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The Teachings of Sri Tirtha Lal Mahanandhar

I and You      page 6

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I and You




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'HARMONIAL' DANCE




You believe you are healthy,


for your whole system is in harmony.


Your intellect, mind, sense organs


and all the cells in your body


are in harmony with


the outer world


this universe.




This is how


you are physically fit,


but physical fitness changes


along with time,


along with the world


and your belief also changes


into disbelief.




Change brings


lack of harmony,


lack of coordination.


Change reduces your health.




When you are not physically sound,


this unhealthy body affects


your mind, intellect and surroundings.


The environment of your country


and the whole world also


will have its effect,


because this whole delusive universe


is inter-related with each and every creature


that exists within it.




Suffer you must -


as long as you agree


with


unreal to be real,


mortal to be immortal,


untruth to be truth.




Lack of knowledge


- your egoistic concept,


the product of ignorance,


guides your unreal ego


wrongly


in every walk of your life.




You, the short-sighted ignorance,


at all times accepted


right to be wrong


and


wrong to be right.




This mistake, this blunder of yours


alone


is the main cause


of pain and pleasure


and your suffering.




You, the ego,


the product of ignorance,


which is unreal,


which has no existence,


agrees with all the products of delusion


- that is why it suffers.




Your desire


for the objects of the world


and your attachment to them


are perishable


not real.





Lacking real knowledge,


your ignorance


could not adjust to the real,


could not harmonise with the real,


because


unreal is unreal.


Real is real.




You, the ego, which is unreal,



will never understand the Real.


This is how ignorance is ever lagging behind


to reveal the Truth.




This is the only reason


- why ego is ever deprived of


true knowledge,


- why ego, this ignorance, fails


to keep harmony


with the real



TRUTH ETERNAL.





To get rid of your sufferings,

to end all your troubles,


to realise the Truth,


to be in harmony with peace and tranquility,


rise above your ego concept,


rise above your desire and attachment


for this unreal world of ignorance.




Until you are capable of fighting


against your ego concept,


desire and attachment


for worldly objects


will laugh at you,


always hopping, jumping and dancing


again and again


in this world of ignorance.




This is how this delusion


mocks at you,


the unreal ego,


giving more suffering.




As long as ego is there,


this game will continue


in full swing,


humiliating and torturing you


again and again.




In this way the dance


- the 'harmonial' dance of illusion -


is going on,


and on,


and on,


within the dance of ignorance.




Even then


the disgrace of ignorance


delights to enjoy


the poison of this world


being ever attached to it.




When your desired object changes


according to its changeable nature,


your attachment also


changes to detachment


- like a child into old-age,


life into death.




While suffering you struggle hard


to get out of its claws


like the poor fly,


the spider's prey.

When you see


you are helpless,


only then you cry.





You look for

help - help - help

- but your desired objects,


your attachment to your


nearest and dearest,


will not come to help you,


- they will stand in front of you,


unheard.




When you will see, 


when you will feel


they are all laughing at you,


at your sufferings,


- only then


will you thoroughly understand


the deceit of ignorance.





When, with great humiliation,


you will be put aside


on your death-bed,


kicking up to your last breath,


- only then will you feel


you are wrong,


that your ego concept


and all its activities


- are all unreal.





But then it will prove to be too late


for you to follow the Truth,


when you realise why you could not cope


with the dance


- the dancing harmony of



TRUTH ETERNAL





The poor condition of your ego

is helpless to correct itself,


and so you die,


entering the cycle of birth and death


again and again.




You were unwilling to hear


the Truth


which is with you all the time,


so that is why you have this suffering


at the end.





Therefore


you are requested


humbly


not to follow your ego


and its world.

Rise above ego,


rise above ignorance,


and come to


ME.


Have a 'harmonial' dance with


ME



the one single Truth,

and enjoy eternity forever.




Your ego believes it can give life


to this unreal universe.


Lacking real knowledge of Truth


it demands help.

To get help,


your ego must have attachment


to another ego


- this world.




This is how attachment develops


along with desire


for attachment.

Thus ego dances along with


the dance of desire,


the dance of attachment,


again and again,


being a puppet of them both


and ever held tightly


in the dancing embrace


of ignorance.




This is how


the egoistic concept


assumes and believes


that ignorant ego


is immortal


- but this can't be true.

Ego and all its actions


are totally mortal.

It joins hands with ignorance


to have a dance


in the game of birth and death


- which is delusion.




To enjoy the Real 'Harmonial' Dance,


you have to travel within,


beyond attachment,


beyond desire,


beyond ego,


beyond ignorance.




Keep going until


ignorance perishes completely.

No trace of ignorance remaining


- means nothing, nothing at all,


exists here except


Eternity

- which is none else than You,

the Real Unborn.





This is the Real Harmonial Dance


of


TRUTH ETERNAL






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