WHEN DOES BHAVNA (INTENTION AND PURPOSE) BECOMES A REALITY?

Swajan: I want to live my life with intention and purpose of spiritual development. For that purpose I recite poems and prayers. Is it possible to materialize this intention and purpose with these activities?

Pujya Shree Mota : When the bhavna is expressed with heartfelt sincerity, it always moves you towards the goal. Just as anger, sexual desire, ego, infatuation and greed move you in its direction, bhavna also moves you in its own direction. So there needs to be movement in the direction of the bhavna of spiritual development. That movement is the characteristic and reliable measure of bhavna.

The bhavna that is expressed in poems and prayers are only temporary and for certain purpose only. Such bhavna will not help you in the appropriate progress towards spiritual development. To maintain the continuity in bhavna, we must change the direction of life and follow the intent of bhavna of spiritual development in our lives all the time with sincerity.

We should continue to watch the play of mind, intellect, chitta, prana and ego with equanimity and without getting entangled it it; at the same time we should continue to fight it without attachment, repentance and worry. Then only it is possible to express the bhavna in its concrete form. We understand lots of things but that is not enough. Bhavna gets stronger if it is possible to act with sincerity at appropriate circumstances and time. Awareness is the first characteristic to train mind, prana and intellect etc, and it does not come automatically. It expresses and stays active only when there is constant presence of such inclination towards the goal.

Pujya Shree Mota
Sant Hraday
Edition 1; Page 172.

EXPRESSED FORM OF GOD

Compared to entire universe earth and its contents are like a small dot. We are nothing compared to the universe; this kind of thinking will reduce our ego. Universe and our worldly life are the expressed form of God. I have heard people questioning about the presence of mental troubles, suffering and difficulties in the world. Light and heat comes out of the sun naturally and at all the time. There can be night here on earth and it is not because of the sun. Sun continuously emits light and yet there is no light at night on parts of the earth. Day and night happen due to earth rotating in certain way. Change of season is also from the same reason. Sun does not cause day-night or seasons. We do not enjoy real happiness (ananda, આનંદ) and fail to take advantage of the grace of God. This is due to our present state of duality and gunas ( human qualities like good, bad or action oriented). We do not understand certain aspects as children but get the meaning as an adult. We can experience the divine light and ananda automatically if our understanding and present state are changed.

How can we change our present understanding and state? The first thing is to have some kind of thought, expectation and longing towards that goal. When we have a desire to perform certain work, the speed and the result depend upon the strength of the desire. Since we are in the state of duality, the works are done at that level and we fail to get the ananda, the characteristic of the divine consciousness.

Pujya Shree Mota
Maun Mandir No Murm
Edition 1; Pages 64 - 65.

EXPRESS WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING IN LIFE

Life is so vast and diverse and if we try to remove it from equation, it will never end. Nobody can deny its existence and its acceptance should be a pleasure. The soul that accepts the life with all the mindfulness never leaves the reality of life, no matter what is his level of development. Such soul does not lose anything and also does not lose his gains in life. He tries to understand real purpose behind his gains and losses or whatever happens in life. Human that tries to understand with such intent and makes heartfelt effort will get deep into the subject and understand its real purpose. It is not possible for the soul to reach such level without complete heartfelt devotion. There is no definite rule that just because there is such conscious understanding and determined vision of life, it will be expressed in life. It is possible to have understanding and alertness and yet it may not be possible to behave accordingly. At such times there is lots of mental struggle and heartache for not expressing such understanding in life. Such creative mental struggle inspires to express understanding of life into actual practice at increasing level. We will have to achieve seamless interaction between understanding and action in life someday. Nothing else will do. Then only it will count as a proof that life has been accepted for real.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Mandaan
Edition 3; Pages 26 - 27.

FAULTS AND SHORTCOMINGS ---------(5) EXPERIENCE OF GRACE INCREASES OUR STRENGTH

We should be experiencing such happenings (grace) many times in our lives if we are truly doing sadhana (efforts to develop and better the life with the aim of experiencing divine consciousness); then only we will be convinced that sadhak gets the help and grace from God at such times. At these times he has concrete awareness that he has the help and support from a powerful entity (God). After that he is not afraid of his faults and shortcomings, on the flip side he challenges and brings these faults up front. He does not rest till he gets rid of such faults and does not feel at ease till then.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Mandaan

Edition 3; Page 144.