“Apurya manam achala pratistham samudram apaha pravisanti yadvat
tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve sa santim apnoti na kama-kami”
“Apurya manam achalam pratishtam samudram apaha pravishanti yadvat” – The ocean is full of water. It is unmoving. Of course, in the ocean waves may rise and fall, but the ocean itself, in a sense, is full. “Tatvad kama,” when the objects of senses are seen by a wise person, he is in peace and remains in peace. Whereas, “na kama kami”, a person who is not wise, or Ajnani, he doesn’t get peace. So, there is a quality of a Jnani, an Enlightened person or a Realized person, and a quality of a person who is an Ajnani. The comparison is the ocean. Ocean is full of water only. All rivers pour water into the ocean. The rains pour water into the ocean. The clouds take some water from the ocean. But, it doesn’t make any difference to the ocean. It doesn’t mean that the ocean itself will rise or fall or expand, it doesn’t mean anything. The presence or absence of rivers, or clouds doesn’t make any difference to the ocean.
Similarly, the presence or absence of sense objects don’t make any difference to any Jnani. Why doesn’t it make any difference to a Jnani? Because he is full of peace. Why is he full of peace? Because, he has realized his fullness, totality. He has realized that he is not the body, mind, intellect, but he is Consciousness. Consciousness is everything, it is all that is there. All the sense objects and the world are all in me, the Consciousness. This is the understanding of a Jnani. For such a person, addition of a few sense objects, or deletion of a few sense objects, how does it make any difference? He is already peaceful. Any peace or joy, which is brought by the sense objects doesn’t make any difference to him, because he is already poorna.
Whereas, an Ajnani feels everything is different from him. He seeks happiness through sense objects. “I will become happy, if I get something”. “I will become joyful if I get something”. This is the state of an Ajnani. An Ajnani feels that he will gain happiness by getting something. Whereas, this is not the state of a Jnani. So, Jnani is like an ocean, whereas Ajnani is like a small pond. To a small pond of water if some water comes, the pond will overflow. If some water is drained, it will become dry. The presence of sense objects makes an Ajnani feel joyful, absence of that makes him sorrowful. This is the difference between a Jnani and an Ajnani.