You should know that without knowing our level of spiritual development, progress is not feasible. I am glad that you asked this basic and important question. At what level do we get peace? If we examine our thoughts and natural tendencies and come to a conclusion that all we think is about sex, infatuation, anger, greediness, jealousy and arrogance then we are not even in first level.
To start we must feel that there is no permanent joy and happiness in this kind of life and that there is a higher kind of life full of this joy and happiness. This permanent joy is possible in any kind of situation and circumstances. When we are certain of this contrasting lives and feel that there is no permanent joy in present life and that we must make a change for the better life. At this point we feel as if the soul is trying to go on this path of higher life. At this stage if we practice appropriate tool for the purpose and try to go ahead, then proper understanding of the process develops over a period of time. This requires constant effort.
If you want to understand this process faster, then learn to be a witness to all your thoughts and natural tendencies ( like sex, anger, jealousy, infatuation, greediness, arrogance and ego ). Just be a witness. If we can do this with sincerity then it is a kind of sadhana too. It is an excellent sadhana if you can be a witness while performing worldly actions. When this practice matures, one gets the freedom from all these natural tendencies. It is exceptional to achieve this, but it is not difficult. In one way it it the easiest path. We fail to maintain this witness consciousness because of the lack of volcanic aspiration. Only with this volcanic aspiration, it is possible to maintain the spirit of witness consciousness. It is not of much use if you have occasional witness consciousness. This true spirit behind witness consciousness is maintained without effort when one has volcanic aspiration.
Pujya Shree Mota
Pujya Shree Mota sathe satsang : janma-punarjanma ( પૂજ્ય શ્રી મોટા સાથે સત્સંગ ઃ જન્મ - પુનર્જન્મ )
Edition 1; pages 26-27.
To start we must feel that there is no permanent joy and happiness in this kind of life and that there is a higher kind of life full of this joy and happiness. This permanent joy is possible in any kind of situation and circumstances. When we are certain of this contrasting lives and feel that there is no permanent joy in present life and that we must make a change for the better life. At this point we feel as if the soul is trying to go on this path of higher life. At this stage if we practice appropriate tool for the purpose and try to go ahead, then proper understanding of the process develops over a period of time. This requires constant effort.
If you want to understand this process faster, then learn to be a witness to all your thoughts and natural tendencies ( like sex, anger, jealousy, infatuation, greediness, arrogance and ego ). Just be a witness. If we can do this with sincerity then it is a kind of sadhana too. It is an excellent sadhana if you can be a witness while performing worldly actions. When this practice matures, one gets the freedom from all these natural tendencies. It is exceptional to achieve this, but it is not difficult. In one way it it the easiest path. We fail to maintain this witness consciousness because of the lack of volcanic aspiration. Only with this volcanic aspiration, it is possible to maintain the spirit of witness consciousness. It is not of much use if you have occasional witness consciousness. This true spirit behind witness consciousness is maintained without effort when one has volcanic aspiration.
Pujya Shree Mota
Pujya Shree Mota sathe satsang : janma-punarjanma ( પૂજ્ય શ્રી મોટા સાથે સત્સંગ ઃ જન્મ - પુનર્જન્મ )
Edition 1; pages 26-27.
