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Advaita Vedanta Guided Meditation #46

by Swami Viditatmananda Saraswatiji

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The Ashram has been established with the vision to bring the community together, engage them in various spiritual activities and an inquiry of the nature of the self, and develop an inter-relationship wherein the community members willingly volunteer in the Ashram activities with an attitude of selfless service. The Ashram provides a setup where the community members get inspired, and in turn inspire others to inquire about the principle quest of human life.

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Om Namah Shivaya,

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Om Namah Shivaya my salutations to Lord Shiva,

Namah,

Salutation in which there is the spirit of surrender.

Surrender means I submit my will to the will of the Lord.

Whatever Ishvara does is gracefully accepted by me.

Namah,

Graceful acceptance.

Graceful acceptance is an attitude of the mind when there is no complaint,

When there is no blaming.

There is usually a resistance in our mind towards unpleasant facts of life.

We resist,

We even reject,

We revolt against what is unpleasant,

What I do not want.

And we want to hang on to the things that I want.

Namah,

Surrender.

Letting go of the resistance.

I do not cling it to anything,

Nor do I reject anything.

This attitude is namah,

Graceful acceptance of what I cannot change.

The whole past is what I cannot change.

I gracefully accept.

There certainly would be pleasant and painful experiences in the past.

It is likely that some people may have caused me hurt and pain in the past.

And I may be carrying resentment or anger towards them.

Letting go of this resentment,

Letting go of the anger.

By recognizing that,

That is how Ishvara had intended it to be.

People who caused me pain were simply instruments.

Whatever came into my life was given by Ishvara.

For which there must have been reason which I may not know.

Namah,

Accepting the past,

Accepting the people of the past.

Letting go of the resentment or anger in recognition of the fact that whatever happened was all Ishvara's doing.

Namah,

Letting go of the past.

I carry many guilt also because of what I perceive as improper things that I did.

Namah,

Letting go of the guilt.

I did whatever I did because I did not know any better.

Because I was helpless.

Seeing helplessness of others enables me to let go of anger or resentment towards them.

And seeing helplessness of myself enables me to let go of the guilt.

Namah,

Letting go of the hurt and guilt of the past.

Not hanging on to the past.

Graceful acceptance of what I cannot change.

Free from resistance.

Free from rejection.

Free from complaint.

Whatever was,

Was in order.

Accepting the future.

Namah.

Whatever will happen in future.

I will gracefully accept as the order of Ishvara.

Pleasant and painful.

Success and failure.

Whatever the future will bring is acceptable to me.

Knowing that it comes for my growth.

And therefore giving up the anxieties of the future.

The worries and anxieties of the future are because of my unwillingness to accept the unpleasant.

But I realize that unpleasant also is a reality of life.

I will seek strength from Ishvara to gracefully accept the future.

Graceful acceptance of the past.

Graceful acceptance of the future.

And graceful acceptance of the pleasant.

Is in the present pleasant or unpleasant?

It is Ishvara in those forms,

Pleasant and unpleasant.

Graceful acceptance.

Namah.

Whatever pain I have to go through is destiny.

And people become instruments in creating what I have to go through.

Thus gracefully accepting the pain as necessary for my growth.

And it was me to accept the present.

Graceful acceptance of the past.

Graceful acceptance of the future.

Graceful acceptance of the present.

Namah.

And my mind is free from resentment,

Free from anger,

Free from blaming,

Free from complaint.

Removing the world the freedom to be what it is.

Not demanding that the world should change for myself.

Let the world be what it is.

Namah in graceful acceptance the mind is at peace.

The agitations come because of non-acceptance of what I cannot change.

Graceful acceptance of what I cannot change.

Namah.

That includes people,

Events,

Places,

Situations,

Everything around me.

This is an attitude of the mind which attitude is in keeping with the teaching.

Then what is,

Is Ishwa.

The past is Ishwa.

The future is Ishwa.

The present is Ishwa.

Ishwa comes in variety of forms,

Pleasant and painful.

Namah graceful acceptance,

Then the mind is at peace.

Then I can transcend.

I can create a distance and see the fact that in reality these things don't affect me.

I am ever unaffected.

The core of my being is ever unaffected.

The ego gets affected.

But the core of the ego which is my true self,

When I identify with that I see that peace ever prevails in the core of my being in spite of any storms around myself.

Namah the attitude of graceful acceptance enables me to retreat to the core of my being.

And see that in spite of whatever is around,

In spite of whatever the ego is,

I am of the nature of peace.

It is silence.

It is the ego that has all the resistance and the sentiment and complaint and blaming.

But I am not the ego.

Ego also is a costume.

I am the simple,

Silent,

Conscious person,

Ever peaceful,

Ever contented.

Jnana Nandirubhan.

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