Distinguish between the Momentary and the Lasting

Education must result in the development of wisdom (Viveka) and humility (Vinaya).

The educated person must be able to distinguish between the momentary and the momentous, the lasting and the effervescent. As an educated person, you must not run after glitter and glamour but must seek the good and golden.

Keep the body in good trim, the senses under strict control, the mind well within check, the intellect sharp and clear, unhampered by prejudices and hatreds, and the feelings untouched by egoism.

You must know the Divine Self, Atma too, for that is the very core. That is the effulgence which illumines your inner and outer selves. You must also cultivate Vinaya (humility). As an educated person, you must be grateful to your parents, who with great sacrifice have given you all the facilities that you now enjoy.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

How do we understand the development of wisdom? What happens if we don't develop at the same time humility?

One of the examples Baba uses always is Ravana, the demon who abducted Sita. It seems he was a scholar and highly educated, he had mastered even more disciplines than Rama, but he had not developed humility and character and that made that all was futile.

How do we distinguish between the momentary and the lasting?

Nothing is lasting, any amount of money or wealth is not lasting.

 

As an educated person, you must not run after glitter and glamour but must seek the good and golden.

 

If I translate that I would say that it is not about name and fame, but what is the good and golden?  

Do you think it is easy to answer? Probably it is not, if it would be, it would be understood and it would be seen on the right level, but often it is not.
It means it is not wisdom just because we think we understand it.  Wisdom it is when we realize that we don't know and that results in humility. If we think we know and it is not right, it results in the opposite, we don't know, but we think we know and that is blindness. 

To seek the good is not on the level of good behaviour only. It has to be always good, no change, to be called good. There is the difference between the momentary and the Lasting and to be good it has to be lasting. And what is the golden?

At Baba's 61st birthday I was meditating at night and thinking of him, he was present in the meditation and inner view and opened the door to the interview room. He was dressed in white and there was a golden light. 

That was an inner interview, but I didn't realize it at that time, I realized it later on only that it was a personal interview and as he said always, one day he will give us inner view.

If we try to understand it right, it is the level of  the golden light, the inner view of the divine reality appears in golden light. It has to be true, that means always good and it is only possible on a permanent level and not on a level of changes. Nothing relative can be for ever lasting. 

If we understand the good only on the level of outer attitude, it is not right understood, it has to be always good and if we understand the golden on a relative level, it is also not permanent and lasting, therefore, it cannot be right, it has to be lasting and not only unlimited, but effervescent, that means joy and bliss, and only not changing happiness can be effervescent.
It is the golden light of the inner view. Baba always talks of the permanent level not only as not changing, but also as color, it is the reflection in the inner view and for those who are on the level of the inner view and we have to understand it. It is not easy to understand it. We think inner view, how great and we will know everything.

That is the conclusion of the mind, it is not real. We think the inner view will be the same as the outer view, sense knowledge.
The inner view is different. First it is not sense knowledge, but in  visions in meditation and dreams.    

How do we transform happiness in a not changing happiness, in bliss? 

Baba said in an interview, follow the master, fight to the end, finish the game. And how do we transform knowledge into wisdom? 

 

You must know the Divine Self, Atma too, for that is the very core. That is the effulgence which illumines your inner and outer selves. You must also cultivate Vinaya (humility). As an educated person, you must be grateful to your parents, who with great sacrifice have given you all the facilities that you now enjoy.

 

How do we know the higher self?
First we have to get the inner view. Do we know it already after getting the inner view? The answer is yes and no.
If we know the higher self we have transformed inner view into wisdom, but we can get aware of it in the inner view and we do not yet know it. We can think it was just a dream.

It can be inner view and not yet wisdom, because it is not understood, it has to be realized. If we see the self, we know we have to go in that direction and that life is about self-realization, it is not yet realized, it is just a step on the path.

And Baba tells us we have to know the higher self and it is understood that we have to realize our divinity to be able to know it.

 

Education must result in the development of wisdom (Viveka) and humility (Vinaya).

 

It is not only the difference between limited and unlimited, we also have to distinguish  between the lasting and momentary. Nothing relative can be lasting. On the level of the senses it is not the seen, but the unseen. If it is about view, it is not what we see with the eyes, but what is seen in consciousness, it is not about outer view, but about inner view.

And on the level of the mind it is not what we think it is, but what we think it is not.

If we think we know, we are not in humility, if we know that it cannot be known, we get to the reality of it.  

If Baba said that he gives us interview and one day we will get inner view, it is the difference between the momentary and the lasting. The inner view is on the lasting and not changing level, but it has to be realized, it results in self-realization.