Sunday, October 11, 2009

Measure to Bring the Mind under control

(Contd from the previous issue)
(Execerpts form Pujya Bapuji satsang)
5. Have love for divine Joy: Love and attachment for the world make 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 get separated for you get annoyed with you, get erased depart form you and desert you. Get annoyed with you, get erased depart you. Therefore save yourself form attachment and love for the world. ‘Have love for dispassion and be firm in”Bhati.’ 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: Form whatever cause the mind wanders away maneuver it towards its real divine nature free form deceit fraud its real divine nature free from deceit, fraud guile and also from attraction in you 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 mid: The more you avoid unnecessary desires and futile endeavors the more your meaningful desires and endeavors will be spontaneously fulfilled. If you save yourself form attachment even to meaningful desires and endeavors, you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. If you love God you will attain to Yoga of wisdom. One Yoga of wisdom is attained even the pleasures of heavens will look insipid to you.
8. Detach yourself from your mind and watch its action: By doing protected japa of Om become calm. This calms the mind as well. I am neither the body nor themed nor the intellect nor the ego; I am the Supreme Being beyond all theses. Who am I? Reflecting on such composed and guileless.Cotem late, ‘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 form 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 lone shall l remain fired in the world? This event occurred, that even occurred but ultimately what next? Pleasure and pain come ad go I who is their with remind equaniomour. 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 tuatara: Blink you eyes and then fix your gaze steadily on god’s or your Guru idol or picture without looking left or right. Do japa of the mind will gradually become steady. Your desires will start wanting.
12. Study spiritual books: The mind becomes calm and gets filled with divine emotions by reading scriptures like the Gita, Sri Yogavasishtha Maharamayana, Upanishad and the biographies of Self realized saints eat. The restlessness of the mind is not as bad are desire 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 the. On the other hand, if we uproar 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 gulled delusion ego lust increase our misery. Don’t establish friendship with these scoundrels; don’t nurture an deceit? Why should we lend an ear to any person without a Guru? 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?
A deer is domed to die I the jungle where it is born. Similarly all human beings who are full of desires and attachments that generate all kinds of sorrows are destined to die in this world.
If man doesn’t act kike a foolish child in pursuit of his desires he would require only a minimal effort for Self realization. There for one minimal effort for of realizing. There fore one should direct all his efforts towards controlling his desires alone.
The elimination of desires leads to the supreme spiritual state. To be free from desires is salvation and to have desires is bondage. Therefore one should conquer desire a much possible. Is it difficult at all?

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