Sumiran – In Gita Verse 9.34 Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.
Krishna in this verse talks about Sumiran.
There are four kinds of Sumiran or divine remembrance, namely:
1. Sumiran through the mouth
2. Sumiran through the mind: This is a stage higher. We move a step inward from the mouth to the mind.
3. Sumiran through the Heart or Love: This is yet a higher type of devotion but yet not the peak is achieved.
4. Sumiran through Being: When devotion starts happening through your entire being or one is totally dissolved in Sumiran then it is the climax.
Sumiran is a journey from From Duality To Witnessing: Only in duality, it is possible to be a witness. When something within is calm and something is agitated only then one arrow faces inside you and the other outside. Hence, witnessing is possible only when you are experiencing pain. How would you be a witness without pain, without agitation? In other words, this agitation, this hurt, this pain and pleasure facilitates becoming a witness.
Why did God make ego? It is so that you can become a witness. If God does not make ego, then how would one feel pain, pleasure, agitation?
Then how else would you embark on the inner journey? Therefore, He has actually done a great favor.
Knowing and Witnessing Kabir says – DUKH MEIN SUMIRAN SAB KARE SUKH MEIN KARE NA KOYE You remember God during painful times and are impelled to go into meditation in such times. SUKH MEIN SUMIRAN JO KARE TO DUKH KAHE KO HOYE
However, if you begin the process of remembering Him in times of happiness then pain does not arise because you take a leap from happiness to Bliss.
Hence, thank God that He has made pain. He has given ego, because of ego there is pain, and hence you are able to be a witness. You are able to watch all that, which is calm within you and are able to watch the waves of agitation, which emerge because of ego. This is because if you embark the boat of witnessing then it takes you to peacefulness and one day it takes you to nothingness.
Difference between a Sadhak and a Siddha
This is why Kabir says: NINDAK NIYARE RAKHIYE AANGAN KUTI CHHAVAY, BIN PAANI SABUN BINA NIRMAL KARE SUBHAY.
It means: “Do not distance away critics”, do not alienate your rivals. Keep them close to you. “Do not alienate them; instead give them respect”.
Do not let them go away from you. Hence, if such an arrangement is made which brings sorrow, agitation, then do not try to escape it because something favorable is happening. This is the reason why saints never ask you to flee to the Himalayas. In the Himalayas, there are no provisions for Sadhana. They were able to become SIDDHA, but not saints. They became ARHAT but they could not become Masters. Among the saints from the Himalayas, no one has been able to become a Master. Why was this? Because, somewhere in their Sadhana there is escapism. Kabir, Buddha, Mahavir, Nanak, Dadu, Dariya, Raidas, Meera, Sahjo, Daya, all these are saints. No Dadu could emerge from the Himalayas. It could not deliver any Kabir. The Himalayas could not raise a Buddha. I have met many times with the sages of Himalaya. They are more like sadhaks and not like saints, not like Buddha, they are not masters. If one wants to be a Master then know that the Master emerges from a marketplace. True Sadhana, correct Sadhana, Right Sadhana, balanced Sadhana is possible only in the midst of market places.
Ram Krishna Paramhans says: VEER SADHAK KAHA KE BOLE, JIN SANSAR MADHYE THAKE, SADHNA KARTE PARE TEENI VEER SADHAK.
He is a brave sadhak, who is able to do Sadhana in the heart of the world. The Sadhana of witnessing is far more easier for those who do it in the world. Hence, your Sadhana is absolutely on the right track. Let agitation happen, let pain occur, let it hurt, you continue with your witnessing.
Krishna says that live in the world with your witnessing and your Being will be completely absorbed in Me.
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