Shiva Sutras
Mohajayādanantābhogātsahajavidyājayaḥ
So
after becoming victorious over the field of illusion of Maya
and by
disengaging with its many
impressions,
one attains the victory of pure knowledge of consciousness.
So a
little bit of um explanation,
when people hear the word detachment, they
confuse it with indifference or
they confuse it with not caring.
In fact, detachment simply means that you do not identify
with experience.
You can associate with the experience, you can enjoy the experience,
but it is not your identity, which means you're not
attached to it as you.
The experience
is not you,
you are independent of the experience. Experience comes and goes
and experiences always in the form of sensations, images, feelings, thoughts
and the observer of the
experience.
The witness of the experience is awareness,
which is not
affected
by the momentary fluctuations
that we call experience, sensation, sense, perception, image, feeling thought,
the witness is independent.
Now, the witness can be engaged in the experience,
can enjoy the experience
but is not
melodramatically affected by the experience emotionally.
If anything, the experience becomes more joyful, because when your
experience becomes your identity,
then you are
in its in its um
in its uh you're captive to it, you're in its uh
web.
And that's why actually Maya in Hindi is also referred to as
Maya Kajal
John means um
network trap
like a spider spins
a web
and gets trapped in it.
And so do we spin our own web of stories
and then we think those stories are who we are
and then we become uh not only identified
as that story,
but
we are so
attached to the story.
And the story doesn't conform
to
what we'd like it to be. Then there's distress.
OK? The story is always gonna change. There's no story that has only
you know, positivity,
then there's no experience, positive, negative is by contrast,
right? You can't have a pendulum spinning on mowing
only in one direction, has to move in both directions.
But when you're becoming the detached observer of it,
then you become independent of it.
So attachment is not love, attachment is self
importance,
it's self pity,
it's fear.
On the other hand, detachment and engagement
is true love.
And it's also referred to as karma
yoga,
you know, karma,
that the process
the yoga of
of karma is action
but established in pure awareness.
And then once you're established imperial awareness, then
everything happens spontaneously.
In fact, uh you know, sometimes when I have an issue, I ask myself
to whom is this an issue? Is this an issue to my divided ego identity?
And it always is
because when you shift from ego, identity from yourself, it to yourself.
There are no issues,
infinite possibilities, infinite creativity, comfort with unpredictability
and spontaneity, effortless spontaneity in the moment
where the right response to every situation occurs
when it happens.
No anticipation, no regrets,
no burden of memory, no anxiety
in this moment,
spontaneous rate, action,
spontaneous rate, intention
and
pure joy and creativity,
detached,
engaged, be established in the stuff.
Lord Krishna calls this yoga
guru karmani
and that is today's
Shiva Sutra.
Thank you.