Solution for your Worldly Problems

[dattaswami]

Solution for your Worldly Problems

 

My message to all the people who suffer with worldly problems (Pravritti) is: First stop suffering. Suffering is a feeling. The feeling is a wave of awareness-energy. If the water is removed along with the kinetic energy, the wave is unreal. Even if you feel that you are this gross body (matter and inert energy), the wave or feeling is unreal. Actually you are a lump of awareness, which has only one characteristic property that it is aware of itself (chit or soul). Its wave is a feeling. The lump of awareness is associated with some kinetic energy, which becomes the feeling. Separate the kinetic energy (mentally) and let the kinetic energy be added to the inert energy-lot of the gross body. The wave disappears and only a lump of awareness remains, which is the soul or yourself. Similarly, apply the same analysis to attraction, because attraction is also a feeling, suppose you are attracted to a quality. Quality is also a feeling. Suppose you are attracted to a form in the world like the beautiful form of a boy or girl. Every form in the world becomes unreal if you remove all material (matter and inert energy) from it. When beauty is unreal, quality is unreal, attraction is unreal and suffering is also unreal, then why are you disturbed?

Similarly, hatred is also a feeling and is unreal. I have suffered with worldly problems, thousand times more than anyone in this world. When I explained those problems, My devotees wept. There are two ways to avoid the disturbance [worldly problems]. Either become immune to the problems by the above analysis (Pravritti) or enjoy the tragedy as you enjoy the same in seeing a movie or as you enjoy hot dishes in taking meals. This is the state of God enjoying this creation (Nivritti). The first way is ‘Atma Yoga’ which gives you undisturbed peace. The second way is ‘Paramatma Yoga’, which gives you the bliss through entertainment of both pleasant and unpleasant situations. I preferred the second way. Choose one of these two ways and avoid the disturbance which causes mental stress leading to the damage of your health and finally results in total destruction.

 

Therefore, first stop suffering and avoid the disturbance either by self-attainment or by attainment of God. Now you are balanced and energetic to solve the problem. Try to advise other souls in the interest of their welfare and try to remove their ignorance by spiritual knowledge. If they are rigid, leave them and make some alternative arrangements owing to certain basic inevitable necessity. But in any case, do not have blind love for any soul. Love is always blind but blind love should be only for God and not for other souls. Other souls love you for their selves as long as you give happiness to them (Atmanah Kamaya—Veda). Moreover, love, which is a quality for an unreal design of matter in the world like money or beauty, itself is unreal. The mud is truth. The binding energy, which is negligible before the mud, is almost unreal and is called as Mithya. Attraction to the truth [real item] or atleast to Mithya [real but negligible] is meaningful. The design of the pot is completely unreal even during the existence of pot.

 

Similar is the case with your attraction, which is totally unreal like the design in the pot. In Atma Yoga (Pravritti), rise above good and bad by analysis (Buddhiyukto—Gita). Thus good and bad are only conventional in Pravritti because what is sin in one religion is good in another religion. In Nivritti, the good and bad are true not by their [intrinsic nature] criterion, but they exist based on some other reason. Whatever God likes is good and whatever God does not like is a sin. Thus there is a basis of the concept of sin in Nivritti i.e. “God does not like this”. Otherwise both good and bad qualities are only feelings, which are designs of awareness and are totally unreal. Therefore good or bad is not valid by its own nature, because they are unreal. So one should avoid sins based on the reason that sins are disliked by God. Otherwise, sin is a totally unreal feeling. Therefore, ethics are also based only on God.

 

When the sinner is beaten in hell, the servants of Lord Yama will be shouting at the sinner by saying “Why you have done that deed which is not liked by God”? They will not say “Why you have done that sin?” Therefore, the concept of sin is only that which is disliked by God. The list of the items disliked by God is given through scriptures like Dharma Shastras of Manu. Therefore, you should not do the sins mentioned in scriptures because they are disliked by God. Otherwise a sin (bad quality) or a good quality is just an unreal feeling and has no value by itself.