WAY TO EXPRESS THE BHAVA OF SURRENDER (શરણભાવ) IN INTELLECT

It is essential to analyze our nature. Our belief that intellect has freedom is a kind of erroneous concept. Our intellect is colored with variety of different pre conceived ideas and it is full of understanding and beliefs from past impressions in our mind. At times it insists and believes that certain belief is the only truth. You should know that the intellect can think in that fashion. I consider intellect as a slave of the past impressions of our inner entities such as mind, chitta etc. Intellect has been gripped by lots of egoistic opinions and all these will come up during sadhana. It is of no use to suppress it, in-fact we will not get any benefit out of it. It is better to watch these ripples with balanced mind, be indifferent and detached from it and stay that way. So allow this upheaval with love to express bhava of surrender in the intellect.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sanshodhan
Edition 6; Page 92.

IT IS ABOUT BEING SINCERE AND STEADFAST TOWARDS THE GOAL IN LIFE

                                                                        Hari ॐ
Karachi,
September 8, 1939

We need to understand and act in a way so as to take away force and vitality (refuse assent and encouragement) from all kinds of vrutties that arise in the our mind. It does not help much to announce loudly or give certain instructions to follow like ' Control the vrutties' , ' control yourself', follow this or that method'. When a human has an ardent and heartfelt desire towards the goal in life and has genuine eager bewilderment (વ્યાકુળતા, vyakulata), then only the work of self development is really experienced. If we have real eager bewilderment towards our goal of life's development or God then other things will fall in place. I feel that teachings like ' do this or that ' usually takes us in a  wrong direction and for no reason makes it more difficult to achieve the goal when it can be done easily. If our heart gets absorbed in the goal of self development, it will become easy and natural to reject negative sentient vrutties whenever it arise. If we stick to our sadhana like the flow of river Ganges (continuous) at all times with heartfelt sincerity everything else will fall in place automatically. " Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you". This is the promise of Jesus Christ. We can derive the same meaning from the view point of sadhana.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sanshodhan
Edition 6; Page 37- 38.

GAUGE OF SADHANA

It is very important for the sadhak to train and develop balanced mind, equanimity, peacefulness and joy while performing all the works in the worldly affairs. Sadhana means our attention and awareness is directed towards training and developing  balanced mind, equanimity, peacefulness and joy while performing all the works in worldly life.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sanshodhan
Edition 6; Page 39.

LOVING GOODBY TO NEGATIVE VRUTTIES (વૃિત્ત, NATURAL TENDENCIES)

We need to master the art of saying goodby to the negative vrutties that arise within us (and there will be many in the beginning) when we react to the tendency and behavior of others. More over we also need to gain and understand the art of loving goodby to whatever is going on in our mind and heart. What that means is we should not create the chain of thoughts, vrutties, feelings and intentions with clear understanding and willingness. Be alert and aware to see them pass by. When this kind of effort with understanding matures there will be absence of actions and reactions in the mind. This will lead to increasing lively and powerful inward introspective movement. We need to step back from movements of the worldly life. This can never be achieved by artificial pressure on us. Please know that it is possible to act as above only if we are convinced in its importance in our heart, with clear understanding and importance of our goal in life.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sanshodhan
Edition 6; Page 24.

WHEN BHAVA (ભાવ, SPARK OF DIVINE) SPRINGS UP

                                                                    HARI ॐ
August 30, 1952.

When bhava springs up in the heart everything feels good. The joy in the life is of the higher category than the joy of sentient beings. It is very important for the sadhana to have this bhava constantly. If this bhava is intense, sadhana progresses in the best way. Everything seems to be fulfilled to the maximum. There is intense joy from an ordinary incidence. There is appreciation of others at all the times. There is clear understanding of others importance and their good qualities. When bhava springs up, our sentient nature is experienced to be elevated for the better. If that happens the observation of the worldly beings is experienced differently. If this bhava is used in the sadhana it keeps on intensifying. Do not just enjoy the joy from bhava, learn to use it. It is called using it when we go deep within and do naam-smaran with love and devotion and do not let our mind wander around.

Pujya Shree Mota
Pagle Pagle Prakash
Edition 4; Page 35.