Cleansing Ignorance With Knowledge
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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ na karmaphalasaṁyogaṁ svabhāvas tu pravartate
The master does not create activities nor makes people do nor connects with the outcome of the actions. All this is enacted by the material nature.
Everything that exists has always existed in some form or the other. It will continue to exist in some form or the other.
nādatte kasyacitpāpaṁ na caiva sukṛtaṁ vibhuḥ ajñānenāvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ
The Lord, surely, neither accepts anyone's sins nor good deeds. Living beings are confused by the ignorance that covers the knowledge.
The mirror in which God sees Himself is man. Can the reflection be a separate entity from what it is reflecting? No!
jñānena tu tadajñānaṁ yeṣāṁ nāśitamātmanaḥ teṣāmādityavajjñānaṁ prakāśayati tatparam
Whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge, their knowledge, like the rising sun, throws light on the supreme consciousness.
Consciously decide that you will face every moment with deep completion, with deep ecstasy. The very decision will transform your life. Not only will you feel total and complete, you will radiate the bliss to others as well.
tadbuddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣṭhās tat parāyaṇāḥ gacchanty apunar-āvṛttiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ
One whose intelligence, mind, faith are in the Supreme and one who has surrendered to the Supreme, his misunderstandings are cleansed through knowledge and he goes towards liberation.
The light of knowledge dispels the ignorance and we realize the state in which we have always been.
Kṛṣṇa gives a very deep understanding here. He says, 'I do not create activities or make people do or connect with the fruits of the actions. All this is done by the material nature of humans.'
Kṛṣṇa is talking about the creation of the Universe itself here, not just about individuals. Understand, nothing in this Universe can be created or destroyed. Everything that exists has always existed in some form or the other. It will continue to exist in some form or the other.
Science also says the same thing that matter and energy are interconvertible and energy can never be destroyed. The beauty of the Vedas is that they say what science is now understanding
The End or The Beginning? People ask me, 'Who created this Univers?
The Universe itself is the creator, the created and the creation. If the creator and the creation were different, it means that the Creator is more intelligent than the creation. But the creation and the Creator are one and the same; they are both divine.
The game of life is all about man trying to realize the Divine in him and the Divine trying to express itself through man.
What Kṛṣṇa teaches here is actually a sūtra, a technique. Understand, when you are disturbed or angered by anything, the disturbance cannot disappear suddenly because it is a physiological happening. Your hormones have been released into your system; the body has been poisoned.
But when you remain in the space of completion as a witness, even though the anger cannot go away immediately, there is the awareness in you that will dissipate the effect of the anger that remains in the periphery. The center, the core is untouched. You are now aware of these two points, the core and the periphery as two distinct identities co-existing.
This one glimpse will enrich you and become the strong support for you. The next time you see that you are being swayed by incompletions, you will remember this and such awareness will make you conscious and complete. This is what is meant by the term 'being centered in completion.' You are no longer a slave to your emotions, or to others.
The light of knowledge dispels the ignorance and we realize the state in which we have always been. We cannot remove the darkness directly. Ignorance also can be removed by just shining the light of knowledge on it! Just like the rising sun removes the darkness of the night, the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance.