Sadhna & Three Gunas (2)

[Guest guest]

Each of the Three gunas working on the Ahankara has its particular

danger for the sadhak who has made the sankalpa of self-surrender,

but has not yet attained to the full accomplishment of the

surrender.

 

The danger of the Tamoguna is twofold, first, when the Purusha

thinks, identifying himself with the tamas in him " I am weak,

sinful, miserable, ignorant, good for nothing, inferior to this man

and inferior to that man, adhama, what will God do through me?

 

– as if God were limited by the temporary capacities or

incapacities of his instruments and it were not true that he can

make the dumb to talk and the lame to cross the hills.

 

And again when the sadhak tastes the relief, the tremendous relief

of a negative shanti and feeling himself delivered from all troubles

and in possession of peace, turns away from life and action and

becomes attached to the peace and ease of inaction.

 

Remember always that you too are Brahmm and the divine Shakti is

working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's

omnipresence and his delight in the Lila. He bids Arjuna work for

keeping the wold together, for he does not wish the world to sink

back into Prakriti, but insists on your acting as he acts.

 

The danger of Rajoguna is when the sadhak is assailed by the pride

that thinks " I am a great sadhaka, I have advanced so far, I am a

great instrument in God's hands " . ..and similar ideas. Or when he

attaches himself to the work as God's work which must be carried

out, putting himself into it and troubling himself about it as if he

had more interest in God's work than God himself and could manage

it better !!

 

Many, while they are acting all the while in the spirit of rajasic

ahankara, persuade themselves that God is working through them and

they have no part to play in the action. This is because they are

satisfied with the mere intellectual assent to the idea without

waiting for the whole system and life to be full of it. A

continual remembrance of God in others and renunciation of

individual eagerness are needed and careful watching of our inner

activities until God by the full light of self-knowledge dispels all

further chance of self-delusion.

 

The danger of Satoguna is when the sadhak becomes attached to any

one-sided conclusion of his reason, to some particular kriya or

movement of sadhna, to the joy of any particular sidhi of the yoga,

perhaps the sense of purity or the possessing of some particular

power or the Ananda of the contact with God or the sense of freedom

and hungers after it, becomes attached to that only and would have

nothing else.

 

You must be free from even this highest sattwic ahandara, even from

the subtle ignorance of mumuksutva, the desire of liberation and

take all joy and delight without attachment You will then be the

siddha or perfect man of the Gita

[Guest guest]

Very interesting Babaji. I am remembered of this interesting quote I read:

 

" Renunciation is also a form of indulgence(of ego). The renunciate

satisfies himself with how much he has sacrificed. In truth, there is

nothing to renounce or enjoy. The warrior takes life as it comes. "

Carlos Castaneda, in Journey to Ixtlan.

 

Even though the author is an Mexican, his advice applies more to

Indians, where every Tamoguni, good for nothing bum, becomes a

" Tyagi " & renunciate Sadhu.

[Guest guest]

initially you have to secrifice to become satoguni and then you can

adjust( Tune It) it like Buddha did.like if you can run for 10km

obviously you can definetely run for 4 km. it is also written in

Bhagwad gita.if a person gets success during renunciation then mostly

serve people by preaching or in other forms....

, shanracer <no_reply wrote:

>

> Very interesting Babaji. I am remembered of this interesting quote I

read:

>

> " Renunciation is also a form of indulgence(of ego). The renunciate

> satisfies himself with how much he has sacrificed. In truth, there is

> nothing to renounce or enjoy. The warrior takes life as it comes. "

> Carlos Castaneda, in Journey to Ixtlan.

>

> Even though the author is an Mexican, his advice applies more to

> Indians, where every Tamoguni, good for nothing bum, becomes a

> " Tyagi " & renunciate Sadhu.

>