We see the world as a reflection of our mind
this does not infer that when we are good,we see only good,no we get the eyes to discriminate what is good and what is bad&act accordingly.
A beautiful story to narrate this follows,
Once a person was found lying prostate on the ground. Following was the incident
1. It was in the evening that a drunkard man came by that side and seeing this man lying on the road,he thought to himself,this is another drunkard lying down like me. Then after he left.
2. Later in the middle of the night, a thief passed by that side and having seen this person found lying down,he thought to himself,oh this is another thief who is lying here exhausted after stealing so much!
3. Then in the early hours of the morning a saintly person was passing by. Seeing this man lying on the road,he recognized that it was another saintly person who is in deep meditation lying down in trance. Then he started massaging the feet of the saint and helped him.
Both the drunkard and thieves failed to see the reality because they themselves were illusioned. But the saint being in goodness saw the reality. Therefore this mode of goodness is favourable for us to take our consciousness to higher states of Godliness.
It's said that Man is made after God but today people think Man has made God. There's no limit to the sky and so as the stupidity of the people. People see God with their small minds like themselves. When the scriptures say,God has created floating stones or God has lifted hill we disbelieve it thinking how is it possible? Yes it's not possible for us but for God. Here we limit God with our limitations. Again when the scriptures say the Lord dances with girls in the middle of the night, we think it is similar to the ones we do in the pub. Here we tend to see God with a passion for women. But it's we who are so not God.
This is why Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that one who sees My birth,pastimes to be transcendental to the material nature does not take birth again in this material world.
On the other hand Krsna also says,Fools mock at Me when I descend in the human form. They dont know My transcendental superior nature.
The problem with goodness is one would feel complacent and happy even within this world and therefore stays back in this world. But it's difficult to stay even in goodness for long time because everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the modes one has acquired,therefore no can refrain from doing something even for a moment.
Sometimes the mode of goodness dominates the mode of passion and ignorance,while passion dominates the other two sometimes and ignorance dominates the other two at other times.
But a person performing devotional service to the Supreme Lord at once surpasses all these 3 modes or the ropes that bind oneself to repeated birth and death in this material world. One who sees that the self does nothing at all but only the modes are in action sees things as they are.
There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to matter or the asat. By following such religious principles one must gradually elevate the consciousness of the self to goodness and then perform devotional service to see the reality and Real World.
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Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com
Once a person was found lying prostate on the ground. Following was the incident
1. It was in the evening that a drunkard man came by that side and seeing this man lying on the road,he thought to himself,this is another drunkard lying down like me. Then after he left.
2. Later in the middle of the night, a thief passed by that side and having seen this person found lying down,he thought to himself,oh this is another thief who is lying here exhausted after stealing so much!
3. Then in the early hours of the morning a saintly person was passing by. Seeing this man lying on the road,he recognized that it was another saintly person who is in deep meditation lying down in trance. Then he started massaging the feet of the saint and helped him.
Both the drunkard and thieves failed to see the reality because they themselves were illusioned. But the saint being in goodness saw the reality. Therefore this mode of goodness is favourable for us to take our consciousness to higher states of Godliness.
It's said that Man is made after God but today people think Man has made God. There's no limit to the sky and so as the stupidity of the people. People see God with their small minds like themselves. When the scriptures say,God has created floating stones or God has lifted hill we disbelieve it thinking how is it possible? Yes it's not possible for us but for God. Here we limit God with our limitations. Again when the scriptures say the Lord dances with girls in the middle of the night, we think it is similar to the ones we do in the pub. Here we tend to see God with a passion for women. But it's we who are so not God.
This is why Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that one who sees My birth,pastimes to be transcendental to the material nature does not take birth again in this material world.
On the other hand Krsna also says,Fools mock at Me when I descend in the human form. They dont know My transcendental superior nature.
The problem with goodness is one would feel complacent and happy even within this world and therefore stays back in this world. But it's difficult to stay even in goodness for long time because everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the modes one has acquired,therefore no can refrain from doing something even for a moment.
Sometimes the mode of goodness dominates the mode of passion and ignorance,while passion dominates the other two sometimes and ignorance dominates the other two at other times.
But a person performing devotional service to the Supreme Lord at once surpasses all these 3 modes or the ropes that bind oneself to repeated birth and death in this material world. One who sees that the self does nothing at all but only the modes are in action sees things as they are.
There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to matter or the asat. By following such religious principles one must gradually elevate the consciousness of the self to goodness and then perform devotional service to see the reality and Real World.
--
Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com
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