The Only One

Health and Happiness - Dr Dwarakanath

           One must attain liberation by gradually reducing and ultimately getting rid of attachments and complaints. From attachment, flows grief and delusion. In our dealings every day, one should develop equanimity and try to see the divinity in everyone and everywhere. It is possible only when one cultivates a sense of impartiality, as friendship. Enmity only perpetuates the impediment of attachment. Obviously, it is a very difficult task to achieve in worldly life. It is no use to pretend to be calm externally when anger burns inside in the heart. It is no doubt that it is a tall order to ask the human beings who are totally immersed in worldly affairs. Hate can come only when one sees the other as something different from one. One does not hate one's own body, though it is stinking due to some disease, but the person hates even one's own most loved person, if the body of that person has the same problem. The reason is that one thinks that a person is different from the self. If we think about it, can one hate or get angry if one's teeth bite one's tongue? It is but natural that one forgives the teeth without giving any punishment to it. When the whole universe is born out of one, whether one calls it mother, father, God, reality or with any other name, how can one afford to hate or get angry with the other. When all are one and there is no second, where is the question that one is different from the other, as all are his/ her manifestations alone? Sankara has provided an easy remedy to overcome the feeling of duality. One should nurture pure, untainted by selfish intentions - love while constantly reminding oneself and firmly believing in the truth that God resides in everybody.
The way to control and overcome anger and aversion is to keep remembering oneself, how many times one was guilty of one's own lapses and how many are the evils that lodge in one's heart concealed from the gaze of others. It explains that others are also like me and there is no right for a person to get angry and aversion about the other person? The lapses of others are also has to be looked like that of self and realize that we have no genuine right to get angry on others. Precisely for this reason, our elders keep telling us to remember god's name or the God always, so that one day the heart is filled with his love and it will be lifted up to him. Instead of eliciting & removing ones countless sins and defects, we should never ever indulge in wasting time thinking of the vices of others?
As counting the lapses of others will only add to one's misery. Life after life will be wasted in such pursuits. Therefore, there should not be any doubt in one’s mind that the first and foremost task to accomplish is to quickly go about purifying ones heart and that is possible only when one takes refuge in the lotus feet of God. After one's duties are over every day or for that matter even while doing one's duties, try to lift up one's thoughts up to God. Contemplation on God is the most effective means of purifying one's heart. We should always remember the truth that one can be a friend or foe of one's own self. It is important to recognise the truth that one eternal source, as expressing through all the names and forms, is to change the very nature of our environment, the very vision of our world around. When one experiences oneness everywhere, no sorrow, anger, hatred or any other evil can reach us. It is only the duty of a ‘Guru’ (Master who is in pursuit of guiding the disciple to realization); finding the fault of their disciple & making them come out of it. This is a great sacrifice of the masters for the sake of their disciples. That is the reason why a ‘Guru’ is always respected equal to God!

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