|| Shri Hari ||
(Sukhaasakti se Chootne ka Upaaya)
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For many years I had this deep seated longing to know that where is the confusion? Where is the obstacle arising? Even without wanting, the desire for honor and praise, respect and hospitality, and acquisition of things arises, then where is it residing? Why have these not gone away? After many years I discovered the the root of these, and that is - the eager and keen desire for pleasures.
I got this point after many years, and I have told you right away, immediately. You got this point easily, therefore you do not honor it. If it cam to you with much difficulty, then you would value it. If you wandered around in the mountains, went to Badrinarayana, intensely searched, and became so restless wandering around, and thereafter if you met a saint, and if he told you this point, then you would value it and pay attention to it. But at present, you are earning money, sitting comfortably at home with your family and the spiritual talks come to you easily at your doorstep, therefore you do not give it any importance. On the contrary, you think that Swamiji is simply saying so. If he were to sit in the shop then he would know ! In this manner, you give weight to your point of view only. What is the realization from all this? That our point is correct, his (Swamiji's) point is weak. You have attained victory, but what have you gained? You have won, and I have lost, but in winning, you have only been harmed. You only have suffered a loss.
There was a rich man who said that Swamiji does not understand the very nature (essence) of money, so I said that see, I have also kept money, and I have also renounced, therefore I understand both these things. But you have only kept money, you have not given up money, therefore you only know one aspect of it, you do not know both of these things. There is no real essence in money. You are suppressed due to your greed. You have accepted the importance of money, then you say that we know. It is a disgrace to say that you know. You simply don't know at all.
To know God, one has to become connected with God. And to know the world, one has to become disconnected from the world. By staying disconnected from God, one cannot know God, and by connecting with the world, one cannot know the world - this is a principle. Why is this a principle? As in fact, you are inseparable from God and apart from the world. But you have accepted yourself to be apart from God and inseparable from the world. Now how will you know? He who smokes cigarettes, etc., cannot know cigarettes etc. He who gives these up, that one alone knows these well.
One time I had said that leave tea drinking. Many of you left tea drinking. A lawyer was sitting nearby, who did not say a single word. After three-four days, he came to me and said that I too left tea the very same day, but I did not have the guts to speak in front of everyone. After leaving tea, it came to my understanding that the cup in which a beef eater drinks tea, in which a person who has a severe infectious disease drinks tea, from the very same cup we are drinking tea! From this it is proven that without renouncing the world, one cannot know its real nature (Essence).
If you sincerely long to realize the Truth (real, Eternal), then the unreal (temporary) will leave on its own. Of the two, if you do any one, then both will take place. Associating with the unreal (perishable), having attachment to it, you will not know the unreal, and remaining distant from the real, speaking out scholarly and well-seasoned talks, even on becoming a great orator, then too you will not come to know the Truth (real).
An easy means of becoming free of attraction and attachment to the world is to give happiness to others. Give happiness to everyone - mother, father, wife, son, brother, brother-in-law, etc., but do not take pleasure from them, then very easily you will become free of these attachments.
Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayana !!!
From book in hindi "Swadheen kaise bane" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram
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Date : 24th March, 2013
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