If our mentality remains correct, we will learn every mystery [of the world] in the same way that a stage manager or an actor knows everything about a play but doesn’t get attached to it.
Afflicted by attachments and growing weak, we produce all kinds of troubles. We can’t sleep well. We can’t think straight, and we’re even afraid of our own shadows. Our own shadow has become a scary ghost for us. All this will improve only when we abandon egotistical people and welcome saints and seekers.
If you bow before the undesirables demands of your mind, you will lose your personality. If your personality does not remain, neither shall you. In such a state, you’ll be pretty far from getting anywhere or doing anything.
The first thing you should do is to isolate yourself from both praise and criticism. Never hanker after praise. Praise even those things that are criticized, and that which is praiseworthy is to be praised appropriately. It is not to be criticized.
Regarding good and bad deeds if we pay due attention to the inspiration we get from our guru and from our conscience, this can be very good for us.
A non jealous person being to witness every happening of life without getting attached, as would like a third person. In this way [you too will] stand and watch everything, like an actor or an acrobat, but instead of getting attached to it you’ll laugh. You won’t be surprised by the daily happenings of the village, the home, the city, the country, or the society. All your confusion will vanish.
O sudharma! The truth is that if we become anything which we really are not, then our being undone is also natural and in this process of becoming, and of becoming undone, we must keep burning. On becoming something it is absolutely necessary to become undone, this is certain.
Only once we stand in the presence of a saints, or in front of a holy temple, or before a divinity or sacred rivers like the Ganga or the Yamuna, only then does the other [the divinity] arrive there as well.
Our divinity passes right by us and we don’t realize it. Who praises excrement or muck, garbage, dirty clothes or dirty things? It is only a true saint who can praise even those.
You are very stable. Whoever might pass before you a king, a pauper, an emperor a Beautiful Woman it doesn’t matter to you at all? No waves arise in you. When the speeding turbulence of your mind beings to experience this, know, then, that you are in the company of God.
When you have no pride in your knowledge but have the feeling that you are absolutely poor, that you know only that you do not know, and when you have stability in thoughts with humility in your behaviour, then only will you be worthy of that reverence.
Instead of making friends with ourselves, we remain our own enemy. By going to the places of saints and Mahatmas, all that we learn is how to be a friend to our own selves.
If you are experiencing some kind of pain or sorrow, if your mind is giving rise to undesirable thoughts then try to go to the very root of it and seek the truth. This too you should learn.
In every peace in this universe, humans have their own faith in themselves, and with that faith they try to involve themselves in very respectable and praiseworthy acts. Those who know its value do so, but those who are ignorant and wander lost, they have a separate character of their own. Those who are young have an enthusiasm of a different kind.
Where you find the feeling service to others, and of learning and reaching, there you will have to accept everything in the same way that the river Ganga takes unto herself both the dirty drains of the towns and towards and cities as well as the sacred rivers coming from the mountains. They all merge together and flow with the flow of Ganga which redeems others; she provides service to others. Is she were alone, Ganga couldn’t have done so. Exactly the same is aghor.
Without the right determination, you will remain deprived of any benefit from your knowledge or from whatever prayers and worship you perform. Not having faith in yourself also leads to great loss and much damage to you. You cannot have faith in yourself as long as the effects of bad company stay with you.
Despite the waning of the light, your conscience has not been stolen. In the same way, effortlessly, a person of calm and stable mind achieves that supreme joy.
It is because of faith that we become respectable in our home, among friends and relationship to the good actions of a person, as well as to the ideal behaviour and conduct towards one’s mother and father, fathers and relatives, acquaintances, wife and children. It is also associated with our behaviour towards nature, from which vibrations constantly radiate.
A human being sees things according to his mentality and temperament. Bhagwati, Bhagawati, God or demigod whatever there is these are a gift of the mind. Due to mental troubles, diverse forms arise in our consciousness and we end up spending a lot of time in our life lost in them. This mind, together with being a symbol of man’s weakness, is also a vehicle of his capabilities, and efficacy. God, bhagwan, Bhagawati disciplined practice, meditation, or worship all these are done only through the mind.
This, the illusion of the world this system, this legality, this policy these rules which are known as ‘religious’ if you fault it, even if only a little your own mind begins to condemn you; society also condemns you and you yourself feel as if you have strayed from the path there you see no god, no goddess, nor do you see anyone who is your own, or anyone who is not.
Because of mental weaknesses, we are not able to understand what the truth is, exactly. This mind becomes the biggest obstacle in every disciplined practice of ours, on the path of everyone of our successes because of this obstacle we cannot see that reality; we don’t recognize that reality. It is because of this mind that we neither understand the essence of the sacred books, nor do we ever meet the knowledgeable people who know those sacred books. We are unable to learn about the entity to be revered, and we also never get to know the respectable people who know about it. As long as you’re easily lured by the illusions of the mind, you will never find peace and happiness.
The desire and determination that we make in the morning and in the evening should be a very pure resolve. If we let no under desire join with that pure determination, then we can get to know the hidden entity behind that disciplined practice confronted with whom, even demigods [i.e. Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh] have been known to bow. But if your determination is not pure, if you listen to your mind, many kinds of conflicting thoughts arise in your mind; many kinds of conflicting thoughts arise in your mind, saying this is not so, that is not so, and so forth; then all your happiness and respite turns into uncertainty and sorrow. The mentality of jealousy and animosity then begins to destroy your home and your family.
These disciplined practices (tapasya) are not associated with torturing or destroying your body. These are actually mental disciplines. You really don’t have do these practices with your body too much. It is to be done through your mentality, through your consciousness, where you have to fill your senses with good character.
The advice and friendship of people with bad conduct is a cause of great sorrow. From listening to their advice we remain deprived of becoming virtuous ourselves.
Those people who consider themselves as having a big family and circle of friends, who consider themselves to be very rich, very scholarly and better than others in many ways these are actually very limited people. Few people are more limited than them. They are very parochial. It is this way of their thinking and understanding which, due to attachments, prompts them to act in wrong ways.
More than being insulted by others, we get insulted by ourselves. Because of flaws in our disciplined practice and good conduct, and because of our parochial mentality, we become deprived of happiness and joy, and are overlooked by others.
Living under a roof, we also live with cacophony.
If you are going to provide a good foundation to your family, if you are going to start something good, then for that you will have to consider the appropriate time your right determination your resolute desire; also you will have to encompass the mentality of the people who you support, for you will have to determine whether their minds are flawed. You will have to decide whether their breathe is heated up [in anger], or if, instead of a beautiful vision arising in their thoughts, an ugly vision emerges. Furthermore, shall they eventually be destructive to the whole endeavour?
The crow, the lion and the donkey, the elephant and the horse and so forth different animals and birds have been depicted as vehicles of the several of the various demigods, but that doesn’t mean you should think their actual vehicles are such. It is we who despite our tailless human form acquire beastly tendencies and then are assaulter or ridden by those demigods; due to this, we remain under their power forever. They pull us where they want; they take their us wherever they want. As they wish, so do we speak; as they want, so do we see. This is what is there by taught to us though the form those animals. We are unable faith in ourselves. That produces doubts regarding the success of our undertaking. When doubts arise in a project, it becomes difficult to complete it properly. All this depends upon our own mentality. If we doubts the know ledge, mantra or sacred words of our guru even just a little the hard labour of years disappears in a moment.
We people fight constantly, and become of jealousy and envy, we create perpetuating feuds. It is not as if we fight in one given moment and forget it the next, as water sport on white clothes disappear once they dry rather, we perpetuate these animosities for months or years, and sometimes until the last breath of our life. Because of those tendencies, our form changes, our character, virtues and temperament change, and we begin to attack our own friends and relatives. The result of all this is self destructive in every way.
When a person acquires the ecstatic consciousness (Samadhi) and he wake up, then he becomes capable of doing many things. His nights are not spent in dreams like those of people who are always moving and never stable, due to their own innocence and to Bed Company.
Let there be no scarcity; let there be nice sentiments everywhere. One whose mentality and way of thinking and understanding begins to like this, he shall find a skilful boatman knowledgeable about the coastlines as well as about the deep waters of the streams, rivers and tortuous valleys of home and family and society who will easily take him across the ocean of life. It has also been said: ‘‘Step only in that person’s boat who has a deep knowledge of both the shore as well as of the midstream’’.
This life is very valuable, and is full of unfathomable energy. We should banish hatred from our life become where there is hatred there is acrimony, and where there is acrimony, wisdom does not prevail. Then imprudence takes birth, an as a result, the passage of time which beats no one with a stick takes away the person’s intellect, prudence and good thoughts, and prompts him towards hateful actions. In this way, involved in wrong actions, the person smoulders like grain husk, burns up and destroys himself.
A stable consciousness is what the yogis have described as ‘Samadhi’’. Great saints have called it a ‘desire free consciousness. Aughar saints have called it ‘mahavibhuti (the great glory).
Even white living at home with a family and fulfilling every daily, we can acquire that state of change. In this way, being content with whatever is available due to past deeds; the person remains very calm from within and spends his life on the earth in this way. On leaving this earth he goes to a different solar system and stays there as a witness for eternal time. He does not get affected by ups and downs, the storms and hurricanes of the earth.
By nature, every person wants to get away from instability and become stable, and wants to avoid wrong company feelings of guilt. The day you have a stable mind, that day you will acquire forbearance, you will have no anger, you will have no tendencies towards unnecessary arguments you will become a saintly person. Your life will be spent in great purity. This is what purity really is. When we acquire that purity, our ill acting mind will become virtuous and self disciplined, we will be able to sculpt other forms in this way as well. Our children and grandchildren, and our disciples, will have ideals, virtues, traits, temperament and conduct similar to ours. They will be flawless.
We just say we are in your refuge, O Ma Sarweshwari! I am in your sanctuary. If I am in your refuge then my burden, my weight, the conduct of my life is now no longer in my hands. Now she is the one who directs everything. If she directs it then it will be miserable, for me to create disharmonious feelings. It’s because if such sorrows that we do not achieve those supreme successes. When we fail to achieve the supreme success we become afflicted by illusions, we become sorrowful, we have to face troubles and our improper actions appear threatening before us, O friends.
There are many people who bring alien thoughts in here and regurgitate them here, speak them here, hear them here. They don’t know what they’re doing. Why are they polluting someone else’s mind so much by saying all this? Why are they polluting another person’s mind, why are they polluting another’s intellect? They don’t know it, but they say it, and the ill effects of saying it are instantaneous for the other.
First we ask for fearlessness: Make me fearless, O Mother. From whom should you make me fearless? From those activities that are excessive; may I be unable to do them. Those tendencies and activities should never come to me: neither should I ever invite them, nor should I ever meet people who indulge in them. Neither should I see them, nor should they see me. Wouldn’t you like such a life? If you’d like such a life then you’ll be a very good sculptor. You can sculptor your coming generation very well.
I was sitting in the evening, looking at things, and I was also thinking about how this deep thoughts stream has been continuously flowing. Despite being so close, the seekers experience distant things, and how close and concentrated do they seem [to themselves]. They have no desires, no wishes, and no hankerings.
I feel great joy when I see you progressing towards that concentration and contemplation, when your mind is absolutely empty and you are sitting with a relaxed body in solitude. I also see that all around you radiates a circle of very nice vibrations, and that all around you scatters beautiful rays beautiful not only to you, but to everyone who sees without angry, envy, hate, or jealousy; also that peace [in which you repose] most be again and again begging you to become quiet and still. Become as quiet as we become in a procession of people carrying a cremation ground; how humble and non violent we become at that time, friends. Will you give away such joy in life?
Becoming internally still, you should definitely search for that quest for which you seek. The day you grow satisfied, nothing will happen in your awareness; nothing will arise therein; from that day on you will have a very calm, heart and mind. Thereafter you will never live an undisciplined life. With the advent of self discipline, you won’t do any wrongdoings. You won’t do any wrongdoings. You won’t have any accidents. But as soon as indiscipline returns, this whole argument will resume. Then, aggravation, restlessness, troubles and obstacles will re emerge.
In prayers, in worship and in this faith is hidden the great strength of faith which every day we see, but overlook. The day we pay attention to it, give due importance to it, we will automatically come into the category of ‘great souls’. Our thoughts will change our walking and moving and believing will change. Our old polluted thoughts will not come to us as they once did. Everything will change. It is that mental state of change that we look for, friends.
The person who remains aloof from all attachment of pride or prestige towards this ephemeral body, he is known as a saint. Someone in whom respect and disrespect, caste, lineage and religion and the like all do not exist that is to say, someone who shuns such social institutions that liberated saint can be tied to no one.
I pray to that unknown that he provide peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone, and that we might avoid all our bitterness and remain hate free. If we have to hate, let us hate ourselves. If we have to spit, let us spit upon ourselves. What will we gain by spitting at the sun, since that spit will just fall right back onto our own face?
Failure gives rise to anger.
It is not good to live like a loquacious spirit. Such a life is very rough and fearful. Fear arises due to ill advised actions.
Those people who want to live a happy and prosperous life, like kings, and who want their senses to live as their subjects, and who want all their well wishers to remain with them as friends these people avoid infighting, attachments and illusions. In front of this difficult mental discipline of theirs, even brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh bow down. They live unperturbed lives. In their consciousness arise not those things that produce sorrow.
You should be patient. You should use your courage. Do not be afraid of circumstances, and give importance to prayer, for in prayer there lies a great strength. It is on the strength of their prayer that our foes can attack us. So let us be united as well. If we sit and act together, we will have no retrogression within us and nobody will be able together, we will have no retrogression within us and act together, we will have no retrogression within us and nobody will be able to destroy us. We will be victorious. We will achieve what we desire.
That Mother is an epitome of faith and love, but she also can come before us in a very distorted form if our mentality itself is distorted. You do not how that mother will appear before you, because it depends upon your good thoughts and sentiments friends.
Up asana (worship) also means ‘a close place’ (up +as an), i. e. Let our place be next to where our dear divinity is, and let us mould our nature according to its nature. In such a situation, your mental state should be very bright and holy. You should not become sad, disappointed or sick if somebody says something [unseemly] to you. On hearing the worthless talk of various people doubts of your faith and devotion might arise. If you have doubts about the actions you have performed, then you will lose the fruits of those actions. Therefore, pay no attention to the bitter words that even I might say to you. I will request you only to keep working with diligence in your own field of work, and with that, to also be attentive towards those signs and indication which once we recognize what the stars foretelling tell us about the immanence of the day of the arrival of our dear divinity, our union with it, and our ecstasy in it. That the vibrations of that divinity are coming to us, and this is actually going to happen! We get to know of this sometime before it actually happens. When you receive this symbolic message you should become very alert. Then you will be able to properly recognize that entity, to properly see and hear it. I suppose you could even miss this experience.
We see demigods and demigoddesses, god and the goddess in the form of idols every day, but it does not profit us in any way. The reason is that our process of thinking and looking at things is faulty. Our sight itself is faulty. Our sight itself is faulty. If, while folding our hands our hands to them, or during our prayer and worship, when approaching them we perceive how great we have become, how great we have become, how humble we have become, and how the feelings of peace and happiness arise in us, only then can it be said that we gained something from prayers and worship. If we look at it from this point of view, and if we mould ourselves in this way, then everything will be easy for us.
With the arrival of the 21st century everyone will be happy, prosperous and able to carry a little cash in their pockets. But at that time their mentality will be so tormented that they will go out to seek those same things that the yogis, the mahatmas, the rishis and the munis would look for centuries ago, lighting their sacred fires. But then it will be very difficult to find. Then, they will need to go to such tiny huts. They will then look for such ashrams and huts where they can go and cleanse their mentalities.
We have anger within us, we have a hesitation within us, and we have many worthless ideas within us that do not allow us to stay with ourselves. We want to be with ourselves in silence, but our own subjugation does not allow us to do that. That is why when we are without any refuge; we cry for mercy and remember that great Unknown entity again and again. Then our own silence, our quiet makes us reach that place without wind or light or any other medium. But we are unable to remain silent; cannot stay alone.
We are tormented by fear. Even while watching. Listening and recognizing the meaninglessness of life, we are like that owl for whom the daytime sunlight is useless. The owl can’t see at all during the day despite that, in fact, sunlight exists for anyone with two eyes.
I hope that, slowly, as your intellect becomes mature and concentrated, and once dualities do not arise in it that is to say, when your intellect will not create any more doubts for you then you will achieve that state of joy. Whenever you have any doubts about anything, that thing will fail. Uncultivated intellect can give rise to weapons instead of social welfare and sacred texts. In such a situation, destruction becomes imminent.
Afflicted by attachments and growing weak, we produce all kinds of troubles. We can’t sleep well. We can’t think straight, and we’re even afraid of our own shadows. Our own shadow has become a scary ghost for us. All this will improve only when we abandon egotistical people and welcome saints and seekers.
If you bow before the undesirables demands of your mind, you will lose your personality. If your personality does not remain, neither shall you. In such a state, you’ll be pretty far from getting anywhere or doing anything.
The first thing you should do is to isolate yourself from both praise and criticism. Never hanker after praise. Praise even those things that are criticized, and that which is praiseworthy is to be praised appropriately. It is not to be criticized.
Regarding good and bad deeds if we pay due attention to the inspiration we get from our guru and from our conscience, this can be very good for us.
A non jealous person being to witness every happening of life without getting attached, as would like a third person. In this way [you too will] stand and watch everything, like an actor or an acrobat, but instead of getting attached to it you’ll laugh. You won’t be surprised by the daily happenings of the village, the home, the city, the country, or the society. All your confusion will vanish.
O sudharma! The truth is that if we become anything which we really are not, then our being undone is also natural and in this process of becoming, and of becoming undone, we must keep burning. On becoming something it is absolutely necessary to become undone, this is certain.
Only once we stand in the presence of a saints, or in front of a holy temple, or before a divinity or sacred rivers like the Ganga or the Yamuna, only then does the other [the divinity] arrive there as well.
Our divinity passes right by us and we don’t realize it. Who praises excrement or muck, garbage, dirty clothes or dirty things? It is only a true saint who can praise even those.
You are very stable. Whoever might pass before you a king, a pauper, an emperor a Beautiful Woman it doesn’t matter to you at all? No waves arise in you. When the speeding turbulence of your mind beings to experience this, know, then, that you are in the company of God.
When you have no pride in your knowledge but have the feeling that you are absolutely poor, that you know only that you do not know, and when you have stability in thoughts with humility in your behaviour, then only will you be worthy of that reverence.
Instead of making friends with ourselves, we remain our own enemy. By going to the places of saints and Mahatmas, all that we learn is how to be a friend to our own selves.
If you are experiencing some kind of pain or sorrow, if your mind is giving rise to undesirable thoughts then try to go to the very root of it and seek the truth. This too you should learn.
In every peace in this universe, humans have their own faith in themselves, and with that faith they try to involve themselves in very respectable and praiseworthy acts. Those who know its value do so, but those who are ignorant and wander lost, they have a separate character of their own. Those who are young have an enthusiasm of a different kind.
Where you find the feeling service to others, and of learning and reaching, there you will have to accept everything in the same way that the river Ganga takes unto herself both the dirty drains of the towns and towards and cities as well as the sacred rivers coming from the mountains. They all merge together and flow with the flow of Ganga which redeems others; she provides service to others. Is she were alone, Ganga couldn’t have done so. Exactly the same is aghor.
Without the right determination, you will remain deprived of any benefit from your knowledge or from whatever prayers and worship you perform. Not having faith in yourself also leads to great loss and much damage to you. You cannot have faith in yourself as long as the effects of bad company stay with you.
Despite the waning of the light, your conscience has not been stolen. In the same way, effortlessly, a person of calm and stable mind achieves that supreme joy.
It is because of faith that we become respectable in our home, among friends and relationship to the good actions of a person, as well as to the ideal behaviour and conduct towards one’s mother and father, fathers and relatives, acquaintances, wife and children. It is also associated with our behaviour towards nature, from which vibrations constantly radiate.
A human being sees things according to his mentality and temperament. Bhagwati, Bhagawati, God or demigod whatever there is these are a gift of the mind. Due to mental troubles, diverse forms arise in our consciousness and we end up spending a lot of time in our life lost in them. This mind, together with being a symbol of man’s weakness, is also a vehicle of his capabilities, and efficacy. God, bhagwan, Bhagawati disciplined practice, meditation, or worship all these are done only through the mind.
This, the illusion of the world this system, this legality, this policy these rules which are known as ‘religious’ if you fault it, even if only a little your own mind begins to condemn you; society also condemns you and you yourself feel as if you have strayed from the path there you see no god, no goddess, nor do you see anyone who is your own, or anyone who is not.
Because of mental weaknesses, we are not able to understand what the truth is, exactly. This mind becomes the biggest obstacle in every disciplined practice of ours, on the path of everyone of our successes because of this obstacle we cannot see that reality; we don’t recognize that reality. It is because of this mind that we neither understand the essence of the sacred books, nor do we ever meet the knowledgeable people who know those sacred books. We are unable to learn about the entity to be revered, and we also never get to know the respectable people who know about it. As long as you’re easily lured by the illusions of the mind, you will never find peace and happiness.
The desire and determination that we make in the morning and in the evening should be a very pure resolve. If we let no under desire join with that pure determination, then we can get to know the hidden entity behind that disciplined practice confronted with whom, even demigods [i.e. Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh] have been known to bow. But if your determination is not pure, if you listen to your mind, many kinds of conflicting thoughts arise in your mind; many kinds of conflicting thoughts arise in your mind, saying this is not so, that is not so, and so forth; then all your happiness and respite turns into uncertainty and sorrow. The mentality of jealousy and animosity then begins to destroy your home and your family.
These disciplined practices (tapasya) are not associated with torturing or destroying your body. These are actually mental disciplines. You really don’t have do these practices with your body too much. It is to be done through your mentality, through your consciousness, where you have to fill your senses with good character.
The advice and friendship of people with bad conduct is a cause of great sorrow. From listening to their advice we remain deprived of becoming virtuous ourselves.
Those people who consider themselves as having a big family and circle of friends, who consider themselves to be very rich, very scholarly and better than others in many ways these are actually very limited people. Few people are more limited than them. They are very parochial. It is this way of their thinking and understanding which, due to attachments, prompts them to act in wrong ways.
More than being insulted by others, we get insulted by ourselves. Because of flaws in our disciplined practice and good conduct, and because of our parochial mentality, we become deprived of happiness and joy, and are overlooked by others.
Living under a roof, we also live with cacophony.
If you are going to provide a good foundation to your family, if you are going to start something good, then for that you will have to consider the appropriate time your right determination your resolute desire; also you will have to encompass the mentality of the people who you support, for you will have to determine whether their minds are flawed. You will have to decide whether their breathe is heated up [in anger], or if, instead of a beautiful vision arising in their thoughts, an ugly vision emerges. Furthermore, shall they eventually be destructive to the whole endeavour?
The crow, the lion and the donkey, the elephant and the horse and so forth different animals and birds have been depicted as vehicles of the several of the various demigods, but that doesn’t mean you should think their actual vehicles are such. It is we who despite our tailless human form acquire beastly tendencies and then are assaulter or ridden by those demigods; due to this, we remain under their power forever. They pull us where they want; they take their us wherever they want. As they wish, so do we speak; as they want, so do we see. This is what is there by taught to us though the form those animals. We are unable faith in ourselves. That produces doubts regarding the success of our undertaking. When doubts arise in a project, it becomes difficult to complete it properly. All this depends upon our own mentality. If we doubts the know ledge, mantra or sacred words of our guru even just a little the hard labour of years disappears in a moment.
We people fight constantly, and become of jealousy and envy, we create perpetuating feuds. It is not as if we fight in one given moment and forget it the next, as water sport on white clothes disappear once they dry rather, we perpetuate these animosities for months or years, and sometimes until the last breath of our life. Because of those tendencies, our form changes, our character, virtues and temperament change, and we begin to attack our own friends and relatives. The result of all this is self destructive in every way.
When a person acquires the ecstatic consciousness (Samadhi) and he wake up, then he becomes capable of doing many things. His nights are not spent in dreams like those of people who are always moving and never stable, due to their own innocence and to Bed Company.
Let there be no scarcity; let there be nice sentiments everywhere. One whose mentality and way of thinking and understanding begins to like this, he shall find a skilful boatman knowledgeable about the coastlines as well as about the deep waters of the streams, rivers and tortuous valleys of home and family and society who will easily take him across the ocean of life. It has also been said: ‘‘Step only in that person’s boat who has a deep knowledge of both the shore as well as of the midstream’’.
This life is very valuable, and is full of unfathomable energy. We should banish hatred from our life become where there is hatred there is acrimony, and where there is acrimony, wisdom does not prevail. Then imprudence takes birth, an as a result, the passage of time which beats no one with a stick takes away the person’s intellect, prudence and good thoughts, and prompts him towards hateful actions. In this way, involved in wrong actions, the person smoulders like grain husk, burns up and destroys himself.
A stable consciousness is what the yogis have described as ‘Samadhi’’. Great saints have called it a ‘desire free consciousness. Aughar saints have called it ‘mahavibhuti (the great glory).
Even white living at home with a family and fulfilling every daily, we can acquire that state of change. In this way, being content with whatever is available due to past deeds; the person remains very calm from within and spends his life on the earth in this way. On leaving this earth he goes to a different solar system and stays there as a witness for eternal time. He does not get affected by ups and downs, the storms and hurricanes of the earth.
By nature, every person wants to get away from instability and become stable, and wants to avoid wrong company feelings of guilt. The day you have a stable mind, that day you will acquire forbearance, you will have no anger, you will have no tendencies towards unnecessary arguments you will become a saintly person. Your life will be spent in great purity. This is what purity really is. When we acquire that purity, our ill acting mind will become virtuous and self disciplined, we will be able to sculpt other forms in this way as well. Our children and grandchildren, and our disciples, will have ideals, virtues, traits, temperament and conduct similar to ours. They will be flawless.
We just say we are in your refuge, O Ma Sarweshwari! I am in your sanctuary. If I am in your refuge then my burden, my weight, the conduct of my life is now no longer in my hands. Now she is the one who directs everything. If she directs it then it will be miserable, for me to create disharmonious feelings. It’s because if such sorrows that we do not achieve those supreme successes. When we fail to achieve the supreme success we become afflicted by illusions, we become sorrowful, we have to face troubles and our improper actions appear threatening before us, O friends.
There are many people who bring alien thoughts in here and regurgitate them here, speak them here, hear them here. They don’t know what they’re doing. Why are they polluting someone else’s mind so much by saying all this? Why are they polluting another person’s mind, why are they polluting another’s intellect? They don’t know it, but they say it, and the ill effects of saying it are instantaneous for the other.
First we ask for fearlessness: Make me fearless, O Mother. From whom should you make me fearless? From those activities that are excessive; may I be unable to do them. Those tendencies and activities should never come to me: neither should I ever invite them, nor should I ever meet people who indulge in them. Neither should I see them, nor should they see me. Wouldn’t you like such a life? If you’d like such a life then you’ll be a very good sculptor. You can sculptor your coming generation very well.
I was sitting in the evening, looking at things, and I was also thinking about how this deep thoughts stream has been continuously flowing. Despite being so close, the seekers experience distant things, and how close and concentrated do they seem [to themselves]. They have no desires, no wishes, and no hankerings.
I feel great joy when I see you progressing towards that concentration and contemplation, when your mind is absolutely empty and you are sitting with a relaxed body in solitude. I also see that all around you radiates a circle of very nice vibrations, and that all around you scatters beautiful rays beautiful not only to you, but to everyone who sees without angry, envy, hate, or jealousy; also that peace [in which you repose] most be again and again begging you to become quiet and still. Become as quiet as we become in a procession of people carrying a cremation ground; how humble and non violent we become at that time, friends. Will you give away such joy in life?
Becoming internally still, you should definitely search for that quest for which you seek. The day you grow satisfied, nothing will happen in your awareness; nothing will arise therein; from that day on you will have a very calm, heart and mind. Thereafter you will never live an undisciplined life. With the advent of self discipline, you won’t do any wrongdoings. You won’t do any wrongdoings. You won’t have any accidents. But as soon as indiscipline returns, this whole argument will resume. Then, aggravation, restlessness, troubles and obstacles will re emerge.
In prayers, in worship and in this faith is hidden the great strength of faith which every day we see, but overlook. The day we pay attention to it, give due importance to it, we will automatically come into the category of ‘great souls’. Our thoughts will change our walking and moving and believing will change. Our old polluted thoughts will not come to us as they once did. Everything will change. It is that mental state of change that we look for, friends.
The person who remains aloof from all attachment of pride or prestige towards this ephemeral body, he is known as a saint. Someone in whom respect and disrespect, caste, lineage and religion and the like all do not exist that is to say, someone who shuns such social institutions that liberated saint can be tied to no one.
I pray to that unknown that he provide peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone, and that we might avoid all our bitterness and remain hate free. If we have to hate, let us hate ourselves. If we have to spit, let us spit upon ourselves. What will we gain by spitting at the sun, since that spit will just fall right back onto our own face?
Failure gives rise to anger.
It is not good to live like a loquacious spirit. Such a life is very rough and fearful. Fear arises due to ill advised actions.
Those people who want to live a happy and prosperous life, like kings, and who want their senses to live as their subjects, and who want all their well wishers to remain with them as friends these people avoid infighting, attachments and illusions. In front of this difficult mental discipline of theirs, even brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh bow down. They live unperturbed lives. In their consciousness arise not those things that produce sorrow.
You should be patient. You should use your courage. Do not be afraid of circumstances, and give importance to prayer, for in prayer there lies a great strength. It is on the strength of their prayer that our foes can attack us. So let us be united as well. If we sit and act together, we will have no retrogression within us and nobody will be able together, we will have no retrogression within us and act together, we will have no retrogression within us and nobody will be able to destroy us. We will be victorious. We will achieve what we desire.
That Mother is an epitome of faith and love, but she also can come before us in a very distorted form if our mentality itself is distorted. You do not how that mother will appear before you, because it depends upon your good thoughts and sentiments friends.
Up asana (worship) also means ‘a close place’ (up +as an), i. e. Let our place be next to where our dear divinity is, and let us mould our nature according to its nature. In such a situation, your mental state should be very bright and holy. You should not become sad, disappointed or sick if somebody says something [unseemly] to you. On hearing the worthless talk of various people doubts of your faith and devotion might arise. If you have doubts about the actions you have performed, then you will lose the fruits of those actions. Therefore, pay no attention to the bitter words that even I might say to you. I will request you only to keep working with diligence in your own field of work, and with that, to also be attentive towards those signs and indication which once we recognize what the stars foretelling tell us about the immanence of the day of the arrival of our dear divinity, our union with it, and our ecstasy in it. That the vibrations of that divinity are coming to us, and this is actually going to happen! We get to know of this sometime before it actually happens. When you receive this symbolic message you should become very alert. Then you will be able to properly recognize that entity, to properly see and hear it. I suppose you could even miss this experience.
We see demigods and demigoddesses, god and the goddess in the form of idols every day, but it does not profit us in any way. The reason is that our process of thinking and looking at things is faulty. Our sight itself is faulty. Our sight itself is faulty. If, while folding our hands our hands to them, or during our prayer and worship, when approaching them we perceive how great we have become, how great we have become, how humble we have become, and how the feelings of peace and happiness arise in us, only then can it be said that we gained something from prayers and worship. If we look at it from this point of view, and if we mould ourselves in this way, then everything will be easy for us.
With the arrival of the 21st century everyone will be happy, prosperous and able to carry a little cash in their pockets. But at that time their mentality will be so tormented that they will go out to seek those same things that the yogis, the mahatmas, the rishis and the munis would look for centuries ago, lighting their sacred fires. But then it will be very difficult to find. Then, they will need to go to such tiny huts. They will then look for such ashrams and huts where they can go and cleanse their mentalities.
We have anger within us, we have a hesitation within us, and we have many worthless ideas within us that do not allow us to stay with ourselves. We want to be with ourselves in silence, but our own subjugation does not allow us to do that. That is why when we are without any refuge; we cry for mercy and remember that great Unknown entity again and again. Then our own silence, our quiet makes us reach that place without wind or light or any other medium. But we are unable to remain silent; cannot stay alone.
We are tormented by fear. Even while watching. Listening and recognizing the meaninglessness of life, we are like that owl for whom the daytime sunlight is useless. The owl can’t see at all during the day despite that, in fact, sunlight exists for anyone with two eyes.
I hope that, slowly, as your intellect becomes mature and concentrated, and once dualities do not arise in it that is to say, when your intellect will not create any more doubts for you then you will achieve that state of joy. Whenever you have any doubts about anything, that thing will fail. Uncultivated intellect can give rise to weapons instead of social welfare and sacred texts. In such a situation, destruction becomes imminent.
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