आश्विन कृष्ण तृतीय , शुक्रवार , विक्रम संवत २०६८
Success of Human Life
Once some saints went to Badrinarayana. Out of them a saint had some pain in his finger because of an injury. Someone advised him to go to a nearby hospital where free treatment was given, instead of suffering. You go there and get the dressing for this wound. The sadhu said, "I can tolerate this pain, but I cannot bare the pain which I will suffer on asking someone to dress the wound". This is an exceptional example that came to my mind of true renunciation. This point appeared good and appealed to me. This is humanity and saintliness. I think it is an example of saintliness and humanity. Just like a dog that goes wandering around from place to place for morsel of food, similarly one who goes from place to place, does not have true saintliness or humanity. Asceticism is out of the question for such a person. Sethji (Shri Jayadayalji Goyandka) was a householder, he too used to say "Before you start worship and adoration of God, you should ask your mind whether it needs anything? When it says that it needs nothing, then start the worship and adoration." If a householder becomes free of desires, then what is there for a sadhu to want?
Questioner: Maharajji, how will the routine of our work/life go on?
Questioner: Maharajji, how will the routine of our work/life go on?
Swamiji: Why do we want the routine, the work to go on, we want to stop it.
Questioner: If this body becomes diseased, then without medicines how will our work/life continue?
Swamiji: What will happen without medicines? The body will die! Do people not die even after taking medicines?
Questioner: Without medicines they will die suffering
Questioner: Without medicines they will die suffering
Swamiji: Do those who take medicines, not suffer? Taking medicines, in the end feeling defeated, feeling tired they die, then they too die after undergoing suffering. The result is the same and same only! If you have no desire, you will not suffer the pain of dependence on others. It will be joyful!
There is one man who has renounced everything and one who is poor. Both don't have any money. No shoes, no umbrella, nothing! Both are in the same state, but are they the same from within? A renunciate is very blissful from within, but this is not possible in one who is dependent. He who needs something, some medicines, is highly dependent!
Questioner: But disease causes pain and suffering!
Swamiji: During the hot months, when the Sun is directly overhead, a person having lit fire on all four sides, is sitting in the center, the austere one, does he not experience pain? The pain from austerities is out of his choice, whereas the pain resulting from disease, is an austerity that God has showered upon us. Tell
me, which austerity is better? Therefore when faced with an illness, a disease, if one believes that it is by God's will that this austerity is happening, then there is joy even in pain. A person, maintains a fast and does not eat any food, and another being poor, does not get any food and therefore does not
eat. Both remain hungry, but the one who had maintained a fast, he does not feel unhappy on not eating, rather he is joyful while not eating. (to be continued)Swamiji: During the hot months, when the Sun is directly overhead, a person having lit fire on all four sides, is sitting in the center, the austere one, does he not experience pain? The pain from austerities is out of his choice, whereas the pain resulting from disease, is an austerity that God has showered upon us. Tell
me, which austerity is better? Therefore when faced with an illness, a disease, if one believes that it is by God's will that this austerity is happening, then there is joy even in pain. A person, maintains a fast and does not eat any food, and another being poor, does not get any food and therefore does not
From "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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Date : 13th September, 2011 - Bhagwat Praapti ki Sugamtaa