Self is Devoid of Virtue and Vice (Nov 15, 2018)
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Can darkness be captured, lifted and thrown outside ? And if someone wants to look at darkness with a lighted lamp, can they do so? Similarly if we try to see (get to know) the world, then we will get nothing. Because the unreal (asat) has no independent existence. It is only due to the existence of the Real (God), that the world appears as real.
An aspirant should not accept his affinity with either virtues or vice, then he will not have any pride of his virtues, and no flaws will stay. The condition of the “self” is devoid of both virtue and vice.
Therefore it has been said -
"Sunahun taat maaya krut guna aru dosh anek |
Guna yah ubhay na dekhiahin dekhia so abibek ||
"Gunadoshdarshidosho gunastoobhayavarjitah ||
(Srimad Bhagavata 11/19/45)
"To have our eye on vice and virtue, i.e. to consider its affinity with us is the worst of all sins, and to not have our sight on these and instead to remain established in the immutable Self, is one of the highest virtues."
If you see qualities in you, then most certainly pride and sins will come along with it. Praising one’s qualities and attributes is due to flaws. Just as praising a wealthy person is due to those that are poor (without any wealth), not due to being wealthy. Just like greatness of a wise person is only due to the ignorant fools, not due to his wisdom; the orator's greatness is only due to the listeners, not due to the speakers. Due to small things being present, there is greatness of big things. If small things did not exist then how will one see things as being big?
Worldly pleasures are like poisonous laddoos (sweets). If man does not leave the laddoos, then the poison will not leave man. Man will have to give up the laddoos to be saved from being poisoned. It cannot be that on eating the laddoos the poison does not spread. On finding out that there is poison in the laddoos, no one will eat them, even though they taste sweet. If someone eats them, then it is proof that he has not accepted or believed the laddoos to be poisonous. It has been said —
करनी बिन कथनी कथे, अज्ञानी दिन रात ।
कूकर ज्यों भूँकत फिरै, सुनी सुनायी बात ॥
Karani bin kathani kathe, agyaani din raat,
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