Swajan: Why there is confusion in the mind even if we know that the way of naam-smaran is the straight way to experience the God?
Pujya Shree Mota: By the grace of God the soul that struggles with the real enthusiasm and bhava from the heart does not have such confusion. We have only one straight path to follow. We can gather all our might and use it with concentration for naam-smaran. At the same time we can try to sublimate our natural tendencies in our adhar (base; mind, buddhi, prana, chitta and ego) so that bhava of our dear God can settle in it. We need to do both together. Sadhak who wants to experience the God must recognize and understand his own prakruti and dispositions.
The bondages of prakruti and dispositions will become stronger by acting according to its whims. Prakruti and dispositions means totality of collected dispositions and habits over many births. We can let go of this past impressions when it rise in the mind and not sweep away in its forceful flow. We should not get engaged in the successive thoughts or get swept away in the force of vrutties. It means that the strength of infatuations, jealousy, anger and sexual impulses gets diminished and in such circumstances not get swept away in its force; at the same time cultivating the awareness and praying to God with sincerity" Oh God! I want only your pleasure". Our strength is the intense enthusiasm to call the God with all the heart and sincerity. We can never drown in the innumerable obstacles due to our inner strength.
Pujya Shree Mota
Sant Hraday
Edition 3; Pages 107 - 108.
Pujya Shree Mota: By the grace of God the soul that struggles with the real enthusiasm and bhava from the heart does not have such confusion. We have only one straight path to follow. We can gather all our might and use it with concentration for naam-smaran. At the same time we can try to sublimate our natural tendencies in our adhar (base; mind, buddhi, prana, chitta and ego) so that bhava of our dear God can settle in it. We need to do both together. Sadhak who wants to experience the God must recognize and understand his own prakruti and dispositions.
The bondages of prakruti and dispositions will become stronger by acting according to its whims. Prakruti and dispositions means totality of collected dispositions and habits over many births. We can let go of this past impressions when it rise in the mind and not sweep away in its forceful flow. We should not get engaged in the successive thoughts or get swept away in the force of vrutties. It means that the strength of infatuations, jealousy, anger and sexual impulses gets diminished and in such circumstances not get swept away in its force; at the same time cultivating the awareness and praying to God with sincerity" Oh God! I want only your pleasure". Our strength is the intense enthusiasm to call the God with all the heart and sincerity. We can never drown in the innumerable obstacles due to our inner strength.
Pujya Shree Mota
Sant Hraday
Edition 3; Pages 107 - 108.
