We will have to make continuous efforts to maintain peace, genuine happiness, balanced mind and Tatasthata in any situation. With effort we will achieve all these in its true form. Some great army leaders fight their life-wars at the level of physical and matter of fact level that can be seen factually. Some fight their great wars within. We have to fight our wars within us. These wars are to be fought not in half-hazard way but needs to be fought with firm determination and to achieve only our goal. There should not be any retreat from our goal. We should not allow that to happen. Let us get ready to start fighting our wars against duality and not rest until we completely defeat them and achieve our goal of life. We should not be overpowered by any resistance and quit our efforts. There should not be any wearing from our purpose of achieving the goal even in our weakest and darkest moments. Shree Bhagwan is always eager to help us, support us at every moment. He is always there showing us the true way even with his little finger. He is the inexhaustable treasure of compassion and factual ocean of grace. So let us engage in the war with full support of mind-body and with complete honesty- truthfulness of mind, speech and actions. Let us keep going deep within and recite the name of Shree Bhagwan constantly but only Naam-Smaran will not fulfill our goal. We have to constantly do Naam-Smaran and at the same time continue fighting our wars within.
When human being gets peace (meaning superficial happiness of the mind), rest and facilities in life, he does not remember about Life-battle constantly. For this reason, we will have to give utmost importance to this Life-battle for expressing Satwa Guna within us. We should never surrender to our vrutties and emotions of the lower kind that bring our downfall and be on our guard all the time to prevent that from happening. At the same time, we do not need to be disturbed by anything. If we cannot run our inner self continuously, how can we be responsible to the external world. As our understanding of the self within increases, our faith, trust, firm desire to achieve the goal, sense of duty, do or die attitude etc. become lively and creative. We will have experiences in the heart that we are really alive and not just the statues of the clay.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Yoga, Part 1
Edition 1, Pages 310 - 311.
