You remain deluded for your whole life that you are miserable because of these apparent external reasons. Because dharma was lost to the country, we have forgotten to go deep inside to find the real cause of misery.
Suppose someone abuses me, and I become miserable. Between these two events, something very important happens inside me. But that link remains unknown to me.
When somebody abuses me, I start generating anger and hatred; I start reacting with negativity. Only then do I become miserable, not before.
The reason I am miserable is not because somebody has abused me, nor because something unwanted has happened. Rather, it is because I am reacting to these outside things. This is the real cause of misery.
You cannot understand this by listening to discourses such as this, by reading scriptures, by intellectualising or accepting it on the emotional or devotional level. The real understanding of dharma can only come when you start experiencing it within yourself.
To illustrate this point: Suppose by mistake I have placed my hand in fire. The law of nature is such that the fire starts burning my hand. I take my hand away because I don't like being burned. The next time, I again make a mistake and put my hand in fire. Again, my hand gets burned, and again I take my hand back. I may do this once, twice, or three times, and then I start to understand: "This is fire, and the nature of fire is to burn. I had better not touch the fire." This becomes a lesson, and I begin to understand at the experiential level that I must keep my hand away from fire.
In a similar way, one can learn how to practice dharma using a technique which was very common in ancient India. To learn dharma means to observe the reality within oneself.
You remain deluded for your whole life that you are miserable because of these apparent external reasons. Because dharma was lost to the country, we have forgotten to go deep inside to find the real cause of misery.
Suppose someone abuses me, and I become miserable. Between these two events, something very important happens inside me. But that link remains unknown to me.
When somebody abuses me, I start generating anger and hatred; I start reacting with negativity. Only then do I become miserable, not before.
The reason I am miserable is not because somebody has abused me, nor because something unwanted has happened. Rather, it is because I am reacting to these outside things. This is the real cause of misery.
You cannot understand this by listening to discourses such as this, by reading scriptures, by intellectualising or accepting it on the emotional or devotional level. The real understanding of dharma can only come when you start experiencing it within yourself.
To illustrate this point: Suppose by mistake I have placed my hand in fire. The law of nature is such that the fire starts burning my hand. I take my hand away because I don't like being burned. The next time, I again make a mistake and put my hand in fire. Again, my hand gets burned, and again I take my hand back. I may do this once, twice, or three times, and then I start to understand: "This is fire, and the nature of fire is to burn. I had better not touch the fire." This becomes a lesson, and I begin to understand at the experiential level that I must keep my hand away from fire.
In a similar way, one can learn how to practice dharma using a technique which was very common in ancient India. To learn dharma means to observe the reality within oneself.
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