Re: Vairagya?
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Originally Posted by
c.smith
life gives its ups and downs but not being attached to the results of such? Sounds kind of like a possible blend of vairagya and karma yoga? Life gives its ups and downs but not being attached to the results of such? Sounds kind of like a possible blend of vairagya and karma yoga?
There is no doubt ups-and-downs. Yet for the adept ( the spiritually advanced) one is not swayed by it. This is not a matter of mood making but a direct experience.
First let's consider this word vairāgya. It is defined as aversion , indifference to worldly objects ; it is not defined as 'detachment' , yet this idea does come up in the progression to the full blossoming of vairāgya.
This indifference is not a mental mind-constuct i.e. an intellectual choice , oh I will be indifferent to what I see. This indifference comes about as one becomes more aligned with the Self or antarātmā; one is NOT pretending to be indifferent. This indifference comes as one is more captivated/interested in Self, and not in the other things of life.
Its said in the śiva sūtra-s¹, prekṣakāṇīndriyāṇi || . The indriyāṇi-s or the sense organs are prekṣaka or spectators, members of an audience. The senses are doing their work as bringing the world to the adept/yogī yet he/she is absorbed in the Self ( antarātmā). The world is there, in all its brillant colors and shapse ( even brigher and clearer then ever before), yet one is not captured , posessed, or motivated by it.
This is why the 34th sūtra says tadvimuktastu kevalī || . This says the adept is seperated from pleasure and pain. This is 'code' for all opposites that appear within differentated consciousness of wake-dream-sleep ( sleep being the most undifferentated here).
This sūtra says he is established in kevalī . What is this ? It is 'exclusively one's own' ... but one's own what ? Ones own Being, that of antarātmā. This word kevalī also means simple , pure , uncompounded , unmingled . Within the Self it is 'unmingled' with differentiated consciousness - that of the activity of the whole world of diversity.
With this kevalī we can see why one is indifferent to worldly objects . Why so ? Because s/he is facing inwards; the outside world remains in all its beauty, ups-and-downs, yet one is secure and achored to the Self, to Being.
praṇām
1. śiva sūtra-s 3.11
Last edited by yajvan; 27 May 2012 at 07:43 PM.
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