Nirvana Satakam

…contd….

“Ok fine. This I agree you tell but other things were not explained” I said….

“See if these sentences ring a bell…

“Good or bad, after experiencing just drop the experience and move on”

“Don’t attach yourself to either happiness or sorrow. Move on. Only thing that matters is ‘balance of mind’. Work on to raise above dualities of likes and dislikes, good/bad etc”.

“As you work with dispassion there comes a time when the does, doing and the done blend into one and that is “Beingness”. For eg. When singer, song and singing become one and the singer just ‘IS’, that is “Beingness”.

Have you all not listened to these explanations?” She asked.

We did but we thought they were separate topics. We never thought they all were inter-connected and lead somewhere! Now that I recollected I realized she had been explaining this all through but it was I who didn’t get it because she had used simple day-to-day experiences and examples to explain these eternal Truths and I thought they were simple nothings! I didn’t think profound knowledge can be simplified and expressed so casually. They were previous stones that were distributed to us which we out of ignorance mistook them to be glass pieces.

But then, what difference does that make even now? We would simply say “wow” or “great” and then move on to forget these words too!

We listened to forget.

We listened what we wanted to.

We listened only when we wanted to.

We listened only as we wanted to.

Yes, if anything was told different then we did not listen thinking it was not for us. We never listened completely.

We never listened to all that she said. No doubt she kept saying “Learn to listen first”.

No doubt, she kept explaining one point so many times and yet we failed to understand, comprehend, apply, ingest it in our lives.

Yes, we needed to heal ourselves well to actually be ‘open to listening’. No doubt she stressed on pranayamam, meditation and hands-on repeatedly. And yet we were where we were. Harldy progressing!

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