Why Every Scripture Repeats The Same Concept Of Dropping Raaga & Dvesha

In this talk, Ektaji discusses why every scripture (Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Ashtavakra Gita, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Narada Bhakti Sutras, Yoga Vasistha), repeat the same concept of dropping raaga (cravings) and dvesha (aversions).

Constant repetition of the awareness and dropping of cravings and aversions is vital to undo our past tendencies to get attracted to cravings and aversions.

Transcript

Every session I'll bring this up.

There is no other way you have to get done with all your ragas and vishas.

It comes up in every scripture.

Any scripture you pick up,

You know,

Finish Patanjali,

You go to Ashtavakra,

He talks about the same thing.

You finish Ashtavakra,

You go on to Upanishads,

They speak about the same thing.

You move on to Bhagavad Gita,

Lord Krishna is saying the same thing.

You move on to Narada Bhakti Sutras after that,

Narada is saying the same thing,

Exactly the same thing.

Till you don't get over this,

It will be repeated again and again and again.

And then you go to Yoga Vasishta and Yoga Vasishta is beating you with the same thing again and again and again.

People who are reading the Yoga Vasishta are like,

Oh my God,

He's repeating this the umpteenth time.

The intellect gets tired of it.

Yeah,

But it's required.

Why?

You repeated anger so many times in your life.

Can you even remember how many times you got angry?

How many times still today in these 30,

40,

50,

60 years have you become jealous?

Can you count?

How many times you became competitive?

How many times you were greedy?

How many times you were miserly?

How many times were you sad?

So much you have collected,

How do you want to get over it so easily?

And you repeated the same pattern.

Yeah.

A thorn is killed by a thorn.

Like destroys likes.

Yeah.

That is the way it is done.

Repetition caused the habit pattern.

Now to undo the habit pattern,

I have to keep repeating the cure.

Are you getting it?

Till this disease is completely wiped off.

It's like cancer in your body,

In your mind.

It has to be undone now.

That is why repetition will happen.

Don't worry.

In different ways.

That is why I come up with all different ways to do it so that you feel it's new.

Finally it's the same thing.

Every knowledge session will just appear,

Oh this is a new way to approach it.

Just came up with creative ways of approaching the same thing so that your mind doesn't get bored and lets you do the exercise.

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