75 - Transcending Time and Mental Traps | Swami Tattwamayananda

-7th chapter: verses 25, 26, 27, 28<br />-The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on March 26, 2021.<br />-25th verse: “The Absolute Reality is unmanifest, eternal, changeless, birthless, deathless and non-dual. For people who have not reached the highest state of spiritual evolution, the true nature of this Absolute Reality remains concealed due to the Avarana and Vikshepa shakti of Yogamaya.”<br />-Maya is non-awareness of the fact that everything in this world is subject to change. This maya veils the light of truth (Prakasha) and projects something false. What we may know intellectually, maya makes us forget at the emotional level.<br />-We experience Maya in our daily life, when we excessively worry, delude ourselves into thinking about the permanence of situations that are inherently impermanent. For example, a person who has lost his job may worry that he will be permanently jobless.<br />-If we are aware of a traffic jam ahead, then the traffic jam doesn’t bother us as much. Similarly, once we become aware of maya, we develop spiritual common sense, and are not bothered by it.<br />-26th verse: “Arjuna – I know the past, present and future of everyone, everything. But no one knows Me.”<br />-We see only one dimension of time. We worry about the past and future. We forget that in the past things were different, and they will be different in the future. Those stuck in time do not know the Lord, as he is beyond time.<br />-In the Bhagavata Purana, Lord Krishna is depicted as always smiling. This is because He could see the triple dimensions of time. He knew that situations would change. The ability to see triple dimensions of time gives one the ability to think, talk and act with wisdom.<br />-Ayurveda defines perfect health as: “sama dosha sama agnischa sama dhatu mala kriyaaha| Prasanna atma indriya manaha swastha iti abhidheeyate”. It means that we are in perfect health when we are physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally healthy. And we are mentally healthy when we accept the changeable n