The inherent tendency of all that is manifest in creation is movement. This is either upwards or downwards, be it in the spiritual world, the commercial or the emotional, of which relationships are a part. Nothing is ever constant. No matter what position you are at in life, or who you are with or how much power and influence you wield, it is never constant. Even science tells us that what goes up has to come down. The apple fell on Newton’s head and modern science gave us the law of gravity—the apple was first in a different form, embedded in a seed which is itself in an apple which had gone up before and is now coming down. It is a matter of debate for the modern man—did it go down first or up? The vedic seers call this the cycle of maya which is unending and has emerged from the creator. We spend lifetimes after lifetimes debating on what emerged from what or whom; the debate will never end because its basis is incomplete knowledge of the dynamics of creation. The seers gave us an exit route from this web of maya explaining how the hen and the egg emerged together and how the apple and the seed emerged together. The guru, the biggest gift of the seers to mankind, knows the way out and shows how both came together through your own experiences.
In the present, the majority of modern day gurus, are themselves stuck in this web. So, when you go to them asking for an exit route, they show you an entry route by making promises of more wealth, better health, better relationships. In other words, they promise that you will never leave and are stuck, so that you keep debating that what came first.
A normal human being does not know what lies beyond the physical world and is so much engrossed in the pursuit of the senses and the garnering of wealth and fame that he does not want to understand or know that one day all this will disappear due to the inherent destructive nature and non permanency of all aspects of physical creation. So he goes to search for a guru in the hope that what is temporary can somehow be made permanent. One forgets that even the guru’s body is not permanent; to look for permanency from something which is temporary is foolish. The purpose of human birth is experience and going beyond into the higher states of consciousness, which is facilitated by the guru who is himself or herself over the bondages of maya and shows you the reality and the futility of the physical world and plants the seed of detachment in you. To grow and nurture that seed is up to you, for this is the only reality.
Detachment is the state where whether you have something or not, you remain unaffected. Even when something is with you, you are prepared that one day it has to go; that is, you understand the permanency in the temporal world. It is very easy to leave something when you are given something higher; you think you have transcended the lower pleasures but you forget that it is actually due to the satisfaction of getting something bigger and better. Your state should be detached, irrespective of whether you get something or not, as only that can take you to yog. You may conquer the physical world with your power and ability, you may even reach the level of pleasures of swarglok, but you cannot conquer the Tridev, for they are the epitome of detachment. They do nothing for themselves; they represent creation. The only way to access them is vairagya. Keep in mind that even if you rise upto the devlok, thereafter begins the descent, for what rises has to come down; where there is pleasure, pain is not far away since you are attached to the pleasure. It is only detachment from pleasure which would nullify the effect of pain and this state of vairagya will effectuate your merger with the Tridev.
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