EXPERIMENTS TO REMOVE EGO

By the grace of God, this soul (Pujya Shree Mota) has done lots of experiments to remove the various aspects of an ego arising out of prakruti and whip it to get rid of it. I had worked at and developed an appropriate habit of accepting any suggestion from others naturally and easily by His grace. I learned this earlier in my life with its implications. There were few exceptions to this and that were kept with firmness and clear understanding. That was different. Boys living at Sabarmati Ashram came to know about my habit of accepting others suggestions. In the morning when I would go for moving my bowels some mischievous boys will come and tell me "do not go to move your bowels now". After hearing this words this soul will turn around and go back. I would continue my work without moving my bowels. There was no bad side effects from this. On the contrary I learned to develop a kind of control over it with the awareness and knowledge about it.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Pokar

Edition 4; pages 123 - 124.

PROPER THINKING OF INJUSTICE

It is my advice to you that whenever you feel injustice done to you in the matter of worldly affairs, never accept injustice as injustice. The real purpose behind this injustice is to mould us. Try very hard to understand the real purpose behind this injustice. Injustice is felt by our mind, intellect, prana and ego. They have not evolved into complete equanimity and peace so their evaluation cannot be proper and accurate. How can their evaluation be complete truth in these circumstances? All the incidents have multiple aspects and it is not possible for us to evaluate those in its totality. We may do injustice to somebody else when we accept obvious injustice as injustice. We may have been the victim of injustice but we have to be very careful in designating anybody else as the perpetrator of injustice to us.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Pokar
Edition 4; Pages 121 - 122.

EGO MUST BE ELIMINATED

Kumbhakonam,
April 6, 1953.

We have to watch our ego frequently. Soul keeps on believing all kinds of stuff in the mind as a result of "I " (ego). When insulted even a little bit, mind does not keep quiet. The reaction has already begun in the mind. Ego is a function of the prakruti (nature) and there is a push of inspiration of prakruti behind it. Getting rid of an ego is one of the hardest and most needed work in the path of sadhana. For the soul that has perseverance and care and feels that he does not have a choice in this matter, always being alert regarding this, it is not impossible to accomplish this meaning it is doable. Keep on telling the mind repeatedly that we have to be free from this kind of "I"ness. Let this sip through each and every aspect of your understanding. Try to recognize it as soon as it lifts its head. When that happens act and behave in such a way so as to eliminate it or its effects.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Pokar
Edition 4; pages 122 - 123.

FAITH (શ્રધ્ધા) ---(૩)

------ Continued from previous blog

Pujya Shree Mota :  It is better if we utilize the power of faith and practice diligently to reduce our thinking and thoughts to the minimum while performing action (work). This can be practiced over a period of time. It is even better if there are no thoughts and action is taken by faith only. It is possible to accomplish this over a period of time. Faith is not a subject of thoughts meaning it does not arise from the roots of the thoughts. There is no relationship between thoughts and faith. Faith is independent and so is the thought. Thought is at the bottom and faith is at a higher level. There will be lots of thoughts at this level regarding faith (questioning its validity). Even then we should follow the path of the faith with firm and definite determination. You can think about it if you must. You can think as much as you want regarding the path shown by faith. Pros and cons can also be thought of regarding the ways the work can be accomplished. It is better if that is not the case but still it can be thought of. Once it is decided that it is worth following the way of faith just do it. Immerse in it. All the thoughts and uncertainties will evaporate over a period of time. Once you have 10-12 such experiences there is a feeling that all such thinking does not help much. If we follow the path of faith the final result is the same. The result is much earlier with faith than thinking about it and having doubts. The time to get results is much shorter with faith than performing the works with thinking. The results are earlier with less thoughts and more quietude of the mind. For some this is unbelievable but once experienced it is believable. Faith plays a major role in shortening the time period. It is true only for the devotee of faith and not for others.

Pujya Shree Mota
Pujya Shree Mota Sathe Satsang
Joda Jod. Edition 1; Pages 17 - 18.

FAITH (શ્રધ્ધા) ---- (2)

-------   Continued from previous blog

Pujya Shree Mota :  Now, how can we be convinced that faith has sprung up within us? What is the milestone? How do we know that the faith is within us and is functioning? When the faith springs up within us we have thoughts of the same subject for which we have prayed. Other non related and extraneous thoughts just do not arise. We are in a state where there is total immersion in that subject. At the same time we continue to live our daily lives with all kind of problems (like running business and administration, maintain relationships etc). These problems however acute do not touch us at that time We continue to be with the subject of our faith automatically. Without faith this is not possible. We stay with the subject of faith and complete the work. Other problems do come to our mind afterwards and with faith those can be solved also.
                                            ------- Continued next blog.

Pujya Shree Mota
Pujya Shree Mota Sathe Satsang.
Joda Jod. Edition1; Pages 5- 6.