సాయి గీత 2
Nana: (With folded hands) "Baba! Why then do we have happiness and sorrow? We get pleasure from happiness and heart breaking pain from sorrow. The person who is entangled in the world suffers between both these extremes every second of his life. If this world is the store house of happiness and sorrow; how can one destroy sorrow and achieve happiness without leaving it?"
Baba: "Happiness and sorrow are delusions. They are the fog which covers up and hides the reality.
What we feel are the pleasures of this world are not truly its pleasures.
Examine this aspect closely. Many people commit mistakes in understanding these aspects. It is by the prarabdha karma that one gets delicious food to eat while another gets dry bread to eat. The one who gets the stale dry bread may be plunged into sorrow. Another may get merely the dry crust of the stale bread. The man who got the delicious food to eat will think that he has everything and lacks nothing. One may eat delicious food or one may eat rice with pickle. It is merely to assuage hunger and to fill the stomach. Some may wear costly shawls with jeweled embroidery. Some may cover their skin with rags. It may be a costly shawl or a rag; the purpose is to cover the skin only. Beyond this basic use there no further use for these things".
"It is ignorance to give importance to happiness or sorrow.
Explanation:
Here we have to quote Bhagavadgita sloka – 2:14
Maatraasparshaastu kaunteya sheetoshnasukhaduhkhadaah;
Aagamaapaayino’nityaas taamstitikshaswa bhaarata.
The contacts of the senses with the objects, O son of Kunti, which cause heat and cold and pleasure and pain, have a beginning and an end; they are impermanent; endure them bravely, O Arjuna!
Attachment is the primary reason for happiness and sorrow. What is attachment?
Attachment describes the connection between an individual and an external object. Objects can be people, things, possessions, positions, power, fame etc.
Most people are attached to something or other in life, whether they are aware of their attachment or not.
We can use daily life scenario to understand this. We watch a program on Television. When this is done repeatedly for about two weeks, we develop attachment to this program and it becomes our favorite program. We leave the office in time so that I do not miss the program. If my subordinates do not finish their work in time, I become angry. I shout at them to hurry up lest I might miss my program. If my superior asks me to come to his cabin, I develop a fear that I may be delayed.
Until we experience fear or anger, we do not realize that we are attached.
When we have attachments like this, they will be responsible for the sorrow.
Pleasures of life:
According to Bhagavadgita 18th chapter there are 3 kinds of Pleasures:
Sukham twidaaneem trividham shrinu me bharatarshabha;
Abhyaasaadramate yatra duhkhaantam cha nigacchati.
Now hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices by practice and surely comes to the end of pain!
Satvic pleasures:
Yattadagre vishamiva parinaame’mritopamam;
Tatsukham saattwikam proktam aatmabuddhiprasaadajam.
That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar—that pleasure is declared to be Sattvic, born of the purity of one’s own mind due to Self-realization.
Rajasic Pleasures:
Vishayendriya samyogaad yattadagre’mritopamam;
Parinaame vishamiva tatsukham raajasam smritam.
That pleasure which arises from the contact of the sense-organs with the objects, which is at first like nectar and in the end like poison—that is declared to be Rajasic.
Tamasic Pleasures:
Yadagre chaanubandhe cha sukham mohanamaatmanah;
Nidraalasyapramaadottham tattaamasamudaahritam.
That pleasure which at first and in the sequel is delusive of the self, arising from sleep,
Indolence and heedlessness—such a pleasure is declared to be Tamasic.
There is no being on earth or again in heaven among the gods that is liberated from the three qualities born of Nature.
Like this Baba explained that all the pleasures and pains are only delusions, which means they are fixed false beliefs.
Baba continues!
If the mind is an ocean, the waves of sorrow and happiness are always rising and falling in that ocean.
What you feel as sorrow and happiness are not real. They are mere delusion caused by your infatuation with the body.
You may have a doubt here. Waves are present if only water in present. Light is present if only a lamp is present. So there must be a causative factor for the birth of these notions such as happiness and sorrow.
What is it? It is the six enemies such as lust, anger, covetousness, delusion, pride and envy which is the basis for the experience of happiness and sorrow in this world. The form of the waves is delusion. It makes the truth seem a lie; and a lie seems as the truth. When a poor man sees gold in the hand of a rich man, he feels envious. Then the wave of envy starts in his mind.
He gets the feeling, "That gold should be in my hand." The moment he gets this feeling, another wave of greed starts in his mind.
Baba: (Continued) Nana, how many more examples can I give you of this? First, we have to conquer our six enemies. Once they are conquered, they cannot do anything to start these waves our mind. To tell the truth we cannot fully conquer these six enemies but we can make them our slaves.
Baba continues:
We should place our knowledge as the superior officer over these six enemies.
Over knowledge, we should place discrimination as the supervising officer.
If we successfully achieve this, there will be no further pain of happiness and sorrow for us."
"Alright, now I will tell you what the true happiness and sorrow are.
Mukti (Emancipation, salvation) is true happiness.
To take birth and die is true sorrow.
Any other happiness or sorrow but for these, is a result of mere delusion.
OM SAI RAM!
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