Minor religious vows and major religious vows
(anuvrat and mahavrat respectively) are not vows of renouncing
(tyaga) but vows that are inherent in one’s conduct. There is a
vast difference between renunciation and natural conduct. That
which is intrinsic in one’s conduct is called the vow. This means
that one does not even remember what one has renounced; that
is called natural renunciation. The one who gives up smoking
cigarettes naturally, does not even remember it and the one who
gives it up through the exercise of the ego will keep remembering,
‘I gave up smoking’!
The one who despite being immersed in the ocean of
acquisitiveness (parigraha), is not touched by even a single
drop of it, is the true aparigrahi (one with non-acquisitiveness)!
How can one, who is drowning even in a puddle of acquisitiveness,
be called an aparigrahi? Only the Gnani Purush can be a real
aparigrahi!
Who can truly understand and know Yogeshwar
Krishna? Only the Gnani Purush; the One who Himself has
become ‘that’ form (Yogeshwar - the one who has attained the
final union; the ultimate Self), can properly know Yogeshwar
Krishna and can explain exactly what He meant to say. This is
because one Gnani can never be different from another Gnani;
they are one from the real perspective.
At the end of all the four Vedas (Hindu scriptures), what
do the Vedas themselves say? They say, “This is not that…this
is not that; the Soul that you are searching is not here!” After
one reads and grasps the four Vedas, what is the end result?
‘Neti…Neti’ (not this…not this). How can the Soul be
contained in a book? The Gnani Purush can make us experience
the Soul, our real Self; a Self that is such, that it is not
describable, not speak-able, not approachable. The Gnani
Purush does this with sangnya i.e. an association with Gnan.
The Gnani Purush can show us, ‘This is that’ within one hour!
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