Saturday, September 21, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
Sri Maharaj's Pravachan-Sept.20
Remembering Prapancha Causes Sorrow
Everyone undergoes the experience that whatever and whoever you treated as yours and loved with attachment, ultimately failed to give real, genuine happiness. Therefore we should pray and ask Rama ,'this whole world is working on Your will alone. I am a petty creature, Rama, do You really find me to be a burden on You? Be kind, and forgive me for my innumerable unjust acts. I have heard stories of Your protection to those who surrender to You. Kindly have grace on me. I have come to your doorstep in the faith that You are the protector and giver; where else could I go except to You? The whole world is worthless, meaningless, without You. Everything about which I had become selfish has turned into a source of sorrow and pain. O Rama, whatever be my feeling, I now certainly belong to You. I have thrown myself at your doorstep, on Your mercy; I have no interest in worldly honour. Do whatever You like; eliminate my ego.'
So long as we associate with the body, the idea of 'me, mine' will stick on along with pride, and it will not allow awareness of God. When there is pitch darkness, there is no other remedy or its disappearance except the arrival of the sun. Similarly, the difficulties in the prapancha are inescapable. But, we should not get disheartened. Remembering and harping on these difficulties and sorrows is the real cause of unhappiness and of spoiling the inherent, inborn joy. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, are certainly creations of our attachment; selfishness means attachment. Thus, we ourselves are responsible for the sorrow. We are the owners of happiness and sorrow, worry and repentance, due to our attachment. Thoughts arising in a restless mind, create worry, and disturb the real, natural balanced state of the mind. Happiness and sorrow do not depend upon circumstances; they depend upon the attitude. We have regarded the world as real; this has caused sorrow, our mind becoming engrossed with sense-pleasures.
Remembering the past and worrying for the future are the real causes of unhappiness. There is only one remedy for this. Don't regard prapancha as a means for happiness, regard it as a field for doing duty; try to make the mind steady by continuous remembrance of God.
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
Sri Maharaj's Pravachan-Sept 19.
You can Transcend Time by Belonging to God
Our life is under continuous development. Compared to today we were behind yesterday, and tomorrow we shall be ahead of today. Even if this is true, if we don't do today what we are expected to do, we may slide backwards tomorrow. Our next life is the result of the present one. So if we are good today, our next birth may be good, according to the saying, 'the last dominant desire at death determines the next birth.'
Time has three dimensions; past, present and future. The past, which is already gone, will never return; you should never worry about it. When some one loses a near relative, we console him by saying, 'whatever has happened is a thing of past; what can you do? What is the use of grieving over it?' You should yourself follow your own advice; by conscious deliberation, you can forget past events. Similarly, you should not worry about the future, which is unknown. After doing today's duty, you should remain composed, remembering that,' whatever has to happen will happen'. Don't grieve over the past and don't worry about the future. At present, we cannot transcend time; and without transcending time, we can never attain God. Incidents are continuously unfolding in the world, and our anguish is ever there! This anguish is due to our shortcomings and incompleteness.
God is very happy when a human being is born, because He desires every one to know the Ultimate Reality, and this is possible only in human life. Everyone should remember that it is possible for him to comprehend God. For this, our mind should develop the feeling, desire, urge, anguish for God. What is the use of very good cooking, if you forget to put in salt? If you continue to feel or maintain an attitude of your separate identity, how can you claim to be a good devotee? There are nine ways of devotion. If you follow anyone of them single-mindedly, the remaining eight get automatically included. That alone is true listening where, whatever is understood during listening, is brought into practice in day-to-day life. That alone can be called true vedanta, which gets assimilated in our nature and is practised in everyday conduct, and it is the real essence of vedanta, to do our duty with remembrance of God throughout.
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