will find a shelter. With the animals in 'heat' they will have sex.They do not not do this at random.But we human beings  try to find out more comfortable life and 'create' things to enjoy and further our pleasures. We are the only 'animals' who have sex at random. But the GOD gave us the discriminating powers. We have conscience and we can think and decide if some thing is good or bad.Also we have curiosity about the world and have the concept of the GOD and we try to 'solve ' the problems and have the answers.These thing are not given to pure animals.Only Humans have these abilities.You don't see dog meditating. So we need to 'use 'this God given gift, rather than wasting our life in having more pleasures as having more pleasures will make us attach to this mortal body and brings us back to cycles of life and death.So slowly we need to get out of these attachments and break the cycle. This does not mean we need to not live in a house or not have A.C. or we should not enjoy good food .It means that one should not get attached to these thing.
     As was mentioned in the past all the thought process is due to 3 GUNAS.So when the Tamasic Guna is dominant , then we are idle , involved in overindulgence of food , alcohol etc. When there is dominance of Rajasic Guna, then the mind is thrown outward, to external attraction and enjoyment and 'action'. And when the SATWIC Guna gets upper hand then we start realising that the external sources of enjoyments are 'transient' and superficial and satisfy only the physical body. This realisation makes us 'look' inside and towards the solution for changing this situation.So this the earliest stage of change of mind .or the VAIRAGYA.This is called YATAMANAM (YAT-MANAM).Here the individual is making efforts and has some decreased inclination for bodily pleasure and development of mental pleasure . He starts some chanting , some meditation , some reduction in bodily enjoyment etc.
    As we practice this path of chanting, meditation and trying to avoid the situation where we will be indulging, then our day to day behavioral changes.Then there is progress in the mental attitude .He starts having some control over certain faculties .So we still do not have control on all the desires , but have some control on some of the desires.This is the stage called VYATIREKAM.This is the second stage.
    In the next stage , which is the 3rd stage, there is further progress. The desires are part of  physical sense organs of the body , the mind and the intellect. So we can control the organs of perception, but not the mind.(physically we may not drink alcohol or indulge in excessive eating or a particular food , but the mind may continue to have thoughts of this.) In the next stage the mind is under control, but the intellect is not firmly in it.So we may have 'gaps' in our study.The seed of the desires are still not uprooted. So they pop up at times.This is called EKENDRIYA VAIRAGYA.
    The next one which is described in this Sutra is called VASHIKAR VAIRAGYA.The stage is reaches by the devotee , when he has burned all the desires and his mind does not deviate by attractions.If one watches his behaviour, it may not be any any different than average person.So he eats same food that everyone else eats , he will mingle among others and may be seen in as a normal average person. But these things do not affect him . As we saw every 'action' has ' impreesion' ,and 'impressin' leads to desire and desire leads to action . So how come the action does not lead to more bondage , or attachments and desires  in this devotee?If the seeds of desires are sown ,then there is going to be the tree and the fruits of these seeds are bound to be there. Only way we can explain this that these are 'raosted' seeds.So they are incapable of sprouting and get in to any fruits.This may be compared to seed falling on a rock or having no fertiliser, water and so does not grow in to a plant.This is the VASHIKAR VAIRAGYA. This is not the ultimate state.
   


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