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How to be Free of Attraction to the Fleeting and Perishing

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Questioner -  However, this appears pleasing to us, Maharajji !  

Swamiji -   It appears pleasing, but it is going away.  Do not be concerned about it, so be it!  Do not be fearful that you find it pleasing.  Stay firm on the point that this all is departing.   Really speaking, though it is pleasant, but it is coming to an end.  The inertness of it being pleasant will be rooted out.  Yes!  it feels good, but it will not remain.

 

This is such a great point!  However pleasing that it may be,  but it will not remain.  Youthful years feel good, but they will not remain.  Affinity with wife and son is pleasing,  but it will not remain.  That is all there is to it.  Isn't this the truth?

 

Questioner -  Yes Sir!  

Swamiji -  If it does  not remain, then how can it be pleasing?  That good feeling will become lesser and lesser.   Now do not be concerned about this !  Our work is getting done,  it is coming to an end!    

   

Narayan !  Narayan !!  Narayan !!!   

 

From book in hindi "Bhagwat Praapti Sahaj Hai"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  

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How to be Free of Attraction to the Fleeting and Perishing

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Stay firm and unshakable on the point, that these transient things will not stay with us all the time.... avoid this mistake of seeing them as permanent.  

Questioner -  How can we get rid of this mistake?   

Swamiji -   From today onwards give importance to this point, that this is innate, and there is benefits that are seen at present.  What gains or benefits are seen, is that previously when you used to lose something, then you would get extremely worried, isn't it?   And now when such things get lost, then how much do you worry?  If you weigh the two, then according to my understanding, you will come to know the difference.  If there is a difference, then you have left that much at least.   Then why do you say that you cannot get rid off it?  Previously the way you would hold onto things, are you holding onto them as much now?   Then it is surely going away!  Yes ! It is not entirely gone away, that point is also true.  Do not become contented with your progress, but how can you believe and think that it is not going away?   Do not believe or accept that you are unable to let go of it, and also don't accept that it has gone away altogether,  because it has not gone away altogether; but it is surely going away.   

 

Understand this with absolute certainty that this is going to go away, because there is weakness in this relationship.  Therefore it is the kind that will eventually end.  If it was not the kind to end , then how would the hold on it be weakened?   Gita says -  "Naabhaavo vidyate satah".  The real never ceases to exist, but the unreal is moving towards non-existence.   If it is decreasing then it is moving towards non-existence, isn't it?   Then one must get power from this  that this is going to leave.  If it was not the kind to leave, then why would it decrease?   And if it has decreased then it will eventually go away. It will surely go away  Where is the question of it staying! That which decreases will surely end.   If it is diminishing,  then it will also end.  If its lifespan reduces then it will surely die, how can   it continue to live?       

 

We know how to attach and detach in relationships.  We got into a relationship with  mother - father, with wife and son,  we continue to establish new worldly relationships, and relieve ourselves of older relationships, but our relationship with God is innate and natural.  Our relationship with the world is not natural and innate.   We get to know this from the scriptures and from the saints.   If we experience this,  then though our relationship with God is out of faith, as He is not seen, but worldly relationships are parting, this is most evidently seen, therefore one must not loose hope and strength that it does not leave.   This is surely going away.   Even if you do not leave it, then too it will part ways.  However, if you don't leave it, and it leaves, then it can be held on to again,  and if you leave it, then it will not be grasped again.  Simply, do not accept that it does not go away.  It is going away,  accept this point from today onwards.  Sentiments that it does not go away are not good, therefore accept that it is departing, and we are letting go.   The satsang that we are doing right now, it is going away.  All in all is coming to an end.      Now who to love,  who to keep,  who to regard as our very own!  

Rajjab roven kaun ko hase se kaun vichaar |

Gaye so aavanke nahi rahe so jaavan haar ||

 

This is all going away,  remain firm on this point.  Do not believe that it is not leaving,  it is surely leaving right now,  accept this.   Why to believe the opposite point that it is not going away!  Believe that it is going away !  

 

     (to be continued)

Ram Ram 

From book in hindi "Bhagwat Praapti Sahaj Hai"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  

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Stay firm and unshakable on the point, that these will not stay with us all the time, then what is the difficulty in getting rid of the sense of mine-ness (mamta) with them ?  

Questioner - How to stay firm and unshaken on this point?

Swamiji -  Do not worry about that, reflect on it and stay firm on the point that this alone is true.   We do not stay with it all the time.  At first we were not with it,  later on it will not remain and at present state too it is not staying, these are the three points.  There is no doubt about this.  Therefore honor this point, and realize its significance.  Just as, if you even get ten rupees these days, then you honor it, if you get hundred rupees, then you honor it,  but you cannot get this point even after giving lacs and crores of rupees.   Can you get this point, with the power of money?   Yes, if some wise scholar tells you,  teaches you,  but to understand properly, you cannot get it with the power of money.  However much money you get, then too there cannot be satisfaction with money, there cannot be peace and on understanding this properly, one gets peace.   If one gets nothing, then why would so many people, come so quickly to this forest?   From this it is proven that you are gaining something or the other.  This is a very unusual, an exceptional type of talk.   Very few honor  these talks,  they do not give it much importance, this is where the mistake is.   

 

     (to be continued)

Ram Ram 

From book in hindi "Bhagwat Praapti Sahaj Hai"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  

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How to be Free of Attraction to the Fleeting and Perishing

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If the attraction for the world does not go away, then do not be concerned, but you have the knowledge that you do not have an eternal relationship with it.   There is no doubt in this knowledge.  Grasp this point now.   Whether attraction leaves or does not leave, do not worry about it, but I have no relationship with them.  At first there was no relationship, and later on it will not remain.   This is our own experience.   The relationships that we have today in this life, with our family, house, money, things, did these relationship exist previously ?  And will they remain in the future?  Previously there was no relationship with us, later on we will have no relationship with them, and those relationships which are there at present,  they too are coming to an end.   These points appear to appeal to me, therefore I repeat them time and again.  

At least be attentive to the point that at birth the number years that we had remaining to live,  are not there now, isn't it?   The years remaining are reducing!  Living is going towards dying, union with the world is ending.    At first the body was not there,  later on it will not remain.   Even at present though this body is there, there is constant separation taking place.   You understand this don't you?  

Let the attraction and attachment not leave, but understand this point,  that every moment there is separation taking place.   The more firm you are on this "vivek" power of discretion,  that much it will aid you in leaving it.  That which does not live with you forever,  why to be attached to that thing?  These things cannot stay with you, in this there is no doubt, is there?   Therefore do not worry that this is not going away.  But give weight to the point that in fact we are not with them and they are not with me.   By simply accepting this, the  relationship with the inert is severed.   The relationship that appears to be solid at present and today you say that this is not going away, that inertness is cut off today.  Stay firm and unshakable on this point, that this will not stay with us all the time, then what is the difficulty in getting rid of the sense of mine-ness (mamta) with it?  

 

     (to be continued)

Ram Ram 

From book in hindi "Bhagwat Praapti Sahaj Hai"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  

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From superficial to genuine love and devotion for God

In the morning it was conveyed that we have a deep and lasting relationship with God.  God says in Gita -

 

ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः।   ।।15.7।।

 

‘Mamaivaansho jeevaloke jeeva bhootah sanatanah’  

 

From time immemorial,  Jeev (embodied soul) is an ‘ansh’  (fragment, part) of Me only.  He did not say that ‘jeev’ is a Sadhu,  a man,  a woman, a Brahmin,  one with good or bad conduct, one who is virtuous or sinful.  All beings whether moving or stationary, whether on land, water, or in air, are an ‘ansh’ (fragment) of Me only.  Therefore we have a very special relationship with God.  God is ours and we are God’s.   

 

It is not that we become God’s,  we already are His.  And  only God is for us.   That which we receive and which later parts from us,  how can it be for us  ?    Things are acquired and later they part from us,  whereas God is ever with us.    He cannot part from us.    He cannot separate from us.  

 

We turn away from God,  but God is never unconnected from us.   How can he be unconnected.  He is everywhere.   You say that He is eternal,  He is Omnipresent,  He is in everyone,  and He belongs to everyone.  Every brother or sister,  can accept God as their very own.   Just as a mother may have several children,  but each child can acknowledge the mother as his mother.   Because each one belongs to the mother.   In the same way,  we are God’s.  The mother has given birth to the children,  so from the physical and gross perspective,  the children  are of the mother.   The mother has given the body.  So she is the mother of the body.  But our (self’s) mother is God.  We are an ‘ansh’  (fragment, part) of God.  Though being a fragment of God,  we have forgotten.  The reason is due to having assumed an affinity (sense of mine-ness) with the world.  This sense of mineness with the body, sense of mine-ness with the family,   sense of mineness with the children,   sense of mine-ness with honor, respect, and praise,    sense of mine-ness with property and possessions.   All this affinity (sense of mineness) is created.  This sense of mineness will not last.   It will not stay.  This is absolutely true.  

 

How long can something that is fabricated last ?   Tell me ?   That which is superficial,  how can it be lasting ?  Only that which is real, which is genuine will stay.  The real thing is that ‘We are God’s’   

TO BE CONTINUED.....

From Discourse by Swami Ramsukhdasji in Hindi, on 7th May,1998 at 9:00 am


Ram Ram