(May
29,2013) Daily routine – To become more Conscious of Your Being
Daily routine – To become more Conscious of
your Being
The last, penultimate
instruction in the Bhagavadgita is to renounce all duties, dharmas, for
the sake of some other duty: sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
(Gita 18.66). Many people put a question: What is it that you are renouncing?
People are asked to pursue and practise dharma; instead of that, we are told
here to renounce all dharmas. What is it? You are renouncing a dharma for the
sake of another dharma, which includes these renounced dharmas. The lower
wholeness is included in the higher Wholeness. A larger Integration includes
the lower integration. Dharmas, or the duties that you perform in life, are of
course very necessary because they are connected with your very being itself,
but they are lower forms of holistic experience. As you rise higher and higher
in your dimension of being, the duty so-called becomes more a consciousness of
your being, rather than the entanglement or association of your being with
something outside.
Finite beings, finite
individualities, personalities as we are, are perforce made to relate to some
other thing externally, which is called work. The work that you are doing every
day is only an attempt to whitewash this peculiar suffering unit called
finitude, and you are trying to feel that the finitude is diminished to a
satisfactory extent by coming in contact with other finites called other
people, other things in the world, so that you feel – wrongly though – that the
connection of one finitude with other finitudes is a sort of enlargement of
finitude in the direction of the infinity. It may look like that, but it is not
so. All works are perishable. All relationships will come to an end one day or
the other, notwithstanding the fact that you cannot get on in this world
without relationships and without some kind of performance.
Actually, the intention behind
this connection of one finitude with other finitudes is to attain the
non-finite. Your dimension should increase qualitatively, in the sense of your
being itself becoming larger, not appearing to be wider on account of
possessions which are external things. If you know a little of these things,
meditation will bring you great satisfaction. In the state of meditation, you
are touching the borderland of that power, which actually is what you seek even
in your daily routine performances of work, duty, and the like. This you have
to understand as far as possible.
You cannot go to this height
immediately. You have to frequent again and again ashrams, guides, masters, and
also study more and more, as much as possible, to recharge yourself into the
concept of this ultimate validity in the practice of meditation. However much
you may try to accommodate yourself with this thought, it will slip from your
mind because the senses are more powerful than your conceptualisations. The
senses are connected with visible, solid, practical realities, and the mind
conceptualises and synthesises the reports of the sense organs. It has actually
nothing new to tell. It begins to perform a real duty of enhancing the quality
of your dimension only when the senses are withdrawn. When sense restraint is
practised, the energy of the senses, which move in terms of the objects, revert
to their source, and so the mind thinks not in terms of sense perception, but
in terms of the origin of its own emanation from consciousness.
Continue to read:
The Trident of the Sadhana Process - Chapter 12:Everything
About Spiritual Life by Swami Krishnananda
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