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There are three kinds of happiness in this world:
- Happiness related to the senses (indriya sookh)
- Happiness not related to the senses. (nirindriya sookh)
- Happiness beyond the senses (atiindriya sookh-of the Real Self)
The happiness that one experiences through the medium of the five senses is the happiness of the first kind. The person who renounces sensorial pleasures but has not acquired the happiness of Self is caught up in a bind; he is neither here nor there. The happiness void of the senses is ego-inebriated; it is merely donkey-pranks! The happiness that is beyond the senses is the infinite bliss of the Self. This happiness cannot be acquired without knowing the Self.
There are three travelers, one enjoys the pleasure of the senses (indriya sookh), the second is given to ego-pleasures (nirindriya sookh) and the third remains within the realms of his pure Self, beyond the senses (atiindriya sookh). All three happened to spend a night at a village inn. During the night it snows and turns very cold. None of them have any blankets. How do they spend the night? The first one keeps crying out, ‘It’s very cold, I am going to die from this cold’, and by the morning, sure enough he is dead.
The second traveler keeps saying, ‘Darn! It’s so cold. The heck with it, it does not affect me, it affects the body’. This is how he spends his night and by the morning his entire body becomes very cold but the fellow is still breathing very slowly.
The third traveler just withdraws within the cave of the Self, the moment it starts snowing. He remains completely detached from his body the entire night. He lives in the infinite Bliss Experience of the Self and by the morning he is on his way.
You can Experience Bliss of liberation here while living. No worries or external problems will affect you. Liberation is when your internal peace is not disturbed even when you receive a letter of audit from the income tax office. The final liberation will come later on, but first you must experience liberation here and now.
Worry & Ego
When you go around believing, ‘I am the doer…I am the doer’, worries will occur. Narsinh Mehta (a renowned spiritual poet) says :
‘I am the doer, I am the doer, itself is ignorance Like the dog, walking under a (ox-drawn) cart believes ‘I am pulling the oxcart’ The world runs automatically,
Rare is the One (yogi-yogeswar) who knows this.”
When all the yogis (worldly saints) read this, they were flattered. These lines refer to atmayogi and atmayogeshwars (those who have known the Soul). An atma yogeshwar is a rare phenomenon, which comes about once in a million years. He alone is the one who has traversed through every atom of the entire universe. He lives within and outside the universe and speaks from experience. He alone knows who created the world, how it was created and how it functions. I am the atma yogeshwar of this age. Make the most of this opportunity that presents to you. I will take away all your worries in just one hour and what is more, I give you my guarantee that should you experience any worries, you can file a lawsuit against me. I have granted this worry-free state to some fourteen hundred
mahatmas. Ask me for anything. Whatever you ask, I will grant you, but ask for something worthwhile. Ask for something that will remain with you forever. Do not ask for any temporary things. Ask for eternal Bliss Experience.
Worldly Interaction Of Akram Path And Kramic Path
In the Kramic, the traditional path to enlightenment, the distinctions that are made between vyavahar and nischaya (relative and real) are correct. But in the Akarm path, it is only after the establishment of the Real (nischaya), that real vyavahar (relative worldly interactions) begins. This means that true worldly interaction (vyavahar) begins only after the attainment of the Self (nischaya). This results in the Gnan prevailing for all in their worldly interactions and worldly roles, regardless of whether one is a monk or a householder. During all interactions with any living being, this enlightened worldview results in Bliss Experience and total absence of any clash or dis-adjustments. One’s worldly life (vyavahar) can be said to be exact only after one acquires the knowledge of the Self. This knowledge is such that in every circumstance it renders complete equanimity.
If you surrender your antahkaran along with your body and sit with a Gnani Purush for only one hour, you can conquer the whole world. I destroy your sins and bestow upon you divine eyes; I make you ‘Shuddhatma’, within one hour. This is the Gnan Vidhi. Thereafter you can go wherever you desire. This Gnan will remain with you all the time until you achieve final liberation. Your antahkaran will continue to purify in my presence. Your miseries will cease and the antahkaran will be purified. And because of this, you will undergo Bliss Experience.
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