Good Fortune through Proper Use
(Sadupyog se Kalyaan)
Shree Hari
Men have given great importance to things and persons, but really speaking, they are not that important. The importance is in their good use. They can be used correctly or they can be misused. If they are rightly utilized, then every place, time, thing, individual, situation etc., can lead to a man's welfare. Man is independent in proper use or mis-utilization. No one is independent in making the situation favorable for himself .
Firstly men give great importance to things, but they pay no attention towards their proper use. Therefore, they become dependent, they get bound. What to do in front of them? How to do? Such fearsome circumstances come their way. To be saved from these, it is essential to learn this point that how to put these things to proper use? Situations come and go in front of man, they keep changing. No situation remains the same at all times, nor things remain the same, nor individual remain the same, nor the state and condition remains the same. They all keep changing. If these changing things are put to the best of best use then it will be the kind that will lead to good fortune.
First and the foremost the point that has to be understood is that you and your situation, you and your things, you and your state, you and your associations, you and your space, you and your time - these two are separate. The point is that all those things that are born and later destroyed they are all a part of "Nature" (prakruti), and you are a part of God. You are the kind that remains perpetually forever. However, those things that are born of nature, are the kind that continuously and always change. . Never for a moment it stays the same. Its unions and separation are taking place every moment and all the time, like the flow of the river which is constantly surging forward.
You are the one to remain - "Nitya sarvagatah sthaanurachloyam sanatanah" (Gita 2/24) You are eternal, constant, and these all (body, world) are changing. Why would the constant be influenced by the changing objects? The reason is - that which is constant establishes a relationship with the changing. The body and you, (the one residing in the body) are two separate. You are not the body and the body is not yours. But the mistake is that you have created a sense of I-ness (ahamtaa) and Mine-ness (mamta) with the body. You have situated yourself in the body, so a sense of I-ness "ahamtaa" is born and by accepting that the body and various things are mine - a sense of mine-ness (mamtaa) is born. Due to sense of I-ness there is distinction, inequality (bhed-bhaav), and due to sense of mine-ness (mamta) there is conflict, friction (sangharsh). Both these lead to bondage.
Ram Ram
From book in Hindi - "Bhagwaan mein Apnaapan" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 14th Jun, 2012 " Sadupyog se Kalyaan "
http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.in
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Firstly men give great importance to things, but they pay no attention towards their proper use. Therefore, they become dependent, they get bound. What to do in front of them? How to do? Such fearsome circumstances come their way. To be saved from these, it is essential to learn this point that how to put these things to proper use? Situations come and go in front of man, they keep changing. No situation remains the same at all times, nor things remain the same, nor individual remain the same, nor the state and condition remains the same. They all keep changing. If these changing things are put to the best of best use then it will be the kind that will lead to good fortune.
First and the foremost the point that has to be understood is that you and your situation, you and your things, you and your state, you and your associations, you and your space, you and your time - these two are separate. The point is that all those things that are born and later destroyed they are all a part of "Nature" (prakruti), and you are a part of God. You are the kind that remains perpetually forever. However, those things that are born of nature, are the kind that continuously and always change. . Never for a moment it stays the same. Its unions and separation are taking place every moment and all the time, like the flow of the river which is constantly surging forward.
You are the one to remain - "Nitya sarvagatah sthaanurachloyam sanatanah" (Gita 2/24) You are eternal, constant, and these all (body, world) are changing. Why would the constant be influenced by the changing objects? The reason is - that which is constant establishes a relationship with the changing. The body and you, (the one residing in the body) are two separate. You are not the body and the body is not yours. But the mistake is that you have created a sense of I-ness (ahamtaa) and Mine-ness (mamta) with the body. You have situated yourself in the body, so a sense of I-ness "ahamtaa" is born and by accepting that the body and various things are mine - a sense of mine-ness (mamtaa) is born. Due to sense of I-ness there is distinction, inequality (bhed-bhaav), and due to sense of mine-ness (mamta) there is conflict, friction (sangharsh). Both these lead to bondage.
Ram Ram
From book in Hindi - "Bhagwaan mein Apnaapan" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 14th Jun, 2012 " Sadupyog se Kalyaan "
http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.in
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