|| Shree Hari ||
(Mana ki Chanchaltaa Door Kaise Ho?)
There is a great and an unusual importance of devotion and love of God. There is no exaggeration if it is given more importance than knowledge (jnana) and salvation. Its glories are transcendental. No essence (tattva) can excel love and devotion of God. There is nothing even equal to love and devotion. If one develops love and devotion for God, then everything will be set right.
Question: How to develop that love and devotion?
Answer: On removing attachment from the world, that love and devotion takes place.
Question: How to remove attachment from the world?
Answer: On having love and devotion for God, both take place -
Continue to root out attachment, while continuing to develop and increase love and devotion for God.
Question: What should we do first?
Answer: First increase love and devotion for God. If you read the Ramcharitamanasa with concentration and understanding, attachment is removed, mind is purified and devotion for God is awakened. This sacred book is full of uncommon relish which is devotion. In the beginning sometimes a man may feel bored but when he starts getting interest and begins to relish it, there he is not bored. Read, experiment and see the result. Engage your mind in it. Similarly read the lives of devotees. They are very good and useful means to develop love and devotion for God as it penetrates the heart. When love and devotion penetrates, then it will root out attachment and desire and thereafter you will attain the supreme bliss. Attachment can also be removed by thought, but love and devotion for God is more beneficial than thought.
Question: How to develop love and devotion?
Answer: Reading the lives of those devotees and saints, who are freed from bondage of worldly life, will purify the mind because it is more necessary to wipe out impurity of mind than its volatility. By purifying the mind, the volatility of mind will be wiped out very easily. When the mind is purified, it can be diverted in any direction.
God does not like fraud, fault-finding and falsehood. But you don't stop committing such sins; you rather commit them intentionally. Then how can you concentrate your mind? You have got great attachment for the worldly things from the core of your heart which is the main obstacle to God Realization. To remove it, have association with the good (satsang) and study the scriptures, by which you can have immense gains. They are very useful means. (to be continued)
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Date : 22nd December, 2012 (Mana ki Chanchaltaa Door Kaise Ho?)
From book "Jeevan Upyogi Pravachan" in Hindi or "Art of Living" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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