A wrestler was capable of lifting a he buffalo. A saint came to him and expressed his surprise, “How come you lift such a big animal?”
He replied, “Babaji! To tell you the truth, when a buffalo gave birth to a calf, I picked it up. Then I started lifting it everyday. It went on growing and continued to lift it. That practice has grown to a big he-buffalo, though it looks like a miracle to the people.
So this miracle is the result of practice. Mind is a servant of yours. God has given you ten maids and one manager. Five organs of action and five organs of action and five organs of perception these are ten maids; and mind, the manager who controls them, is your servant. The mind is your servant and you are the master. But when you get wrong things done through you r mind, it knows your weak points. When it sees your weaknesses, it becomes dominant, whimsical and disobedient. It makes you dance to its tunes. In reality, the mind should do our bidding but by getting it to do wrong things, we have made it self-willed and wayward. Then we go where it leads us to; we do what it wants us to do, we think what it wants us to think. What the mind deems good is good for us and what it considers bad is bad for us. The fact is that we are overpowered by the mind and it rules over us. In the Gita, Lord Krishna tells us how to control our mind.
‘The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding, O Krishna! I deem it as difficult to control as to control the wind.’
‘Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and restless; but, by practice and by dispassion it may be restrained!’
I one has developed dispassion but does not resort to practice, that detachment leads to frenzy. The behaviour of such a person becomes rather eccentric and foolish. Practice is the first requirement. What will you can the man, who wants to reap a Similarly, those who want to develop dispassion in their lives without practice, miss the real joy of detachment. There is a distinctive joy power and competence in dispassion but that comes only after doing practice.
So practice has great power. What looks difficult without practice becomes easy after sustained practice. Similarly, Self-realization or darshan of God, deliverance from the cycle of birth and death, becoming one with God, the Bliss Absolute – all this appears difficult to you. But if a wrestler can, with constant practice, lift a he-buffalo, what wonder if you attain Supreme Bliss by endeavouring on path of God-realization according to the instructions of scriptures and the Satguru! Selfless service, meditation and satsang are all that is needed!
He replied, “Babaji! To tell you the truth, when a buffalo gave birth to a calf, I picked it up. Then I started lifting it everyday. It went on growing and continued to lift it. That practice has grown to a big he-buffalo, though it looks like a miracle to the people.
So this miracle is the result of practice. Mind is a servant of yours. God has given you ten maids and one manager. Five organs of action and five organs of action and five organs of perception these are ten maids; and mind, the manager who controls them, is your servant. The mind is your servant and you are the master. But when you get wrong things done through you r mind, it knows your weak points. When it sees your weaknesses, it becomes dominant, whimsical and disobedient. It makes you dance to its tunes. In reality, the mind should do our bidding but by getting it to do wrong things, we have made it self-willed and wayward. Then we go where it leads us to; we do what it wants us to do, we think what it wants us to think. What the mind deems good is good for us and what it considers bad is bad for us. The fact is that we are overpowered by the mind and it rules over us. In the Gita, Lord Krishna tells us how to control our mind.
‘The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding, O Krishna! I deem it as difficult to control as to control the wind.’
‘Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and restless; but, by practice and by dispassion it may be restrained!’
I one has developed dispassion but does not resort to practice, that detachment leads to frenzy. The behaviour of such a person becomes rather eccentric and foolish. Practice is the first requirement. What will you can the man, who wants to reap a Similarly, those who want to develop dispassion in their lives without practice, miss the real joy of detachment. There is a distinctive joy power and competence in dispassion but that comes only after doing practice.
So practice has great power. What looks difficult without practice becomes easy after sustained practice. Similarly, Self-realization or darshan of God, deliverance from the cycle of birth and death, becoming one with God, the Bliss Absolute – all this appears difficult to you. But if a wrestler can, with constant practice, lift a he-buffalo, what wonder if you attain Supreme Bliss by endeavouring on path of God-realization according to the instructions of scriptures and the Satguru! Selfless service, meditation and satsang are all that is needed!
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