ALL ABOUT NAVARATHRI FROM DAY ONE : 6. Swami Udit Chaithanya

07/03/2018

Day 6.

Devi defeated SUMBHA AND NISUMBHA as well.

As life progresses we move away from battles fought on the base level of our nature and the material plane of our existence to a battle fought on the mental plane.

This time the chief demons are Sumbha (“I” or “Me”, the pseudo-self) and Nisumbha (“Mine”, the attachment we feel).

The story says when one brother is knocked off, the other rises.

Exactly as in our mind, if it is not about ME….it is always about MINE (me, my family, my wealth, my job, my feelings etc).

These thoughts come to us out of our own “Agjnanam”.

Agjnanam does not mean lack of knowledge.

We live in a world of information, which we deem to be knowledge. However, there is a big difference between the superficial knowledge of things and wisdom of life.

This often is the reason for the conflict between generations.

Youngsters rely on their world of information and tend to fight seniors who rather rely on wisdom gained through experience.

Religions give away informations as well, to sway their followers into “beliefs”.

The real truth is what supports our existence.

Though externally we all look different, we know the same air and same heat sustains us. As long as we are at the level of the mind it will force us to see differences and categorize as me, mine and not mine.

We can oppose or dislike something only if it is “not mine”. So to destroy this negative and destructive Sumbha and Nisumbha (ego and attachment) in us, we have to invoke the Jnanasakthi in us, or rise to the level of the intellect, from the level of the mind.

Once JnanaDevi dawns as true understanding of Universality and we learn to look upon everything as part of one truth, Me and mine,(Sumba And Nisumbha) will be killed.

If identifications fall off, only the awareness of oneness remains and such a society will be be rich and prosperous with respect and honor. Lakshmi and Saraswathi will exist there together.

To be continued ...