649. Om adrsyayai namah: I bow down to Amma who is not perceived by the sense organs
Look into the eyes of a child. You can see God there. You can see your Krishna or Jesus or Buddha in the eyes of a child. But once the dormant vasanas start manifesting, the innocence will disappear. Vasanas are not completely absent in a child. They are there, but in the unmanifested state. If it is unmanifested, it must manifest one day or another. This is the difference between a child and a yogi. Even though there is innocence in a child, the child still has vasanas in the unmanifested state, waiting to manifest when the right time comes. A yogi, through spiritual practice, eradicates the vasanas completely. He becomes totally innocent, such that there aren't even any unmanifested vasanas lying dormant. The yogi has no vasanas to manifest because he kills the very source of them. He cuts out the vasanas by their roots, so they stop sprouting. He is clean and pure. He flows like a river, unhindered and unperturbed, into everything and without any difference.
I wish for me to reach a state where the vasanas are eradicated completely. But I know I'm very, very far from this form of self realization and spiritual attainment. The journey is long and arduous and in this birth we are meant, as Amma's children, to undertake this in order to remove our vasanas and kill the ego. Or rather recognise and realise how to control our ego. Thankfully we have a master such as Amma in our lives who can help achieve this.
Om Amriteswariye namah!
Look into the eyes of a child. You can see God there. You can see your Krishna or Jesus or Buddha in the eyes of a child. But once the dormant vasanas start manifesting, the innocence will disappear. Vasanas are not completely absent in a child. They are there, but in the unmanifested state. If it is unmanifested, it must manifest one day or another. This is the difference between a child and a yogi. Even though there is innocence in a child, the child still has vasanas in the unmanifested state, waiting to manifest when the right time comes. A yogi, through spiritual practice, eradicates the vasanas completely. He becomes totally innocent, such that there aren't even any unmanifested vasanas lying dormant. The yogi has no vasanas to manifest because he kills the very source of them. He cuts out the vasanas by their roots, so they stop sprouting. He is clean and pure. He flows like a river, unhindered and unperturbed, into everything and without any difference.
I wish for me to reach a state where the vasanas are eradicated completely. But I know I'm very, very far from this form of self realization and spiritual attainment. The journey is long and arduous and in this birth we are meant, as Amma's children, to undertake this in order to remove our vasanas and kill the ego. Or rather recognise and realise how to control our ego. Thankfully we have a master such as Amma in our lives who can help achieve this.
Om Amriteswariye namah!
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