|| Shree Hari ||
(Avaguna Mitnaaneka Upaaya)
A pleasure seeking person always thinks of his
own self, and his own pleasures, and he believes that the work that causes him
displeasure, should not be done and
those who behave badly with him, should be destroyed. But a
devotee of God, feels that he should never do to others, the actions that
he himself does not like. He also feels
that the unhappiness and sorrow that comes his way, is for his spiritual progress. If someone's behavior and conduct is
troubling, then such deeds must not be undertaken, as they will definitely trouble
others as well. This is the truth. Just as when any part of the body is hurt,
it causes pain and is not pleasing to us,
similarly, other's suffering is
also not liked by a devotee. Thus he
does not cause distress to any being with his body, mind, speech and sentiments
etc. Even though man may strive for discipline, but if he causes pain and
distress to others, then despite all efforts, he will not make quick spiritual
progress. Just as the happiness gained by this
body, is pleasing to us, similarly, the
happiness gained by others should also be pleasing to us.
Man has this great weakness that he regards worship,
devotion, meditation etc., as a spiritual practice, but he does not care
about other's suffering. If this is so, then though doing satsang
for many years, though performing spiritual practices for years, there will be
no improvement. Therefore minimally one
should not give sorrow to others. If
you serve, it is a good thing. If you
don't serve, then it is not so harmful, but by giving grief, it is a great
mistake. The more that an aspirant saves himself from harming others,
that much his own desire for pleasures will go away. Therefore the tendency for enjoyment of
pleasures will go away when other's suffering begins to touch us deeply, when
our happiness is in the removal of other's suffering. And other's suffering becomes our suffering. Just as it is one's natural tendency to
remove his own suffering,
similarly, one naturally and
automatically becomes inclined towards removing the suffering of others, then
one does not care about contact born pleasures and interest in desire for sense
pleasure dwindles away. But as long as we do not care about other's
suffering, and continue to indulge in pleasures, till then the tendency for
seeking our own pleasure does not go way.
Some say that we do not give any sorrow to anyone, then what is the need to see towards other's
suffering? Then to get rid of the
tendency and inclination towards sense pleasures, how
can other's suffering go away, when this becomes one's concern, then one's own
desire for pleasures is rooted out.
Therefore it is said in the characteristics and
conduct of saints -
Par dukh dukh sukh sukh dekhe par (Manas 7/38/1)
In Ramacaritamanasa, Tulasidasji, while describing the traits of a saint, mentions - "A saint is he who feels saddened by other's sorrows; and remains happy in the happiness of others." (Manasa 7/38/1).
In Ramacaritamanasa, Tulasidasji, while describing the traits of a saint, mentions - "A saint is he who feels saddened by other's sorrows; and remains happy in the happiness of others." (Manasa 7/38/1).
There are two things that saints have said
pertaining to sense pleasure and indulgence.
Attraction towards money is called "damadi" and attraction
towards women is called "chamadi". Both
these are extremely bad. Therefore it
is said -
Maadhoji se milnaa kaise hoye |
Sabal bairi base ghat bheetar, kanak kaamini
doye ||
Both gold and women are called in Gita by the
name of "bhog"" (sense pleasures) and
"aishvarya" (grandeur, wealth).
Bhogaishvaryaprasaktaanaam tayaapahatcehtasaam
|
Vyavasaayaatmikaa buddhih samaadhou na
vidheeyate ||
(Gita 2/44)
"Those who are deeply attached to pleasures and prosperity, cannot attain a determinate intellect, a single-pointed aim, concentrated on God."
(Gita 2/44)
"Those who are deeply attached to pleasures and prosperity, cannot attain a determinate intellect, a single-pointed aim, concentrated on God."
By the word "bhog" it refers to "woman" and by the word
"aishvarya" is refers to money and hoarding.
He who is attracted to these two, his intellect cannot become
single-pointed and determinate towards
attaining God. His infatuation
is rooted out when the feelings transform to seeing towards the welfare of
others.
Nowadays in our country this is most
essential. Just as in Bikaner, there is
never any watermelon or very little is produced, then there is this
feeling
within that this year there is no watermelon !
The reason this feeling is there,
because watermelon does grow at times.
But where there is no watermelon growing at all, such a thought does
not come to mind. Similarly in our Country there have been
many great obliging saints and householders .
Due to there being a great shortage of them at present, the country is
hungry for such obliging
people.
May no one suffer due to our
cause -
on paying extra care to this,
interest for sense pleasures will go away, and when that is rooted
out, then our tendencies towards vices
will be rooted out. We only look
towards our tendencies, not towards the
root cause. If we look towards the root
cause and try to root it out, then all vices will be rooted out.
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Date : 5th January 2013 (Avaguna Mitnaaneka Upaaya)
From ""Tattvik Pravachan" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram
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