5. Have love for divine joy : Love and attachment for the world make and the mind wicked. Whatever be the object of your love and attachment, it will make you suffer and weep. With whatsoever and for whomsoever you have attachment, that is bound to get separated from you get annoyed with you, get erased, depart from you and desert you. Therefore, save yourself from attachment and love for the world. ‘Have love for dispassion and be firm in Bhakti.’ Develop passion for dispassion and love for divine joy. This will help you calm the restless mind and make you successful in attaining real happiness.
6. Restrain the mind from whatever causes it to wander and set it on God: From whatever cause the mind wanders away, manoeuvre it towards its real divine nature free from deceit, fraud, guile and also from attraction towards virtues and vices. Get reposed in your Divine Self and awaken your sense of discrimination. Ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ and gradually become peaceful.
7. Don’t follow the dictates of your mind: The more you avoid unnecessary desires and futile endeavours, the more your meaningful desires and endeavours will be spontaneously fulfilled. If you save yourself from attachment even to meaningful desires and endeavours, you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. If you love God, you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. Once Yoga of wisdom is attained, even the pleasures of heavens will look insipid to you.
8. Detach yourself from your mind and watch its actions: By doing protracted japa of ‘Om’ become calm. This calms the mind as well. ‘I am neither the body, nor the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego; I am the Supreme Being beyond all these. Who am I?” Reflecting on such thoughts too makes the mind calm and composed guileless. Contem plate, ‘Pleasure and pain affect the mind; I am the one who is a witness to these events. Who am I?’ You want to attain God, but who is it that will attain God? ‘It is I,’ you say. Think deeply as to who that ‘I’ is. This enquiry too will help the mind to become calm and get reposed in God.
9. Think over every movement of the mind and save it from evil thoughts: Contemplation too makes the wandering mind calm. Contemplate, ‘What can the world give to me? What can I take with me when I die? How long shall I remain mired occurred, but ultimately what next? Pleasure and pain come and go; I, who is their witness, remain equanimous. Remembering such thoughts also makes the mind calm and composed.
10. Keep the mind always engaged in noble deeds: Service rendered to others gives peace of mind. Desires and restlessness of the mind gradually get erased with the joy of altruism.
11. Do Meditation and trataka: Blink your eyes and then fix your gaze steadily on God’s or your Guru’s idol or picture without looking left or right. Do japa of ‘om’ The mind will gradually become steady. Your desires will start waning.
12. Study spiritual books: The mind becomes calm and gets filled with divine emotions by reading scriptures like the Gita, Sri Yogavasishtha Maharamayana, Upanishads and the biographies of Self-realized saints, etc. The restlessness of the mind is not as bad as are desires, deceit, fraud and guile. They cannot be eradicated unless we have the inclination to get rid of them. If we continue to nurture them, there will be no end to our misery however many strategies we adopt to get rid of them. On the other hand, if we uproot and throw these scoundrels out, Supreme Joy, Supreme Bliss, Supreme Opulence, Self-bliss, Self-contentment, Self-satisfaction will manifest.
13. Use your discrimination: Deceit, fraud, guile, delusion, ego and lust increase our misery. Don’t establish friendship with these scoundrels; don’t nurture them. Why should we lend and ear to any person without a Guru? What can he give us? Has he attained God? Has he attained peace? Then how can he give peace and happiness to us? Has he fully assimilated the Guru’s grace? Why should we listen to him when he himself is not happy?
Key to Quick Success
When you tread the path towards God and circumstances become favourable to you, it shows that you have succeeded on this path a little bit. However, if you start facing adversities, then take it as a sign that you will be treading the path speedily.
‘They alone, whom He loves,
Are by Him tried and put to test.
The treasures of His benign grace,
Does He shower on them under this pretext.’
That sadhak or bhakta is fortunate, who gets a relative who harasses him. Mira may not have been so resolute had she not had relative who oppressed and troubled her. Had it not been for Hiranyakashipu to trouble Prahlad, he might not have been so steadfast in his devotion. Had Sant, Eknath not come by trouble makers, it is possible he might not have been so firmly established in patience and divine peace. When troubles and obstacles come our way, we should realize that God wants to establish us quickly in our divine nature of serenity. On the other hand, if pleasure and comfort come our way, we should realize that God knows our weakness that we are devoted to pleasure and so He gives us these toys. Utilize the toys that come to you. Beware of wasting your life after them as there are mere toys. Accept them as gift from God, receive it as Prasad and then do not eat, it alone, but distribute it to others as well. Similarly, when you are blessed with competence or comfort make good use of them in the service of God; Likewise, when faced with difficulties or obstacles, just tide over them and get to your serene nature. Such a sadhak quickly succeeds in his spiritual path.
6. Restrain the mind from whatever causes it to wander and set it on God: From whatever cause the mind wanders away, manoeuvre it towards its real divine nature free from deceit, fraud, guile and also from attraction towards virtues and vices. Get reposed in your Divine Self and awaken your sense of discrimination. Ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ and gradually become peaceful.
7. Don’t follow the dictates of your mind: The more you avoid unnecessary desires and futile endeavours, the more your meaningful desires and endeavours will be spontaneously fulfilled. If you save yourself from attachment even to meaningful desires and endeavours, you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. If you love God, you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. Once Yoga of wisdom is attained, even the pleasures of heavens will look insipid to you.
8. Detach yourself from your mind and watch its actions: By doing protracted japa of ‘Om’ become calm. This calms the mind as well. ‘I am neither the body, nor the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego; I am the Supreme Being beyond all these. Who am I?” Reflecting on such thoughts too makes the mind calm and composed guileless. Contem plate, ‘Pleasure and pain affect the mind; I am the one who is a witness to these events. Who am I?’ You want to attain God, but who is it that will attain God? ‘It is I,’ you say. Think deeply as to who that ‘I’ is. This enquiry too will help the mind to become calm and get reposed in God.
9. Think over every movement of the mind and save it from evil thoughts: Contemplation too makes the wandering mind calm. Contemplate, ‘What can the world give to me? What can I take with me when I die? How long shall I remain mired occurred, but ultimately what next? Pleasure and pain come and go; I, who is their witness, remain equanimous. Remembering such thoughts also makes the mind calm and composed.
10. Keep the mind always engaged in noble deeds: Service rendered to others gives peace of mind. Desires and restlessness of the mind gradually get erased with the joy of altruism.
11. Do Meditation and trataka: Blink your eyes and then fix your gaze steadily on God’s or your Guru’s idol or picture without looking left or right. Do japa of ‘om’ The mind will gradually become steady. Your desires will start waning.
12. Study spiritual books: The mind becomes calm and gets filled with divine emotions by reading scriptures like the Gita, Sri Yogavasishtha Maharamayana, Upanishads and the biographies of Self-realized saints, etc. The restlessness of the mind is not as bad as are desires, deceit, fraud and guile. They cannot be eradicated unless we have the inclination to get rid of them. If we continue to nurture them, there will be no end to our misery however many strategies we adopt to get rid of them. On the other hand, if we uproot and throw these scoundrels out, Supreme Joy, Supreme Bliss, Supreme Opulence, Self-bliss, Self-contentment, Self-satisfaction will manifest.
13. Use your discrimination: Deceit, fraud, guile, delusion, ego and lust increase our misery. Don’t establish friendship with these scoundrels; don’t nurture them. Why should we lend and ear to any person without a Guru? What can he give us? Has he attained God? Has he attained peace? Then how can he give peace and happiness to us? Has he fully assimilated the Guru’s grace? Why should we listen to him when he himself is not happy?
Key to Quick Success
When you tread the path towards God and circumstances become favourable to you, it shows that you have succeeded on this path a little bit. However, if you start facing adversities, then take it as a sign that you will be treading the path speedily.
‘They alone, whom He loves,
Are by Him tried and put to test.
The treasures of His benign grace,
Does He shower on them under this pretext.’
That sadhak or bhakta is fortunate, who gets a relative who harasses him. Mira may not have been so resolute had she not had relative who oppressed and troubled her. Had it not been for Hiranyakashipu to trouble Prahlad, he might not have been so steadfast in his devotion. Had Sant, Eknath not come by trouble makers, it is possible he might not have been so firmly established in patience and divine peace. When troubles and obstacles come our way, we should realize that God wants to establish us quickly in our divine nature of serenity. On the other hand, if pleasure and comfort come our way, we should realize that God knows our weakness that we are devoted to pleasure and so He gives us these toys. Utilize the toys that come to you. Beware of wasting your life after them as there are mere toys. Accept them as gift from God, receive it as Prasad and then do not eat, it alone, but distribute it to others as well. Similarly, when you are blessed with competence or comfort make good use of them in the service of God; Likewise, when faced with difficulties or obstacles, just tide over them and get to your serene nature. Such a sadhak quickly succeeds in his spiritual path.
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