There are three impediments to God-realization – attachment to sense-enjoyments, attachment to actions and fickleness.
Lust, greed, delusion, gluttony – this is attachment to sense-enjoyments. ‘I want to have more and more…’ – this is attachment to actions. The third impediment is fickleness. These three are the causes of our downfall on the path to God-realization.
To get rid of attachment to actions, work for the multitude rather than for yourself. Don’t work for fame, for destroying enemies or for pleasing friends; do whatever you do for the lord’s pleasure. Your attachment to actions, one gets repose in god. Reposing in god gives spiritual might and joy. Might and joy rightly utilized makes one free from passion for sense-enjoyments. If one has some faith and dedication he can get rid of the three impediments – attachment to sense enjoyments, attachment to actions and fickleness soon.
Earmark some time from your busy schedule for practicing concentration at any holy place in seclusion, suited to remain free from sense-enjoyments. Do japa and fix your gaze at a point for sometime, your eye balls moving neither left nor right nor up nor down. Take a vow to practice it for forty days. I have no words to describe the benefits that will accrue to you there from. And this you can easily do. You can oblige me by taking a vow to practice it. It will do good not only to you but also to the family you live in. the vibrations of japa of OM will work in the environment around you. ‘OM…OM…Bliss…OM…OM… Sweetness…OM…OM…Salutation to the Supreme Lord…OM….OM Beloved OM…OM…OM…My OM…’ Repeat these pious words with great love and affection and become silent. As a child giggles in joy and then hides itself in the mother’s lap, chant OM… the pious and benevolent name of the Holy Supreme Soul and become silent. Be silent for the duration you take for chanting. Abandon yourself in love. OM…OM…is cry for love and affection. The child cries out ‘Mother! Mother!’ when the mother responds, the child hides itself. The mother alone knows the joy and love this evokes in the mother’s heart. Similarly, cry out OM….OM… and hide yourself in the Lord’s lap. Play hide and seek with the Supreme Lord.
‘O Lord! Give me this … give me that…’ –is this love? Why do you become a beggar? What we need, he know what we would require after birth. And he made provision for milk. How wonderful an arrangement He knows to make! Why then should we make childish demands – ‘Give me this… give me that…’? Take a vow here and now, not to complain or become a beggar.
Take a vow and resolve instead, ‘O Lord! I shall love you… you are my very own whatever you do is meant for my good alone whether I know it or not.
‘Our Lord and Master is the One who acts, and causes others to act.
He is the lnner-knower of all hearts.’
Once you take such a vow, your miseries will vanish leaving no trace.
Then you will realize that sorrow is the other name for ignorance and useless desires. The folly of desiring for the insentient though being the consciousness, of craving for the transient while being the Eternal and of crying for perishable things and circumstances while being the imperishable, will come to an end.
Lust, greed, delusion, gluttony – this is attachment to sense-enjoyments. ‘I want to have more and more…’ – this is attachment to actions. The third impediment is fickleness. These three are the causes of our downfall on the path to God-realization.
To get rid of attachment to actions, work for the multitude rather than for yourself. Don’t work for fame, for destroying enemies or for pleasing friends; do whatever you do for the lord’s pleasure. Your attachment to actions, one gets repose in god. Reposing in god gives spiritual might and joy. Might and joy rightly utilized makes one free from passion for sense-enjoyments. If one has some faith and dedication he can get rid of the three impediments – attachment to sense enjoyments, attachment to actions and fickleness soon.
Earmark some time from your busy schedule for practicing concentration at any holy place in seclusion, suited to remain free from sense-enjoyments. Do japa and fix your gaze at a point for sometime, your eye balls moving neither left nor right nor up nor down. Take a vow to practice it for forty days. I have no words to describe the benefits that will accrue to you there from. And this you can easily do. You can oblige me by taking a vow to practice it. It will do good not only to you but also to the family you live in. the vibrations of japa of OM will work in the environment around you. ‘OM…OM…Bliss…OM…OM… Sweetness…OM…OM…Salutation to the Supreme Lord…OM….OM Beloved OM…OM…OM…My OM…’ Repeat these pious words with great love and affection and become silent. As a child giggles in joy and then hides itself in the mother’s lap, chant OM… the pious and benevolent name of the Holy Supreme Soul and become silent. Be silent for the duration you take for chanting. Abandon yourself in love. OM…OM…is cry for love and affection. The child cries out ‘Mother! Mother!’ when the mother responds, the child hides itself. The mother alone knows the joy and love this evokes in the mother’s heart. Similarly, cry out OM….OM… and hide yourself in the Lord’s lap. Play hide and seek with the Supreme Lord.
‘O Lord! Give me this … give me that…’ –is this love? Why do you become a beggar? What we need, he know what we would require after birth. And he made provision for milk. How wonderful an arrangement He knows to make! Why then should we make childish demands – ‘Give me this… give me that…’? Take a vow here and now, not to complain or become a beggar.
Take a vow and resolve instead, ‘O Lord! I shall love you… you are my very own whatever you do is meant for my good alone whether I know it or not.
‘Our Lord and Master is the One who acts, and causes others to act.
He is the lnner-knower of all hearts.’
Once you take such a vow, your miseries will vanish leaving no trace.
Then you will realize that sorrow is the other name for ignorance and useless desires. The folly of desiring for the insentient though being the consciousness, of craving for the transient while being the Eternal and of crying for perishable things and circumstances while being the imperishable, will come to an end.
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