Karma-Sanyasa Yoga
Karma-Sanyasa Yoga
Post-Enlightenment Life
Arjuna requested:
“Mixed up again, O, my Lord, you elaborated the supremacy of renunciation of action and yet praised a great deal selfless performance of duty. Please tell me just one that’s best…”
Krishna replied:
“Dear friend, missed again! They both are best because they are not bothbut just one. Two dimensions ofjust one same process. But being easy, performing selfless actionis best. Slowly & graduallyyou rise above normal prejuditions of liking & disliking then you become eligiblefor freedom.Only baby-headed people believe these to betwo separate pathsin fact one is integrated part of the other.
“The other is an interpenetrating completor of the former. If you continue successfully, finally both converge upon the same one goal. Without the solid base of yoga of action, yoga of understanding’s nuts ‘n bolts remain shaky & loose, too weak to go long, whereas spiritual muscles of the karma yogi arc strong. His heart stamina is fantastic. His guts are rock like. Only way to gain this is to plunge into risk taking works. Throw off defense measures … Post-Enlightenment Life… and mechanisms, stay eloquent; then understanding comes. It has to come dear friend.
“Acting with no expectation, no past, no future, stay in the right now, in here, in the present, acting skillfully in such a way that the actor and acting disappears and only skillness remains. Serving as a passage to eternity into yourself, then even while doing no binding influences of action will smear you up.
sarvabhutatma bhutatma
kurvannapi na lipyate
“Because unknowingly, unintentionally, you go unified with the center of the whole universe. Arisen, uplifted above and abiding in this wonderful experience even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, resting, breathing, talking, taking, and using the bathroom, even while closing & opening the eyes you feel that you are not doing these but the senses are acting with their objects only & only. Then,
lipyate na sa papena
padmapatra mivambhasa
“Just like lotus leaf does not become smeared with water even while born and living in the pond, so also you, even while living in downtown Hollywood dealing with business-minded ambitious people, you do not become dirtified with sin. But all the while forget not that you are there not for entertainment & show, making a scene or seeing the scene, but are rather on the line of some exceptional duty, purpose of which is but sterilization of the thinking principles. The media which reflects atma.
“If you missed a single speck you will fall headlong from the top of the Empire State Building and circled and tied up with binding influences out of hankering for fruit you will not be able to pull the rip-cord of your parachute! Desire grabs up; vasana pops out and possesses you like a ghost. Tossing and turning around and around it gives innumerable jerks and jolts that your spiritual brain starts reeling, spiritual bones start cracking and you collapse and swoon spiritually. So watch out, do not be a fruitaholic, but rather a selfless performer of your service.
“While going on with all this a good gentleman with a good record of long spiritual practice-and still no God, comes to your rescue. No celestial being runs down to help. Because the entire bones breaking, brain reeling suffering is caused by doership. And God has nothing to do with doership. He never created it; this ghost of doership is your own delusive psychological terminator. Mental projection of course, made of dream texture dear. God never made it. He cannot see it, cannot find it, cannot shoot it; God’s machine gun will not work on the terminator of your doership. Nor has he made your vasanas nor samskaras; these and God live in two different realities. But with the touch of God it is the nature the prakriti which is acting. Acting gunas with the gunas…
nadatte kasyachitpapam na
chaiva sukrtam vibhuh
ajnaanenavrtam jnanam
tena muhyanti jantavah
“God takes neither sins nor merits of anybody It is one’s wisdom which becomes obscured by the cloud of maya; that’s why seeing so many strange hallucinations and nightmarish sights and events of life are happening.
“By the disappearance of the sun darkness came and the bank was robbed. But no one holds the sun responsible for that. Moon rose and in the light somebody killed somebody; for that you will not sue the moon
“So also God is not responsible for whatever happens to man whether he is good or bad, right or wrong, happy or miserable. When the mist of ignorance is dispersed, the understanding starts shimmering & shining and soon illuminates one’s life-turf like effulgence of sun.
jnanena tu tad ajnanam
yesam nasitam atmanah
tesam adityavaj jnanam
prakasayati tat param
“Whose intellect, whose heart, identifies more closely with the existence of God, feels more intimately God’s presence, and attains the sacred divine unification. Then such a vision is rewarded, such a gift of perspective is bestowed you are able to see the same oneness of divine union, whether outwardly one is a wise man cow, elephant, dog or untouchable.
“Someone who is established in such a unification-born equanimity he alone is a conqueror of the world. He is born liberated. He is the private secretary of God.
“When one gets the long longed-for things and doesn’t go excited or puffed up, and getting the repulsive person, place, time or situation still doesn’t feel like vomiting or fainting in nauseous fevcrishness; then such a steady intellect doubtless Bramha-knowing person resides in Bramha…
na prahrsyet priyam prapya
nodvijet prapya capriyam
sthirabuddhir asammudho
bramhavid bramhmani sthitah
bahyasparsesu asaktatma
vindaty atmani yat sukham
sa bramhayoga yuktatma
sukham aksayam asnute
“Unfascinated towards worldly objects, non-whimsical hearted ones experience such a great joy within their very own selves that littlifies all else.
sukha maksaya masnute
“The littliefied sensational pleasures are interconnected with deep rooted misery. Beginning is speedy, chased by the end. They are of just come and ready to go nature; too momentary & nightmarish as they are, therefore, wise ones do not rest in them nor relish. Before you lose the physical body please earn enough stamina to bear the shocks & pushes of urges of sex & rage & lure. Start with taming the desire then tame likings and dislikings. Then irritation and agitation; winning these qualifies you grow into yogi the owner of true happiness.
“Discover your rest in your Self, along with contentment and delight therein. Sinless, doubtless, fascinatedly rushing down to help people, being on 24 hour call if you are needed, you are rewarded with blessings of deep, deep Bramhic-experience.
“Dropping off thoughts of sensational joys, focus your glance in the center in between the two eyes. Combining prana & apana, balancing it into susumna or dvadasanta, as soon as sublimation of senses occurs, mind & intellect begin evaporating desire, fear, & anger too. Then, as soon as you look around inside in the cozy corner of your mystica transcensia palace, there you find the Lord of Lords seated on the diamond throne of your evaporation, the Me- the suhrdam sarva bhutanam. the eternal kinsmen of all.
“Thus, seeing Me there, ocean of peace innundates and then you & me–unify and all that remains is me-the vasudeva and vasudeva…
vasudevah sarvamiti
sa mahatma sudurlabhah
Karma-Sanyasa Yoga, Song Of Enlightenment
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