Seek that truth of who you are. Seek that truth of who you are. Seek that truth of who you are, always O Foolish Mind. Chanting this thrice will reveal the exact translation of the refrain Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam Moodhamate.
If here we refuse to understand the true meaning of the name Govinda, as the self to which our mind reaches after it goes out into the world of sense objects, we would think that refrain means to sing bhajans on Govinda, Gopala, Krishna or Murari.
To seek is our only work. The rest of the things we do in life are just time pass. Once we discover that source, our job gets over. Still, we can continue to engage in interesting activities in life—simply to pass time again.
Whenever we relax and enjoy something, after completion of the work at hand, the result is a lot of joy. Instead, if we indulge in many finite pleasures without completing the work we are supposed to do after being despatched to this world, it is like the child who goes to a night show without preparing for the examination he has to appear the next day.
In Moha Mudgara, Adi Shankaracharyaji says, do not take pride in wealth, lots of members in family and youth. Pride is an interesting thing. It is a state of knowing, false knowing at that.
Pride is a thought. Consciousness becomes dense with pride. In density, there is gravity. Gravity takes us straight to the source of the word ‘grave’. It pulls any heavy object down to the earth is a well-known scientific principle.
All scientific principles apply to thoughts too, because thoughts are also made up of subtle matter and are hence governed by all geographic, physical, chemical and bio-magnetic principles.
There is no problem with a heavy thought. If it is the truth, it will never harm us. I think of a mountain. My consciousness becomes heavy. Yet, it is not a dangerous thought because the mountain is really there outside. I think of the money I have. I think of all the people I have around me, on my mobile phone and on the social media. I think that I am youthful and can achieve endless success because of my youth. The problem with these three thoughts is consciousness which becomes heavy no doubt, but that weight has no reality to it as they are only an imagination.
The master tells us to realise that this whole world of names and forms we see is an illusory imagination in our mind and hasten to seek the truth.
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