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absorbed in the situation (avastha) at hand. If the situation (avastha) is poverty, he will become tanmayakar (one with) by poverty, and if he becomes wealthy, he gets absorbed (tanmayakar) in his wealth, baring an inflated chest, with a pompous gait! When he has a fever, he becomes absorbed (tanmayakar) with it, saying he cannot walk. Someone like me would say, “Set a tiger running after him.” Then will he run or not? People needlessly make themselves feeble from saying, “I cannot walk, I cannot walk...”
You become whatever you say you are. That is because, the nature of the Atma is such that one becomes whatever one says he is. Then the legs will know, that they do not have to move, since there is no one to tell them off. We have to tell them, “How dare you not walk, I am not finished with you yet.” If you scold them a bit like this, they will automatically walk. How come they can run when a tiger is after them? You feed this body, you give it drink, nice spice tea (masala chai), and still they will not walk?
Whatever situation (avastha) a person falls into, he will preserve and protect. He can be free his whole life, but if he has to spend the last six months in jail, he yells, “I am a prisoner!” When a woman gets married, she enjoys the happiness of a marriage, and when she becomes a widow, she suffers a widow's grief. “I am a widow.” She will say. In her last life she was widowed, but even then, didn't she become married again? What else is there in this world besides “rundapo” (to end) and "mundapo” (to begin)?
All situations (avastha) change. The Atma, stays the same; its form never changes. Changes never take place in the Atma. Eternal element (vastu) never gets destroyed. Situations (avastha) die from second to second. The entire world exists only in situation (avastha). “I am Chandu, this is my son, this is my wife” – in this situation they dwell. Moreover, they will say, “I have
