Posted on: 08 Dec 2021
[Smt. Chhanda Chandra asked: Swami, from the excellent divine knowledge in the form of Trailokya Gita, I could come to know what all are the SHATCHAKRAs and their significance. I do not know whether it is a mere coincidence or Your grace (I think second one is more correct) that I got all these answers when I was exactly thinking of asking You. In the Bengali book PRAN PURUSH on YOGIRAJ SHYAMACHARAN LAHIRI, it is written that my Sadguru only can clarify all these SHATCHAKRAs. From Your magnetic knowledge I now know what are their actual meaning. Yogiraj is saying that by doing KRIYAYOG only we will be able to overcome all these bonds. But I think I am still missing the main point about how to do this kriyayog as I am an illiterate person in this field. What I mean to say is that do I need to do any tapas or dhyana? If so then how? Or if there is any other process (or whatever it is) also through which we can overcome these bonds. Swami please enlighten me on this in a detailed way so that an uneducated person like me can understand it. It will be possible only with Your grace Swami. At Your divine lotus feet Chhanda Chandra.]
Swami Replied: Regarding Shatchakras, already I have explained that they are simply the worldly bonds that obstruct us in developing strong bond with God. Regarding Kriyayoga, first, we must know that Yoga means in the context of the association with God. Kriya means our actions done with body, words, mind and intelligence. The work may be divided into two parts: 1. Work related to God and 2. Work related to the world, which is essential for the basic life since it is the foundation for the spiritual life also. If the basic foundation is damaged, the upper building will be also affected. Hence, the work related to the basic needs of life must be concentrated with topmost priority. After that, we can concentrate on the work of God. We can get more time and energy by filtering unnecessary worldly works like gossips of worldly life, cinemas of worldly life, reading books about worldly life and other worldly entertainments. By controlling the unnecessary worldly works, we can save lot of energy and time that can be diverted to God’s work. This is just like the project called ‘wealth from waste’ as proposed by scientific research organizations. In fact, if we control the wastage, there is no poverty in our materialistic life. One can become very rich by controlling the wastage of wealth. Kriyayoga strictly means the work related to God since the word Yoga means that which is associated with God. Some clever people try to colour the worldly work to become God’s work by some intellectual gymnastics through saying like that 1. The worldly work can be treated as God’s work! and 2. The fruit of worldly work can be enjoyed by detaching the self with such fruit etc. All these tricks are only false shows of their intelligence before the omniscient God like a petty monkey jumping before God Hanuman! I heard some saint telling that sacrifice of the attachment to the fruit of work is equal to the sacrifice of the fruit of work!! I also heard people saying that ‘work is worship’ and by this they say that they are equal to climax devotees doing worship only as their work!!! One should be frank and sincere before God and this is the first alphabet ‘A’ in the spiritual knowledge.