REMEMBER BLESSINGS OF BHAGWAN (GOD) WITH BHAVA OF GRATITUDE

 Blessings of Bhagwan is immeasurable. You just think, how many people are there who can hardly afford one meal in a day. They may not have a house even to stay and sleep there. There are many people suffering with diseases, who have no place to sleep except under the sky. Bhagwan has given us so much  happiness compared to people who have diseases and all kind of troubles! If someone in this world helps us in worldly affairs even a little bit, we appreciate it very much! So Bhagwan has done so much for us in this world and blessed us, even then we are so bad that we even forgot to remember Him! We just got engrossed in the worldly items given by Him!

We have no idea how much He has given to us in our lives! We will develop immense love and affection for Bhagwan, if we have such remembrance and gratitude all the time. 

When we experience in our lives factually that Bhagwan is very kind, loving and looks after our interests, and as this experience deepens in life, we clearly understand  the purpose of such arrangement in our lives.  We develop happiness, interest and joy in our lives as an integral part of such arrangement. We feel that our lives have become worth living. We feel like watching His expression (Lila) all the time while being engrossed in the Bhava of Bhagwan. Then only there is an experience of profound change like the feelings of recently married beloved woman ( 'Sohagi battha oolatama / સોહાગી બેઠા ઊલટમાં) .

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan yog, Edition 1

Part 2, Pages 94 - 95.

ALWAYS ASK FOR BLESSINGS FROM BHAGWAN

 We need to keep constantly asking for the blessings of Bhagwan. We are not be able to do anything. All kinds of progress depends on the blessings of Bhagwan. This is a matter of fact. There are books and other things for learning in the school but we cannot learn much unless we have someone to teach us. At least in the beginning, we need some help in learning. When we develop comprehension and insight within us, only then we can learn from such books; but we need some help before we develop such insight. So, it is not just imagination that everything happens with His blessings. Thinking from the other view point, if we think that whatever efforts we make, it is being inspired by Him, we can spare ourselves from believing that we are the doer. With such Bhavna we can avoid having ego within us. Since we repeatedly express such Bhavna of blessings, our consciousness within us awakens and firmly expresses itself. 

I wrote to you in one of the letters that our thoughts regarding expectations, desires etc, become stronger when it is mixed up with atmosphere of the similar thoughts of other people. Similarly, our heartfelt Bhavna of asking for the blessings also gets encouragement and becomes stronger when it mixes with similar Bhavna in the atmosphere. So, always we must continue to be alert and aware to ask for His blessings.  

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Edition 1,

Part 2, Pages 93 - 94.

KEEP PURE (UNADULTERATED) PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH BHAGWAN.

Whatever tool we use, we need to deepen its Bhava in the roots of sadhana. Just as there is no deep love initially when two friends come in contact, but its degree keeps on increasing as their contact increases. We can tell the degree of love between them from the depth of their friendship. Here it is similar. 

We have to make our relationship with Bhagwan personal. I call this as 'personal touch.' We should keep increasing this personal touch. This is not for fulfilling some personal wish or from Bhava with some attributes. We must make an effort to fructify this with our Bhava with our own constant deep desire and contemplation. When King went to see Mirabai, he heard that she was talking to Bhagwan. I do not think, this is a humbug talk. When we worship Bhagawan with best and intense Bhava, we will realize Him with the same form and Bhava. I do not have any doubt about it in my mind. This is a proven thing. That is why I am telling you that we need to keep our relationship with Him personal. There is sect of Marjadi in our Vaishnav dharma. It is for developing such close and personal relationship with Bhagwan. Whatever happens or we do is for Bhagwan. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Edition 1,

Part 2, Pages 87 - 88.

BHAKTI OF GOD CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ATTRIBUTES ( સગુણ) IS EASIER.

People whose mind is attracted to God consiousness without attributes (નિર્ગુણ) have more difficulty to experience God consciousness. It is very difficult to be attached to God consciousness without attributes. For this reason Bhakti of God consciousness with attributes is more favorable. Mind and its other senses (like intellect, ego etc,) cannot grasp the aspect of God consciousness without attributes easily. For this reason Bhakti of God consciousness with attributes is more favorable and we need to express the side of consciousness with attributes in our Sadhana. Knowledge is expressed out of Bhakti and presence of knowledge leads to expression of Yog and out of all these there is possibility of expression of art of performing work. This Bhava may have resulted in the tradition of idolatry in the past. When there is heartfelt affection to Shri Bhagwan with love and devotion, we develop personal relationship with Shri Bhagwan. Only then we develop such contemplation where there is presence of deep absorption, concentration, oneness, love and happiness in the Bhava of Sadhana. It is exremely difficult to develop such deep absorption (Lagani) in the mind, intellect, prana, chitta and ego without the support of consciousness with attributes. Expression of consciousness with attributes in the aim of the path of progress in life, means its Bhava and its expression as concentration, focus, continuity and its expansion. It is like getting help from a teacher to progress in education. In spirituality, getting help from the person who knows and has experience with it is (સાકાર)  Shri Sadguru. There is a possibility that mind, intellect, etc, may accept such tool with attributes with easiness. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Edition 1,

Part 2, Pages 85 - 86.