So, if you sole refuge and motive behind your action, speech and transaction is God, you will attain communion while the Truth-consciousness and Bliss Absolute Supreme Self.
The samsara grieves us through friendship and worldly things make us toil when we think them our own. One remains busy looking after ornaments, cars, back balance, this and that only to die leaving everything behind. We have to leave them even after doing everything to secure them but if we secure it to meet our own selfish ends, it leads to bondage and if we do so for the sake of devotional love and altruism, it leads to liberation because both, the goal and refuge in this case is God. I too am looking after ashrams and so many things, but I am not bound by anything. It is only when you do anything out of selfishness that your action brings you disturbance, worry, sin and bondage and pushes you into the cycle of birth and death. If you utilize your capabilities for the good of all beholding the one Lord Vasudeva in all, and take refuge in God by surrendering the fruits of your actions to Him, your heart will be blessed with magnanimity and your intellect with divine inspiration. Then there will be no need for you to pass big examinations cramming big volumes in order to practice managements or parrot huge scriptures before giving sastang.
If you seek refuge not in your ego, but in God before speaking, if you speak for the sake of Lord Hari, Who is the Real Self of all beings, your eloquence will become satsang, your actions noble and life divine.
People do practice devotion for God’s love and support but in their hearts, they give important to (cherish the goal of) familial matters, money and fame, father than to God. So they do not seek refuge in God but in transient things enhancing their entanglement. If you give importance to God in your heart while working, shopping with your wife or traveling, then you have taken refuge in God. If your main aim is God and if you give importance to God in life, if translating or actions into Karmayoga and carrying out righteous actions is your motto, then your goal and refuge is God.
If your aim is to get pleasure by taking recourse to theft, then your goal and refuge are mean. If the aim is big, then even seeking support of lower person will do. For example there was rich couple who had a devout young daughter. Her aim was to have darshan of God. Once upon a time three or four thugs came to her house in the disguise of sadhus. In the absence of her parents, they told the girl, “Come with us wearing all the ornaments, we will let you behold the Lord.” She accompanied the thugs who disrobed her of all the ornaments and said, “Look into this well, you will behold God.” No sooner did she bend down to look into the well than the thugs pushed her into it and ran away. God appeared there and saved the girl! Though her refuge was mean, her goal was God, and hence she was saved. A detailed description of this incident appears in the ‘Bhaktamal’.
In the case of some, both the goal and refuge are higher. For example, when Hanumana went to Lanka, this aim was to serve Lord Rama and his refuge was Rama name, Karmayoga. Hanumana tried to make Ravana see reason in the name of Lord Rama but Ravana was far from surrendering his ego. Hanumana then burnt down Lanka. His aim was to make Ravana estimate the power of Lord Rama0 through the demonstration of the power of an ordinary messenger of His. So Hanumanji’s motto was to glorify Lord Ram. He was not hostile to Ravana, nor had he any intention to show his greatness by burning down Lanka. His aim was to bring good to Ravana by making him realize the greatness of Lord Rama.
God too while sending his messenger, says, “Go, see to it that while our purpose of bringing Sita is fulfilled, it should bring good to Ravana.”
‘Just frame your speech to the enemy in such a way as to advance my cause and benefit him too.’
Know the world to be transient and changing, and God to be Eternal and permanent. The samsara is the abode of sufferings. It torments through an enemy and inflicts pain through a friend. If a friend falls sick, we get disappointed. We will be sad if he meets with an accident. Any problem or calamity befalling him would mean pain and sorrow for us. We will be troubled if a friend turns into an enemy or dies, even after his death, his memory will grieve us.
The samsara grieves us through friendship and worldly things make us toil when we think them our own. One remains busy looking after ornaments, cars, back balance, this and that only to die leaving everything behind. We have to leave them even after doing everything to secure them but if we secure it to meet our own selfish ends, it leads to bondage and if we do so for the sake of devotional love and altruism, it leads to liberation because both, the goal and refuge in this case is God. I too am looking after ashrams and so many things, but I am not bound by anything. It is only when you do anything out of selfishness that your action brings you disturbance, worry, sin and bondage and pushes you into the cycle of birth and death. If you utilize your capabilities for the good of all beholding the one Lord Vasudeva in all, and take refuge in God by surrendering the fruits of your actions to Him, your heart will be blessed with magnanimity and your intellect with divine inspiration. Then there will be no need for you to pass big examinations cramming big volumes in order to practice managements or parrot huge scriptures before giving sastang.
If you seek refuge not in your ego, but in God before speaking, if you speak for the sake of Lord Hari, Who is the Real Self of all beings, your eloquence will become satsang, your actions noble and life divine.
People do practice devotion for God’s love and support but in their hearts, they give important to (cherish the goal of) familial matters, money and fame, father than to God. So they do not seek refuge in God but in transient things enhancing their entanglement. If you give importance to God in your heart while working, shopping with your wife or traveling, then you have taken refuge in God. If your main aim is God and if you give importance to God in life, if translating or actions into Karmayoga and carrying out righteous actions is your motto, then your goal and refuge is God.
If your aim is to get pleasure by taking recourse to theft, then your goal and refuge are mean. If the aim is big, then even seeking support of lower person will do. For example there was rich couple who had a devout young daughter. Her aim was to have darshan of God. Once upon a time three or four thugs came to her house in the disguise of sadhus. In the absence of her parents, they told the girl, “Come with us wearing all the ornaments, we will let you behold the Lord.” She accompanied the thugs who disrobed her of all the ornaments and said, “Look into this well, you will behold God.” No sooner did she bend down to look into the well than the thugs pushed her into it and ran away. God appeared there and saved the girl! Though her refuge was mean, her goal was God, and hence she was saved. A detailed description of this incident appears in the ‘Bhaktamal’.
In the case of some, both the goal and refuge are higher. For example, when Hanumana went to Lanka, this aim was to serve Lord Rama and his refuge was Rama name, Karmayoga. Hanumana tried to make Ravana see reason in the name of Lord Rama but Ravana was far from surrendering his ego. Hanumana then burnt down Lanka. His aim was to make Ravana estimate the power of Lord Rama0 through the demonstration of the power of an ordinary messenger of His. So Hanumanji’s motto was to glorify Lord Ram. He was not hostile to Ravana, nor had he any intention to show his greatness by burning down Lanka. His aim was to bring good to Ravana by making him realize the greatness of Lord Rama.
God too while sending his messenger, says, “Go, see to it that while our purpose of bringing Sita is fulfilled, it should bring good to Ravana.”
‘Just frame your speech to the enemy in such a way as to advance my cause and benefit him too.’
Know the world to be transient and changing, and God to be Eternal and permanent. The samsara is the abode of sufferings. It torments through an enemy and inflicts pain through a friend. If a friend falls sick, we get disappointed. We will be sad if he meets with an accident. Any problem or calamity befalling him would mean pain and sorrow for us. We will be troubled if a friend turns into an enemy or dies, even after his death, his memory will grieve us.
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