Tuesday, July 28, 2015

True Love and Three Active Agents

Turn the love that arises in you towards God. Dedicate your body to the Divine. This is the true mark of devotion. There are three constituents in every human being: the mind, the power of speech and the body. These three are called Trikaranas - the three active agents. It is when all three are used for sacred purposes, your life is sanctified. All need devotion. Every person must cultivate this spirit, irrespective of one's beliefs. It is only spirituality that can purify the heart and mind of human beings. The second requirement is morality. Morality helps to purify speech (Vaak). The third is called Dharmikam. All righteous deeds done by the body or hands sanctify you. It is through spirituality, morality and righteousness that the three instruments get purified. Only the one who has achieved this triple purity can realize the Divine. If any of these instruments are impure, you will not be able to realize the Divine.
Baba (thought for the day)


In fact, the mind is much more difficult to be transformed than we think it is and when it is in a certain pattern, it doesn't get out of it.
My ex didn't even change even after he has lost everything, he goes on in his stupid ways and just thinks that everybody else is wrong and he is still right.
'Listen, think it over and absorb'. We have also three different levels making listening holistic and it only works if we do it on all three levels actually. 
We get to the conclusion that Baba can only be on that holistic level, because he is on all three levels, listening is on the body level, thinking it over is mind level and merging level is to absorb the wisdom in our own higher self.
It is the same on three levels as he is telling today, the three active agents.
We have the mind, the power of speech and the body.  

After I came back from India and the visit of Baba, we had lots of lectures during that time and I came back with the focus on 'not that' and I looked at life like a baby, I just went on in that 'not that' and it was a great experience during dynamic meditation, because with that 'not that' it went beyond the mind and after it was also such a great experience in singing, as we went with 'not that' beyond the mind in singing and even during the street parade, it went beyond the mind, and I was still in that inner meditation during the 'inner child workshop' and that was not a great experience, because 'not that', it ended being put in question by the others, it was not possible to be part of it. With 'not that' I stayed out of it.

I guess after I came back I forgot about 'not that', after some time Baba was in my dream and I began to meditate again with the mantra and silent sitting.
It was like an earworm of a song, always the same thing, the mantra could change, it could be present or not present at all and it could be only a faint idea, it was no problem if it was there or not there, and finally it is all the same.
Today I wondered if it could be a problem or if at a certain point we get tired of repeating the same thing and pointing out the same thing.
In the mean time the mantra doesn't matter as Swami said that all mantras are okay, it is anyhow only a faint idea and I probably hardly remember it and if it is there and not there and it just doesn't matter.
This morning I woke up and I remembered actually the mantra and it is the same.

When will it be enough thinking it over, maybe never?
Maybe we know it after some time or it is just a repetition and we will tell, look at that, the three values again and remember if not all a pure, it cannot work.
If there is no truth, right action and peace (three values) we cannot get the experience of pure love.

Did Swami talk about natural law or didn't I hear about it yet? With meditation the first thing we learnt was about 'natural law' and that we always have three values feels like natural law, we can just try to adjust it to the body, the mind and the in between, the relationship, the Atma.
Here we have the three active agents.
He doesn't begin as usual with the body, he begins with the mind and spirituality is purification of the mind, that is just the general meaning of it, we can use it for yoga or whatever is purifying the mind or relaxing the mind, even listening to music in a sense, but if we don't transcend the mind it is of no use. We have to go beyond the mind.
And the power of speech is on the 'relationship' level, we understand it if we see his words and think it over and we get the answer in his words. And the last of the three active agents is the body and on the body level we know we have right action.
To make the experience of pure love, we need three things: truth, right action and peace.
What is truth? It is the power of speech. What is purification of the mind? It is peace. We have truth in the power of speech, the speech has anyhow only power if it is about truth and we know that truth is his breath and we have peace on the level of the mind, if we meditate and purify the mind and on the body level we have right action. The mind in peace, truth and right action and we have the three things, truth, right action and peace and we are able to get the experience of pure love.  
We have the stages of consciousness, waking stage – body level, right action, we have the dream stage, mind level, truth – power of speech, we have the sleep stage, peace, merging and if we have those three we have again the experience of pure love and with pure love we go beyond the mind and the body and we are in the Turiya or transcendental consciousness. 
If Baba is telling us to listen to his words, it means listen, think it over and absorb, only that is the holistic approach to listening and it is the same here with the three active agents, they all have to be pure, only then we can get the experience of the divine.
We need truth (that is pure otherwise it is not true), right action (that is pure otherwise it is not right) and peace (that is a pure mind, otherwise, there is no peace) to get to the experience of pure love or divinity and with that pure love we are able to transcend the mind and the body, it goes beyond the mind and the body.
With meditation it seemed much easier to get to that experience of transcendental awareness, we just needed to forget the mantra, but here with love we need that many things together (three things actually) and it is still only love, no it is not just love, it is pure love and pure love has not reason and no season and it is just there without reason, when I made the experience of it I got even scared, because it came out of nowhere like that, no reason. I was not used to feel love just without any reason at all.
But in a sense that has nothing to do anymore with the type of love we know, because it is beyond it, it is just divine presence and the prove that it goes beyond it and that is the only quality that is able to transcend the body and the mind and therefore, it has a lasting and non-changing value.
Thus if we experience that love, we get on a different level and we have insights, because it is beyond the body and the mind. God is love, because there is no limitation to that pure or divine love.
True love is not for a person, it is present in God. It is unlimited and it goes beyond the body and the mind.
We have to see it in a duty to fulfill our role and to be part of it, like the role of the mother and father and teacher and 'husband' if it would be understood right and not just lived in craving for material stuff, that is why Baba said, 'no more husband, nothing left but an empty Western shoe'.
He will never be healed from his mental depression what means his 'craving' in the mind addicted to the drug of suffering ...
On a certain level when we never think about that transcendental, non-manifested and non-conceptual reality, we just cannot get it anymore what others talk about. In his mind he doesn't know that this exists.
As he never experienced it, he goes on 'craving' that is the disease and the rest 'untruth', not right action, just taking advantage of it, that seems all just the result of it.

Only the one who has achieved this triple purity can realize the Divine. If any of these instruments are impure, you will not be able to realize the Divine.

Baba is telling it again and again and do we hear it? If we don't listen and we don't know how to listen, we go on in the same mind pattern.
Listening is also on three levels, if the mind is not purified we are not able to listen and think it over, (no sathva, no patience to listen) if the power of speech is not in his words, we don't listen and still think it should be in our own mind (no sathva, but we think we should know) ... and we are not able to know the difference between mind and atman and how to absorb the wisdom and it means lots of discussions going on about nothing, wasting time and energy not able to act because we don't know how to work with the active agents. 


It is like turning around in a vicious circle and Swami is explaining us here why, but if we don't know how to listen, how can we get aware of it? 

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