Sensuous things, sensual desires,
treat them as poison
And he asks him to embrace five qualities
Satya, Santosham, Daya, Aarjav and Ahimsa
Namaste, everyone
Today, we will explore
“The Nature of Freedom or Liberation” from Truth Eternal
It is a very simple definition
It means ‘one who is not bound by anything
one who has transcended all kinds of attraction and repulsion
attachment and detachment’
Otherwise, you can say,
“Someone is so proud of his detachment”
or “Someone is so attached to his detachment”
There is no end to these arguments but
precisely put, Lalaji says,“It is as simple as that
And when you arrive at such a state, you will not have any arguments to be made
Argument comes only when we dissect such words and then spoil our state of clarity.
Individuals with such a condition, their entire system reflects a ‘pure existence.’
We pass through all the normal things that we do in a family.
Family, to a large extent, means attachment. And we slowly transcend all these things
This is Sanyasa
As it is said in Shat-Sampattis
Pravritti and Nivritti
Pravritti means, ‘You are involved with some level of activity.
And activity is not possible, unless there is some ulterior motive
that is, some sort of attachment has to be there, as well.
And Nivritti means, ‘You move away from all sorts of activities
That is a negative sort of attachment – Sanyasa
I think for a better understanding of this chapter,
I would recommend you all to read and re-read one of the chapters from ‘Reality at Dawn’
where Babuji Maharaj greatly explains Sadhana Chatushtaya and Shat-Sampattis
and types of Samadhis as well.
I think to me, personally speaking, this particular chapter,
if you know with your heart, I think you have understood Sahaj Marg completely.
So, every sincere abhyasi should read this particular chapter
Reality at Dawn’ for Realisation.
This idea of bondage and the idea of freedom
the idea of liberation, which Lalaji Maharaj talks about in this chapter
throws a lot of questions in our mind
Often when we discuss Ashtavakra Gita in the very first sloka
Ashtavakra tells Raja Janaka
“You should shun certain things. You must avoid certain things
And you must embrace certain things, if you want these three things to be fulfilled.
Earlier, Janaka had asked three things, how to achieve them.
One was knowledge, second was how to arrive at detachment
and the third was liberation.
Ashtavakra says to him, “Shun all these Vishayams as Visha”
sensuous things, sensual desires treat them as poison
And he asks him to embrace five qualities
Satya, Santosham, Daya, Aarjav and Ahimsa