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104/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Darwin said, man got his birth from monkey. But, is man born yet? Much remains to be attained yet to become man. He has taken birth of course in the form of monkey. When man becomes a man, then nothing remains to be done by him. Please centralize all your awareness with a witness-sense, a seer-sense at your centre-sense. You would feel that your inner conscience is still a monkey. Man is not yet born. A monkey is sitting alive in the form of man. When man will look inside himself, he would find that he has not been able to become a man, he is still a monkey. The mind is like a monkey, moves on sometimes at this tree and sometime on that tree; sometime descends down, and sometime ascends up the top of the tree, but his jumping and hopping are continuing.
Heaven-hell are psychology; creations of the mind. While the mind exists, the alternatives of heaven and hell would continue to emerge. Salvation is beyond mind, beyond heaven-hell. Life is but the heaven and the hell. To attain salvation is the total success of life. The possibilities of heaven and hell are not beyond life.
Don't think that you would become worms-insects after death. The person who is entangled in illusion and attachment, is even now but worm-insect. Just as a worm is born in the mud, and breathes its last after completing its life-span in that very mud, a man entangled in illusion and attachment is similar to that worm. He has not been able to become man. What can be a more miserable and hellish condition ?
A son asked his father : "I want to study medicine. Please advise me if I should become an ear-specialist or a dentist ?" Father said, "What is in it to be of two minds? Be a dentist. Since teeth are thirty two, they would bring more profit. Ears are but only two".
Let us visualize what type of worms-insects are we? The perfection of man lies in his becoming a man. A man is wrong if he thinks that he would die, and thereafter his condition would become miserable on account of his deeds. In my opinion, in that case we would not be able to make correct use of our lives. We
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