The last day of a Saptaha (seven-day discourse) is called Samapthi. That word means, according to most people, the final function; but it has a more profound meaning too. Samapthi means the attainment (Aapthi) of the Samam (Divine or Brahman).
That is the final fruit of Shravana, Manana and Nidhidhyasana (Listening, Recapitulation and Assimilation) of key spiritual truths and lessons from discourses. In the worldly sense, it means the conclusion of a period of time. In the spiritual sense, it means transcending time!
The lesson that all spiritual discourses wish to convey is that you must give up your pursuit of sensory objects, if you seek lasting peace and joy.
Material wealth brings along with it, not only joy but grief as well. Accumulation of riches, multiplication of wants will lead only to alternation between joy and grief. Attachment is the root of both joy and grief. Detachment is the saviour.
That is the final fruit of Shravana, Manana and Nidhidhyasana (Listening, Recapitulation and Assimilation) of key spiritual truths and lessons from discourses. In the worldly sense, it means the conclusion of a period of time. In the spiritual sense, it means transcending time!
The lesson that all spiritual discourses wish to convey is that you must give up your pursuit of sensory objects, if you seek lasting peace and joy.
Material wealth brings along with it, not only joy but grief as well. Accumulation of riches, multiplication of wants will lead only to alternation between joy and grief. Attachment is the root of both joy and grief. Detachment is the saviour.
In spring 96 we went to Baba and were fortunate enough to listen to his discourses he was holding at that time every day for a long period of time.
It was actually great to relax and to not be bothered by the crowd of people just listening to his voice and the words he said. But the real meaning of what was happening during those discourses is coming to me only now by this thought for the day.
It was about that final profound meaning in it. If Samapthi is the attainment of 'samam', Brahman. What does that mean to us in the West, we don't understand the expressions and have no feeling for it and to be able to get the meaning, we should have not only a notion, but a clear feeling about it.
Maybe I can describe it in remembering that beautiful time, listening to Baba's voice and recalling what happened on the experience level to get to the right conclusion.
Samapthi means the attainment (Aapthi) of the Samam (Divine or Brahman). That is the final fruit of Shravana, Manana and Nidhidhyasana (Listening, Recapitulation and Assimilation) of key spiritual truths and lessons from discourses. In the worldly sense, it means the conclusion of a period of time. In the spiritual sense, it means transcending time!
First we have to understand that we talk all the time about: 'listen, think it over and absorb'. We had noticed in one thought for the day not long ago that Baba called, listening alone without putting it into practice, dull and Tamas. That recapitulation is the same as thinking it over and that is (Manana, sounds like 'mind', Baba tells often man is manava and God is madhava. Man has the root in mind, manava and divinity it beyond the mind, transcending the mind.) We have to put it into practice and that is only possible by action and that is Rajas, passion.
First we have to understand that we talk all the time about: 'listen, think it over and absorb'. We had noticed in one thought for the day not long ago that Baba called, listening alone without putting it into practice, dull and Tamas. That recapitulation is the same as thinking it over and that is (Manana, sounds like 'mind', Baba tells often man is manava and God is madhava. Man has the root in mind, manava and divinity it beyond the mind, transcending the mind.) We have to put it into practice and that is only possible by action and that is Rajas, passion.
He tells us here in that thought for the day how we attain that transcendental state of the divine.
Assimilation is the same as 'absorb', it is the level of Sathva and in that sense the reflection of the conclusion of a period of time, it is the reaction coming back after it is done. Atman reacts, reflects and resounds.
I use the same words: 'listen, think it over and absorb' to get aware that we are not talking of different things, but the same thing always. The principle we know as Tamas, Rajas and Sathva.
In the worldly sense, it means the conclusion of a period of time. In the spiritual sense, it means transcending time! The lesson that all spiritual discourses wish to convey is that you must give up your pursuit of sensory objects, if you seek lasting peace and joy.
I use the same words: 'listen, think it over and absorb' to get aware that we are not talking of different things, but the same thing always. The principle we know as Tamas, Rajas and Sathva.
In the worldly sense, it means the conclusion of a period of time. In the spiritual sense, it means transcending time! The lesson that all spiritual discourses wish to convey is that you must give up your pursuit of sensory objects, if you seek lasting peace and joy.
It was the conclusion of the time spent with Baba and the real reason why he was in my ex dream and said I had to come to him and make peace with him. That was in my ex dream and the way my ex could understand, it was important enough for me to go. If our relationship would have been better, Baba might would just have been in my dream telling me to come to him. But with my ex that would not have done it, he would have argued about it and it was beyond a level of arguing.
But when it was in my ex's dream it was clear that we had to go and see Baba, for whatever reason and even if he translated it on a manipulating level, trying to make me feel bad because in his dream I had to go and make peace with Baba, but it was only his dream.
Manipulators use this tactic to make others feel unworthy and therefore defer to them. Shaming tactics can be very subtle such as a fierce look or glance, unpleasant tone of voice, rhetorical comments, subtle sarcasm. It can make one feel ashamed for even daring to challenge them. It was used as 'shame on you that you have to go and make peace with a Sai Baba. He used sarcasm and put-downs to increase fear and self-doubt.
His reaction and, it was his dream, and even a Baba dream, but nevertheless, just a dream, we have to understand it right, we cannot take it just literally. He used he dream in a manipulating way to make himself superior by blaming us, what he did all along, it felt like I was responsible even for his childhood problems.
What came up with his own dream felt that bad, all upside down, but we have to get aware of it.
There have been too many lies which didn't make sense and those lies look different seen in relationship to his so called friend, that is how he called him. even though it had been his former boss. He paid part of the price of TM and afterwards my ex said to everybody that he knew, when he was initiated, that he would do it all his life, but in reality he never did it. It is all manipulation and makes sense in respect to his boss he deceived, not in doing it, but in pretending of doing it.
But he told everybody the first version of it, making himself appear as someone he is not just to please someone and that is all based on manipulation.
Material wealth brings along with it, not only joy but grief as well. Accumulation of riches, multiplication of wants will lead only to alternation between joy and grief. Attachment is the root of both joy and grief. Detachment is the saviour.
Blinded by material wealth thinking it would give him freedom, he transformed everything into manipulation. That is the part of grief ..., it has nothing to do with joy and it seems less trouble for the person who has that material wealth, because he didn't even got aware of it that he was manipulated by that so called friend, but definitely it has been nothing but grief for those around and his family, because we had to suffer the consequences.
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