EFFECTS OF BHAVA (ભાવ)

Swajan : Mota, can we free ourselves from thoughts and inner natural tendencies if we have ignited bhava in our hearts towards you?

Pujya Shree Mota : When bhava develops in the heart by the will to inquire regarding development of spiritual life, there is a change in the inner instruments like thoughts, feelings and natural tendencies. It is not like we get freedom from these vrutties. It gets sublimated naturally as the bhava takes the hold in the heart just as kite can be flown easily if there is a force of the wind behind it. This is not just the matter of inference but can be experienced.

There is harmony in the vrutties, thoughts etc when bhava develops. It is not true bhava if that does not happen.When bhava is produced one gets engrossed in it just like when someone gets angry and looses the awareness of the surrounding. Usually our understanding and talk of the bhava is not believable. So it is better if we realize and be alert regarding evaluation of bhava. If there is real bhava in your heart towards me, you can definitely help me. In my understanding real bhava can never be just in thoughts but needs to be executed in dynamic fashion.

Swajan : This seems to be entirely different from my understanding of bhava.

Pujya Shree Mota : Yes, bhava is dynamic. Dynamic means the condition that guide us towards the sublimation of vrutties and then enters this process of sublimation of vrutties. We will go nowhere without this kind of bhava. It is not bhava if it does not touch mind, thoughts, etc.

Pujya Shree Mota
Muktatma no premsparsh
Edition 4; page 140 - 141.

SUBLIMATION OF INNER INSTRUMENTS (અંતઃકરણો)

Swajan : Mota; mind, intellect, chitta, prana and ego are very powerful. We get swept away and defeated by them. How can we master or sublimate them?

Pujya Shree Mota : If we want to win we need more strength than the person to be defeated. Sadhak needs to defeat these inner instruments. Nature of the mind is to think. We can defeat it by not thinking (developing silence). Nature of intellect is to arrange thoughts according to habits, practiced learning, understanding, imagination, beliefs and traditions. We have to stop using intellect in that manner. Nature of the chitta is to accept all that happens (as memory) and then throw back at appropriate time. So we have to make sure that whatever we do needs to be done without attachment and without expecting any results. We also have to pay attention that works are done for the love of God. Nature of prana is to desire so we should not cooperate or give our consent to fulfill desires. Ego needs to be destroyed by being extremely humble. So we should use our life force in opposing direction all the time with care and constant awareness.

Pujya Shree Mota
Muktatma no premsparsh
Edition 4; page 29.

CONDITIONS FOR FLOURISHING OF NAAM-SMARAN

Someone may ask; "Mota, you are just bluffing. We do naam-smaran but it does not seem to have any effect". My answer is; there is a need for certain level of progress for flourishing of the naam-smaran. So if we are really doing naam-smaran it requires fulfillment of certain conditions. It requires the awareness of right and wrong with the sense of discretion in our behavior towards others. So there has to be reduction in attachments and hatred (રાગદ્વેષ) for flourishing of naam-smaran. We have been constrained by all kinds of prejudice, ego and jealousy. There will be fast progress and flourishing of the bhavna of Bhagwan if we reduce these constraints. So if we really want to taste the fruits of our efforts of naam-smaran, we must reduce the grip of attachments, hate and prejudice. There is no way out of this but to reduce attachments and hate to enhance the naam-smaran of Bhagwan. We need to look for and find these constraints within us to reduce their grip on us. So the genuine sadhak needs to have eagerness to be free of these restraints, be aware of it and make an effort to be free from it.

Pujya Shree Mota

Maun Mandir Ma Prabhu

Edition 5; pages 12 - 13.

AWARENESS OF THE PURPOSE

The work of visiting the temple to pray does not help us if there is absence of the conscious and living awareness of the purpose to visit the temple. It is helpful only if we have conscious awareness of the purpose. We pray for half an hour and forget Him for the rest of the day. Even if there is some effect it is minimal. We divide the time and in the process encourage hypocrisy. So behaving like this does not bear the fruits. Sadhana will be successful only if we have the awareness of the purpose all the time.

Pujya Shree Mota

Maun Mandir Ma Prabhu

Edition 5; pages 9 - 10.

WORK AND SOLITUDE

Whatever work we do, it is for the improvement (sublimation) of our prakruti. We can benefit a lot if we realize that the work is for the expression and improvement of the bhavna behind the work and for the cleansing of mind and intellect.
We can be aware of the things that is collected in our minds and intellect only in solitude. One has no time to understand his own nature with its multilayer complexities in the hustle of the outside world. All these layers of the nature bubble up in the solitude of the Maun Mandir. Some get uneasy with this revelations. We will be satisfied if some fortunate soul will understand this and improve himself since we know that the whole world is not going to improve. So cleanse your prakruti and nature.

Pujya Shree Mota
Maun Mandir Ma Prabhu
Edition 5; Excerpts from page 42.

My two cents -- Pujya Shree Mota used to give a small talk to in going and out coming sadhaks from the Maun Maunders in Hari Om Ashrams.