HOW CAN WE ESTABLISH PEACE IN LIFE? (3)

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We need to perform Karmas in Sansar and its dealings, and as a result we will be involved with people. For this reason, we should deal with such persons in Sansar with sweetness. This sweetness should be genuine and not phony. It should be heartfelt and sincere. You want to get work done. So who will do the work? These related persons or someone else? Work itself is inanimate but it will be done in the best way if we keep love, open mindedness, and considerate behavior towards everyone. Work will not be done if you get offended or angry. On the contrary it will be interrupted. Try this in your dealings. You may not get quick results. This path is difficult. It will not suffice if someone gets angry at you and you also get angry in return. If we keep humility, there will be liking in the work and the process. So quit to impress others, feel superior, and get angry at them. When there is a need to let go, just let it go. This is enough for us. If we live by such Bhavna, our liking towards the Chetan (consciousness) will increase. Mind will be filled with peace and happiness. If you disturb the mind (for example by getting angry), this will not happen. We cannot be separate from the work in Sansar. Work can be done in best manner only if we behave with love, goodness, and sympathy. Otherwise work will be spoiled.  

We do not keep harmony and goodness when the Prakruti-Nature of the other person is bad. If we do not perceive other person's faults, we develop a stage when we will be able to keep harmony. Human being is connected to the work, so if we behave with natural ease, the work will be done in best way. Our difficulty will be less and we will have easy time. We will get help from our work. We will also develop heartfelt natural easiness leading to a higher stage.

Chetan does not stop to exist even if human being does not do Sadhana, does not do Naam-Smaran or even does not believe in it. Similarly, if we keep Bhava of Goodness towards everyone and deal with others in Sansar with harmonious nature, we will develop softness towards others. This leads to higher stage leading to liking of everyone. There will be increased awareness of Chetan. Even if we keep Chetan on the side, it is a big deal if our works in Sansar are done harmoniously and without conflict. So, if we act with harmony and neglect bad behavior of others, even for our own self interest, work will be done with ease. When that happens our peace and happiness are not interrupted. This technique is necessary even without consideration of Chetan.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Part 1

Edition 1; Page 123 - 124.

HOW CAN WE ESTABLISH PEACE IN LIFE? (2)

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For the Sadhak, the main weapon to protect him from such illusionary attacks of Prakruti is inner observation. He must check himself deeper and deeper. If he behaves with awareness and understanding towards everyone, it is not that he will never have friction with someone, but the Sadhak who wants to achieve the essence of life will always benefit from it. So the Sadhak learns the art of taking advantage of  apparent adverse situations or evil circumstances. As the Sadhak's vision, vruttie and tendencies are trained more and more, he will be able to transform all such apparent evil circumstances. As soon as the certain vruttie arises within him, he will be aware of its force and comprehend how to take advantage of such attacks for his own benefit. Occasionally when he gets swept away in its force, even at that time, with awareness he uses this difficulty for the purpose of sadhana. He will know how to gain a small victory even in an apparent defeat. He will always have the awareness and knowledge whenever he is drowning in such currents of the vruttie. If there is no awareness or knowledge in Sadhak at such times, know that there is still some imperfection in Sadhak.

As the Sadhak understands appropriate and inappropriate twists and turns of his nature and has comprehension to use it for the benefit of his sadhana with balanced mind, he experiences his progress in his behavior towards others. When this happens he will definitely have instant comprehension of the heart (હ્રદય સૂઝ) one day.

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Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Part 1,

Edition 1; Pages 122 - 123.

HOW CAN WE ESTABLISH PEACE IN LIFE? (1)

 We should continue our activities in worldly affairs and Sansar, while continuing to think or behave appropriate to the thoughts regarding what we want to do and what kind of person we want to be. We should engage our mind repeatedly in this kind of thoughts. With the grace of Shree Prabhu, we should interact and behave with our related Jivas creating least amount of discord and friction. We will need to create a level of understanding within us to keep peace, genuine happiness, patience and equanimity in the mind. To be successful in this, there should be such active and creative tendencies in our hearts regarding these matters. There will be many kind of instances in Sansar. Since there are many Jivas in Sansar with different kinds of prakruti, there will be incidents of conflicts. All these happenings are for our test and evaluation. These are the Grace-happenings and we should keep and practice such awareness in our heart, and remind the mind repeatedly. 

When attacked by his own Jiva-Nature no matter how powerful it is, he who struggles and refuses to be guided by the attacks with care and awareness, and behaves appropriately with others at that time, is a real Sadhak. He will need to completely understand and evaluate his behavior at every instant and must realize when and where he is wrong. If the Sadhak has understood his own self completely, he would  always direct his vision, vruttie and tendencies to evaluate his thoughts, speech and actions to find his fault every-time. Any Sadhak who tries to see or finds someone else's fault when something bad happens to him or an apparent injustice to him, he is either not Sadhak or Jiva in great illusion, at least for that incident.

When the Sadhak advances in Sadhana, he realizes that his lower kind prakruti tries to control him by encircling him from all sides in an amazing way (like a net of magician). Like a living animal, this prakruti does not just sit around and do nothing when it sees its hold being loosened. It continues to fight by all the means and with maximum strength to maintain the complete hold on Sadhak and rule over him. It takes various newer forms and ways for these attacks. These attacks are done in secret like the attacks of Indrajit. In the war between Rama and Ravana, Indrajit was the most menacing fighter against Rama. The reason being, he could change his true form into illusionary form, hide behind the clouds and throw the arrows from behind the clouds. 

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Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Part 1

Edition 1; Pages 121 - 122.

BE VIGILANT IN RELATIONSHIPS

 All the relatives, mother, father, son, family etc., that we have met in this life are the result of Karma-relationship. All the Jivas have to stay in the same relationships as given in Sansar and follow its rules. It is also proper for us to stay, behave and experience accordingly. Understand and believe that, besides this relationship, if vruttie of any other kind is experienced in any other Jiva, it arises as a result of expression of our karma in past life. If we act with Jiva-Nature with such other Jiva, we get more entangled in new relationship. For that reason, every Jiva need to behave within the parameters appropriate to the relationship in Sansar and its dealing. The limits of behavior in worldly dealings is set accordingly. If we act only with the vruttie of Sansar and relationship in worldly dealings, it will pull us more in the ignorance. It will lead us away from the ideal of progress in the Bhavna of life. For this reason, if the Jiva whose ultimate goal is to reach higher life, it is best and beneficent for him to reduce the vrutties of the Jiva-Nature. 

The matter mentioned above is worth understanding and keeping in mind. It is also worth noting that, even though it is necessary to reduce the vrutties of the Jiva-Nature from the Jivas that we have met and come in contact; we should make sure that our duty and heartfelt love-Bhavna towards their lives do not become less, but in fact increase, become lively and creative. If we want to reduce future Karma-destiny with the Jivas that we have met in this way, we must change our dualistic behavior towards such Jivatmas in worldly dealings. If we can practice to change our tendencies towards them with awareness and devotion in all the dealings, it is possible for us to attain a stage where we can be free from the web of Karmas, in-spite of performing the Karmas. We cannot run away from the given Karmas. We will have the strength to maintain the balance of our mind only if we have a heartfelt understanding of this and a solid belief that given circumstances and situations are for the purpose of developing our lives.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Part 1

Edition 1; Pages 117 - 118.