23. Sānkhya Vichār

Question 1

It is as if the earth has been

Answer 1

split down to Pātāl (the lower realms), and we begin to fill it with water – obviously, it can never be filled. Similarly, the indriyas have never become satisfied by the vishays, and they never will be. Vachanamrut: Gadhada II 47

Question 2

“If one fills many trunks with 1000 million

Answer 2

packets of ash, locks and keeps them, and if when, someday, one needs them (to pay for something) one takes them out, will something useful come out?”
Then (someone) said, “No, Mahārāj.”
Then Swāmi said, “Without the murti of God and without the sādhu, all things up to Prakruti-Purush are packets of ash. Swamini Vat 3/28

Question 3

In the village of Chāḍiyā,

Answer 3

Swāmi said, ‘Live in the home, like a guest. Swamini Vat 4/62

Question 4

Eat lādus

Answer 4

and throw away the leaf dish in the form of the body. Swamini Vat 4/115

Question 5

Poisoned lādus taste

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good when eaten, but after a while they strangle the throat. Worldly activities are like this. Swamini Vat 5/336

Question 6

Daily, one should reflect on

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the impermanent nature of the world and on one’s ātmā as eternal and sachchidānand. Satsang Diksha: Shlok 151