Sri Maharaja's Pravachan-Nov.9

Hurting Somebody's Heart is Violence
We find that variety is a trait of all creation, including man and animals. God, however, singly animates all of them. Animals which are inimical to each other yet survive side by side. Man and tiger inhabit the earth, each fearing the other and therefore desisting from wantonly attacking each other. To do something contrary to the legitimate interest of another amounts to himsa, or a breach of reverence to a creature of God; but, to resist or cast off something that militates against attainment of God should be considered ahimsa, that is, no such breach, and is hence not prohibited. To hurt another's mind for self-aggrandizement is himsa, a sin. Quite frequently we find ourselves unable to execute our own desire; it is therefore unfair to expect others to conform to what we have in mind.
It is a common practice with our women to observe a vow or rule during the four sacred months of the rainy season. Some of them serve no purpose beyond practice of curbing the mind. I suggest observing the vow not to hurt anyone's mind or feelings; do it for the four sacred months, then extend it to a year, and finally to your whole life. This will teach you control over what you utter and how you behave with others. Theoretically we admit that God is present in everything at all times, but forget all about it in actual practice; how can this be justified? The only remedy is to dedicate yourself to nama, the symbolical reminder of God. To regiment speech so as not to hurt anyone, is penance for the tongue.
By all means do everything that is proper in practice. Things do get done according to His plan; where our efforts conduce to it, we get the satisfaction that we have lent a hand. To expect that all that I desire should come about, amounts to expecting that His plans should be modified to suit my wishes. This is evidently not possible, and therefore I stand devoid of beatitude.
I therefore say, "Have firm faith in Rama. If I have done what duty demanded, and have never forsaken moral principles, come what may, I shall not fret but face it with courage, and the conviction that I have not failed in my duty; a person with this attitude in life can alone be happy and contented."

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Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Marathi-Nov.9

Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Kannada-Nov.9

Sadguru Sri Brahmachaitanya aradhanotsav -15-12-2019 to 21-12-2019

Sri Maharaja's Pravachan-Nov.8

Nama Ends all Worry
That there is misery in life and in the world cannot be denied. Of the total misery, only about a quarter arises due to wars, famines, burglaries, penury, and other external factors. The other three quarters arise from ourselves, our responses. We are made up of three main constituents: the body, the mind, and God the activator. Of these, God, being the home and source of bliss, simply cannot cause misery and pain. It is the nature of the body to wane and eventually to wear out; it follows this course, and the process and its side-effects should be accepted as natural, inevitable. Being merely material, it is incapable of producing pleasure or pain. The third constituent, the mind, naturally clings to one thing or another and contracts its properties and qualities. A devout person's mind is steadfastly fixed on God, and therefore cannot be touched by any 'non-blissful' feeling. On the other hand, a worldly person's mind is glued to worldly things, and thus he often experiences the feeling of disappointment, despair, defeat, and misery, on the whole.
A feeling of 'non-identity' with God is inevitably accompanied by one of complete identity with the body, like the obverse and reverse of a coin. The body is insignificantly small, very short-lived; our conviction that this body is all I am, leads to a feeling of duality; this, in turn, leads to an ever-haunting, consuming fear. Man, who is equipped with the faculty of enjoying lasting divine bliss, thus surrenders himself to misery born of worry, the child of fear. God created the universe out of His idea, which includes the outline of the whole series of occurrences. This plan unfolds itself as the wheel of time turns and the different incidents take shape. Every incident, therefore, has God as the prompter, the architect. We get confused when we lose sight of His plan, His doership; and fear is the consequence.
It is a fact that God is my protector, because the entire creation is His doing, and born of Himself. We shall be able to see, to experience, this fact for ourselves when our heart becomes permeated by nama. Nama is identical with God, and it therefore dissolves all care for the mundane, including this frail, transient body. So leave the reins of everything concerning the body in the able hands of God, and lead a life free of all care and worry.
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Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Marathi-Nov.8

Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Kannada-Nov.8