Imagine there is a wealthy person, and a poor person meets him. The poor person will definitely respect the wealthy person. Similarly, when one meets a person with great knowledge, one shrinks before this knowledge and accepts the other person is bigger. But when one sees someone smaller or lower than himself, the same person will become arrogant and say – you know nothing, I know more than you. For equanimity, for Oneness, one can always try and work. It is difficult in these times for even Avatars to attain equanimity because one needs to first surrender(Juhkna). For equanimity, the ‘ego’ needs to be killed. For a person to become a hero, he needs to become a zero first. I.e. he needs to remove his ‘ego’ completely. If he can become a zero, then he will definitely become a zero. And this does not happen all of a sudden. So, to become balanced, it is absolutely necessary to sacrifice your ego. What is pride or arrogance and what is self-confidence?
The mind is always on the move/working, it is not that easy to steady /calm it, even with meditation. I ask you to do meditation, the minute you close your eyes, you become even more disturbed – whatever is really positive or negative, these enter your thoughts and you become even more confused, and it becomes more worse. Then what do we do, we do meditation, so you close your eyes and your mind goes for a wander, a spin and then we stop the meditation saying I really don’t have the time for this. I can’t do this anymore. This is not how it should be, do not fight with your mind. When you close your eyes, if thoughts come, let them in.
It is pre-decided, everything is decided by God like when will the birth happen, what will be his lifestyle, every single thing is decided before itself. Karma in the sense, what will he do as a child, what are the different Lilas he will do. For example can we can take the example of Krishna who was very simple. Being a God, he was self-realized, so he knew everything right from his birth. Yet the games he played with his friends as a child, they were all gentle, subtle. His Avatar declaration did not happen all of a sudden. But gradually he started doing miracles, continued his miracles. Only after this, the world was awakened to his true identity. The truth is, Bhagawan Krishna revealed his true identity only at the right time. The thing is, He did not reveal this to everyone for the simple reason that every person’s capacity to accept things is different. God does not give the full dose at one time. The experiences are gradual, first one experience, then another, another, another and then the time to truly understand Him dawns.
Faith is like a flower. If we gently touch the flower and feel the fragrance it is more beautiful – a feeling of both the flower and its fragrance and it remains soft too but when we hold it tight both the beauty of flower and the its fragrance gets spoilt. Faith is also like the given example. When we add the pressure of our desires and selfishness to faith, its beauty and fragrance also gets spoilt like the flower. Faith can never be based on arguments.
Everyone that has taken birth in this world, will have to suffer pangs of pain or grief. But the person who has the knowledge of self or atman or who is self-realized, will not be sad, when he is suffering. There is a difference between suffering pain and being sad in that pain. A rock may get drenched in rain water, but it will be dry after some time, the only difference is that it will lose all the dirt and filth which is on it. Similarly a realized person, will be in the same state whether he is sad or happy. An ignorant person, is like an ink paper who soaks up all good and bad experiences in his life and will keep on suffering throughout his lifetime.