Trichi,
September, 1943.
When some souls develop the tendency towards exploring the God and especially when this urge develops momentum, they develop a strange thought process. This slow down or stops their development. He imagines that since he has accepted the surrender to God, nothing remains to be done by him. All he has to do is to have solid faith in all pervasive divine energy and he is or will be taken care of completely.
He continues to imagine and believe that whatever he does and whatever circumstances that he is put in, is orchestrated by God and he is only the instrument. Further he believes that he is developing humility that is a hallmark of that belief. He takes the support of overheard sentences like "not even a leaf moves without the wish of the God". He also firms up his belief from the instances where true saints were tested and kept their faith in spite of many dukkhas (દુઃખ, sorrows) and in the end their dukkhas were removed by God. Since he has surrendered to God like holy saints he believes that he should bear whatever comes his way from God and tries to shape his life according to this belief. And yet there is a vast difference in surrender of these holy saints and sadhak. Sadhak suffers and his progress slows down as a result of this belief. Because of superficial understanding of law of karma, we develop a kind of vigorless belief of relying on God. This belief of sadhak in his beginning period is nothing but the same belief in a different garb.
He denies or forgets that he is a sadhak and not realized or emancipated soul. Even though it may be true that God is the ultimate creator and the ultimate truth, sadhak will be harmed if he puts all responsibilities of his behavior and actions in all the circumstances on Him. It is true that God is the controller of prakruti and yet human life is affected by impressions of its past actions, beliefs, feelings, tendencies of intelligence, desires of prana, ego and impure elements of its prakruti. It requires difficult sadhana to recognize these very subtle and hidden effects and it requires even more effort to eradicate them. ----------------- continued next blog.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sandesh
Edition 3; pages 174 - 175.
He denies or forgets that he is a sadhak and not realized or emancipated soul. Even though it may be true that God is the ultimate creator and the ultimate truth, sadhak will be harmed if he puts all responsibilities of his behavior and actions in all the circumstances on Him. It is true that God is the controller of prakruti and yet human life is affected by impressions of its past actions, beliefs, feelings, tendencies of intelligence, desires of prana, ego and impure elements of its prakruti. It requires difficult sadhana to recognize these very subtle and hidden effects and it requires even more effort to eradicate them. ----------------- continued next blog.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sandesh
Edition 3; pages 174 - 175.
