Re: Control of Senses & Material Elements
Dear IcyCosmic,
Namasthe!
Very good question.
My question is how do you deal with this? The duality I present is
someone going into the temple, leaving with a serene mindset,
''I love everything, I love everyone, I am grateful''
then immediately an interaction with the material elements drags them
back into that mindset of hatred, seperation and duality.
"I love everything" is a thought you are holding onto ... a mental climate. And mental climate is always changing, so this will change too. Replaced by totally new climate ! What will one do now ?
Love is a consequence of understanding... not a practice. When I know myself, i am loving ... not as a practice, it just overflows from within. So when i try to reverse the cart putting it before the horse, i fall prey to such problems.
The solution is : Develop deep enough understanding, and resolve the "I" totally. It can be done easily if understanding is correct. If you read our scriptures... they teach the truth about you first. They do not tell you "Love every one" or "do not hate any one" to start with. Even if they tell, they immediately follow it up with teaching about your true nature.
Knowing urself, it is natural. Knowing yourself it is an automatic consequence... Do you know how a person who knows himself roams about ?
सुखमास्ते सुखं शेते
सुखमायाति याति च।
सुखं वक्ति सुखं भुंक्ते
व्यवहारेऽपि शान्तधीः॥१८- ५९॥
Happy he stands, happy he sits, happy sleeps and happy he comes and goes. Happy he speaks, and happy he eats. Such is the life of a man at peace.॥59॥
When one is so full within , one is all Love ... not as a practice but as an automatic consequence of inner fullness. A person who is EMPTY WITHIN cannot love!
Love!
Silence
Come up, O Lions, and shake off the delusion that you are a sheep
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