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.
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.
