PHILOSOPHY AS DHARMA Anandamayi Dasi

PHILOSOPHY AS DHARMA

27.07.2017

'kitah pesaskrtam dhyayan kudyam tena pravesitah

yati tat-satmatam rajan purva- rupam asantyajan'

“O King, once a wraps forced a weaker insect to enter his hive and kept him trapped there. In great fear the weak insect constantly meditated upon his captor, and without giving up his body, he gradually achieved the same state of existence as the wrap. Thus one achieves a state of existence according to one's constant concentration.” (SB 11.9.23)

Here significant is the focus on a different objects-persons. The association and the effects of it, as an important segment of a Vaisnava Etiqette.

There is always a choice where we can 'stuck', on what subject we concentrate our Minds. So, the MIND has a specific function in our transformations; 'sa-atmatam', like the insect mentioned in this verse: “without giving up his body, he gradually achieved the same state of existence as the wrap”, by constant meditation on it out of great fear.

This can be not only a fear, but so many things: envy, desire, jealousy, love, aversion, friendship, attraction, etc. The Mind is like a glue, it sticks to every object of concentration, pervades it: “My dear sons, the Mind has a natural proclivity to enter into the material sense objects, and similarly the sense objects enter into the Mind...” (SB 11.13.25) and further we read: “According to My instructions, one should fix the Mind on Me alone. If however, one continues to see many different values and goals in life rather than seeing everything within Me, then although apparently awake, one is actually dreaming due to incomplete knowledge, just as one may dream that one has wakened from a dream.” (SB 11.13.30).

Observation of the activities of the Mind, can result in discovery of it's wondering, and what result it has on us, what changes it causes, what transformations.

Coming back to the childhood pastimes, there was a carton film about one animal who once desired to be someone else, so she was singing; 'That skin is better, that skin I want to...', and whoever she met she transformed herself into that person. Finally she realized that her own skin was the best.

Regain the origin is the actual goal. Only the spiritual association of the Supreme Lord can give us the factual 'skin' we inherently belong to, woke up from the dream of desires of 'Who I am', 'Who I want to be', because 'Who we are' is already there, we have our eternal place, eternal body and eternal relationship with the Lord, with Sri Sri Radha Krsna.

08.07.2017

'PEACE'

Who does not want to be free from all disturbances of this World? Who does not want to find the way to serve the Lord, the Divine Couple without any interruption.

Living entities are always anxious to attain PEACE, but real peace is attained only in one way:

“A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and WELL WISHER of all living entities, attains PEACE from the pangs of material miseries”

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram

suhrdam sarva-bhutanam jnatva mam santim rcchati (Bg.5.29)

Everyone wants to be free from all miseries of material existence. The Supreme Lord gives further instructions:

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because YOU ARE NEVER ENVIOUS OF ME, I shall impact to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shell be RELIEVED OF THE MISERIES of material existence”

sri-bhagavan uvaca

idam tu te guhyatamam pravaksyamy anasujate

jnanam vijnanam-sahitam jaj jnatva moksyase 'subhat (Bg 9.1)

The spiritual knowledge of the first chapters of Bg is called CONFIDENTIAL, in the next chapters discussing bhakti-yoga the spiritual knowledge is called MORE CONFIDENTIAL. The spiritual knowledge in the Nine Chapter is called 'guhya tamam' THE MOST CONFIDENTIAL, and one who is situated in that most confidential knowledge is naturally transcendental, free from all miseries although in the Material World, he attains Real Peace.

Here we have three steps to attain the Goal. The general spiritual knowledge as an introduction gives us an idea how to come in contact with the spirit in all means, then the next step comes, MORE CONFIDENTIAL where the participant is entering into some secrets to finally come to the point where the Lord is giving him (or her) the revelations and realizations of the Secrets of all Secrets. This three steps are connected with the realization of Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Although Lord Krsna is alone a God He Himself is a teacher, explaining how to gradually come to the top of all spiritual knowledge. So He is explaining first His own CONFIDENTIAL nature of Eternity – Brahman, and Balaram as eternal Guru Adi Guru. Second, His all pervading feature of Paramatma where He alone is known as Krsna or Govinda Adi Purusa with all His expansions as Rupa, Guna, Nama, Lila – all His pastimes whatever one can or could desire with the Lord. But this is not the end of the realizations of the Lord, there is the Third, MOST CONFIDENTIAL KNOELEDGE, and 'MOST EXPECTATIONS', this is the realization of Bhagavan, Krsna who is never alone but with His eternal Consort, God on the platform of Srimati Radharani, as a Complete Whole, as ONE Supreme Lord RADHA KRSNA. Yet, there is this something needed the Lord is stressing: '...because you are Never ENVIOUS of Me, I shall impact to you this Most Confidential Knowledge and realizations...' And only attaining that level one is situated fully on transcendental position, only then one can be free from all material miseries 'moksyase' and only then one can attain real Peace in the service of that Complete Lord, Sri Bhagavan, the Divine Couple Sri Sri Radha Krsna.