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Svadhyaya
for March 8, 2014
The Conscious Can Triumph Over The
Inert
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Radiant
Divinities! The conscious and the inert exist side by side in the creation of
God. You constitute the conscious entity. The universe outside you constitutes
the inert factor.
A
conscious being like you, from the moment of birth begin to perceive things, to
react to them. Then as you grow you interact with them, and later you begin to
act upon them. Further on, you investigate them, analyze them. You probe and
wrest the secret of everything. The conscious ever advances, ever evolves, ever
improves and masters everything. The inert continues to exist as it is. The
conscious is the powerful factor; the inert is powerless. Tobacco is inert
thing; it does nothing. If you leave it, it will wither away by itself. We
began to relate ourselves to it in a slavish way. Then it becomes to us bondage,
a menace. They can do nothing by themselves.
Therefore
from pragmatic and rational point of view, it is meaningless to say that the
universe is bondage, that we are caught in samsara and suffer helplessly. Samsara
has no power to bind as it is jada, inert. It is you who cling to it. Bondage
arises from you, not from Samsara. And you have the power to perceive: “What
binds me? What liberates me? What is inimical to me and what is beneficial to
me?”
The
way in which consciousness is applied and used throughout Prakriti (Nature)
determines what the universe does to you or what you can do to the universe.
You can triumph over everything around you. If there is knowledge at the basis,
then everything you do, you do rightly; and the universe around you becomes a
help to your evolution. If the basis is ignorance, then you create bondage. The
universe is meant to be a help for your evolution and a liberating factor; it
is you who convert it into a hindrance, bondage. The degree of ignorance, the
degree of folly with which we relate ourselves to the things determines the
degree of harm they can do to us.
Ponder
this truth again and again. Know that bondage arises from our folly of utilizing
our God-given facilities in a wrong manner. If we do not use our human
potential and our faculties wisely, they can all become problems to us. This is
the crux of human problem, of jivatma’s plight. Think about it day after day,
all your life. In that lies your arising from unrealities to Reality, from
darkness to Light. Become your own liberator now and here.
God Bless
You!
Swami
Chidananda
Additional Reading:
Unity of
Consciousness By
Sri Swami Sivananda
The Jiva By
Swami Krishnananda
We Live In a
Friendly World By
Swami Chidananda
The Cause of
Bondage By
Swami Krishnananda
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