|| Shri Hari ||
Uninterrupted Spiritual Practice
(Akhand Saadhan)
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What else to say; whoever you consider as a saint, a great soul, a detached person, a renunciate, a good person, establishing a relationship with them is also in fact for the purpose of ending the relationship. This point appears to be the bitter truth, but it is so. Leaving householder life, one becomes a “sadhu” and one establishes a relationship with the “Guruji”. Surely you have not established a relationship with the “Guruji” for keeps sake. Guruji will tell you “Brother! your eternal affinity is with the real “self”. Your affinity with all these other things will not remain, therefore sever relationship with everyone else. The relationship with the Guruji has been established, not for being with the Guruji until death. We regard these assumed relationships as permanent, that is the mistake. It is due to having assumed affinity with the body, that the mistake has been made. Then what to do now?
It is on having the feelings that, “I am the body”, that “I am God’s, God is mine,” cannot be understood. The reason for not understanding is due to unbreakable relationship with the body. Jeev (embodied soul), is in fact a part of God, and God is the Jeev’s - this is their true relationship.
Therefore those who are real saints and great souls, they have this as their only aim, they share this only that “You are God’s and God is your. You are not this body.”
As long as there is a sense of “I-ness” with the body, till then uninterrupted spiritual practice cannot take place.
The question was that “how to do uninterrupted spiritual practice”? As long as you have a sense of I-ness and mine-ness with the body, till then uninterrupted spiritual practice cannot take place. Pay attention, what is uninterrupted? And what is with interruptions? The sense of I-ness that is present, that is uninterrupted. If you are ever asked, you answer will be “I am”. Whether you remember it, or whether in deep sleep or in relating with the world, you completely forget, but the point that I am of a particular “varna”, in a particular stage of life, this is remembered without trying to remember, without
memory of it, is retained and recalled. You do not remember it at all, you have no awareness of it at all that what work am I engaged in, but wherever you are even slightly aware, there the sentiments of “I am” are present. Then that very same name, the same city, the same “varna”, the same stage of life, and our state, condition will all appear, even in a dream. Therefore, the relationship that is connected with “I” is uninterrupted. By not connecting the relationship of “I”with God, and instead continuing to connect it with the world and then you wish and hope to do uninterrupted “bhajan” (devotion and worship of God), this is impossible. Whether you hear from this ear, or you hear from that ear; whether you believe or you don’t believe, whether you get proof or not, Brothers, I have no doubt whatsoever. If you have doubt, then you don’t listen. I have no insistence from you. (to be continued)
From Book in Hindi "Ekai Saadhe Sab Sadhe" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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Date : 26th September, 2013 -
(Akhand Saadhan)