OM Sai ram
In my previous post, I talked about Deha Bharanti (देहा भरांति), the body identification with the self. I have personally experienced this delusion and suffered. It is easier said than to practice i.e. to witness yourself as separate from the body.
I know that I am not the body. However, whatever that happens to the body does not remain limited to the body but is also felt by me. This feeling consequently attaches me to the body and hence the delusion, the Bhranti.
I do not know as to when and how the body becomes transparent and the ego takes over. The fame/shame thrown at this body called Ashok, is taken by me and accordingly I react in terms of joy and sorrow.
May be the answer lies in global identification i.e. to consider the thrower of shame /fame at you as your own- part of the same global Brahmin, to which you also belong. This global identification shall bring the feeling of love towards all and may not leave room for feeling of separateness. I am trying this but this task is even more difficult.
As ever, Baba will help me.
A. K. Sharma
निश्चय प्रेम प्रतीति ते
विनय करे सन्मान
तेही के कारज सकल सुभ
सिध्ह करें हनुमान
Thought to Ponder
Help Ever, Hurt Never
Love All
(Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba)
In my previous post, I talked about Deha Bharanti (देहा भरांति), the body identification with the self. I have personally experienced this delusion and suffered. It is easier said than to practice i.e. to witness yourself as separate from the body.
I know that I am not the body. However, whatever that happens to the body does not remain limited to the body but is also felt by me. This feeling consequently attaches me to the body and hence the delusion, the Bhranti.
I do not know as to when and how the body becomes transparent and the ego takes over. The fame/shame thrown at this body called Ashok, is taken by me and accordingly I react in terms of joy and sorrow.
May be the answer lies in global identification i.e. to consider the thrower of shame /fame at you as your own- part of the same global Brahmin, to which you also belong. This global identification shall bring the feeling of love towards all and may not leave room for feeling of separateness. I am trying this but this task is even more difficult.
As ever, Baba will help me.
A. K. Sharma
निश्चय प्रेम प्रतीति ते
विनय करे सन्मान
तेही के कारज सकल सुभ
सिध्ह करें हनुमान
Thought to Ponder
Help Ever, Hurt Never
Love All
(Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba)
Dear Sir -
ReplyDeleteVery appropriately pointed out by you "Easier said than done". How subtly one's ego creeps in that even the best of the guards fail to catch it.
Somewhere I read that perhaps it is the limitation of the level of conciousness at which we normally operate. We need to stay at an upper level (with the need of some higher power)to operate as a conciousness than a body/ego. But again to me it is something "Easier said ...".
Thought of universal conciousness in the posting is a certainly a practice worth exploring.
Thanks for the beautiful holistic posting.
regards,
-Atul