Dwandwaateeta

द्वन्द्वातीत

(Beyond opposites)

Sukhadukham samam krutvaa laabhaalaabhau jayaajayau, tells the Lord. Get beyond the pairs of opposites like happiness and sorrow, profit and loss, victory and defeat etc. Beyond likes and dislikes.

Happiness is taste of inherent Bliss And sorrow is putting away or ignoring your ever present Bliss. What you spend is another's bread. Profit and loss is relative. Victory is seeing victory in defeat. Defeat is greediness for more and more victories.

The pairs are inseparable Siamese twins. Like two sides of a coin. You cannot cut a hen , eat one half and keep other half for laying eggs, says Shankaraachaarya.

A point on the rim of a wheel goes up and next minute down, says Kaalidaasa. What goes up has to come down (A French proverb-Be nice to people on your way up. You are likely to meet them on your way down). One who is born has to die some day.

Likes and dislikes go together. They drag you into the net of desires and ultimately to death of happiness in life. Get over both: desire will not touch you. Renounce and rejoice (Discussed earlier).

Happiness goes hand in hand with sorrow. Pleasure with pain. But Bliss is absolute, with no opposite. Bliss in the heart is not touched whether the mind enjoys pleasures or suffers sorrows. Pleasure is unconscious return of mind to heart (Bliss). Sorrow is mind straying away from the heart. Keep hands in the world and mind in the heart where God resides, where Bliss is ever present.

Bliss is perpetual, eternal. It is the nature of Brahman and hence reigns untouched and supreme. Be conscious of this fact when you play your part in the world.