Saturday, July 25, 2015

Mind when unripe will judge the actions of others.

Mind when unripe will judge the actions of others. This is appropriate at a certain stage of development. But it should be keenly discriminating according to wisdom explained in the shastras and sUtras and use this judgement to select a guru and avoid useless company. In selecting the embodiment of guru it should check for consistency of thought, word and action. Later as it ripens through meditation and attains samAdhi it will become less judgemental of other people's actions because it sees that the guNas alone act. Then it also sees the wisdom of not questioning the actions of the avatars and embodiments of Guru. The actions of rAma and KRShNa are beyond the understanding of ajnAnis. They should not be questioned by unripe minds, or if they are, the loss is only to the questioner. Their lives are meant to show that even the lives of the perfected ones may have aspects that are beyond understanding that stems from limited perceptions arising from upAdhis of ego and body. In time it may be seen that apart from the declaration of individual minds regarding their ignorance, which is itself accurate and a mark of jnAna as the Bhagavad GItA states amAnitvam etc, there is no reasonable conclusion other than the one that everyone is a jnAni, unless they themselves say they are jnAnis (in which case they are not! cf.  Kenopanishad). In summary, actions are useless as an indicator for judging anyone.

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