HELPLESSNESS OF THE GURU

You have a desire to tread the path towards the god but there is no intense eagerness. You are requesting that changing your desire into eagerness is my job. O dear soul! What should I tell you? If that was the case, I would not have waited for even a second. Guru can help the soul appropriately if he keeps the guru (with whose help and grace he is going to be helped in the development of his life) alive and creative in his heart with sincerity, concentration and focus. Such a soul also expresses the spirit of Guru's consciousness in everything and in totality. My near and dear people who have come to develop their spiritual life; hardly anyone of them thinks of the guru in that manner during their waking hours. It does not help to imagine or have delusion regarding the idea that someone will help us in that way. What we did or gained is ours. There is no heartfelt longing with love, devotion and awareness to fulfill the mandatory conditions to get the benefit from the guru. There is no strength to sacrifice, no desire or heartfelt joy in being one with the guru in all the aspects or no heartfelt dancing with love and devotion for him. There is no real desire in the heart to accept guru's teachings and then following it completely. So please do not talk about getting help from guru. First try to fulfill all the conditions mentioned earlier by practicing it in real life. Forget about keeping him in all the works; no body even keeps him alive and creative in the heart. So it is good to be active and keep doing whatever you want to do.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sopan
Edition 3; Page 142 - 143.

CONCENTRATION WITHIN -- KEY OF THE SADHANA

Sadhana can be easier with bhava of love. Even this can not be implemented with the soul. What can be done now? The divine consciousness within guru is not useful to the sadhak's development till his mind, intellect, prana, chitta and ego do not become one with the sat-guru's consciousness with love, devotion and knowledge, while keeping the living and creative awareness of the purpose of his life. Mind has a habit of roaming in variety of subjects so it is good to create the habit of thinking about only one subject. Keep the mind focused on only one subject. Bring the mind back if it tries to move from the subject. If it is possible for the sadhak to keep the mind focused on genuine goodwill and smaran (remembering with love) of sat-guru' consciousness, then it can be done. This may be possible to do and can be easier. Sadhak needs to be even more careful and aware here. True understanding of the life will start only when we experience being focused and concentrated within, without taking the help of the gross. Know that this is the beginning of the dismantling of the present level of sentient being. One who has gained real knowledge; his concentration within is never disturbed. We need to dive within (focused) and then coming up and living our lives accordingly. This is the real living. At such times life's problems will be solved automatically. We have only one work to do and that is to keep our mind focused on sadhana. We need to do this while performing works in worldly life, in relationships and our behavior with others at the same time keeping awareness of the purpose.

Nature of the mind is to wander around but if we make it concentrate and focused, it will be easier for the mind to do above things.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sopan
Edition 3; Pages 139 - 140.

SCIENCE OF SANSKARS (IMPRESSIONS IN CHITTA)

Hari Om

Kumbhkonam

March 6th, 1949.

Every soul has impressions on his chitta regarding other's tendencies, reactions and counter reactions, nature and behavior. The soul can not remove these impressions from its roots. This effect in the form of sanskars are preserved deep within ourselves. Someone may say" I think about it and then forget it". This is not true. Any incident, anything that we heard, saw, read, or thought of is preserved in     chitta as impressions. It is not proper to believe that these impressions are gone and it is not present within us; just because we may not remember it.

Each soul decides to act and behave depending upon the totality of the impressions in his chitta. Occasional a soul that has developed some balanced mind may be able to think about it and possibly   separate himself from particular tendencies. But this does not erase these impressions from its source.

Our mind, chitta, prana, intellect, ego and all the senses leave impressions in our chitta whenever they become active. These sanskars become active and express at appropriate time and place. Such is the science of sanskars. It is a matter of fact that within every soul there is something or the other from other souls regarding the relationship with them.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Murm

Edition 2; Pages 78 - 79.

HYPOCRISY - NOT EASY TO GET RID OF.

Swajan: Mota, I feel that my present life style is the correct way. Sometimes I understand and feel afterwards that there is cheating involved in my life.

Pujya Shree Mota: Hypocrisy plays a major role in the lives of everybody that includes me and you. It can masquerade in variety of ways that cannot be imagined. It can change falsehood into truth. Such are its ways and tricks. There is no way to have frankness, honesty, faithfulness and true enthusiasm in life without first removing the curtain of hypocrisy.

We need to be aware of the ways of hypocrisy.  We try to understand our prakruti, nature, thoughts, vrutties and feelings and yet it is not our original self. By the grace of God we will succeed only if we can keep living awareness of our goal while trying to understand our prakruti and thoughts.

There is a lots of mental anguish and struggle to remove the curtain of hypocrisy. It is not as easy as we imagine and think.

Hypocrisy can still be present in the lives of the ones who have real and intense desire for progress in their lives. It can be present even more in the lives of some.

The power of hypocrisy can be reduced by inspiration for the progress in life and creative effort to achieve it, prayers and asking for help with extreme humility and grace; keeping the bhavna of God in all our efforts, all our daily activities and our emotional being. When there is such living and creative effort and practice, the power of hypocrisy is reduced. Hypocrisy does not get the space for its expression at the stage when there is developing bhavna (heartfelt intention to make such efforts) in our mind and its expression.

Pujya Shree Mota
Sant Hraday
Edition 3; Pages 130 - 131.

LIKES AND DISLIKES

Swajan-lady: Mota, If we always do things that others like, we are considered good. How is that possible?

Pujya Shree Mota: We have all kinds of likes and dislikes. We relish the things we like and hate the things we dislike. All the souls have the habit of liking others who conform to their ideas and beliefs. So we need to practice behaving in a way that is above likes and dislikes both.We need to practice not being too happy when someone acts in a way that we relish and not to be unhappy and relish when someone acts contrary to our likings.This needs to be done with clear understanding. Every soul loves when others act the way they like but the soul that wants to practice surrendering, needs to learn to act according to others likes and dislikes. He must practice creatively and effectively.

I felt bad when I saw your unhappy face (as if you drank castor oil), after you needed to do something that you did not like. You have not developed enough understanding and idealism of the mystery and importance of life in your inner being (mind, heart etc). It is important to think about this matter during this period.

If you keep your attention focused on inner being and stabilize your inner gaze, chitta, prana, and ego on Mota's heart and be absorbed in it, you will definitely experience the divine consciousness.

Pujya Shree Mota
Lagne Hajo Mangalam
Edition 1; Pages 228 - 229.