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Questions The whole creation has come from Ananda, then why is distress all over?
Answers by
PROF. HR NAGENDRA,
Vice Chancellor,
SVYASA, Bangalore, India
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That when everything is Ananda, when all pervasive reality is the state of absolute bliss and this creation has come out of it, why should there be dukha, why should there be misery, why should there be distress is a natural question that comes to everybody. Look at the wave in a ocean, everything is water, some waves will have small ripples, some are big waves, some are small waves, some are like cyclonic waves, some are Tsunami waves, but all are water. Similarly our entire life and all of us are nothing but the same bliss, Ananda. But when in the manifestation some may be very big, some may be very small. When it is very small we say it is misery, we say that it is distress. When the Tsunami wave comes, or the tornado comes or the cyclonic wave comes, it is going to destroy everything isn’t it. In the same way here the Ananda its manifestation could be big, it could be small. When it becomes smaller and smaller and smaller it is what we call as tensions, stresses and the miseries and the distress and devastating distress. When the Ananda is more you are moving towards the Samadhi more and more. Therefore in the scheme of things there is nothing like misery. It is all ananda, ananda, ananda. Lot of ananda, tremendous amount of ananda, less ananda, less ananda, less ananda, less and less happiness, less and less happiness. From one point onwards you call them as misery, you call it as distress, you call it as stress, you call it as tension, you call it as terrible things that are happening. But it is all manifestation of the same reality. It is only a change in the amplitude, a change in the frequency that occurs there just like a big wave or a small wave. This is the total understanding when you understand that everything is nothing but the ocean of bliss. It is from the ananda the whole thing has come. The same water that was showing us waves, that is the understanding that Jnana Yoga has to offer.
