|| Shree Hari
||
(Kaam-Krodhse Chootne ka Upaaya)
continued...
Those brothers and sisters who are engaged in spiritual disciplines
will understand this point very easily that while engaged in spiritual practices, desires, anger, and various
propensities will diminish on their own without much effort. If
you keep your sight on the imperishable, then perishable (unreal) things will
automatically get washed away; as it is naturally renounced on its
own - "naasato vidhyate bhaavah"
Compared to spiritual practices that involve actions, the
disciplines that involve "vivek" (discrimination) and the disciplines
that are based on "bhaav" (sentiments and feelings) are more powerful.
The reason is that there is an end to actions, but "vivek" and "bhaav" are
very subtle. Therefore by doing spiritual practices through actions, and then
trying to relinquish propensities, success will not be attained quickly; but
through "vivek" discrimination and "bhaav", by not accepting the
existence of vikaars (mental distortions), these distortions mitigate
and go away on their own. The unreal has no existence – the extent to which
"vivek" and "bhaav" are useful, to that extent, the actions will
not work.
There is a spiritual practice that is dependent on actions, with the
aid of inner-senses (kaaran-saapeksh saadhan) and there is a spiritual
discipline that is not aided by inner senses (kaaran-nirpeksha-saadhan).
In kaaran-saapeksh-saadhan, one has to take the support of the
body-senses-mind-intellect and then do his spiritual practice, but in kaaran-nirpeksh-saadhan, there is no support taken of the
body-senses-mind-intellect, only one has to server the assumed relationship with
the same. In karan-saapeksh-saadhan it takes a very long time, but in
kaaran-nirpeksh-saadhan one immediately attains perfection. If you try to
remove the ego, using karan-saapeksh-saadhan, it can take many life times
to get rid of it, but if you realized by the self that "it is not there at
all" then it will not be able to last. People think that we are trying to get
rid of our evil propensities, but actually they are strengthening them even
further.
In accepting the existence of vices, faults and flaws, there is one
very grave and absurd point that, when one gets angry, at that moment justifying
that "who does not get angry? If you eat food, then anger will surely come" -
believing so, you are strengthening the existence of that anger in you. In
this manner, the time that anger comes, you assume the anger to be in you, and
the time that anger has not come, then too you assume the anger to be in you,
so now, how can anger go away for good? You have held on to anger by your infinite form, therefore it is
residing in you, otherwise will the thieves and robbers have that much power
that they would continue to sit in your home? You yourself have made it stay
within you. You must think that anger comes and goes, but I remain always,
therefore how am I an angry person ? If there is anger in me, then it should
remain constantly. That means that as long at I live, till then the anger
should also remain. I am "existent" (remains forever), but anger is not
existent (does not remain forever), then how am I an angry person? The one
that remains at all times, is only that one real essence (self). Besides that
there is nothing that will remain forever.
All flaws reside in gross, subtle and causal bodies. When the
body itself is temporal, unreal (asat), then how can the flaws that
reside in it be permanent, real (sat) ? But you accept these as
being constant in you, and thus you are creating a solid, unshakable enterprise,
and then you say these don't go away! This condition takes place in
Karan-saapeksh-saadhan (spiritual practice that is dependent on
inner-senses and action). This condition does not take place in spiritual
discipline that is not aided by inner senses (karan nirpeksha
saadhan). In karan-nirpeksha-saadhan one does not need to engage
the tendencies, nor to engage the intellect, nor the mind. Flaws are not in us at
all – this has to be accepted by the
self, not by the mind-intellect. This karan-nirpeksh-saadhan
is very great, but very little can be read or heard about it.
To do spiritual practices is to earn money by yourself and to do satsang (association with truth, good
company) is to get adopted by a wealthy man. What work does one who is adopted
by a wealthy man need to do? He gets the inherited wealth that has
already been earned. Similarly by going to satsang, even without doing spiritual practices,
the spiritual discipline takes place. One time I said to the satsang attendees that all you
brothers and sisters are like stone, but stones that are in Gangaji! So
beautiful these stones become, all shaped rounded and lovely! Those stones
have not put in any effort themselves, nor has anyone else done anything.
Simply by being in the force and gush of Gangaji's water, rolling and toppling
they have become round and beautiful. Similarly, remaining in
satsang, you have become round like the stones in Gangaji! Those
that are not learned, those that do not know even how to write their own
signature, such ordinary men also are able to find the errors in the talks of
good and highly learned men. The stones in Gangaji are pure.
Simply by remaining
in satsang, man becomes pure. Good qualities come on their own,
and flaws naturally get washed away.
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!
From
book in Hindi "Nityayog ki Praapti" by
Swami Ramsukhdasji
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT -
Date : 19th January 2013 (Kaam-Krodhse Chootne ka Upaaya)
Ram
Ram