Self is immutable and so is the Supreme Self. Be one with the immutable. Why do you allow yourself to be swept hither and thither like a straw? You become placeless in the face of petty troubles-not being able to have your way in some big small matter, not being able to gratify your senses, a slight to your ego, a servant not saluting, not getting approval or recognition in some bit or small matter… how small you become!
As you think so does your mind become therefore, please think over God. As you get up in the morning, remember, ‘God abides in my heart. I shall move outside by his power. I shall come to Him again and again.’ Practice ajapa Japa, means spontaneous Japa when the Mantra repeats itself without conscious effort, along with breathing. Practice the hints that were given to you at the time of Mantra Diksha. Practice reposing in the Self for 4-5 minutes at each hours of the day.
‘Which the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast by the method of habitual meditation, and constantly meditating, one goes to the Supreme Person, the Resplendent, ‘O Arjuna!’
Let the practice be converted to yoga. Don't let your mind go towards any person or thing other than God. Your mind will go towards different people and things but keep your attention fixed on the Lord alone, the non-dual reality manifest in the forms of different people and things.
Take an example. The bulb; the tube light; the fan, the motor, the pump and the refrigerator are different equipments; but all of them are powered by the same electricity. Similarly, my beloved Lord is there in everybody and everything. It is He in the form of father, mother and a friend. You come up with a doubt, ‘It is the Lord in the form of father and that Lord tells me not to go to satsang. Should I then go to sastang or I shouldn’t? Should that wish of the Lord be fulfilled?’
A woman put the same question to Swami Ramsukhdas, ‘It is the Lord in the form of my father-in-law as you say. Father in-law says I shouldn’t come to satsang. Should I then come to satsang or I shouldn’t? if I don't come to satsang, I am deprived of good teachings and knowledge which in turn makes my mind impure and turned to samsara. And if I come to satsang, I disobey the instructions of God in the form of my father-in-law.’
It is not the Lord in the form of father-in-law that tells her not to go to satsang; it is delusion or ego or both in the form of father-in-law that forbids her. It is not the Lord in the father that forbids you; it is ignorance and arrogance in the form of father that forbids you. God never forbids you from going to satsang; it is the ego ruling the father’s mind that is going so. The instructions of mother in-law, father-in-law, father or mother thus are inspired by delusion.
You are told in the satsang that Lord is in everybody and everything and that the Lord’s will be done. Your wife may interpret it that you should fulfil her wish of going to cinema for there is God in her. A drunkard in the name of being God will want you to have a drink with him and a gambler will like you to play a game of dice with him.
No! Lord is in everybody and everything means that the Lord abides in you. Thousands of gamblers are playing dice; let them play. You think of playing with the indweller Lord and thus turn your mind inwards. You shouldn’t mar your sadhana yielding to Guruless persons. You shouldn’t exhaust yourself capitulating to kinsmen laboring under delusion. God’s will be done means accepting whatever is happening whether or not it is to your liking. You don’t’ want to be insulted but somebody insults you; yield to the situation taking it to be God’s will and you will not feel hurt by the insulting behaviour. You want to eat something or get something but are not able to. Take it as Lord’s will and remain calm and composed. Taking what comes your way as God’s will, you should remain contented in yourself and should thereby attain self-Bliss. Not that you should capitulate to gamblers, drug-addicts or demands or your near and dear ones to cooperate in the matter of sense-gratification.
God’s will be done not that of our lust. ‘May not the will of my desires be done; may not the will of my ego be done, may not the desires of my friends engaged in sense gratification be done; instead may the will of the all-pervading Lord be done!’ That is all that is to be done! This looks to be small but if you do this, everything is done. Contemplate the name of God with every ingoing breath while counting every outgoing breath. You will start experiencing the bliss of inner self,
Some people, when they meditate, expect some type or depth of meditation. No, do not predetermine any type of meditation nor have any preconceived notion of the results it should produce. That is not the way. As you sit for meditation, tell Him, ‘O Lord! Hails to you! Thy will be done!’ this is meditation and reflection too! Empty your mind of all resolutions. Keep eradicating one thought after another as you go on reading ‘Sri Narayanstuti’ (a Book published by the ashram). Read this book and then immerse yourself in its meaning. You will start experiencing divine bliss immediately by doing so.
Whatever you do, do it for the pleasure of indweller Lord. Don't work for sense gratification or ego trip. Work with a view to propitiate the Lord. This is real service. If people seek your help or service by flattering you, be careful and examine yourself whether you are being motivated by adulation or you are rendering service for the pleasure of the guru or the indweller Lord. If you exercise this care, your service will become much rewarding.
Those who serve of appreciation and fame, become supercilious. They quarrel and fight amongst themselves like dogs they, on the other hand, develop a very sweet nature, who render service for the Guru’s or the Lord’s pleasure.
Submit to the will of the scriptures, God and the Guru and reject your ago. This will bring you immense good. Give your acceptance by saying, ‘O Lord! What you will is for the best of all! Thy will be done!’ if you admit this, what will happen? God is poorna, perfect. The perfect wants perfection everywhere. God, the knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute and Freedom Absolute, wants you too to become the same. What do you lose by His will being done? We don't give our acceptance and want out won will to prevail and that is the only cause of our troubles. ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ make no resolve, cherish no desire; have no insistence of any kind. God’s will being fulfilled means God will make you God. The fulfilled means God will make you God. The Supreme Brahman wants to see you as Brahman for you are in substance one and the same as Himself.
The folly commit is to importune God for fulfilling our wishes. We tell the Lord to grant us a son and we fix the time frame for His granting the wish and also spell out the qualities our son should possess as if God has no sense. Are you praying to God or giving instructions to a servant? This is lack of good sense. ‘O God! Let such and such thing happen in such and such way; let the weather be like such and such!’ no, he does whatever His sweet will says and that alone is good for us. Instead of praying for a particular kind of weather, pray to Him, ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ then whatever the weather may be, it will not cause any trouble to you. Just give your consent. If somebody hurls abuses at you, say in your mind, ‘God! You are great! Through these cuss words, you are destroying my ego. O Lord! Thy will be done!’ this in itself is a great sādhanā. If you think, ‘Oh my God! It is very hot…’ you will be tormented by hot weather. if you want to enjoy the rains yon will have to bear the summer heat as well. Summer heat is essential for the rains to come. Summer heat is essential also for making one strong enough to bear the cold as cold is essential for making one strong enough to bear the summer heat. Insults are necessary to make one able to assimilate appreciation and fame. Death is necessary for one to assimilate life. The Lord is doing all that is necessary for you. Acknowledge this and say, ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ this is the mantra and this is enough. It is very short and open to all. It is bliss all the way.
‘There is bliss every day, every moment, in every circumstance.
When one has become a lover of the Lord, the Bliss absolute, where is the scope for affliction?’
As you think so does your mind become therefore, please think over God. As you get up in the morning, remember, ‘God abides in my heart. I shall move outside by his power. I shall come to Him again and again.’ Practice ajapa Japa, means spontaneous Japa when the Mantra repeats itself without conscious effort, along with breathing. Practice the hints that were given to you at the time of Mantra Diksha. Practice reposing in the Self for 4-5 minutes at each hours of the day.
‘Which the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast by the method of habitual meditation, and constantly meditating, one goes to the Supreme Person, the Resplendent, ‘O Arjuna!’
Let the practice be converted to yoga. Don't let your mind go towards any person or thing other than God. Your mind will go towards different people and things but keep your attention fixed on the Lord alone, the non-dual reality manifest in the forms of different people and things.
Take an example. The bulb; the tube light; the fan, the motor, the pump and the refrigerator are different equipments; but all of them are powered by the same electricity. Similarly, my beloved Lord is there in everybody and everything. It is He in the form of father, mother and a friend. You come up with a doubt, ‘It is the Lord in the form of father and that Lord tells me not to go to satsang. Should I then go to sastang or I shouldn’t? Should that wish of the Lord be fulfilled?’
A woman put the same question to Swami Ramsukhdas, ‘It is the Lord in the form of my father-in-law as you say. Father in-law says I shouldn’t come to satsang. Should I then come to satsang or I shouldn’t? if I don't come to satsang, I am deprived of good teachings and knowledge which in turn makes my mind impure and turned to samsara. And if I come to satsang, I disobey the instructions of God in the form of my father-in-law.’
It is not the Lord in the form of father-in-law that tells her not to go to satsang; it is delusion or ego or both in the form of father-in-law that forbids her. It is not the Lord in the father that forbids you; it is ignorance and arrogance in the form of father that forbids you. God never forbids you from going to satsang; it is the ego ruling the father’s mind that is going so. The instructions of mother in-law, father-in-law, father or mother thus are inspired by delusion.
You are told in the satsang that Lord is in everybody and everything and that the Lord’s will be done. Your wife may interpret it that you should fulfil her wish of going to cinema for there is God in her. A drunkard in the name of being God will want you to have a drink with him and a gambler will like you to play a game of dice with him.
No! Lord is in everybody and everything means that the Lord abides in you. Thousands of gamblers are playing dice; let them play. You think of playing with the indweller Lord and thus turn your mind inwards. You shouldn’t mar your sadhana yielding to Guruless persons. You shouldn’t exhaust yourself capitulating to kinsmen laboring under delusion. God’s will be done means accepting whatever is happening whether or not it is to your liking. You don’t’ want to be insulted but somebody insults you; yield to the situation taking it to be God’s will and you will not feel hurt by the insulting behaviour. You want to eat something or get something but are not able to. Take it as Lord’s will and remain calm and composed. Taking what comes your way as God’s will, you should remain contented in yourself and should thereby attain self-Bliss. Not that you should capitulate to gamblers, drug-addicts or demands or your near and dear ones to cooperate in the matter of sense-gratification.
God’s will be done not that of our lust. ‘May not the will of my desires be done; may not the will of my ego be done, may not the desires of my friends engaged in sense gratification be done; instead may the will of the all-pervading Lord be done!’ That is all that is to be done! This looks to be small but if you do this, everything is done. Contemplate the name of God with every ingoing breath while counting every outgoing breath. You will start experiencing the bliss of inner self,
Some people, when they meditate, expect some type or depth of meditation. No, do not predetermine any type of meditation nor have any preconceived notion of the results it should produce. That is not the way. As you sit for meditation, tell Him, ‘O Lord! Hails to you! Thy will be done!’ this is meditation and reflection too! Empty your mind of all resolutions. Keep eradicating one thought after another as you go on reading ‘Sri Narayanstuti’ (a Book published by the ashram). Read this book and then immerse yourself in its meaning. You will start experiencing divine bliss immediately by doing so.
Whatever you do, do it for the pleasure of indweller Lord. Don't work for sense gratification or ego trip. Work with a view to propitiate the Lord. This is real service. If people seek your help or service by flattering you, be careful and examine yourself whether you are being motivated by adulation or you are rendering service for the pleasure of the guru or the indweller Lord. If you exercise this care, your service will become much rewarding.
Those who serve of appreciation and fame, become supercilious. They quarrel and fight amongst themselves like dogs they, on the other hand, develop a very sweet nature, who render service for the Guru’s or the Lord’s pleasure.
Submit to the will of the scriptures, God and the Guru and reject your ago. This will bring you immense good. Give your acceptance by saying, ‘O Lord! What you will is for the best of all! Thy will be done!’ if you admit this, what will happen? God is poorna, perfect. The perfect wants perfection everywhere. God, the knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute and Freedom Absolute, wants you too to become the same. What do you lose by His will being done? We don't give our acceptance and want out won will to prevail and that is the only cause of our troubles. ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ make no resolve, cherish no desire; have no insistence of any kind. God’s will being fulfilled means God will make you God. The fulfilled means God will make you God. The Supreme Brahman wants to see you as Brahman for you are in substance one and the same as Himself.
The folly commit is to importune God for fulfilling our wishes. We tell the Lord to grant us a son and we fix the time frame for His granting the wish and also spell out the qualities our son should possess as if God has no sense. Are you praying to God or giving instructions to a servant? This is lack of good sense. ‘O God! Let such and such thing happen in such and such way; let the weather be like such and such!’ no, he does whatever His sweet will says and that alone is good for us. Instead of praying for a particular kind of weather, pray to Him, ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ then whatever the weather may be, it will not cause any trouble to you. Just give your consent. If somebody hurls abuses at you, say in your mind, ‘God! You are great! Through these cuss words, you are destroying my ego. O Lord! Thy will be done!’ this in itself is a great sādhanā. If you think, ‘Oh my God! It is very hot…’ you will be tormented by hot weather. if you want to enjoy the rains yon will have to bear the summer heat as well. Summer heat is essential for the rains to come. Summer heat is essential also for making one strong enough to bear the cold as cold is essential for making one strong enough to bear the summer heat. Insults are necessary to make one able to assimilate appreciation and fame. Death is necessary for one to assimilate life. The Lord is doing all that is necessary for you. Acknowledge this and say, ‘O Lord! Thy will be done!’ this is the mantra and this is enough. It is very short and open to all. It is bliss all the way.
‘There is bliss every day, every moment, in every circumstance.
When one has become a lover of the Lord, the Bliss absolute, where is the scope for affliction?’
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