Self-Enquiry Using Sri Ramakrishna's Teachings | Swami Sarvapriyananda |

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Self-Enquiry Using Sri Ramakrishna's Teachings | Swami Sarvapriyananda |

Self-Enquiry Using Sri Ramakrishna's Teachings | Swami Sarvapriyananda |

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Nice lecture!! Once an Aurovillian went and asked a senior sadhak of Aurobindo Ashram like why in Auroville there are lot of issues.. Why mother can't solve? The senior sadhak replied your body, my body and all other people in Auroville are mother herself!!! She is everything and in all experimenting herself!!

Response to the above:

Saying so is a cop out. Understanding that 'everything is a play of one consciousness' should not be used as an escape and excuse to face practical difficulties and challenges within the play, though such a cop-out is also part of the play.

The Mother cannot satisfy her hunger if someone else eats and she, by eating, cannot satisfy someone else's hunger, because everyone is mother herself!

As said in the talk by Sarvapriyananda, after understanding the truth, the same body, mind, ego, issues and challenges will continue as before. But, the ego which was unripe before, if the understanding  persists and permeates, overtime can ripen and become harmless. So, with a ripe ego, one must continue to do the duties and face the challenges.

In fact, a ripe ego is the true and higher selfishness.

Spirituality is neither escapism nor a pain killer.

If spirituality is not helping to live in a harmonious way, even within the community of spiritual seekers, is it worth anything?

Of course, the above response is also part of the play - mother's appearance!

Will the Mother be prepared to go to prison for someone else's crime, as she is everyone and everything?

8:16:24 This ratio has a common denominator i.e. factor of 2, 4 and 8.

The same ratio can be written as 4:8:12 dividing by the common factor 2.

Similarly 2:4:6 as well as 1:2:3. In all the three forms the actual ratio between each item doesn't change.

In the same way, oneness, all is God, everything is a play of / on / by the universal consciousness etc., are all common denominators.

The fact of good and evil, justice and injustice, cruelty and kindness, meanness and greatness, democracy and dictatorship, honesty and fraud, integrity and hypocrisy, freedom and slavery, fairness and prejudice etc., are the same irrespective of whether one 'sees' i.e. recognises or realises the common denominator or not.

Philosophy, metaphysics, spirituality are not excuses for inaction or accepting the status quo but should be the way to more sincere action, without seriousness and attachment, to be more effective and efficient, without wasting effort and energy on unripe egoistic attitudes, thought, words and deeds.

Saying we are all made of the same subatomic particles like proton, neutron and electron is not different from saying we are all divine in essence. Even though the essence - subatomic particles - is the same, food is food and poison is poison.

If we are to remember ourselves as divine then we have to apply the same to everyone and everything always. That is not practical. Instead the knowing, realisation of everything is divine is supposed to temper - soft, flexible and firm - us to face the life challenges, which often present in the form of other people, in a far better way. 

The same tempering can also happen via many other perspectives, not just via everything is divine. It can come about by simple common sense, scientific understanding, philosophical perspective, secular humanism, basic empathy etc.