Page 36 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
grants us peace, which peace is what we are running after all the time. We want to have permanently but we know that we can have it only temporarily. Why we are asked to meditate on the heart beat, if we think well, we know there is a pause between these two and that pause reminds us of peace, neither activity is ours nor inactivity is ours but that peace is what we are. That balance is our nature it is our identity. Everything we do in life is activity or can be brought under inactivity but neither of this is true. If you know that peace it is easy to renounce, if we do not know that peace it is not easy for us to renounce. All that we own up in this world is either activity or inactivity, nobody can own up Balance. Balance is a tantalising position. It is peace. If our nature is peace and if we know that to be the nature of God naturally we will not cling to anybody or any thing.
Looking at Vairagya from a different angle, namely that of the social angle, when some one says that ‘I am not able to get detached from all these things’ it only shows our extraordinary interest in the mater. The interest is something we know is
28