Our Own Yearning Lead Us to Welfare

Our Own Yearning Lead Us to Welfare

(Kalyaan ki Praapti mein Apni Lagan kaaran)

Shree Hari

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A rich man keeps a servant for doing his chores. He hires a Brahmana to perform religious rituals, but if the rich man is hungry or unwell, he himself has to do the required task of eating food and taking medicines for his good health and speedy recovery - no one else can help him in that. If this is the case, then how would you uplift yourself towards spiritual transformation, if you don't have the yearning to make true efforts yourself for your chosen ideal If you truly dedicate yourself to God, then the sages and Gurus would help you, but you have to intensify your pursuit towards spiritual enrichment yourself. Therefore, it is a deceiving belief that a mere guidance from a Guru would lead us to salvation.

A mother can be very caring and loving but if you are not hungry, how can she help you eat food? Similarly, if you do not have the longing for salvation, how can God, in spite of being compassionate and forgiving help you in your endeavor? There is a case like this in the epic Mahabharata, when Draupadi remembered Lord Krishna during distress of being disrobed by the Kauravas. Lord Krishna appeared for her help in the form of clothes. Yudhisthira on the other hand, didn't call out the Lord for help while losing in gambling, then how could God reach him as his savior? Yudhisthira faced afflictions and was tormented in the jungle for thirteen years. Kunti asked Krishna, "don't you have mercy on the Pandavas? The Lord replied, "What can I do?" Yudhisthira lost his kingdom, wealth etc., in gambling but never remembered Me even once and never aske for My help.

Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!

From book in English "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru? " by Swami Ramsukhdasji.

Ram Ram


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Our Own Yearning Lead Us to Welfare

Our Own Yearning Lead Us to Welfare

 (Kalyaan ki Praapti mein Apni Lagan kaaran)

Shree Hari

Lord Krishna has specified in the Gita -

Uddharedaatmanaatmanam Naatmanamvasaadayet |

Aatmaivahyaatmano bandhraatmaiva ritpuraatmanah || (Gita 6/5)

"It is up to man to emancipate himself by his own self and not degrade himself, as man is his own friend and he is his own enemy."

It means that man himself is responsible for his elevation, as well as, his downfall and not someone else. Since God has bestowed man with a human body, then He has also fully given man all the resources for his salvation. That is why there is no need for anyone else for our salvation.

Only one's own inward surrender, dedication and obedience to guru, saints and God ensure him the way to spiritual progress and fulfillment of his aim of salvation. In absence of that yearning in the disciple, how could even Guru help him? If you yourself do not become a student, then what can a teacher do? Someone else may provide you with best of foods, but how would you enjoy it, if you are not hungry? Similarly, if one does not have the keen and sincere yearning, how would the discourses by Gurus and Sages help him?

The guidance of a Guru, Saint and God is always available. There have been a number of famous saints, teachers, Gurus, incarnation of God, but still we are not liberated. This proves that it is we who have not accepted them and we have failed to derive benefit from them. Therefore, he who feels that someone else is responsible for his uplifment, as well as, his downfall, he can never attain liberation (salvation).

Truly speaking man himself is his own Guru (master) - "Aatmano gururaatmaiva purushsya visheshatah" (Srimad Bhagwat 11/7/20).

So, we should guide and lecture ourselves. Instead of finding faults with others we should look at ourselves to find out our shortcomings and make adequate efforts to free ourselves from them. You only become your own master, your own leader and your own ruler. Meaning, salvation is neither by a Guru, nor by God, rather we can transform our life by our own yearning, perseverance and endeavor. Without one's own yearning, even God cannot do anything. If that was so, why are we still deprived of attaining salvation? The problem is that we are short of our efforts towards salvation while there is no dearth of Gurus, Saints, Sages and the Almighty. Spiritual enlightenment is not dependent on them but it totally depends on the seeker himself. When in absence of our own aspirations for our salvation, even the Supreme Lord cannot help us, then how can any human being lead us to salvation, if we don't have a keen desire? Any number of Gurus we might approach, it won't help us, on the other and if we have a true yearning in our heart, we would find a Guru, a Sage, God, good spiritual books and wisdom. How it would happen, we don't know but leave it to God, When a fruit is ripe, the parrot itself flies to eat it. Similarly if we are pure and real seeker, a true Guru would approach us himself. The keenness of a disciple to get his Guru is relatively less intense than that of the Guru to have a true disciple. If we get a fraud Guru, god would free us fro his clutches. It is a rule that when a person has the desire towards his spiritual progress, he does not get stuck anywhere. When a seeker finds the holy company of exalted souls, he holds on to it and he sticks to it.

If you are determined to rise to attain salvation, then there is nobody who can stop you and if you are not keen for it, then even a good Guru or a sage cannot help you in the attainment of salvation, If you are ready to attain self realization, then not only the saints would encourage you but even the thieves, frauds, violent creatures like lions, snakes etc., and the whole world would help you to intensify your pursuit. I have experienced that if the person who is whole-heartedly devoted to God but is engulfed with hardships, these hardships also prove to be helpful in his spiritual progress, Not only this, even if a person who doesn't accept the existence of God, attains true wisdom if he develops true aspiration for salvation.

From book in English "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru? " by Swami Ramsukhdasji.

Ram Ram


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The Generosity of God, the Supreme Guru

The Generosity of God, the Supreme Guru
(Jagatguru Bhagwaan ki Udaartaa)

Shree Hari
There is an interesting story. A person observed a day's fast on Ekadasi. Next day he wanted to feed someone as per tradition, but due to heavy rains he could not find a suitable person. At last after a long search, he found an old monk. He invited the monk to his house for meals. He placed a plate full of food before the monk who started eating it instantly. The person reminded the monk that he should have offered the food to God before eating it. The monk abruptly said "What is God? You are a fool, you do not understand all this." On hearing this, that man removed the food plate and said "If God means nothing to you, then who are you to eat this food? We have offered this food to you for the sake of God only." That very moment, a mystic voice was heard saying
This monk has grown old while rebuking Me, but even then I have been providing him food all along. When you are refusing one day's meal to him, how can you claim yourself to be My devotee? If I don't arrange food for him how long would he survive? After hearing the divine command, the man left feeling very ashamed and begged the monk to pardon him and thereafter gave him food with great respect.
Aiso ko udaar jag maahim
Binu seva jo dravai deen par raam sarisa kou naahim || (Vinay Partrikaa 162)
In spite of this divine presence of such a generous God, if we suffer and expect a Guru to give us happiness and salvation, it is a stupid and deceptive proposition. It is more than sufficient if we prepare ourselves to attain salvation.
God is very compassionate. When He provides living to all of us, will he not help us to attain salvation? Therefore you should develop a sincere and strong desire for your salvation and pray to God "Oh! My Lord! Let me be free from worldly bondage and let me realize the ultimate truth. I don't know about any real bliss. Help me not to be involved with anything else but to attain the real bliss. Oh Lord! Guide me as to what I should do." God always responds to sincere prayers.

Sacche hrdey se praarthnaa, jab bhakt saccha gaaya hai |
To bhakt vatsal kaan mein, wah paunch jhat hi jaaya hai ||

God, saints and sages are more concerned about our salvation than we are. A mother is always worried about her children more than the children themselves are, but those children never realize it. Similarly God and His devotees remain engrossed in our welfare without any selfishness.

Hetu rahit jag jug upkaari | Tumh tumhaar sewal asuraari || (Manas, Uttar. 47/3)

The saints and sages are very eager to help and support those who move towards God with full sincerity. Saints' hearts are always overflowing with compassion for the welfare of others. Who does not feel like giving food to a hungry child?

If someone is very keen with all sincerity for his salvation, God definitely helps him. A guru can never be such a well-wisher of ours as God is -

Uma Raam sam hit jag maahim | Guru pitu maatu bandhi prabhu naahim ||
Sur nar muni sab kaai yah reetee | Swaarath laagi karahim sab preetee ||
(Manas, Kishkindhaa 12/1)

Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!

From book in English "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru? " by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram
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The Generosity of God, the Supreme Guru

The Generosity of God, the Supreme Guru
(Jagatguru Bhagwaan ki Udaartaa)

Shree Hari

God possesses endless virtues. All that has been written in the scriptures and stated by sages about the unlimited virtues of God is not sufficient to describe the full dimensions of God's virtues. Ardent devotee of the Lord, Goswami Tulisadasa also says -

"Ramu na sakahin naam gun gaayi" (Manas, Bala. 26/4)

Some other saints have also stated that even God Himself is not fully aware of His infinite strength. Out of infinite virtues there are three main virtues of God. Omniscience, Omnipotence and all Compassionateness. It means that none else other than God possesses so much knowledge, strength, and mercy. In spite of this strong support of God being at your disposal, if you fail to attain salvation and continue to suffer, how can an ordinary Guru lead you to salvation? Is a Guru more knowledgeable, powerful and generous than God? This is nothing more than an illusion and a deception. So long as a true yearning for salvation does not develop in yourself, even God cannot help you in attaining salvation, then how will a Guru (spiritual guide) lead you to the attainment of this goal?

The virtues that you see in Gurus and saints are not their own, but they have been derived in them by God and have been assumed by you. For example sweetness found in any sweet dish is basically due to sugar in it, similarly any virtue or speciality that you see anywhere in this world spring out from God only. The Lord says in Gita -

Yaddhyadvibhootimatsatvam Srimadoorjitammeva va |
Tattdevaavagaccha tvam mama tejonshsambhavam || (Gita 10/41)

"All the grand, delightful and powerful beings and objects that exist, are outcome of My excellence." (Gita 10/41)

Even the evil beings like demons who oppose God, originally derive their strength from God alone. Hanumanji tells Ravana -
Jaake bal lavalesa ten jitehu charaachar jhaari |
Taasoo doot mein jaa kari hari aanehu priya naari || (Manas, Sunder. 21)

Then shall the devotee of God be deprived of His strength? Be face to face with God, you shall be freed from sins of millions of lives.

Sanmukh hoyi jeev mohi jabahi | janam koti agh naasahin tabahin || (Manas, Sunder. 44/1)

But if you do not do so, there is no way out to be free from sins. The Almighty bestows strength on everyone whether he is His enemy, beloved or indifferent. God's creation, the earth accommodates all alike whether noble or evil, believer or non-believer, sinner or pious. His creations – such as food fulfills everybody's hunger, water satisfies everybody's thirst and air helps everyone to remains alive. God's grace is available in abundance for all beings even if some of them are most wicked and the vilest of sinners. We have to pay for electricity, water and living space but God has provided the Sun, moon, rivers and plenty of space just free of any charge. When His creations are so kind to human beings, you can imagine the infinite dimensions of His generosity for mankind.

From book in English "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru? " by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram


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Selfless Service - An Easy Discipline for Realization (Karmayog)

God is the Supreme Guru
(Bhagwaan Sab ke Guru Hai)

Shree Hari
Lord is the Guru (spiritual guide, master) of the entire World -
"Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum"
"Jagadgurum cha shaashvatam" (Manas, Aranya. 4/9)
He is not merely a Guru, rather is the eternal Master of all the Gurus.
"Sa Ishah paramo gururguruh" (Srimad Bhagwat 8/24/50)
"Tvamasya poojyasch gururgareeyaan" (Gita 11/43)
King Satyavrat says to the Lord -
"Like a blind person accepting another blind person as his guide to show path, ignorant people accept other ignorant ones as their Guru. O' Lord! You are illumed like the Sun, the sole illuminator, inspirer of all human senses. I the Self, the seeker of ultimate truth, elect You alone in the form of a Guru." (Srimad Bhagwat 8/24/50)

Most prominent of all devotees, king Prahlad says -
Shaastaa Vishnurasheshasya jagato yo hrdi sthitah |
Tamrute paramaatmanam taat kah ken shaasyate || (Vishnupuran 1/17/20)

"Lord Vishnu, situated in the heart is the guide and teacher of the whole world. Dear Father! who else can show the right path, other than the Lord Himself? No one can." (Vishnupuran 1/17/20)

Since God is the Guru of the whole world and we too are part of this world itself, how can we be devoid of a Guru? We are the disciples of the real great Guru. There is some danger of the Gurus of presnt times of Kaliyug, but we need not feel scared when the world's Almighty is our Guru. There is no chance of any loss or failure, rather there is nothing but gains. Therefore if we accept God as our Guru, study His utterances in Gita and reform our life accordingly, there is no doubt about our liberation. We may select any one - Krishna, Rama, Sankara, Hanuman, Ganesha or the Sun as our Guru.

The king of elephants Gajendra says

Yeh kashcnesho balinontkoragaat
Prachandvegaadabhidhaavato brsham |
Bheetam prapannam paripaati yadbhyaa -
Nmrutyuh pradhaavatyaranam tameemahi || (Srimad Bhagwat 8/2/33)

"The Lord Who give protection the the devotee, who seeks refuge in Him, from a highly poisonous fast running snake of time, and being scared of Whom even death is running, I take refuge in Him."

The essence of the Gajendra's statement is, "Even without knowing the identity of the Lord, I take shelter in Almighty God." In the same way if we surrender ourselves to God, either we shall get a right Guru or God himself shall become our Guru.

We are a part of God - "Mamaivaansho jeevaloke" (Gita 15/7). Therefore He is not onl our Guru, but he is father, mother, and everything for us. Actually we are not to bind ourselves with a worldly Guru. We have to accept our affinity with God. Real Guru is one who leads us to a deep bonding with God. We need not seek anybody's advice for this purpose because all beings are naturally and permanently bound with God and no middleman is required for this. Why should we create the distance of a middleman, between us and God when we are ourselves capable of having an intimate and direct relationship with Him. By doing so, we shall attain salvation even without seeking -

Ati durlabh kaivalya param pad | sant puraan nigam aagam bad ||
Ram bahat soyi mukuti gosaayi | an icchit aavayi bariaayi || (Manas, Utter. 119/2)

Therefore the Lord says in Gita –
Manmanaa bhava mad bhakto, madhyaajee maam namaskuru | (Gita 9/34, 18/65)
"Fix thy mind on Me, be devotee to Me, worship Me, prostrate thyself before Me."
Sarvadharmaanparityajya maamekum sharanam vraja | (Gita 18/66)

"Give up dependence on all duties and surrender completely to Me."
The Lord speaks of complete surrender to Him without becoming a Guru.

Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!

From book in hindi "Is Salvation Not Possible without a Guru? " by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram
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Selfless Service - An Easy Discipline for Realization (Karmayog)

Selfless Service - An Easy Discipline for Realization (Karmayog)

(Kalyaan ka Sugam Saadhan - Karmayog)

Shree Hari

Karmayog is so extra-ordinary, that whatever path (jnanayog or bhaktiyog) an aspirant follows, he will have to accept the method (there is nothing one has to do for one's self) of karmayog; because everyone has the power to do. God has said pertaining to jnanayog - "Sarvabhootahiterataah" (Gita 5/25; 12/4) and for Bhaktiyog He says " adveshtaa sarvabhootaanaam maitrah karuna eva cha" (Gita 12/13); by saying these two, he has said for both these, it is imperative to do for the welfare of others.

In karmayog, the doer is selfless, not the actions; because due to inertness, the action itself cannot be with or without a motive. Selfless actions takes place from a doer who is doing without a selfish motive. Therefore, whether you call it karmayog, or selfless service - the meaning of both is one and the same. There is no karmayog that is with a selfish motive. Therefore the sentiments of a doer must always remains free of any selfish motive.

Karmayogi cannot bare anything that is disadvantageous to anyone. As every part of the body has an indivisible relationship with whole body, similarly every part of this world has an indivisible relationship with the whole world. Just as a man becomes happy and sad with the pleasure and suffering of every part of his body, similarly, a karmayogi sees his own happiness and suffering in the pleasures and suffering of all beings. If the tongue is bitten by the teeth, no one has wanted to break their teeth. In the same way, karmayog does not believe in doing anything detrimental to harm, the world (so called body of ours).

Man has with him (the body, senses, mind, intellect, abilities, time, knowledge, money, land etc.). All the things that he has, is all-in-all obtained from the world; it is not personally belonging to him. It is evident, that we cannot exert any rights over all the things that we have acquired. We can neither keep these things according to our wishes, nor can we cause a change in them. We have neither brought these with us, nor will we take it back with us. In reality, these things have been received for using them (for engaging them in service of others) properly, never for exerting our rights over them.

God calls those individuals who enjoy the acquired things for their own pleasures, without putting these in the service of others, as thieves. - "Tairdattanpradaayaibhyo yo bhdankte stena eva sah." (Gita 3/12). Not just that, God calls such individuals as sinners, whose lives are not worth living. "Adhaayurindriyaaraamo modham paarth sa jeevati" (Gita 3/16).

With the body obtained from the world, so far we have only done things for ourselves, for our pleasures and enjoyment and for hoarding. Therefore we are indebted to the world. To reduce our liability to this world, we must only do actions for the benefit of this world. On doing actions, desiring fruit, the old debts are not reduced, and new debts are further born. You will have to take a new birth to be freed from the debts. By doing actions for the welfare of others, old debts come to an end, and by performing actions without a selfish motive, new debts do not arise. With this perspective (to be freed from birth and death), it is very essential to adhere to karmayog (discipline of selfless service)
(to be continued)

From book in hindi "Kalyaan Path" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
Ram Ram


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