Beautiful fields and groves run wild with neglect and soon become unrecognizable bushland and thorny jungle; fine trees are hewn by greedy men and the shape of the landscape is changed. With the passage of time, people get accustomed to the new state of things. This has happened to Dharma also. Misunderstood by incompetent intelligence, unbridled emotion and impure reasoning, the scriptures have been grossly diluted and their glory has suffered grievously. Just as the raindrops from the clear blue sky get colored and contaminated when they fall on the soil, the unsullied message of the ancient rishis, the example of their shining deeds, and the bright untarnished urges behind their actions are all turned into ugly caricatures of the original grandeur, by uncultured interpreters and scholars. Hence, every one of you must acquaint yourselves with the outlines of Dharma, expounded in the Vedas, Sastras and the Puranas.
These words are just beautiful. We can see the fields and how they run wild with neglect if we don't go on cultivating them. We can see how it changes in no time into unrecognizable bushland and thorny jungle.
But Swami is not only talking about culture here or what happens with neglect, he is telling us that greedy people cut fine trees and have influences the shape of landscape, what he is telling us is that it is greed behind it and greed is the evil doer. If we drive through Spain it is inside a desert, only the coast is green and actually beautiful. I was shocked when I saw how it looks really the first time and the desert is growing and we can hardly believe it that there had been once forest.
The trees are a water reservoir and if we cut the trees, the water is gone, so not only the trees are gone, but also the water and who benefits of that greed?
Nobody, not the country and not the rest of the world and the guys who actually did it long ago in greed are gone and dead for a long time, only the Karma must be still alive as they contribute to such imbalance of nature. In the end they will get only poorer and not what they think they get with greed in the end effect it gets poor, a desert and imbalanced, that is not oky for mother nature and as Baba explains here, incompetent intelligence and unbridled emotion is the reason for it.
What Swami is telling us here with those beautiful examples that greed is harmful and not only in that life, but it goes beyond this life, it is not in harmony with nature and also not
with mother nature and there is no self-control.
We know it from meditation and the law of entropy, if we leave it to nature entropy takes over and in no time it is unrecognizable bushland and no more a garden.
In the inner child workshop we made the difference between garden consciousness and someone who lives in the wilderness of the mind and who has no spiritual practice is actually not a garden, it is also unrecognizable bushland and Swami mentioned not long ago that if someone has been on the spiritual path and for some reason or another falls down, the ignorance grows and gets worse.
Beautiful fields and groves run wild with neglect and soon become unrecognizable bushland and thorny jungle; fine trees are hewn by greedy men and the shape of the landscape is changed. With the passage of time, people get accustomed to the new state of things.
We get accustomed to it and we think it has never been different, but those who are responsible for it and their stupid greed, noz only in that time nature suffers, but it influences the whole planet and that is why we meditated to have a positive influence on mother nature, but that is not possible if we neglect our Sadhana and everything is misunderstood by an imcompetent intelligence and not only the present suffers, but also the futur and everybody suffers still from the incompetent intelligence and those people. But they as we know usually think highly about themselves, the think they are bright and intelligent and competent, because they know how to exploit others.
And Swami goes on and explains us with loving words that the same happened to Dharma.
What does that mean?
As it is with the trees and incompetent intelligence and unbridled emotion, the bad tendencies and impure reasoning is the cause for it that Dharma declined and we should not forget that Swami is the Avatar in that age, as he said, when Dharma declines, God has to take a human body to help Dharma get restored. He is helping the whole world not only some people, he is everywhere, it is the biggest illusion to see him only in his body.
And that is also incompetent intelligence and unbridled emotion and impure reasoning if we see him in his body only and made a difference between him and his devtoees, he is alive in the devotees.
This has happened to Dharma also. Misunderstood by incompetent intelligence, unbridled emotion and impure reasoning, the scriptures have been grossly diluted and their glory has suffered grievously.
What Swami is telling is not only that it is due to incompetent intelligence and unbridled emotions and impure reasoning, but that the meaning of the scriptures has been grossly diluted and their glory has suffered and he talks about Veda.
We were told before that the wisdom got lost only it was explained in different words, but it was the same, the meaning of the scriptures was not understood, due to incompetent intelligence and when the emotions are unbridles the mind takes over and the rains of the chariot and the horses run wild. The charioteer is not present and that is Krishna's role.
Just as the raindrops from the clear blue sky get colored and contaminated when they fall on the soil, the unsullied message of the ancient rishis, the example of their shining deeds, and the bright untarnished urges behind their actions are all turned into ugly caricatures of the original grandeur, by uncultured interpreters and scholars.
That is again such a beautiful picture he explains with the rain, pure water first it gets colored and contaminated when falling down on the soil and finally we have dirty water and mud and that was the example he used and the insight of the mud hole. The picture itself shows us that it was impure and contaminated by the soil and misunderstood by incompetent intelligence and that there was unbridled emotion only taking advantage of it and so was impure reasoning and it is going on like that, it didn't stop.
It was water mixed with mud and why, I thought it was a Baba Lila, but it had changed, it was not anymore recognizable and it was colored by what, misunderstood by incompetent intelligence, unbridled emotion and impure reasoning.
Instead of listening to Swami, only taking advantage of it.
What is wrong? That is how we get the picture of the insight and she said, he is the insight and he is the following step and the insight we had long ago and what happens here is the following step. If he is the man in our dream who is there to awaken us and when he is telling us that he took only advantage of it there is a certain conditioning and we have to find the whole picture of it. It is based on misunderstood ideas about divinity and incompetent intelligence and it is due to unbridled emotion and impure reasoning and the ignorance going on and it is present in their minds and as he is telling us that the scriptures have been grossly diluted and the wisdom got lost.
It is just an example of how we don't get it without listening to the divine words.
It is also part of impure reasoning that we think divinity is in the body, Baba's body was for us illusion, he was a teacher, a divine teacher making us aware of it and telling us that the scriptures suffered grievously because of impure reasoning and he expects from us that we know the difference between impure and pure reasoning, divinity is everywhere and not the body.
Misunderstood by incompetent intelligence, unbridled emotion and impure reasoning, the scriptures have been grossly diluted and their glory has suffered grievously.
That is what we have to do, that is what needs to be done and that is what needs to be understood.
If we don't listen to his words, there is no way that our mind is able to understand it right, it means we are misunderstanding it and there is incompetent intelligence and unbridled emotion and what we are doing is also due to impure reasoning and we go on like that.
What we need to do is we have to acquaint ourselves with the outlines of Dharma and that means we have to read and study the Veda, Sastras and the Puranas and we cannot just think that he is God, we don't know if we don't have the experience of it and he is love and we also don't know if we don't have the experience of pure love. It is the message of the Veda, Sastras and the Purana, we have to make the experience between pure love and not pure love, between Atma and mind and if we don't know the difference, we are part of the impure reasoning. We take advantage of delusion, the characteristic of the universe to veil everything and the mind takes advantage of it and it is self-elevation, that is impure reasoning.
We cannot tell that we know our duty if we don't know Dharma and we don't know what he is telling us how it is expounded by the Vedas, Sastras and the Puranas, if we don't listen to his words, how do we know?
If we don't listen to him we actually follow the mind and by impure reasoning we make it look like it is divinity.
As it is misunderstood and incompetent intelligence, it is as Swami said in the dream, he is stupid and it results in unbridled emotion, the rain when falling on the soil gets mixed with dirt and it changes color and it transforms into mud and it is due to impure reasoning, in the end we hardly recognize it anymore in it.
Hence, every one of you must acquaint yourselves with the outlines of Dharma, expounded in the Vedas, Sastras and the Puranas.
The Vedas, Sastras and Puranas and the essence of wisdom, we can look at it from every possible point of view, but it is always in the aim of truth and knowing right from wrong and if there was impure reasoning we have to know how to make it pure reasoning and if there is incompetent intelligence, it has to be transformed into competent intelligence and if it is due to impure reasoning, we have to know how we got to pure reasoning.
And we cannot do it alone; we have to do it in the group with others to feel his presence. What we met in his Darshan was not Swami alone, it was Swami with is devotees, that is oneness, they belong together. What we watched in Darshan was not silence, but it was the love between the master and the student, between divinity and the devotee, that was Darshan.
We cannot go there and conclude that Swami and his movement are different. Swami is his movement, as divinity is everywhere, it cannot be localized to one place only that is impure reasoning. If we sing together in devotion and we listen to his words and his guidance and we don't argue, but we follow him and see it in our own life and we go on no matter what obstacles are there, we experience his divine presence.
He is the intelligent in it, he is the enlightening, he is the pure love, not only love, but pure love and he is the one who makes us aware of the difference between pure reasoning and impure reasoning. He is the man who is in our dreams to awake us, but without listening to his words, we never understand those dreams right and we get to wrong conclusions.
To think that it is all silence only is also impure reasoning and the movement is not different from him, he is not the body, but he is alive in the devotees.
If he has a role it is to awken us and telling us in the dream that it is not right that is how he is awakening from the inside and the dream stage.
It is not good for anyone if there is impure reasoning, it is not in the sense of right action, it is misunderstood by incompetent intelligence and it is our own mind and the divine master has to make us aware of it.
He is the one who holds up the mirror in front of our eyes and tells us, look in it and tell me what you see and we think it is divinity if there is incompetent intelligence and if we listen to his words, we know he is there to awake us and that it is only for our own good.
Hence, every one of you must acquaint yourselves with the outlines of Dharma, expounded in the Vedas, Sastras and the Puranas.
That is what we have to do and it is done in listening to his words and following his divine guidance and not in ingnoring it.
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