It happened wen lord rama lakshaman ji and sitaji seek the shelter of nishadraj guha Lord Ram and Sitaji are visibly asleep under the tree and Lakshmanji was till now massaging Lord Ram's feet. Realizing that He is asleep, he silently got up, and sat at some distance from them, to keep vigil for the night, with his magnificient bow and arrow ready at hand. He is to do this on every single night for the next fourteen years. Seeing this, Nishaadraj posted his guards at various places around the tree, and he himself went and sat with Lakshmanji, partly to keep him company and largely because he was agitated.
Guha(looking painfully in the direction of Lord Ram): The King's palace, to which even Indra's residence is hardly comparable, whose beautiful antics built of precious stones, which are equipped with charming beds, pillows and cushions, so soft and white like the froth of milk. There Sitaji and Lord Ram used to sleep at night. And now, these very same people are sleeping tired, without covers, under a tree. How did it come to this? These are the two people who least deserve such treatment. Moreover they have just married. Foolish Kaikeyi has wrought a cruel mischief and brought great trouble to these two in the times of joy. She has virtually destroyed the dynasty of Raghu.
: Saying so, Guh became greatly agitated and started weeping, while continuously staring at the sleeping couple and cursing Kaikeyi.
Lakshmanji(with serene peace of mind and heart): Dear friend, nobody can bring joy or sorrow to anybody else. All of us reap the fruit of our own actions.
Guha: How can you say that? Do you intend to mean that Lord Ram and Sitaji had committed bad deeds, and thus as a fruit of their actions they are suffering such hardships and pain. I think this is entirely Kaikeyi's fault.
Lakshmanji: My friend, why do you think that Lord Ram and Sitaji are in pain and undergoing any hardship? They are as happy and peaceful as they would have been in the palace. The source of happiness is always within and is not affected even an iota by the external circumstances.
Guha: But still, the outer world has to have some effect. In fact in our daily lives we are greatly affected by the happenings around us. Then how can you say that the source of happiness is entirely within.
Lakshmanji: Union and separation, pleasure and pain, friends and foes and neutrals, birth and death, prosperity and adversity, destiny and time, all that you hear, see and think'' these are all a delusion and have their root in ignorance. In reality, these do not exist. It is all like a dream. If a king becomes a pauper or a pauper becomes a king in a dream, then upon awakening nobody looses or gains anything.
Therefore, don't blame or curse anybody. Whether you are a king or in exile in this world doesn't matter as it is all a dream.
Guha: That is a very bold statement and one which offends common experience. We see, feel and are affected by this world and the pleasure and pain are very real.
Lakshmanji: And so are the pleasures and pains of the dream as long as you don't wake up.
Guha: But then, if this world is just a dream and whatever you do, or you are is of no REAL significance, then what does it matter whether we live like a saint or a sinner, whether we strive and achieve or idle away, whether we follow dharma or adharma. Our actions, whether good or bad, become irrelevant. The law of Karma that you just stated seems to fail then.
Lakshmanji: You are bound by your actions OF THE DREAM as long as you don't wake up. As long as you are asleep, the delusion world is the only real world for you. Only the one who has woken up to Reality can call this a dream world. And it is understood that upon waking up you do not receive reward or punishment for the actions that you performed in the dream.
Guha: Well then, who is awake? Or is there anyone who is awake?
Lakshmanji: Everyone is slumbering in the night of Ignorance. But the Yogi alone is awake. And because he is awake, he doesn't see this dream world, rather he sees the Reality.
Guha: How do we recognize a yogi? What are his characteristics?
Lakshmanji: There are no outward characteristics by which you can point out a yogi in the crowd. In fact he may be a king, a soldier or a pauper in this world of delusion. The mark of a Yogi is within, and it is a complete INWARD aversion to all the objects of the senses of the world, Vairagya. Simply because he knows that they aren't real and so he won't be attracted to them at all.
Guha: Fine, that much is understood. But if the Yogi doesn't see this dream as we see it, what then does he see? What is reality? The real reality I mean and not this delusion that we call reality.
Lakshmanji: He, for whom you just wept, whom you see sleeping under the tree is the Supreme Reality. Him the Yogi sees. And Him, they seek those who are on the path of Yoga.
Guha: How '''''.? I don't get it. Please elaborate.
Lakshmanji: He isn't just a person as He appears to you right now. He is the Brahman of the Upanishads, the Unknown, the Imperceptible and the One without any beginning, Incomparable, Immutable and beyond all diversity. Him the Vedas describe in negative terms (neti neti).
Guha: If that is so, what then is He, the Creator and Lord of all worlds, doing here?
Lakshmanji: He is here to wake us up, so that we can see Him, the Reality.
Guha: And how does he do it? How will we all transcend this world of ignorance?
Lakshmanji: He is here, having assumed the form of a human, moving among humans and performing deeds (Lila) merely hearing and discussing which the snares of the world are broken asunder. Hence, my friend, shed all infatuation and take refuge in Him. Come, it is almost dawn, and is time that they wake up. We must make necessary preparations. Come brother, and now onwards, don't grieve for Him.
Source :Ramcharitmanas
Guha(looking painfully in the direction of Lord Ram): The King's palace, to which even Indra's residence is hardly comparable, whose beautiful antics built of precious stones, which are equipped with charming beds, pillows and cushions, so soft and white like the froth of milk. There Sitaji and Lord Ram used to sleep at night. And now, these very same people are sleeping tired, without covers, under a tree. How did it come to this? These are the two people who least deserve such treatment. Moreover they have just married. Foolish Kaikeyi has wrought a cruel mischief and brought great trouble to these two in the times of joy. She has virtually destroyed the dynasty of Raghu.
: Saying so, Guh became greatly agitated and started weeping, while continuously staring at the sleeping couple and cursing Kaikeyi.
Lakshmanji(with serene peace of mind and heart): Dear friend, nobody can bring joy or sorrow to anybody else. All of us reap the fruit of our own actions.
Guha: How can you say that? Do you intend to mean that Lord Ram and Sitaji had committed bad deeds, and thus as a fruit of their actions they are suffering such hardships and pain. I think this is entirely Kaikeyi's fault.
Lakshmanji: My friend, why do you think that Lord Ram and Sitaji are in pain and undergoing any hardship? They are as happy and peaceful as they would have been in the palace. The source of happiness is always within and is not affected even an iota by the external circumstances.
Guha: But still, the outer world has to have some effect. In fact in our daily lives we are greatly affected by the happenings around us. Then how can you say that the source of happiness is entirely within.
Lakshmanji: Union and separation, pleasure and pain, friends and foes and neutrals, birth and death, prosperity and adversity, destiny and time, all that you hear, see and think'' these are all a delusion and have their root in ignorance. In reality, these do not exist. It is all like a dream. If a king becomes a pauper or a pauper becomes a king in a dream, then upon awakening nobody looses or gains anything.
Therefore, don't blame or curse anybody. Whether you are a king or in exile in this world doesn't matter as it is all a dream.
Guha: That is a very bold statement and one which offends common experience. We see, feel and are affected by this world and the pleasure and pain are very real.
Lakshmanji: And so are the pleasures and pains of the dream as long as you don't wake up.
Guha: But then, if this world is just a dream and whatever you do, or you are is of no REAL significance, then what does it matter whether we live like a saint or a sinner, whether we strive and achieve or idle away, whether we follow dharma or adharma. Our actions, whether good or bad, become irrelevant. The law of Karma that you just stated seems to fail then.
Lakshmanji: You are bound by your actions OF THE DREAM as long as you don't wake up. As long as you are asleep, the delusion world is the only real world for you. Only the one who has woken up to Reality can call this a dream world. And it is understood that upon waking up you do not receive reward or punishment for the actions that you performed in the dream.
Guha: Well then, who is awake? Or is there anyone who is awake?
Lakshmanji: Everyone is slumbering in the night of Ignorance. But the Yogi alone is awake. And because he is awake, he doesn't see this dream world, rather he sees the Reality.
Guha: How do we recognize a yogi? What are his characteristics?
Lakshmanji: There are no outward characteristics by which you can point out a yogi in the crowd. In fact he may be a king, a soldier or a pauper in this world of delusion. The mark of a Yogi is within, and it is a complete INWARD aversion to all the objects of the senses of the world, Vairagya. Simply because he knows that they aren't real and so he won't be attracted to them at all.
Guha: Fine, that much is understood. But if the Yogi doesn't see this dream as we see it, what then does he see? What is reality? The real reality I mean and not this delusion that we call reality.
Lakshmanji: He, for whom you just wept, whom you see sleeping under the tree is the Supreme Reality. Him the Yogi sees. And Him, they seek those who are on the path of Yoga.
Guha: How '''''.? I don't get it. Please elaborate.
Lakshmanji: He isn't just a person as He appears to you right now. He is the Brahman of the Upanishads, the Unknown, the Imperceptible and the One without any beginning, Incomparable, Immutable and beyond all diversity. Him the Vedas describe in negative terms (neti neti).
Guha: If that is so, what then is He, the Creator and Lord of all worlds, doing here?
Lakshmanji: He is here to wake us up, so that we can see Him, the Reality.
Guha: And how does he do it? How will we all transcend this world of ignorance?
Lakshmanji: He is here, having assumed the form of a human, moving among humans and performing deeds (Lila) merely hearing and discussing which the snares of the world are broken asunder. Hence, my friend, shed all infatuation and take refuge in Him. Come, it is almost dawn, and is time that they wake up. We must make necessary preparations. Come brother, and now onwards, don't grieve for Him.
Source :Ramcharitmanas
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