Ashtavakra Gita Verse 3.8
इहामुत्र विरक्तस्य नित्यानित्यविवेकिनः। आश्चर्यं मोक्षकामस्य मोक्षादेव विभीषिका।८॥
8. It is strange that one who is unattached to the pleasures of this world and the next, who discriminates the eternal from the ephemeral and who aspires for Liberation, should yet fear the dissolution of the body!
The power of 'ignorance' is so strong that even in a true seeker the attachment to his body is strong. We may cultivate complete detachment from all the pleasures and objects of this world or of the worlds we might visit after our death. We may develop a highly discriminating intellect to distinguish the Real from the unreal, the Changeless from the changing. We may maintain in us a burning aspiration to liberate us from our own clinging entanglements with our body, mind and intellect.
Yet, in the higher climbs of meditation, the student is jerked out of his inner equipoise, merely because of his fear to lose his last lingering hold of attachment with his sense of individuality! This inherent psychological fear complex is one of the most difficult obstacles to cross over, on the way to Self-Realisation. The love for the body is natural for every individual and it is out of this love that the ‘ego’ gathers all its anxieties to supply the body with endless varieties of sensual pleasures. These cravings and desires strengthen the body consciousness. The ‘ego’ gets fattened! Up to this verse, Aṣṭāvakra has teased and taunted his disciple for the apparent contradictions in Janaka’s superficial habits of living and in his deep spiritual understanding.
No comments:
Post a Comment