THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Our unfulfilled aspirations, desires and attachments continue in the next birth.
Chapter 5
Prema Tree Lying Aswatta TreeStanding
Urdhvamulamadhahsakhamasvattham
prahuravyayam
Chadamsi Yasya Pamani
Yastam Veda Sa Vedavit
He who knows thePeepultree,which is said to be imperishable as
having itsroot above and the branches below and
whose leaves are the
Vedas is the knower of
the Veda.
In the Bhagavad
Gita’s 15th chapter,
it is declared that the Aswatta tree is theSamsara tree, the tree of worldly
life. Creation is the tree of Samsara,
of worldly existence, those
who are born, marry and create a lineage. Yet, the roots of this tree are in
God. This is because the world has appeared only from God. The tree grows as
all who are born in the world increase their lineage and are bound to them
through attachment
to ‘I and mine’. Yet, somedo realizethat
there is no lineage for any and that all are on an individual journey. Father,
mother, wife, husband, children, allareonly temporary. We come to this world
alone and will leave alone;none leave
with us. If this isrealized,then one can cut through this Samsara tree
with the axe of dispassion. The leaves, branches, fruits and flowers are your lineage.
You must cut through these with detachment.
We must attain
the God whomwe have come from. He is
the root of all.He must be attained there. How many millions of millions have
grown in this tree of worldly life? Have any
attained a place in history?
No. It is only those who have cut through
this tree with strong dispassionare remembered in history. Only those like Paramahamsa
Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi,
Adi Shankara, Sri Aurobindo and other great saints
and sages areremembered. Those who
make the Samsara tree grow, must be born and die again and again.
In my case,I want to live with God in the world. Yet, seeing the suffering and separation in the family of every Avatar I was afraid. As long asthe ignorantare in the world, suffering and difficultieswillnever
come to an end. Yet, my desire to marry God only went on increasing more and
more. I performedpenance,as I must bringVaikunta to the earth. As Swami and I cannot live together on this earth,Vaikuntamustcome
down.