What exactly is the cause of all grief? It is attachment to the body that produces grief as well as its immediate precursors: likes and dislikes. These two are the results of the intellect considering some things and conditions as beneficial and some other things and conditions as not. This idea of beneficence and maleficence is a delusion. Still, you get attached to objects that are considered beneficial, and you start hating the others. But from the highest point of view, there is neither; the distinction is just meaningless. There is no two at all, so how can there be good and bad? To see two where there is only one, is ignorance or delusion (maya). Absence of the knowledge of the identity of “That (Tat)” and you (twam) is the cause of all ignorance — the word tatwa, used to mean ‘principle’, enshrines this great philosophical doctrine. If this truth is not learned, one has to flounder in the ocean of grief. But if it is learned and if one lives in that consciousness, then one can be free from grief.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
No comments:
Post a Comment