Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 177
✍️ Sadguru Ganapathi Sachidananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
169
We discussed that Vayu Deva moves within the human body in the form of Prana, Apana, Vyana and Udana (vital airs in the body). He (Vayu Deva) helps us practice Yoga and provides good health. Although Air cannot be seen, we can feel it with our sense of touch.
Air has two attributes of sound and touch. It is only because air is constantly moving that the entire creation is filled with life. Without air, there is no life. It is due to air that the skin covers the body and we are able to live, otherwise we wouldn’t be alive. In the outer space, there are seven planes of atmosphere.
They are greatly benefiting the universe. Air exists in all living beings as life force or Prana. Even though it exists in everything, it has no attachments. It is subtly holding together the stars, the sky and the earth. “Anila” is Air. “Anala” is Fire. They are both friends. Anila and Anala – how nice are the names.
Air along with Fire carries the offerings from the sacrifices to the deities. That is why they are both good friends. Like that, the Wind God and Fire bring us the blessings from the Gods.
The Veda extolls the greatness of Wind, “Tvameva Pratyaksham Brahma”. Using “Soham Hamsah”, all the great sages and realized souls regulate the air in their body That means, we should understand that the sages and realized souls earned the wealth of penance and meditation due to air.
Air expands our intellect. It molds the mind as desired. It subjects the mind to expansion and contraction. It equips the mind for analysis, intelligence and awareness.
Knowledge, divinity, concentration, cleanliness and purity are caused by air. This the greatness of air.
Next, let us learn about what Avadhoota Swamy taught king Yadu. “I told you my second Guru is Air. We breathe in only as much air as we need.
Similarly, I learned that wise people eat not to appease their tongue, but just enough to survive. Air carries fragrant smells. Similarly it also carries bad odors, but remains untainted itself. Neither does it shake off the bad smells, nor does it get excited with the fragrances. Air remains without any changes.
Continues...
🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
08 Jan 2021