Swajan : can we improve our lives by accepting guru-mantra?
Pujya Shree Mota : You cannot achieve anything by just accepting guru-mantra. One may accept it if one wishes to have one. But this in itself is a kind of ignorant fallacy. At times, the world follows blindly. In spit of this, if you want one you can have it. Thousands of mantras are useless until there is a fundamental turn in the direction of your life. Even God cannot help until there is great desire, eagerness and willingness to reduce or remove desires, greed, sexual impulses, ego, attachments and jealousy.
There is always conflict, grief, anguish, sorrow, difficulties, troubles and worries in this world and its workings. No soul has the capacity to separate from it. We have to experience it. Know for sure that any one who faces this with unwillingness, fear and weariness will be troubled by it with a lot more intensity. Any soul that faces this with prayers to God with love, devotion and deep knowledge, at the same time believing that the root cause of these problems lies within himself will help himself. Guru-manta is useful when the soul experiences and burns the roots of infatuation and jealousy within himself and then turns these natural tendencies towards God and offers them.
We have seen lots of souls that have received guru-mantra who choose to make no effort in improving their dealings and works. This kind of guru-mantra is useless. It is all for show and comfort.What can guru-mantra do when there is no desire in the heart to change one's life in a fundamental way?
Pujya Shree Mota
Lagne hajo mangalam
Edition 1: page 232 and 238.
Pujya Shree Mota : You cannot achieve anything by just accepting guru-mantra. One may accept it if one wishes to have one. But this in itself is a kind of ignorant fallacy. At times, the world follows blindly. In spit of this, if you want one you can have it. Thousands of mantras are useless until there is a fundamental turn in the direction of your life. Even God cannot help until there is great desire, eagerness and willingness to reduce or remove desires, greed, sexual impulses, ego, attachments and jealousy.
There is always conflict, grief, anguish, sorrow, difficulties, troubles and worries in this world and its workings. No soul has the capacity to separate from it. We have to experience it. Know for sure that any one who faces this with unwillingness, fear and weariness will be troubled by it with a lot more intensity. Any soul that faces this with prayers to God with love, devotion and deep knowledge, at the same time believing that the root cause of these problems lies within himself will help himself. Guru-manta is useful when the soul experiences and burns the roots of infatuation and jealousy within himself and then turns these natural tendencies towards God and offers them.
We have seen lots of souls that have received guru-mantra who choose to make no effort in improving their dealings and works. This kind of guru-mantra is useless. It is all for show and comfort.What can guru-mantra do when there is no desire in the heart to change one's life in a fundamental way?
Pujya Shree Mota
Lagne hajo mangalam
Edition 1: page 232 and 238.
