PRACTICING MONISM ( અભેદ ) -- (1).

Dear Brother,

Nothing happens in our lives independently and our karma is the root cause and principle reason behind the happenings. Sadhak will have the experience of omnipotency of God only when he understands this and puts in practice with the help of His consciousness and energy.

Everything in this world is a form of the divine consciousness or reality but it has taken different forms. It means that whatever happens is because of us. We have to perform the deed with the spirit that the root cause is within us. In this way it will not be binding to us. This is possible only if we do not keep the spirit or tendency according to the deed itself but do it with the spirit of developing the bhava of sadhana with awareness and knowledge and then offering everything to God. Then only the deeds are not binding to us. We should never act according to the tendencies and differentiate between the works, since that is not our way. We need to act in the opposite direction.

Person learns from the difficulties and develops the fighting spirit from it. Life shines a whole lot more due to difficulties. One develops the self confidence and energy from these fights against adversities.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan sandesh
Edition 3; pages 9 -- 10.

EVERY ACTION IS FOR ONE'S SELF.

Swajan : Mota, Ordinarily I would not have joined my father's business. It is out of respect for my father's feelings that I am in this business. I feel like writing about my dilemma but it is not expressed fully because of my shyness.

Pujya Shree Mota : I find that there is small fault in the thinking that you are in the business to fulfill your duty towards your father. The reason being the presence of some unknown purpose when you are thrust in certain situation without any effort or search on your part. So we should embrace the situation for our own self and not for anybody else. We cannot run away from duty and transgress the  good conduct till the circumstances that present itself are taken care of. It cannot last for ever. It also has an end. So it is good if you can change your thinking process in this regard. You may get interested in the business if you develop such understanding and act appropriately in the given circumstances.Your understanding that God has given this circumstance so that you can contemplate and know yourself is absolutely true.

One who is in quest of God must know one's self completely. We should go deeper and deeper to see and know everything within us, use sense of discretion and self narrate everything to God. We should be very cautious and not let ourselves disturbed while doing all these.

Pujya Shree Mota
Dhan no yog
Edition 1; pages 14 - 15.

MENTAL STRUGGLE

Swajan : Mota, I get too many thoughts in my mind and it keeps on going all the time. I wake up at night suddenly and feel as if somebody is trying to tell me something.

Pujya Shree Mota : There is always the chain of thoughts going on in the mind of a person who lives ordinary life in the world. A person who does not have this kind of thoughts is either a dull and inert person or a yogi with wisdom. So it does not matter if there is this chain of thoughts in the mind. We should have the understanding of not getting tangled up in this chain of thoughts. We can by choice develop this chain of thoughts regarding any problem and make an appropriate decision. After implementing the  decision we should be care free and not worry about it. We should not let our mind stay disturbed after implementing our decision regarding the presenting situation.

If you are bothered by the persistent thoughts at bed time then try to explain to the mind "This is not the time to have this kind of thoughts. You think about it when it is needed at the time of the work. Now is the time to be peaceful". After explaining to the mind do naam-smaran with love and devotion. The reason for waking up from sleep suddenly is the deep rooted impressions within you. The thoughts of your duty, tentative job situation, difficulties and uncertainties, laziness are the expressions of deep rooted conflicts that your consciousness is trying to bring it to the surface. Due to the worry and burden in our mind while dealing with the conflicts and difficult situation, our consciousness cannot express and bring up these deep rooted conflicts on the surface at that time. This happens since we are too busy to notice these intimations from our consciousness. So we should be completely peaceful and worry free after performing our work and duty.

Pujya Shree Mota
Dhan no yog
Edition 1; excerpts from pages 10 - 12.

WAYS TO DESTROY THE EGO

If sadhak wants to enter into the heart of the sadhana, he must first make an effort to be free from the ego. First he must develop care and enthusiasm to become humblest of the humble with wisdom and knowledge. He must interact with love and keep the spirit of the love alive with clear understanding.   Every time when the ego raises its ugly head, he must be aware and make sure that nothing is done with inspiration from the ego. Satvic guna cannot be expressed fully as long as ego is in existence. The steps of reducing the grip of false understanding, acting with the most humility, taking care that our insistences are not enforced and doing all these with the spirit of love are taken with wisdom in the given circumstances, then there has to be a reduction and destruction of the ego.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Manthan
Edition 3; pages 222 - 223.

LOVE CAN MELT THE EGO.

The element of ego is very powerful in human life. It cannot be destroyed without true heartfelt love. Love is the one that can unite us with the feeling of nearness. Ego seems to be loosing its power on its own when we meet and unite with each other, attracted by the heartfelt virtue of the love. If there is genuine desire to melt the ego, it is immensely necessary to develop such heartfelt bhava (love). Then only we can be one.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Manthan
Edition 3; page 222.