TRUE PURPOSE BEHIND SELF SACRIFICE (ત્યાગની ભાવના).

July 26, 1963

Swajan :  Mota, Our relatives and aquaitances never appreciate us even though we bear with them, let go stuff or endure difficulties for them. Why do I feel that all these self sacrifice (let go for others) is useless and does not help?

Pujya Shree Mota : There is a saying in Upanishad" keep enjoying while sacrificing at the same time" and humans have such capabilities for self sacrifice. But the human being cannot appreciate the importance of such self sacrifice since his heart does not feel the longing for it or has understanding that true happiness can be the result of self sacrifice. Until that happens he cannot self sacrifice with the joy of his heart and enthusiasm. We humans knowingly or unknowingly cannot live without sacrificing for each other. But this kind of self sacrifice is from their helplessness. Humans have to sacrifice unwillingly for each other lots of times due to certain circumstances and that kind of self sacrifice causes mental distortions and perversions. This causes mental stress, conflicts, irritation and disturbed peace in the mind. There is always infinite peace in mind with true self sacrifice. The self sacrifice that is done with clear knowledge, love and devotion and when this knowledge, love and devotion stay with constant awareness in his heart while performing the self sacrifice, has a far superior value. Our hearts, mind and intellect gets to be wide, generous, forbearing and full of goodness towards all the souls that come in our contact.

It is the characteristic of this worldly affairs that leads to conflicts. One who wants to be above the conflicts and wants to be alerted and saved from this conflict, gets the desire in one's heart for self sacrifice. The person whose heart desires peace and wants to maintain the peace during conflicts can easily and enthusiastically self sacrifice for others. In general humans have to sacrifice for others grudgingly. So why not do it with understanding and for our own happiness and peace. When it is done with this understanding it produces both happiness and energy. One gets new insight and enjoys
the life fully when one acts with the understanding that it is for one's own good.

Pujya Shree Mota
Muktatma No Premspersh
Edition 2; excerpts from pages 105 - 107.

POWER OF GRACE LIES IN EFFORTS

Swajan : Mota, you told me once that I should remember you. When I close my eyes and try to see you, I see the light. Is it good?

Pujya Shree Mota : We should never give importance to such events. When such events happen to ordinary people they feel as if they have achieved something great and feel blessed. We should continue to introspect, see our selves as it is in clear light, watch the desires, keep sublimating our inner natural tendencies, check sincerity of the purpose while performing works, find our shortcomings and try to improve it. Know for sure that when such efforts are made with heartfelt sincerity, power of grace lies therein. You also had experience of oneness with me. So perform all actions with the bhavna of Shree Bhagwan within you.

Pujya Shree Mota
Muktatma no premsparsh
Edition 2; page 77.

SADHANA AND KARMAS

We have to undergo two kinds of opposing processes in performance of our sadhana. On one side our interaction with others should not be with carelessness, without interest or ignorance believing that all these (sansar, worldly actions) are false and unreal. We should accept every situation and circumstance with love, devotion and without any resentment or boredom, believing that it is given to train and test our bhavna for the real progress in our lives. If we perform our actions in this manner it is appropriate code of conduct. On the other side we need to keep our mind, intellect, prana etc, in the practice of tools persistently to stay in the bhavna of the sadhana. This is to prepare the stage to stabilize the grace of Bhagwan within us. In addition we should interact with harmony, goodness, love, compassion and goodwill in dealings with our contacts, keeping the bhavna (sincere belief, spirit) that all is for our own progress. Our attachment and hate will get less only if we accept the perceived injustice done to us by others with eagerness and consider it as a kind of penance. Know for sure that the force of duality in our prakruti will get less only if we act in this way with wisdom and love. We should interact with others for whom we have dislike or apathy with even more love in our hearts and make a special effort for that. It is possible to turn inwards for introspection with this kind of sadhana. There is no way without this introspection. Just as there is a process for sadhana, it is also equally important to interact with others in the manner discussed above.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Darshan

Edition 8; pages 191 - 192.

ARROGANCE OF THE MIND

What a wretched soul that boasts the arrogance of the mind while watching his mind indulge in imaginations, when in fact he is not prepared to make any effort for spiritual progress! I am really sad when we are in condition where we want to be somebody but do not want to make any effort. By the grace of God I can see that a person does not want to make a sincere effort even in places where he says he wants to accomplish something. He wants to be squeaky clean but keeps making himself dirty by falling in the dirty mud repeatedly and still takes pride in being clean. I am reminded of my Guru Maharaj when I see these things. He wanted to give me a stick (metaphor for being strict) but being a fool I did not accept it. He was right in his assessment and I was wrong in not accepting the stick. If I had the big stick by the grace of God, it would have been possible to rid people of this arrogance of the mind. It is not possible to remove all kinds of arrogance by just being strict though. It is possible they may not have come to me. It would have been better if they did not show up at my door. These people have come on their own but they do not want to work for the advancement. They have postponed to improve their mind , etc. The thing that bothers me the most is they're spoiling their minds instead of improving it. Instead of cleansing the impurities and removing the layers of difficulties, they keep on adding it. When there is improvement in reducing the grip of false understanding and beliefs etc, it is replaced with other kind of impurities in its place. We have to be very careful to see that when old is removed, new one does not replace it.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Darshan
Edition 8; Pages 175 - 176.

THOUGHTS

Never entertain long and extensive thought processes and the conjectures and inferences behind it. Do not be consumed and repeatedly think about the same thing. Contemplation and reflection is different from this.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Sanshodhan

Edition 6; page 240.

My two cents - I think there is some degree of equanimity in contemplation.