The Moksha Gita: Swami Sivananda // Commentary: Chapter 10-7,8&9 : Swami Krishnananda.

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Monday, 11 Sep 2023 06:30.

The Moksha Gita: Swami Sivananda

Chapter 10: The State of Jivanmukti-7,8 & 9.

Commentary: Swami Krishnananda.

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"The liberated sage, the prince of ascetics who has conquered the enemy, ignorance, who has known the secret of true bliss, uses the palms of his hands as his bowl and sleeps blissfully under the foot of a tree."

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The Jivanmukta does not feel the necessity for abiding by what brings pleasure to the physical body. The palm of the hand is his bowl, the earth is his bed, the sky is his clothing. He does not exert to acquire any object that is limited in space and time. His absolute consciousness by its very nature of all-inclusiveness attracts that part of universal existence where lies the object necessitated by his personal existence. At once, like a flash of lightning, the things needed by him flow to him, like rivers into the ocean, for he is their very Self. The man of Wisdom does without acting, enjoys without desiring. He need not command anybody, for he is already the Self of the one whom he may wish to command. He does not instruct or order anybody, for he is the essential being of everything that he may have to deal with. Even the gods cannot obstruct him from doing anything, for he is the inner reality of even the gods. He is the glorious Swarat or Self-King, and is beyond all comparison. He has reached the climax of perfection and the whole universe is a part of his body.

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8, 9. 

"The sage does not care for public criticism. He keeps a cool mind even when he is assaulted. He blesses those who persecute him. He beholds only his own Self everywhere."

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The Jivanmukta unifies with himself the cosmic principles of evolution, namely, sound, touch, colour, taste, smell, form and name. Whatever that happens is the sport of his own Self. Criticism and insult, flogging and assault are the movement of the shadow of his Self. He blesses those who ill-treat him and injure him. The Consciousness is ever unaffected by virulence and change of any kind. The objects of the inner Consciousness are realised as being the forms of itself manifested due to past desires. The perfected condition where thought reaches the freedom of immunity from being misled by the external forms of the universe is liberation, even if the forms persist in coming within the sphere of the vision of the Jnani. He controls them; they do not control him. The forces of the universe are his friends, not his enemies. They act according to his wish, for his individual consciousness is in harmony with the universal consciousness. He does not feel or say "It should have been like this; it should not have been like that", for he realises the absolute validity and perfection of all movements of nature in accordance with the eternal law.

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To be continued

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