Sri Brahmachaithanya Pravachan-March.6.

How to Annihilate Desire

Sometimes there is something which we know to be wholesome for us and conducive to our good; if we still disregard it, evidently it is highly improper; nay, it is a veritable sin. We are told that the desire that stands uppermost in the mind at the moment when life quits the body, determines what the person will become in the next birth. We are thus born in desire, and die in desire, while during life, all our actions are prompted by desire. Desire thus dominates and pervades our entire life. How then can we free ourselves from its clutches, when it is part and parcel of our very being?
What distinguishes man from all other classes of being is the faculty of discrimination between good and bad, wholesome and harmful. That we disregard the judgment of this faculty and continue to yield to the dictates of ego and desire, is where we go wrong. The ego permeates our thought so thoroughly that we treat everything as made for us, belonging to us; and we continually talk of 'my' wife, 'my' children, 'my' home, and so on without end. We pamper the ego so much that we expect everything/and everybody to exist only to please us; which of course, just cannot be. We expect all pleasure and only pleasure, no pain and no displeasure. We do this despite our knowledge and experience to the contrary, and do not hesitate to use fair means and foul to that end. This in turn fosters more and more desire, that is pride, and ego. We must break this vicious circle by annihilating ego. This ego has so thoroughly diffused into our being and is so subtle in form that it needs an equally subtle and penetrating remedy. Nama is that remedy, peerless in subtlety and efficacy. It is closest to God. And yet we do not take to it with love and steadfastness. Not that we do not know it, but we seem to have an innate aversion for it. Let us bear in mind that God is the sole doer; this ceaseless awareness is sure to eradicate ego. Therefore, let us take to nama with determination and love. One who lives in nama succeeds in annihilating desire and its consequences.




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Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Marathi-March-6

श्री ब्रह्मचैतन्य महाराज गोंदवलेकर यांची प्रवचन

Sri Brahmachaithanya Pravachan-March.6.

How to Annihilate Desire
Sometimes there is something which we know to be wholesome for us and conducive to our good; if we still disregard it, evidently it is highly improper; nay, it is a veritable sin. We are told that the desire that stands uppermost in the mind at the moment when life quits the body, determines what the person will become in the next birth. We are thus born in desire, and die in desire, while during life, all our actions are prompted by desire. Desire thus dominates and pervades our entire life. How then can we free ourselves from its clutches, when it is part and parcel of our very being?
What distinguishes man from all other classes of being is the faculty of discrimination between good and bad, wholesome and harmful. That we disregard the judgment of this faculty and continue to yield to the dictates of ego and desire, is where we go wrong. The ego permeates our thought so thoroughly that we treat everything as made for us, belonging to us; and we continually talk of 'my' wife, 'my' children, 'my' home, and so on without end. We pamper the ego so much that we expect everything/and everybody to exist only to please us; which of course, just cannot be. We expect all pleasure and only pleasure, no pain and no displeasure. We do this despite our knowledge and experience to the contrary, and do not hesitate to use fair means and foul to that end. This in turn fosters more and more desire, that is pride, and ego. We must break this vicious circle by annihilating ego. This ego has so thoroughly diffused into our being and is so subtle in form that it needs an equally subtle and penetrating remedy. Nama is that remedy, peerless in subtlety and efficacy. It is closest to God. And yet we do not take to it with love and steadfastness. Not that we do not know it, but we seem to have an innate aversion for it. Let us bear in mind that God is the sole doer; this ceaseless awareness is sure to eradicate ego. Therefore, let us take to nama with determination and love. One who lives in nama succeeds in annihilating desire and its consequences.




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Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Kannada-march 6

ಶ್ರೀ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚೈತನ್ಯ ಮಹಾರಾಜರ ಪ್ರವಚನ

Sri Brahmachaithanya Pravachan-March.5

Never Forsake Nama

There is only one fundamental thing, the Ultimate Reality; of which the entire creation is constituted; that is what we term God. This basic element or God is very subtle, intangible, and inaccessible to human reason, intelligence and imagination. Human thought is conceived in words! and the word or words which saints use to designate God or the fundamental constituent of creation is nama. God manifests Himself prominently where there is nama, that is where there is belief in and love for God; that is, where ego is absent. Just as two swords cannot be put in a single scabbard, so, too, God and the narrowly circumscribed ego cannot co-exist in the same heart.

Saints have become one with God. To chant nama is to mitigate personal ego. As love for nama grows, pride of doership diminishes. When doership is assigned to God, volition and desire vanish. Where there is no desire, success and failure cease to matter. A person can be said to have true faith in God when he realizes that all events take place only by His desire and authority, and that some happiness and some unhappiness, some success and some failure, is the very nature of life. That stage is perfection where there is no "I " left even to say that "It is He that is real, not I "; then no ' I ' is left even to say 'I know Him'.

In order to meet and recognize a saint, it is necessary to live in nama. Alongside that, always behave righteously, never transgress limits of personal and social morality, never yield to despondency, never mortify the body unnecessarily; and most important, never forsake nama-smarana. It is for us to do our duty; the result will be according to prarabdha. Indeed, because God is the final disposer of everything, even prarabdha has to obey His will.

To live in nama is tantamount to giving up everything to God. A high officer makes a stamp of his signature; it is as valid as his own signature. Nama is like such a stamp; it has the same effectiveness, the same authority, as God.

He is a true disciple who always lives in nama, thinks of God all the time, obeys the sadguru implicitly. Such an attitude and conduct can alone lead to unshakable contentment.

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Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Marathi-March-5

श्री ब्रह्मचैतन्य महाराज गोंदवलेकर यांची प्रवचन 

Sri Maharaj's Pravachan in Kannada-March.5

ಶ್ರೀ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚೈತನ್ಯ ಮಹಾರಾಜರ ಪ್ರವಚನ