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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