Ashwin Shukla Tritiya, Shukravar, Vikram Samvat 2068
He has not respected us, he has opposed us, he has caused me to incur losses, he has been an obstacle in my business, he has prevented me from progressing - it is a mistake on our part to think that the other is the cause or instrumental in our lack of progress. This blunder results in a calamity that we instead of taking responsibility for our sufferings, blame others. The day we realize this fact, that very day our spiritual progress will begin. There is no doubt about it. As long as the sight is on the other, that he did not do so-and-so, till then there will never be any progress; because the route was incorrect from the very beginning. However much we walk on the wrong path, it will never lead us to our destination. Those who say, that what was my fault in this, it is not my fault - this sort of thinking itself is a fault. Not seeing one's faults - is itself in reality placing the flaws on a firm foundation. "Paro dadaatitee kubuddhiresha" He who thinks that he can create favorable circumstances, has a false pride. "Aham karomitee vruthaabhimaanah" Favorable and unfavorable circumstances appear and disappear, just as day and night follow each other, so do pleasure and pain follow each other. If we feel happy and sad in favorable and unfavorable circumstances respectively, we shall be deprived of the spiritual gain in the form of the supreme bliss which is totally free from any kind of suffering. If you renounce pleasure, attachment to pleasure and desire for pleasure, all your sufferings will come to an end and you will attain bliss.
If you think seriously, you will come to know that sorrow or suffering is nothing but the desire for happiness. There is no other sorrow of any sort. There is nothing called sorrow. He who has a desire for happiness will have to suffer. The Lord declares – "The pleasures that are born of contact (with objects) are only sources of pain and they have a beginning and an end" (Gita 5/22). Pleasure does not stay but its hope and desire persist. Moreover it leaves an impression on the heart. If the desire for pleasure is renounced, then there will be tremendous gain. Now what is that gain?
Yam labdhvaa chaaparam laabham manyate naadhikam tatah |
Yasminsthito na duhkhena guruaapi vichaalyate (Gita 6/22)
"Having gained which, he does not reckon any other gain greater than that and wherein established he is not shaken even by the heaviest affliction."
That gain never diminishes and affliction can't touch it. Therefore there should be no attachment to the pleasure born of sense contacts. Moreover you should neither think of it nor wish and endeavor for it. Endeavor to earn your livelihood for the sustenance of this life. But do not aim at enjoying pleasures, otherwise you will get entangled. If you have any doubt about it, ask me. But if you have understood it, accept it starting today. Be alert and determined never to enjoy the pleasure born of sense contacts. If sometimes you get deluded by such pleasure and feel pleased, you should immediately realize that you are wrongly swayed by it. O' Lord ! what just happened! As soon as you realize this fact, your attachment to it, will be renounced because it has no strength of its own. It is without any foundation or root, while the foundation or root of supreme bliss is God. Hence the supreme bliss never perishes.
All the mundane pleasures as well as pains are transient. So they can't stay with you forever. But God ever lives with you though He is not seen. Instead of regarding the world as yours, you have to regard God as yours even though He is not seen.
Attachment to sense-objects obstructs the way of even those sages who lead a pious and secluded life by eating edible roots and fruits. Therefore those who think that they can derive pleasures from worldly objects and hanker after them commit a blunder.
Narayana ! Narayana ! Narayana !
From book "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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