Just as grace of God is a subtle thread binding humans with God, open mindedness is equally subtle thread binding us human beings.
Love is expressed in the form of open mindedness in our physical world. Person with open mind cannot be devoid of love. In this way love and open mindedness are inter dependent. If one wants to be one with love, it is essential to have heartfelt mental open mindedness and eagerness to bear everything from the loved ones. As his capacity to bear increases, sadhak gets more knowledgeable with clear vision and appreciates the need for the tolerance. This practice of open mindedness and tolerance creates new vigor and understanding in sadhak's subtle body. It also reduces stubbornness from sadhak at the same time. It drives out our narrow mindedness, selfishness and " I " ness from our mind, making our lives worth and joyous.
There needs to be cooperation and goodwill between people to have success in any field. This is not possible without heart felt open mindedness. There may be many difference of opinions, view points or personal nature between husband and wife. If one or both have this virtu of heartfelt open mindedness, they can have real harmony and can bring the heaven on this earth. We get unhappy because of our desire that other people should follow us, accept our values, follow our thought process and respect our feelings. Eventually we get the bitter experience that we were running after a mirage. We should not expect this from the world and especially from our loved ones. We need to keep open mindedness for our own benefit.
Generosity of the heart ( open heart ) means spirit of friendship towards all the souls. This is the way for sadhak to feel that the whole world is one big family. If sadhak has this mental openness and heartfelt generosity, he can turn all these streams of life forces and add it in his life, while continuing his journey towards God. This increase the speed of his spiritual development.
To honor others nature, speech, way of life, mental tendencies, feelings, physical tendencies, lives, works and their whole personality is in itself generosity of heart and mental open mindedness. This does not mean that you accept others imperfections while keeping an open mind. At the same time, submit to or defeated by the people who attack your field of action or come in the way of your spiritual progress is not the characteristic of open mindedness. You must resist and succeed, with self confidence, quietness and fight with enough firmness for that resistance. To ignore the evil is open mindedness towards it. At the same time hating the people that does or wishes evil thing for sadhak, clearly shows lack of the bhava of open mindedness. Bhava of open mindedness means letting go of the spirit of personal happiness. The bliss from open mindedness cannot be matched by attempts to accumulate things.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan and karya
Edition 1; pages 210 - 212.
Love is expressed in the form of open mindedness in our physical world. Person with open mind cannot be devoid of love. In this way love and open mindedness are inter dependent. If one wants to be one with love, it is essential to have heartfelt mental open mindedness and eagerness to bear everything from the loved ones. As his capacity to bear increases, sadhak gets more knowledgeable with clear vision and appreciates the need for the tolerance. This practice of open mindedness and tolerance creates new vigor and understanding in sadhak's subtle body. It also reduces stubbornness from sadhak at the same time. It drives out our narrow mindedness, selfishness and " I " ness from our mind, making our lives worth and joyous.
There needs to be cooperation and goodwill between people to have success in any field. This is not possible without heart felt open mindedness. There may be many difference of opinions, view points or personal nature between husband and wife. If one or both have this virtu of heartfelt open mindedness, they can have real harmony and can bring the heaven on this earth. We get unhappy because of our desire that other people should follow us, accept our values, follow our thought process and respect our feelings. Eventually we get the bitter experience that we were running after a mirage. We should not expect this from the world and especially from our loved ones. We need to keep open mindedness for our own benefit.
Generosity of the heart ( open heart ) means spirit of friendship towards all the souls. This is the way for sadhak to feel that the whole world is one big family. If sadhak has this mental openness and heartfelt generosity, he can turn all these streams of life forces and add it in his life, while continuing his journey towards God. This increase the speed of his spiritual development.
To honor others nature, speech, way of life, mental tendencies, feelings, physical tendencies, lives, works and their whole personality is in itself generosity of heart and mental open mindedness. This does not mean that you accept others imperfections while keeping an open mind. At the same time, submit to or defeated by the people who attack your field of action or come in the way of your spiritual progress is not the characteristic of open mindedness. You must resist and succeed, with self confidence, quietness and fight with enough firmness for that resistance. To ignore the evil is open mindedness towards it. At the same time hating the people that does or wishes evil thing for sadhak, clearly shows lack of the bhava of open mindedness. Bhava of open mindedness means letting go of the spirit of personal happiness. The bliss from open mindedness cannot be matched by attempts to accumulate things.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan and karya
Edition 1; pages 210 - 212.
