I wanted to offer flowers to the Gods, one
fell down on the earth and i discarded it, and then realized; without mother
earth would it be possible for this flower to grow. Then why do i not offer a flower which has touched the
earth.
Khusro!
the river of love has an opposite, very unusual
flow
He
who chooses to floats up will drown (will be lost), and he who abandons himself and drowns
will get across and achieve what the world calls impossible.
What
do these words, written in the 13th century mean…?
The
realm of love has an unusual, opposite flow as compared to the flow of the
material world.
To
seek one must abandon himself completely and jump in this river without any
fear
Then
such a person makes his way to the opposite shore
It
is necessary to fully immerse oneself in this love
The
one who tries to float----he drowns.
These
are the words of the sufi mystic-- Amir Khusrow. Applicable when one seeks his
beloved or God…one has to jump in the river of love to drown.
The
cause of the battle between Rama and
ravana, the battle of Mahabharata. Why were
they fought? Because of a woman?
No..No..No.
They
were fought because; the woman was not respected and this brought the end of
those who did not understand the Divinity of a woman.
Jatayu who was wounded, his wing cut while fighting ravana
trying to stop him from taking away Sita, kept on preaching ravana on the
righteous path, he told him “this action of yours wanting to corrupt someone’s
wife will bring your ruin”
Jatayu was a vulture having a linage of souls who had stood on
the side of the Lord; and he spoke words of wisdom and tried to preach the
righteous path.
What
is the state of enlightenment? I do not know; I do not wish to understand it; I
want to experience it.
I
know one thing for sure that the path to this state comes from within.
No
shri shri guruji or shri shri multiply by 108 or shri shri multiply by 1008 can
bring us to this state; it is the journey of the soul, and the soul is the
self.
I
write this story inspired by Nirvana Shatakam; The eternal words of Adi Shankaracharya.
And dedicate this article to all those souls who have little to do with the
world and who strive for the progress of the soul.
The
journey which begins with the prayer to the universe to lead us from darkness
to light; till the day the soul comes out of all dualities to realize that
without darkness light would have no meaning.
He grew up hearing stories of
one enlightened soul known as the Mahavatar and he had a wish to meet him. He
also heard a lot of stories about different baba’s; some known to have walked
on water, some known to have travelled in thin air, stories of some giving up
their bodies willfully.
In reality nor he nor his fore
fathers had come across such people but there were stories and more stories.
He heard some beautiful words “….And
no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream…” and he decided
to follow his dream, even though he did not know what enlightenment was; he
desired to be enlightened.
Maybe this was the call of his
soul. And he needed to experience it rather than understand it.
The spiritual super market had
a lot to offer, because there was a huge demand, there was a huge supply.
He joined cults, and met Guru’s,
followed rituals and took part in ceremonies.
After years he realized that
the pious agony of the Gurus took him nowhere.
All of religion, all the cults,
all the guru’s wanted to bond him, he was entrapped. These person themselves
bound in their theories and believes, how they could liberate any one.
Everyone wanted to take charge
of him, they wanted him to follow something, and no Guru set him free to
experience the world, as they themselves were bound in their fancy dress and
their titles.
He left them for good and
started studying philosophies, tried to understand quantum physics, read the
scriptures till the day he came across two lines of a saint.
पोथीपढीपढीजगमुआपंडितभयानाकोय ढाईआखरप्रेमकापढेसोपंडितहोय Pothi padhi padhi jag mua,
pandit bhaya na koi
Dhai aakhar prem ka,
padhe so pandit hoye meaning:
Reading Books and Scriptures
everyone died, No one became wise
whoever understands the small word ‘Love’, he truly becomes wise.
Still he kept on wandering from
one temple to other, one river bank to other, he noticed that no one was
interested in the onetime great Sindhu—The Indus river but people were
attracted to the Ganga in the hope of washing their sins, and one day when the
Ganga will dry up people will change their loyalty to some other source of
water.
Now he was not well-seasoned in
tradition, nor a part of the pomp of ceremonies, nor bound by theories, Nor corrupted
by beliefs, not held in the bondage of religions or entrapped by philosophies.
He was finally free.
The mind which had entrapped
him once; today that same mind became the cause of his freedom; his big step on
the spiritual journey.
He no longer performed the
difficult task of becoming someone’s student, nor did he perform the easy task
of becoming a Guru himself.
He had neither merit nor
demerit, he had neither virtues nor vices, nor was he high or low, neither was
he pure or impure. He was neither liberated nor captivated.
He desired no one’s attention.
He had no friends or enemies.
Neither was he interested in
performing good deeds or bad deeds.
He did not have any chants or a
mantra or a holy place not even was he interested in any pilgrimage or Vedic
fire ceremonies.
He got up one day where he had no
hatred or dislike, no desires.
Not even the desire to have no
desires.
And he experienced eternal
bliss.
Having opened his higher
chakras to the universe and also his lower chakras to accept love, though he
had no desire for the same, at the same time he had no reservations nor did he
undertake spiritual practices or vows.
Slowly he did not associate his
self with his body or the elements that made it or the five senses or the mind,
ego or the intellect.
And that final state when the
five coverings (pancha-kosha) that covered his soul were of no meaning to him,
the big I had vanished, the I, the ego which bound his soul to these five
coverings had disappeared and with that everything covering his soul vanished.
Today he was without any
attributes and without any form.
He had no wishes for anything
because his soul was everything.
He was himself Bliss and eternal consciousness.
He had no desire to fly or walk on water he had
learned to walk on earth without that I which had held so many coverings on his
soul; and whatever he had learned, he unlearned.
Then the Enlightened one whom he sought from ages
to ages was in front of him----face to face-----When he saw his own shadow in the
waters of the river.
