aatmavashyervidheyaatmaa prasaadamadhigachhati(2.64)
prasaade sarvaduhkhaanaam haanirasyopajaayate
prasannachetaso hyaashu buddhiparyavatiShThate(2.65)
free from the craving:
the feverishness to get it
and free from aversion:
the feverishness to run away
Operating the senses
from inside out,
Celebrating, honoring and cherishing
the voice beyond the audible
and the sight beyond the eyes,
the sense beyond the sensible
the source beyond the cognition
When the inner life,
who you truly are
takes over ...
proficiently governing the senses
rather than being consumed
wisely moving them toward
the self, the life inside
in a few quiet moments
one arrives at the gift of bliss,
an inner music of joy
immeasurable, unmatchable
by the fleeting pleasures
of petty sensory delight
That present of presence,
that joy, the nectar of life
welling up from the fountain inside
in just moments annihilating grief, all plight
free from misery,
such a blissful mind,
reveling in the thrill of life,
such an intelligence, shining with insight
and a bursting smile
is unable to hide
that its supreme blossoming
has to its culmination
arrived!
Dr. Ramanand Prasad's version
A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquility. (2.64)
All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady. (2.65)
His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
| Weekly Knowledge #108 | Quebec Ashram |
| 02 Jul 1997 | Canada |
THE GOLDEN VEIL
Craving comes from encouraging the thought of pleasure.
The actual experience of pleasure may not be as pleasurable as the memory.
Georgia: That 's why we spend so much time in our minds!
Whether you encourage a worldly thought or a Divine thought, they both bring you pleasure. Worldly thought leads to indulgence, which brings you down from pleasure to disappointment and dejection. Divine thought takes you up from pleasure to Bliss, Intelligence, and progress in life. Worldly thought brings pleasure only as memory, whereas Divine thought comes as Reality.
Question: What is a Divine thought?
Sri Sri: "I am not the body; I am bliss, satchitananda; I am unbounded space; I am love; I am peace; I am light."
Question: What is a worldly thought?
Sri Sri: It is about money, sex, food, power, status and self-image.
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane.
Pierce through the glittering sheath and know you are the Sun.
P.S. In the world everybody is after GOLD; some are after GOOD; but only a few are after GOD. Transcend GOLD, transcend the GOOD, and reach GOD.
Jai Guru Dev
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