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भाद्रपद शुक्ल प्रतिपदा, विक्रम सम्वन्त २०६८ मगळ्वार

Who is an Aspirant (Sadhaka)?   

Question - When does the spiritual practice begin in human life? 

Answer -   Dedication (spiritual practice) begins when a person is distressed with the world or if he begins to think / reflect on life.  When a person gets no pleasure, nor peace from the world, when he has affection for others, from who he expects to receive happiness or has hopes of happiness, and they let him down, then a feeling of despair overtakes him.  He begins to feel uneasy within regarding the current state of affairs.   In such a state, within him awakens the desire (and need) to attain happiness that is constant (ever-lasting), imperishable, immutable and free from any pain and suffering.  He aims to achieve the bliss which is devoid of sorrows, which is without an end and without a fall and which cannot be separated from him.  With such an objective, his spiritual discipline (sadhana) begins. 

A person who turns to God and engages in spiritual disciplines only due   to becoming disgusted with the world, then on getting worldly happiness, he could deviate from his divine objective.  However an aspirant with deep dedication and contemplation cannot go astray; because it is the aspirant's objective to achieve that bliss, which is without even the slightest bit of sorrow once and for all.  Without that bliss he is not satisfied with any place, time, thing, person, condition or circumstance. 

If somebody is unhappy with the world and desires to get rid of his sorrow through worldly happiness, then he is a worldly person, not an aspirant. The reason is that he has faith in worldly happiness, which cannot be the result of his devotional perception and understanding.   Worldly happiness cannot dispel worldly sorrow, that is the rule.  Unhappiness precedes worldly pleasure and end with it. It is the same in the middle, whether one perceives it or not,  The reason is that anything that is at the beginning and the end, is also in the middle state – this is the principle.  When a person understands that worldly happiness in truth is nothing but a form of unhappiness and person desiring happiness can never be free from misery, then his spiritual discipline begins.  

Question:  What is the form (nature) of spiritual discipline? 

Answer:  It is renunciation (tyaaga), reflection (vichaara) and surrender (sharanagati, i.e. calling out to the Lord). 

Not to do anything for one's own happiness, but only to work for the happiness of others – this is renunciation (Karmayoga)

From childhood to now, this body has changed completely, but "I"  (self) is the same and it has not changed, this is discrimination,  it is reflection (jnanayoga).

Believing that I am unable to do anything; and with such feelings, giving up the reliance of one's own strength and surrendering to God.  That is self-surrender (Bhaktiyoga).   

From "Vasudeva Sarvam"  in Hindi and "All is God"  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

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Date : 27th August, 2011 - Sadhaka Kaun Kai?

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