SAB Satsangh: Vidura Neethi - 1

REASONS FOR NOT GETTING SLEEP:

Vidura says: five kinds of people are unable to sleep.

1. A man who lusts after the wife of another.
   
   
2. A thief (the thing does not belong to him so the thief is always under the insecurity that the things will be taken away)
   
   
3. A man who has lost all his wealth (attachment is still going on. Before he was identifying himself with his wealth and now he is identifying himself with the lost wealth. Shankaracharya's bhaja govindam says "maa kuru dhana jaya youvana gharvam harthi nimesha kaala: sarvam….all are impermanent. The time is ruthless and it takes away everything from you in no time) OR one who thinks all his wealth will be lost. (srila prabhupada says that the man is always lamenting about two things : 1) what he do not have 2) what was lost. All of us have an opinion that if we have more money we will be happy. But if we interview any rich man, we can clearly see the insecurity in him, even with his own son. All the time he sees the keys are safe. Documents are safe. Vigilant about who is coming and who is going. Then when he can sleep? Ambani brothers are fighting now…for what? Will they have a peaceful sleep?)
   
   
4. An unsuccessful man (all the time working with the winning strategies. Not alike in success and failure…attached to the fruit of actions).
   
   
5. A weak man oppressed by a strong man. (fear of losing. Fear of body created by the mind. Buddhi doesn't work for this people).

But Vidura said to Dhrithrashtra that none of these five kinds fits him. Then what is the reason for his sleeplessness?

Vidura said:

It is not today that you did not sleep. I think it is going on for so many years from the moment the pandavas came to Hastinapura after their father's death or even before Pandu had a son who was elder to Duryodhana.

Since that day the jealousy has lodged in your heart.

You are not righteous. You are a sinful person. You are responsible for the sufferings of the Pandavas. How can a sinful person like you get sleep? (if somebody is suffering because of our actions intentionally, can we sleep? If we have punished our child for our own selfishness, can we sleep? If we are using other person's pen without his knowledge can we be peaceful? I have excess luggage. I want to escape by paying a bribe to the airport guy. What is the mental state at that time? We have our own experiences as examples to these slokas.)

Vidura further says to Dhrithrashtra, "Yudishtra always considers you as father and pays due respect to you. But because you have an eye for the kingdom and want your son to rule over the kingdom, you always behave like a thief to him. No surprise you are suffering from sleeplessness". (9th chapter – asuric and raakshasik act. Eye on mohini…eye on glamorous things…lost focus…MOHAA CAPTURED DHRITHRASHTRA)

Lastly vidura says

GIVE THE KINGDOM TO YUDHISHTRA, YOU WILL SLEEP LIKE A CHILD.

YOU ARE NOT WISE. YOU ARE FOOLISH.


The next slokas talk about who is wise and who is foolish. We will see it in the next week.


What do we learn from these slokas?

• LEAD A RIGHTEOUS LIFE.
  
  
• BE IN THE PATH OF DHARMA.
  
  
• IF WE ARE IN DHARMA, WE ARE WITH THE LORD.
  
  
• IF WE DO NOT HAVE JEALOUSY, COVETEOUSNESS, HATRED WHICH COMES TO ONE BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH OF ATTACHMENT, WE ARE ASSURED OF A GOOD SLEEP.