A Master Message of the Ancient Rishis -6. Swami Krishnananda.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2022. 20:00.

Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 6

(Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.)

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We have a peculiar notion that all this is perhaps not meant for us, and for our immediate purposes there seems to be something better than this. This is our folly. Even material fruits, even artha and kama, even temporal satisfaction, even abhyudaya or prosperity in this world, shall be ours if this attitude is to be adopted. We will have satisfaction in this world also. Do not think that we lose this world for the sake of God.


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Even taking for granted for the time being that the Realisation of God is in some way quite opposed to the satisfactions of the objects of sense, well, even then the attitude of divine perception, or ishvara-shristi, ishvaratva, is not going to make us lose the values of the world. In many places the Upanishads tell us that the knower of truth is not merely a renouncer of all things but an enjoyer of all things. He is not merely a mahatyagi, but is also a mahabhokta, and a supreme actor, mahakarta. These three terms occur in the Yoga Vasishtha. Mahakarta, mahabhokta, mahatyagi. Wonderful! How can a mahatyagi be a mahabhokta at the same time? How can a supreme renouncer be at the same time a supreme enjoyer? The supreme renouncer has not abandoned anything in this world. He has everything with him. Therefore, he is the supreme enjoyer of all things.


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But why is it said that he is an enjoyer of all things while this is practically an impossible thing for us to conceive? Everything becomes ours when we cease to regard everything as foreign to us. 


"Ksatram tam paradad yo'nyatratmanah ksatram veda" (Brihad. Up. 2.4.6): 


Everything shall run away from you if you regard it as an object to be used by you as a servant. “Oh, this person wants to use me as a servant. I shall run away from him.” This is what everything in the world thinks about us. But if we regard the things of the world as possessed of as much value and importance, and stationed in the same status as we are, then things will start thinking, “Oh, here is our friend. We shall go to him and serve him.” All things will come to us like a flood, like an ocean poured upon us, if we can change our attitude.


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We have a feeling that we shall lose everything if we regard others as our own selves, because then we cannot get anything out of them. This is our notion: “What can I get from anyone or anything in this world if I begin to treat another person or thing as my own self? I can get nothing, so I am a fool immediately, at one stroke.” Not so. That we shall be losers with this attitude is the devil speaking from within us to defeat us in the very purpose of our life. Instead of losing things, we shall gain all things.


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You can start this practice from today and see a difference in your life. I promise you that in a single day you will see attitudes towards you changing in the world. This is not merely a notion in the mind or an imagination, but the truth of all truths. Let your heart change its attitude today. Cease from regarding others as outside you, as your servants or subordinates. Nobody is a subordinate to you in this world. Leave this false notion. Nobody is your servant. Why should you regard others as servants, and why should anybody be your servant? In what way are they less than you? Why should they not treat you as a servant and exploit you? This is exactly what happens. Because you try to exploit others, the whole world is exploiting you, and you are ultimately a fool. You were born as a fool, and you will die as a fool, having achieved nothing in life.


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To be continued ....


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know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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