SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
630
[Swamiji continues speaking on the Bhagavad Gita]
O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth . . .
Regardless of who it is, all beings are deluded at the time of birth. Only Hanumanji [pictured] asked, 'Tell me what is my future, mother? What must I eat?' Others say, 'Where am I? Where am I?' And that goes on in the mind. So, this world is full of delusion.
Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realise in full that Brahman, the whole knowledge of the Self, and all action.
I always laugh at this verse of my Lord. Look what He is saying. (Look how your mind works.) Some of these people who love their beautiful or handsome faces will do more hatha [physical postures] yoga so that they will remain young; but the more they do exercises the more they find each day they are getting dried up like a paw paw [papaya]. The Lord is not talking about there being no old age in this body. He is saying that after God-realisation you will not take any birth - and therefore there will be no old age or death. In this body you will just have to go through your prarabdha karma [karma to be worked out in this birth] .Do not think you can avoid it now. The only way you can avoid it is to become indifferent to it by concentrating your mind fully on God and God's glories. When you are fully concentrated on God then old age does not affect you, pain does not affect you. Pain will come but it will just pass away unnoticed. That is what I call 'indifferent'. A lot of bhaktas [devotees] became old and yet bhajan and kirtan was going on - they did not even know that their bodies were old. They were above body consciousness.
God bless you. Hari Om Tat Sat
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