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Video Information: Shabdyog session, 29.08.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, U.P. India
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मा सङ्कल्पविकल्पाभ्यां चित्तं क्षोभय चिन्मय।
उपशाम्य सुखं तिष्ठ स्वात्मन्यानन्दविग्रहे।
(अष्टावक्र गीता, अध्याय १५, श्लोक १९)
Meaning: O pure Intelligence! Do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things. Silencing them, abide happily in your own Self, which is an embodiment of the Bliss Absolute.
(Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 19)
¬ How to make our mind calm?
¬ How to live peacefully?
¬ What is the way to get peace?
¬ What is the silence of the things?
¬ Who is the pure intelligence?
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Context:
मा सङ्कल्पविकल्पाभ्यां चित्तं क्षोभय चिन्मय।
उपशाम्य सुखं तिष्ठ स्वात्मन्यानन्दविग्रहे।
(अष्टावक्र गीता, अध्याय १५, श्लोक १९)
Meaning: O pure Intelligence! Do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things. Silencing them, abide happily in your own Self, which is an embodiment of the Bliss Absolute.
(Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 19)
¬ How to make our mind calm?
¬ How to live peacefully?
¬ What is the way to get peace?
¬ What is the silence of the things?
¬ Who is the pure intelligence?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00O pure intelligence, do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things.
00:13Silencing them, abide happily in your own self which is an embodiment of the bliss
00:19absolute.
00:20Acharyaji, can you please explain what is this silencing of things?
00:29First of all, it has to be understood who is talking and to whom.
00:38If you have eyes sharp enough, you see an apparent contradiction in a star's words and
00:51to resolve that contradiction, you will have to go deeper than the contradiction.
00:59First of all, he says, O pure intelligence, so who is being addressed, pure intelligence.
01:08And the next thing he says is, do not disturb your mind.
01:11Why would pure intelligence anyway disturb himself, herself or his mind?
01:20So there is something awkward somewhere and this has not been understood by large number
01:28of seekers traditionally.
01:31On one hand, they call themselves as nothing but the pure Atma or pure Brahman.
01:36On the other hand, they say that we are on the journey of self-improvement and refinement.
01:45What is this dissonance?
01:46On one hand, he is saying, O pure intelligence, not even just intelligence, not merely intelligence,
01:58O pure intelligence.
02:02And then he cautions you to not to disturb your mind.
02:13There is something somewhere that we are not easily seeing.
02:22Do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things.
02:26The part after by is secondary.
02:34Whatever is said after this has lesser value than what has been said up to this point.
02:49So Shravak is saying you are two.
02:58On one hand, you are pure intelligence and he addresses you as pure intelligence.
03:05So probably he knows that pure intelligence is your real name.
03:12A fellow like Ashtavakra is not going to give you pseudo names, pet names, misleading names.
03:25He addresses you as pure intelligence.
03:30So he knows that your real name is pure intelligence.
03:46Neither Bhai nor Bhai, you are Bhai.
04:07He asks you, babe, what is your figure, say 3.14.
04:08And then here he is warning, warning, warning, do not disturb your mind, which means that
04:36man is a strange creature.
04:43He really is pure intelligence and what is the proof of that?
04:47Ashtavakra is addressing you as pure intelligence.
04:55So you are pure intelligence.
05:00that bit of faith, we can't reach anywhere, we can't even begin.
05:06So if Ashtavakra says you are Bhai, you are Bhai, nobody will talk further.
05:16And he also says do not disturb your mind.
05:19The one whose nature is pure intelligence is not only fully capable of but actually
05:25very insistent on disturbing her mind.
05:33This is bizarre, this is man, this is woman.
05:52You are someone who is pure intelligence but is most of the time seen as behaving otherwise.
06:11You might be pure intelligence but you are seen behaving in rather awkward, foolish,
06:19actually stupid ways.
06:35How do you know that a way is stupid?
06:43Look at it and you will know.
06:48How do you look?
06:50Give me a method to look.
06:53Well, looking is the only method.
07:02Sorry for the disappointment.
07:09If this has been understood, we can proceed and then we will come to that part of the
07:17verse about which Jyoti has raised the question.
07:27Hope you intelligence do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things, silencing
07:33them, abide happily in your own self which is an embodiment of this absolute.
07:38Ajara ji, can you please explain what is this silencing of things?
07:47Things are anyway silent, Jyoti, in pure intelligence there is no noise, no noise at all.
08:02Some have called pure intelligence as music, others have called it silence.
08:12What is silence?
08:13That in intelligence there is no noise.
08:16What is noise?
08:20Unwanted chaotic sensory perception is noise.
08:38Noise could be aural, visual or purely mental.
08:50Noise could be aural, visual, purely mental.
09:06In pure intelligence, there is merely peace.
09:12Noise is not conducive to peace.
09:13Noise by definition is that which shrouds peace, tries to interrupt peace.
09:33You are asking what is silencing of things?
09:39To silence things is to not to make choices that lead to disquiet.
09:57I often say make a good choice, I often say make a choice that leads to peace.
10:06That is a good advice, but not exact.
10:14Peace need not be a choice because peace is the default state anyway.
10:21If you choose nothing, you have already chosen peace, peace is the default state.
10:29So if you choose nothing, you have already chosen peace.
10:34You just have to be cautious of your choices, you just have to see what are you continuously
10:46choosing.
10:47Choose nothing and you have already chosen silence.
11:01It is so very eminent and pervasive and real that you don't have to go to it.
11:18It is present.
11:19When you sleep, you don't choose silence or peace.
11:31The entire night you are not working to maintain your peace or are you?
11:40Do you do something to remain silent and peaceful when you are asleep?
11:48The silence and peace, the ordinary silence, ordinary peace that you experience while sleeping
11:55is not a result of your labor or choice.
12:01It is rather a result of you ceding choice, surrendering choice.
12:17Subhash Chakravarthy says, silence things.
12:22What he actually is saying is do not side with noise.
12:33Silence has life.
12:38Silence has continuity.
12:43Noise has a certain immortality.
12:56Noise has no life of its own.
13:01It has to be kept alive.
13:05It has to be kept alive with due effort.
13:10That effort is absent when you are sleeping and therefore you are peaceful.
13:18What brings you peace and silence when you are sleeping?
13:21The fact that you become incapable of disturbing yourself.
13:28Tell me, what if you had regained, rather retained consciousness and the power to choose
13:41and the power to decide and all your freedoms and liberties even when you were sleeping?
13:49What would have happened?
13:55There would have been no sleep, no peace, no silence.
14:06The peace and silence that come to you when you are asleep comes to you because there
14:14is a temporary cessation of the personality.
14:18Do you see how dangerous you are?
14:26The moment you are, you cannot have peace and sleep.
14:33The moment you are yourself, you are just disturbed.
14:46Sleep relaxes you because in sleep you are nobody, there is just silence.
14:57What does it mean to silence things?
15:00Nothing, Jyoti, nothing at all.
15:03You don't have to silence things.
15:08Silence is your nature.
15:11Just stop being too much with things.
15:17Stop being too much with your beliefs and concepts and the waves of the egoistic self
15:33that keep arising from somewhere deep in the psychosomatic system.
15:43Have you not experienced this?
15:48From some point in your body-mind that wave arises and that wave has no capacity to look
16:03at itself.
16:04It's a blind wave but a powerful one.
16:09That wave is characterized by a total incapacity to know its origin.
16:21That's why it's not love but thought that is blind.
16:27Thought cannot look at itself.
16:29When that wave of thought or emotion arises, does it know from where it is arising?
16:42But it's powerful.
16:46It carries you away.
16:51You who are prepared to be carried away, you who must be carried away, either by this
17:00or by that, something will carry you away.
17:08You have to decide who it would be.
17:18That is why poets and saints in India have often talked of the Jeev as the bride-in-waiting.
17:32Somebody is bound to take her away.
17:36The question is who would it be?
17:46That is why saint poetesses in India would never say that they are bachelorettes or virgins.
18:13They would not say that we are pristine and pure and untouched, rather they would say
18:19we are his bride.
18:28The East has known a secret.
18:36The worst is to make a wrong choice and belong to nonsense.
18:45Better than that, to stay untouched like a pristine white sari, but the highest is to
19:05be like Meera, eternally married.
19:10Meera would not say that she is single, she is eternally married, just married, forever.
19:24It is impossible for you to not to belong.
19:29Belong you would, just see to whom, over that you have some choice, some jurisdiction.
19:38And what is the best choice, to not to have a choice, because the moment you will exercise
19:44a choice, it would be a bad choice.
19:50What then is surrender?
19:54Not to exercise choice and to let the one have choice over you.
20:07Shouldn't you ask, if we don't choose, how do we get married?
20:19If we don't choose, how do we get the right one?
20:28Isn't there a threat that we would go single all our life?
20:43After all Acharyaji, you are telling us to not to make the wrong choice and the right
20:49choice cannot be made.
20:51You are saying, don't make the wrong choice and the right choice you cannot make.
20:59Basically you are saying, don't take what the world serves you and neither should you
21:11try to prepare a serving for yourself.
21:14Yes, that's what I am saying and that's why the real thing is so very nasty.
21:29It is in your power only to not to choose wrongly, then how would the right thing happen?
21:38The right one will choose you.
21:41You will not choose the right one.
21:44The right one will choose you.
21:46Do you see the respective roles and responsibilities?
21:49There is a clear division of labor.
21:55The classes have been demarcated.
22:00What is your job?
22:02To not to choose wrongly.
22:06And who will do all the choosing, etc?
22:11The one whose company gave you the faith to not to choose rightly.
22:21The one whose light gave you the eyes, the wisdom to not to choose wrongly.
22:33After all, it is not a mere coincidence that one drops his tendency to choose wrongly.
22:45How does that happen?
22:48How does that happen?
22:50That happens when you are in the vicinity of someone special.
22:56When you are in the proximity of someone special, then you suddenly get both the love
23:06and the light to discard the wrong options.
23:12Discard all that which is against silence, peace, rest.
23:21And since you are in his vicinity already, and since you are already submitting to him
23:30the proof of your love, what is the proof of your love?
23:37The very fact that you are not making bad choices is the proof of your love, the strong
23:43proof of your love.
23:45And he is in your vicinity, isn't he watching?
23:48He is watching.
23:49What is he watching?
23:52That you are not choosing wrongly.
23:54Come on, you have already erudited yourself enough.
24:03The ego will remain a show-off, whether in the world or in spirituality.
24:14So see, she has shown off.
24:16What has she shown off?
24:19Now Girdhar Gopal is under pressure.
24:28After all she has refused all the wrong ones.
24:35And he takes this pressure very nicely.
24:39He welcomes it.
24:43Now that you are strongly and honestly shutting the doors on the world and there, that is
25:06what is meant by silencing the affirmation, the negation and all these things you think.
25:23Nothing happens to you just randomly.
25:32Not even the most dishonest person would say that he is merely a puppet and things
25:42happen to him.
25:49Most of us say our action was a result of some trigger, some stimulus and our consequent
26:02reaction.
26:08So they at least agree that they had some role to play.
26:14That's what the normal worldly man would say.
26:17Yes, I reacted but for that there was a reason.
26:22The dishonest one says, no, my reaction is predestined.
26:36If a loud or violent action happened, it's all got to do with the provocation.
26:44The wise man fully well knows that deeply, ultimately he is the one who makes a choice.
27:03And if he is not yet making a choice, the choice can be made, potentially be made.
27:12That's the fun of living, right?
27:15To not let things happen to you.
27:21There is a sense of mastery involved in that, is there not?
27:34When you are able to honestly and humbly say, nothing happens to me, I don't react, I act.
27:49I know, I realize and from that realization my actions sprouts.
28:04Realize that it is your power to not to side with noise.
28:13Realize that pure intelligence is lying in abeyance.
28:22Realize that Ashtavakra does not enjoy warning you and admonishing you.
28:35A fitting tribute to Ashtavakra would be to as a disciple come to a point where he doesn't
28:49have to say so much to you.
28:54He looks at you and just exclaims, oh pure intelligence and the verse is complete.
29:04This long tale is unnecessary.
29:08What is the head?
29:09Oh pure intelligence and then there is such a long tale, which is totally unnecessary.
29:16But it is needed.
29:19Because if he just addresses you as pure intelligence, he is then not acknowledging the fact of your
29:29being.
29:31The nature of your being is that you are too prone to disturb yourself.
29:37Where there is no disturbance possible even from there, you magically conjure some disturbance.
29:51Such is your intention.
30:01And you would not even say that just because I want to get disturbed, so I am inventing
30:08disturbance.
30:09You will come up with some kind of a logic or reason or argument or proof.
30:16Aesop told a story, there was this wolf and the lamb.
30:30And the lamb is drinking some water from a stream and the wolf too is drinking water.
30:39And the wolf looks at the lamb and he has some genuine reasons to feel offended.
30:50What does the wolf tell the lamb?
30:51You lamb, how dare you send me used water?
31:06You're sipping from the same stream as me.
31:13Which means that the water that is coming to me is water from your mouth.
31:27It is used, spoiled, dirty water, but I am sure you are doing it on purpose.
31:37The lamb said, great lord, you are the one standing upstream, I am standing downstream.
31:47The water is flowing from you to me, the wolf said, oh, smart chap.
31:57But then surely yesterday it was your father who made me drink the spoiled water.
32:11The lamb said, your honour, my father was killed by nobody but your excellency even
32:23before I was born.
32:27So how can my father yesterday spoil your mood?
32:35The wolf was now aghast and boiling, he said, you argue too much.
32:45So much argument is untenable and with one blow of the paw, the lamb was gone.
32:57Even the wolf needs to justify to the lamb, why the lamb is being killed.
33:06Somehow we maintain some respect for reason and logic.
33:11The fact is that the lamb had to be slaughtered and there was no reason to prove it to the
33:18lamb that it was being just fully slaughtered.
33:26But that kind of a reverence for logic we do have internally.
33:29So even when we are going to do the most stupid of actions, we come up with some reason, yes.
33:40Yesterday your father did something because of which today I must take vengeance.
33:47The real reason is something else.
33:52You are hungry and the lamb is tasty.
34:03It's a thing of the flesh and the body.
34:13Please see that, honestly admit that.
34:30Don't invent justifications for trouble.
34:39Trouble appears attractive.
34:41You know why trouble appears attractive to the ego?
34:48If a fire breaks out in the adjacent building, many of you would rush to that place.
34:59The ego is so much in need of fulfillment, love, that it can try any method to gain fulfillment
35:14and love.
35:24It can even burn down its own house so that it gets some attention, so that people come
35:35to it, so that the firefighters come to it.
35:42This tells us of two things, one, the ego on one hand is evil, on the other hand it
35:54is very cute, cute because all the evil is for the sake of fulfillment.
36:13The ego is waiting for the one who can bring peace to it.
36:19But it does not know the direct way or let's say it's too scared to use the direct way.
36:30So it uses all the oblique methods.
36:38What is the direct method?
36:41To go to the temple, go to the temple and meet Ram there.
36:54What is the indirect method?
36:57Degrade yourself and become either an Ahilya or a Sursa or a Shukhnaka or a Ravan.
37:28The direct method is the method of Laldeva and Meera.
37:38I want him, I go to him.
37:42How convoluted is that?
37:48I want him, I go to him.
37:52I want him, I call him.
37:54This is the direct method.
37:59This is for the one who is simple and innocent of mind.
38:08This is the method of silence.
38:10This is the path of direct silence.
38:12I want silence, I go to silence directly.
38:17Then there is the crooked path.
38:22The crooked path is the path of the crooked mind.
38:38It is the path of the one who has forfeited his innocence.
38:49It is the path of the one who is not childlike anymore.
38:55It is the path of the one who has learned a lot of rotten tricks now.
39:05It is the path of the one who has been made a fool of by the world, by all the conditioning
39:14that the world foists upon you and obviously the conditioning that comes with the body.
39:28You have both the options, you can either get angry over this person or you may even
39:38sympathize with this person.
39:45That is why the saints are often in a quandary.
39:49That day you all were singing,
39:51Dar lage aur hasi aave, ajab jamana aaya re.
39:55That's how a Kabir feels when he looks at you.
40:01On one hand you look so terrible, dar lage, you are dangerous.
40:10On the other hand, you are just a clown.
40:20You are just a kid gone wrong.
40:30You are just a kid playing kumkaran in the Ram Leela.
40:38So hasi aave.
40:43You are wearing evil beyond your size.
40:49You can't even carry that evil properly.
40:52You are trying your hardest to be evil, but your problem is that you are not succeeding
41:00even in your evil designs.
41:07You failed to be good and your tragedy is that when you are trying to act evil, you
41:14are still a failure.
41:17You can't even be properly bad.
41:21So hasi aave.
41:24But at the same time, the kid is now carrying kumkaran's sword.
41:32So one better be careful.
41:36And the kid is angry.
41:52I will chop you down into so many pieces.
41:55You will pass your arithmetic paper just counting the pieces.
42:05This is from Ram Leela in Patna.
42:21What is math?
42:23A tragic comedy.
42:29What to do with you?
42:36Slap you or hug you.
42:39Even God is divided.
42:43Those who could see this, they talked of Vishisht Advaithavad.
42:49They said it is not true that the universe is purely non-dual.
42:54Look at mind.
42:56Look at man's mind.
43:00It is impossible that nothing but non-duality, Advaith, reigns.
43:07So they said qualified non-dualism.
43:13And they said it is conditional.
43:15Little caveat has to be inserted somewhere.
43:18Don't you see?
43:28It is difficult for God to make up his mind.
43:32If you are evil, sometimes he corrects you, at other times he punishes you.
43:36And he himself does not know where to draw the line.
43:41For a long long time he just tries to keep correcting you.
43:46And then you say, nice, gentle chap, I keep doing a lot of nonsense, but he just keeps
43:56correcting me.
43:57Then a point comes when he has no option left.
44:13Look at Ashtavakra, same thing, pure intelligence, do not disturb yourself.
44:18What do you think?
44:19This is non-dualism?
44:20Come on.
44:22The world is God's circus.
44:39The world is God's comedy channel.
44:52He would be knowing how difficult it is to remain a witness.
44:56Watching all that he does, it would be incredibly difficult to just be a detached, dispassionate
45:03watcher.
45:13Stuff is shooting out of the screen.
45:17The characters on the screen are flinging stuff at the watcher and testing his dispassion.
45:30Watching the TV screen and a rotten egg emerges from there.
45:35Remain the watcher if you can.
45:44Let us have a grouse against the puppeteer.
45:49Do not be a participant in this nonsensity or be if you want to, anyway it does not matter.
46:08Nothing matters.
46:12As long as things matter terribly much to you, do what you want.
46:24Your evil anyway would not survive your body.
46:29Once you are gone, where is your evil?
46:32So be as big an evil as you want to do that.
46:39Powerlessly evil we are.
46:43Where are the Stalins and the Hitlers and the Mussolini's?
46:49Where are they?
46:54Where is their evil?
46:57Show me.
47:02Evil failed.
47:04Goodness also fails.
47:06What remains?
47:08What's the point finding out?
47:11That will disturb you even more.
47:17But if you are interested in a little bit of peace for yourself, then here is a solemn request from Vastavakra.
47:28Kindly do not give power to your so-called internal nonsense.
47:39All the saints, seers are standing in front of you with folded hands.
47:47They are touching your feet.
47:50And they all have just one request to make.
47:54Kindly do not give power to your nonsense.
48:01You are capable of doing much better, oh pure intelligence.
48:17When you look at a circle,
48:23when you look at curvaceous shapes,
48:26you could either say 36, 24, 36 or you could simply say 3.14.
48:38The circle corresponds to both.
48:43Vastavakra is asking you to not to let random foolish figures crop up in your mind.
48:57And if they do, because of latent tendencies, then don't give them energy, don't give them power.
49:10Beyond this jyoti, no sage, no teacher can say anything to you.
49:17The teaching stops here.
49:19Beyond this, he is powerless.
49:22He stands in front of you with folded hands.
49:25I said he is prepared to touch your feet.
49:28He can only make a request.
49:32Kindly do not drown yourself in the gutter of your internal being.
49:44Inside you is a big gutter.
49:46Do not get drowned in it.
49:57This is one of the best pieces of spiritual advice you will ever get.
50:03Oh pure intelligence.
50:10Inside you is a big gutter.
50:16Spirituality is to not to get drowned in it.
50:30It's a request.
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