Life is a process of flowing of consciousness energy of the soul (that has come with past impressions of the innumerable births) through the human body. Life like the flowing river, changes at every moment and yet these changes are connected to the older order. Old impressions have created a path for the flowing of the life's direction and newer impressions that are created flow in this path with natural ease. Under the rule of the senses, human beings come in this world with heaps of old karmas and impressions and leave with even larger heaps of the same Only a rare person has a strong desire to attain a position where he leaves these heaps of old impressions in this world and leaves without any kind of bondage to the world. This kind of person with strong desire tries to control his senses from taking interest in their respective areas. As a result this kind of blessed soul continues to develop equanimity (સાક્ષીભાવ) towards the interests of the senses and becomes free of the attachments. Eventually his habits and tendencies of the senses start sublimating and then it is easy and natural for him to keep the equanimity of the senses. The vrutties ( natural inner tendencies) start flowing in the cold flow of the non attachment (entirely different pathway), meaning the old impressions gets purified completely, breaking the old attachments of the karmas. We achieve the true sense of discretion only when the senses get to be non attached. Our decisions are made by our buddhi (બુધ્ધિ) before we open our eyes to this sense of discretion. Since our buddhi is stained with the innumerable impressions of our past births, to believe that its decisions are completely true is like throwing the rocks in the path towards God. So it is not proper to live our lives by these kind of decisions. We must understand and believe that the decisions made by our buddhi that is laying in the dirt of infatuations and attachments are not completely true. Once we start being guided by this kind thoughts as sadhana progresses, we will experience that we get more and more guidance and energy to act appropriately (not following the same path of being directed by the senses) in spite of the pull from the senses. In short we possess this subtle art with the grace of God.
The meaning of living life appropriately is "having an effortless habit of having constant awareness and equanimity at the time when the senses work and take care of business in the world". We will develop equanimity when there is tendency of a reflex reaction to evaluate the working of the senses automatically. When we have the equanimity constantly our buddhi will gradually submit to thy lotus feet. We need complete humility, faith and trust to have this auspicious union of buddhi. All these will happen as we deepen our practices of japa, dharana, dhyan, prayers, surrender and constant offering by the grace of God and as it progresses we will experience the bhava of God in all our works.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sandesh
Edition 3; pages 224 - 226.
The meaning of living life appropriately is "having an effortless habit of having constant awareness and equanimity at the time when the senses work and take care of business in the world". We will develop equanimity when there is tendency of a reflex reaction to evaluate the working of the senses automatically. When we have the equanimity constantly our buddhi will gradually submit to thy lotus feet. We need complete humility, faith and trust to have this auspicious union of buddhi. All these will happen as we deepen our practices of japa, dharana, dhyan, prayers, surrender and constant offering by the grace of God and as it progresses we will experience the bhava of God in all our works.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sandesh
Edition 3; pages 224 - 226.
