Pushkarmuni Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Devendramuni, A D Batra, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Rajasthankesari Adhyatmayogi Upadhyay Shree Pushkar Muni Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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श्री पुष्करमुनि अभिनन्दन पन्थ : षष्ठम खण्ड
Sometimes god came on him and he was used as a medium when his whole body would shake with the power of the Invisible. On those occasions, tribal men and women would come to him seeking guidance from god in warding off evil spirits and in solving their troubles and problems. He would give them suitable answers as to how to avert dangers and how to appease the wrath of god. He would then hit his lower abdomen with the sickle he carried. A couple of years ago, while so bitting, it is said, he inflicted a wound over his abdomen and blood began to ooze out of it. But he never got perturbed about it nor did he want to go to any doctor for treatment. He simply applied some holy ashes over the wound and remarked : 'It was my punishment for this foolish Madha for his disobedience of eating food instead of fasting until I came on him'.
Man is here for the supreme purpose : 'of know himself'. It is because of the lack of Self-Knowledge that we, knowingly or unknowingly, create more misery and suffering in this sorrow-ridden world. One may be highly educated, or may possess a lot of wealth or may occupy the highest position in society or may roll in all sorts of luxuries and comforts, yet it is impossible to find perfect peace and happiness unless one knows oneself. Unless the ego-shell is broken, it is not possible to find the Self-kernel which is the Living Truth in all. The world is too much in all of us. Its nagging problems impinge us all the time from all directions. Yet the world is only a reflections of the mind. Therefore, it is foolish to run away from it to a forest or to a holiday resort or to a foreign country where everything on the surface looks nicer and appealing. We carry the mind wherever we go and, therefore, we cannot escape from life and its problems until and unless we tackle the mind itself. The truth is only the truth of our own being and, therefore, it is of paramount importance to know oneself. Without Self-Knowledge, our knowledge of all other things has no basis at all. The Self-alienation makes one feel incomplete and it is the cause of one's unhappiness. When we get trapped in our own thoughts and activities, we feel isolated from the Self and thus remain cut off from our Source. Unless the root is one with the branch, it will not bear fruit. Thinking is not the nature of the Self and, therefore, we should stand apart from the thoughts if we want to be free and happy. If we want to be whole and complete, we should feel our inherent perfection.
Without the seer, nothing is seen. Surely, beauty lies in the beholder. We say that the world is real. But does the world tell us that it is real? We seem to know the world. But does the world know us? Or is the vision of the world only an experience of each person often modified by the changing mood of the mind ? When the mind wakes up, the world rises up in the mind and when the mind ceases to exist, the world also comes to nought. Moreover, the world does not appear to all in the same light, as each one has a different conception of the world. Seeing the world in its present plight, we all react to it in different ways. Even the ordinary mind is greater than the world, because, after one travels around the world, the entire world and what all one has seen, appear within the mind. Even when it seems to us that the objective world and the subjective mind are two different things, in deeper analysis a stage is sure to reach when the apparent boundary and distinction between the mind and matter vanish completely. What we then discover is the voil of pure awareness, the Universal Mind or the Formless Self.
When this realisation dawns in man, he knows without a trace of doubt that I AM (AHAM) the Infinite Truth, the whole of Life or the all-pervading Self, which is not limited to one's body. From this realisation springs genuine love, ethics and morality. When I AM All or when All are I AM, if I harm another, it amounts to harming myself. It is like cutting the base of the branch on which I sit and thereby I myself fall to the ground, hurting myself. To see everything as my real Self and my true Self in everything is the right vision. Mere intellectual knowing of this fact is no knowing at all. We have already gathered a lot of knowledge and this knowing will be one more piece of information to be added to the store-house of our know
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