PRACTICING MONISM ( અભેદ ) -- (2)

Sadhak must express bhavna in all of his deeds. Sadhana means synthesis of the ways of Bhakti (devotion and love), Gnyaan (knowledge and wisdom), Dhyan (meditation) and karma. Bhakti is the flood of Bhavna, Gnyaan is the purpose and Dhyan is the focus and attention. Karma is the channel to express all these in appropriate and harmonious way. As the strength, bhavna and inspiration are gained from the sadhana it needs to be expressed in our deeds e.g when the bhakti gathers the strength sadhak must experience the bhava of devotion and love. At the same time he must expand this love and devotion in the people who have come in his contact due to circumstances, destiny, with or without any purpose. Then only he will experience the measure of the strength of the effectiveness and liveliness of this love and devotion. Sadhak cannot be satisfied with the partial and incomplete achievement. He has undertaken the task of expressing the universal and all pervading God almighty within him. If he wants to touch the expressions of the divine he will have to proceed with flooding of the bhavna that has developed from his sadhana in the people, who have come in his contact due to destiny. It means he should not keep the inborn way of looking at the family, although it is always there. He needs to embrace them in the much higher plane and be absorbed in the devotion to the divine at the same time. Not only that, he needs to keep his attention that his main intention behind all these is his own development of sadhana. He needs to act in bhakti, knowledge, meditation and actions with the sole purpose of his own development and achieving the goal of his life. He does not need to act for others. With this attitude there is no chance of any disappointment. He will always look for the reason within him whenever there is disappointment or unpleasant event. This is practicing monism. Eventually sadhak has the experience that the root cause of the universe is within him. Sadhak feels as if he has no time to see the actions of others. This happens only when he stays focused in the bhavna of his sadhana.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan sandesh
Edition 3; pages 10 -- 11.