God has blessed us with memory and its energy. Humans have misused other kinds of divine energy including the memory, by creating and fostering animosity among people. At the same time with the help of this energy, humans have tasted the divine nectar also.
This energy can be divided into two parts : We can express both the past and the future into present. Memory has played a part in the evolution of physical and spiritual life of humans. This memory can also excite the imagination of future and can transform the future into present. We get absorbed into the pleasant dreams and alluring experiences. From other view point it can also create the enthusiasm to get near our goal also. Sadhak needs to master the art of using this energy for his own development. When the memory creates lively remembrance of the past, we should not get mixed up with that but instead learn from it and give constructive direction to our natural tendencies. We can definitely get entangled in the recollections that are backed by emotions and to some extent by bhavna. But we should not pay any attention to that. Even if we are indifferent to that by no means it should be ignored. These recollections will be useful to us, if we do not have any desire or attachment to these recollections. Memory is such a tremendous form of energy that can reproduce and present even minor past associations in front of our eyes, as if it is real and lively. Memory has such tremendous energy and yet emotions and bhavna are more subtle and its energy is far more than memory. Nothing is impossible for us if we constantly try to develop this energy of emotions and bhavna. It is a tool that helps us to enter incomprehensible and unimaginable heart center ( love and devotion ). It has various forms from physical to subtle and subtlest. We may not get ourselves involved into detail analysis but we must have the understanding of its effect on us. We will notice that our understanding and vision of our experiences get subtle as emotions and bhavna get subtler. It also reveals deeper meaning and purpose of the experiences.
We may not think about the results of our efforts and continue to offer our works to God. But at the same time we cannot be oblivious to its effects on us. We must have a clear vision as to our chitta's ( psyche ) attention to God. Even when our unstable natural tendencies rebel we should notice its effects on our faith, surrender, enthusiasm and curiosity. Only way to tell if we are truly engrossed in this path is to see increase in these characteristics. As we get deeper in sadhana the fight between good and evil gets subtler in us and we should understand ourselves very clearly at that time.
In general emotions and bhavna are the steps for developing our lives. At the same time it can be a hindrance in this development too. This is because the site of action of emotions and bhavna being in the mind. As we progress in our sadhana, mind fears loosing its empire and rule over us. Mind uses emotions and bhavna to maintain its rule over us. Mind and impressions in chitta ( ચિત્ત ) likes to continue functioning in the same old ways and this becomes more powerful when emotions and bhavna is added into the equation. We must pray for the descent of the grace of God to fight this difficult battle of getting rid of these old impressions. This support of the grace is most important in one sense and yet it is not in other sense. We must aim for the development of bhavna and use the support of grace for that purpose only and should not consider this support as the main goal. Otherwise there is a real danger of falling into this craze of support. This craze is a form of dullness and it is not easy to come out of the situation. We will progress if we use this support in our being in right way with purity.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan and karya
Edition 1; pages 204 - 207.
This energy can be divided into two parts : We can express both the past and the future into present. Memory has played a part in the evolution of physical and spiritual life of humans. This memory can also excite the imagination of future and can transform the future into present. We get absorbed into the pleasant dreams and alluring experiences. From other view point it can also create the enthusiasm to get near our goal also. Sadhak needs to master the art of using this energy for his own development. When the memory creates lively remembrance of the past, we should not get mixed up with that but instead learn from it and give constructive direction to our natural tendencies. We can definitely get entangled in the recollections that are backed by emotions and to some extent by bhavna. But we should not pay any attention to that. Even if we are indifferent to that by no means it should be ignored. These recollections will be useful to us, if we do not have any desire or attachment to these recollections. Memory is such a tremendous form of energy that can reproduce and present even minor past associations in front of our eyes, as if it is real and lively. Memory has such tremendous energy and yet emotions and bhavna are more subtle and its energy is far more than memory. Nothing is impossible for us if we constantly try to develop this energy of emotions and bhavna. It is a tool that helps us to enter incomprehensible and unimaginable heart center ( love and devotion ). It has various forms from physical to subtle and subtlest. We may not get ourselves involved into detail analysis but we must have the understanding of its effect on us. We will notice that our understanding and vision of our experiences get subtle as emotions and bhavna get subtler. It also reveals deeper meaning and purpose of the experiences.
We may not think about the results of our efforts and continue to offer our works to God. But at the same time we cannot be oblivious to its effects on us. We must have a clear vision as to our chitta's ( psyche ) attention to God. Even when our unstable natural tendencies rebel we should notice its effects on our faith, surrender, enthusiasm and curiosity. Only way to tell if we are truly engrossed in this path is to see increase in these characteristics. As we get deeper in sadhana the fight between good and evil gets subtler in us and we should understand ourselves very clearly at that time.
In general emotions and bhavna are the steps for developing our lives. At the same time it can be a hindrance in this development too. This is because the site of action of emotions and bhavna being in the mind. As we progress in our sadhana, mind fears loosing its empire and rule over us. Mind uses emotions and bhavna to maintain its rule over us. Mind and impressions in chitta ( ચિત્ત ) likes to continue functioning in the same old ways and this becomes more powerful when emotions and bhavna is added into the equation. We must pray for the descent of the grace of God to fight this difficult battle of getting rid of these old impressions. This support of the grace is most important in one sense and yet it is not in other sense. We must aim for the development of bhavna and use the support of grace for that purpose only and should not consider this support as the main goal. Otherwise there is a real danger of falling into this craze of support. This craze is a form of dullness and it is not easy to come out of the situation. We will progress if we use this support in our being in right way with purity.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan and karya
Edition 1; pages 204 - 207.
