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.
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.
