Uddaseena Vritti is a mental state where one can observe the world and its happenings with equanimity. It is a step towards achieving a state of nirvana.
The learned or the wise smile through the eyes; the middle-class smile through the teeth and lips; the lowest make a roaring laughter; but the muneeshwara (a form of Shiva) never smiles or laughs.
Neither long for life nor wish for death but wait for the time like the servant on his master. This is the different mental state of a Jnani.
What are the qualities of a Jnani?
According to Bhagwad Gita chapter 13
- Humility
- Unpretentiousness
- Ahimsa
- Patience
- Simplicity
- Service and worshipful attitude for the teacher
- Cleanliness
- Conviction
- Self-control of the senses
- Detachment
- Absence of egoism
- Awareness of birth, death and life
- Non-attachment
- Equanimity
- Unswerving devotion and dedication to truth and in me
- Solitude
- Avoiding crowds
- Perpetual spiritual knowledge of the self and the Supreme Awareness of the distinction between atma (self or real) and anatma (non-self or unreal)
- Vision or perception of the goal of knowing the truth. Constantly asking, ‘How does it matter?’
Dear Ones, let us just try to embrace any one of these virtues. Swami Sivananda said that one can learn from a baby. A new born baby is always in Samadhi. He is Brahman himself. Maya enters in him only when he begins to look steadily at his parents and recognizes them and smiles.
Aim Hrim Klim
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