PURIFICATION OF MIND AND EGO (3)

 

Continued

If the Love-Bhava of life joins in sadhana with the intense desire for only spiritual benefit, the results are very beneficial. This is true but at the same time there is danger for the Jivas when they believe this. This is also worth consideration. A the same time if we move around in life with the vruttie of doubts and imagined troubles, life becomes as bad as dead. If we follow with appropriateness in everything and if Love-Bhava of our lives is associated with every one with intense desire of spiritual progress only, then no body has strength to act in opposition to that Love-Bhava. For this reason, the path of Love-Devotion is the easiest one for purifying mind and ego. When the stream of Love-Strength starts to flow from the heart, it will purify the vrutties (natural tendencies). This is a topic of experience. If all of you have a real heartfelt desire to really cleanse and purify mind and ego, it will be possible with such Love and devotion (Bhakti). Nothing is possible without such intense desire. Please know that when such intense desire takes place, stream of Bhakti will start.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Sandesh

Edition 3; Excerpts from Pages 297 - 298.

PURIFICATION OF MIND AND EGO (2)

 Continued

We need to think and understand regarding Bhava of Love. We will not be able to use this Bhava of Love without contemplation with knowledge. For an example, husband and wife believe in each other, have same approach to elevate each other's virtues, have heart to offer themselves for each other, try to serve each other, try to live with understanding about each other and seem to have oneness superficially. Even here there is effect from mixing of disorders of passion, self-interest and infatuation (moha). For this reason, this love for each other cannot be considered as pure. So we cannot say that purification of mind and ego is possible from this kind of love. Let us take another example. Many times friendship between two friends is not rooted in pure intention. There is always something or other mixed up with friendship. So such love does not succeed in purification of mind and ego. 

Love that is needed for development of the path of sadhana must be completely without self-interest, attachments and desires, and yet it can be with attachments and desires. It can be noble, generous and with knowledge. Such Love-Bhava can have good desires for the life and yet it can be without any desires and attachments. There is no doubt that the result will be always beneficial if the Love-Bhava of our lives is attached with only one thought of spiritual goodness for others and this is understandable. In worldly dealings, we have no difficulty in mixing with others where there is lot of self-interest, intense attachments or when we need someone. In fact we are aware of this in our mind and mixing with others is easier due to this awareness. Similarly when the Jiva has intense desire and eagerness for the progress in the ideal of life and if this is directed, concentrated and focused towards the higher Jivatma with heartfelt love and devotion, such eagerness always succeeds and fructifies in life. If there is self-interest or need in the relationship and when there is no result in the relationship, there is usually end of the relationship. If there are not enough reasons to continue the relationship, the relationship does not go far. For that reason understand and believe that our heartfelt relationship with higher Jivatma is beneficial to us only when our intense desire for the ideal of our lives is experienced to be taking concrete shape.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Sandesh

Edition 3; Pages 295 - 296.

————— To be continued

PURIFICATION OF THE MIND AND EGO (1)

 Written in the train from Madras (Chennai) to Bombay(Mumbai)

October 11, 1942.

The Jiva who wants to develop the life and whose heart is set to do sadhana of life, will always continue to forget himself. He will not be able to find himself without forgetting. Beginning of the sadhana starts with the renunciation of the ego and ends when it is sublimated. It is not possible to destroy the ego,  since it is in the form of an element. Egoism also can be called one kind of nature or good quality since it can be the propeller and inspiring element for the progress. It is not possible to destroy nature or the characteristics. It can be only sublimated. So it is never destroyed. It is proper if we mean sublimation as  complete purification. As the ego gets subtle its hold on us also gets stronger and subtler. It is much harder to identify the ego at this stage and it becomes impossible to catch it. It is possible that obviously egoless person may be full of ego. It is like a top that is circulating fast appears to be not moving at all. If some intellectual persons say that 'we will reduce and sublimate the ego with the help of the intellect', it is mere useless illusion. In fact, the subtleness of the intellect makes the ego more subtle. It is not possible to reduce ego with intellect. If we want to forget ourselves there is only one way and that is of Love and Devotion. It is possible to forget ourselves in someone because of intensity of the Bhavna of love towards other person and that is the way of sublimating or purifying the ego. There is no other way to achieve  purification. Some Jivas may get absorbed in the given work for certain period of time. We find many people being engrossed in certain particular work like scientists absorbed in search of new things in the interest of their subjects. We notice businessmen engrossed in the business, children in their sports, students in their studies with intense concentration. But their forgetting themselves is for short time and only in the particular subjects. There is never a change in the nature of the mind. It is one thing to forget for a short period of the time and another to change the nature of the mind. Not only that such incidents of temporary forgetting the self may result in increase in the ego. It is entirely possible for this to happen in Sadhak. Please know that, the people who have intellect with knowledgable, sense of discretion and are full of love and devotion for Chetan (consciousness) can reduce the ego to a great extent. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Sandesh

Edition 3; Pages 293 - 294.

———to be continued

PRAY WITHOUT ANY HESITATION

 Continue to remember Shree Prabhu constantly with Bhava of love. Pray with Bhava of humility and Bhava of distress of the heart. Do not get confused in the difference between with desire and without desire. Presently we do not have any idea regarding desire so how can we even talk about desire-less. We should do everything with His blessings and to fulfill the Bhavna of Shree Prabhu. Do not develop any kind of entanglement (મડાગાંઠ) and stick with it. We want to be completely free from our entanglements and why add a new one. So just depend on His name and keep going. If we have the courage and sense of    adventure to run in the ocean while depending upon the name of Shree Bhagwan, the One to save us is He only. It is all right if He saves us and it is all right if He lets us drown. Believe without hesitation or doubt that it is always beneficent to us, no matter He saves us or He drowns us. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Pravesh

Edition 2; Pages 169 - 170.

BHAVNA MAKES SHREE BHAGWAN PERCEPTIBLE AND FACTUAL (પ્રત્યક્ષ)

 The right of giving blessings belongs to the colorful One (Shree Bhagwan). My strength is to ask for blessings and accepting the blessings. I pray to each one of you with loving heart that do not leave 'The One'. Continue to pray to Him. He is not deaf. He hears everything. This is not just the empty imagination of the poet. It is a matter of fact. Please make sure that your life flows by continuously in the prayers and all your works are done with Bhava of Prayers and in the contemplation filled with love, absorption and delight. May there be increase in absorption, enthusiasm, genuine happiness, spirit of adventure, bravery and compassion in the lives of everyone who are associated in this life. Always continue to live with sweetness and being inspirational. 

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Pravesh

Edition 2; Page 167.