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Sun
May 23, 2010 11:41 pm (PDT)
Jai Guru Dev Beloved Divine Friends
Where is the problem?
You
know, if the room is dark for 20 years, it doesn’t take another 20 years to bring light in. it just needs one connection,
one switch on and the whole darkness goes away. Your life may have been miserable in the past, but wake up and see, so what?
Problems come and go in everybody’s life. Look at your past, problems came and they have all vanished. Right? We forcefully
make the problem stay, just wake up and see where is the problem? The problem is not there. Pain is inevitable, suffering
is optional.
Lust
When there is no joy in life then lust increases in you because then you get joy in that only.
But when you find joy in life otherwise also, then the frequency of such desires starts reducing. When you start finding joy
in sadhna (spiritual practices), joy in service, joy in satsang, joy in devotion, joy in surrender - that is the only way
to come out of lust. No other way exists. When all are done together slowly, you come out of lust.
Be both friendly
and centered
When you don’t expect anything from your friends then you will be centered. You know, when you are friendly
some sort of expectation is there, you enjoy being friendly. Stop enjoying being friendly and be friendly because it’s
your very nature. Then you will be centered!
Fruit of action
There is no control over the fruit of action. If the
attention is only on the end result, then you can’t perform. Let us take a runner - if he starts looking behind at who
is running, and not looking at the path he needs to run on, then ultimately he will lose, no matter how good the runner may
be. You have to follow your own track, to complete the run whether you lose or win. Lord Krishna is utterly practical in his
advises. Lord Krishna tells Arjuna: This is complex, but these are the ways to do it.
Act, don’t react!
When
you react, what happens? You regret afterwards. Reaction happens through an emotional upsurge. When someone says something
you don’t like, your emotions swell up. Anything you do in an emotionally disturbed state, you repent afterwards. When
emotions are on peak, the intellect goes in background. Your actions are from the intellect and your reactions are from emotions.
With
Warm Regards
Lakshmi Narayanan
Mon
May 24, 2010 1:53 am (PDT)
Sri Sri: Throughout the ages, in all cultures, place, time, persons and
symbols were all considered sacred. Whenever you consider a symbol,
place, time, person or act sacred, your attention
is undivided and
whole. When things are ordinary and same, you tend to slip into
unawareness and inertia. The moment
you consider something sacred, your
inertia disappears and you become more alive. There is nothing as
fulfilling as
a sacred act. You put your heart and soul in a sacred act.
When every action of yours becomes sacred, you have become one
with the
Divine. Then every minute of your life is sacred, every place you go to
becomes sacred, every person you meet
is only your reflection, and
every act of yours is sacred.
Question: Why does an act when
performed repeatedly
lose it sacredness?
Sri Sri: This happens
when your memory overpowers your consciousness and you lose your
sensitivity.
For example, people living in Benares do not feel that it
is a sacred place. That sensitivity is just not there.
Question:
How can we preserve that feeling of sacredness in our acts?
Sri
Sri: Through living in the present moment and
through Sadhana. Your
Sadhana will not allow your memory to overpower consciousness.
Repetition is not a hindrance
then.
The Native American Indians
and the tribals consider the earth, sun, moon and all the directions as
sacred.
In the ancient tradition, the Rishis considered all the rivers,
mountains and even animals, trees and herbs as sacred.
What to say of
people? They are definitely sacred!
In different parts of the
world, certain symbols, certain
places and different times of the year
are considered sacred. Various cultures honor certain people and
consider them
as sacred. For example, Christians consider the Cross,
Jerusalem, Christmas and the Pope as sacred. For Muslims, the Crescent
Moon, Mecca and the month of Ramadan are sacred. The Hindus consider the
river Ganges, the Himalayas and the Swamis
as sacred.
It is good
to begin feeling that some symbols, places, time and people are sacred
so that you can
be awake and alive. But eventually you need to transcend
and feel that the entire creation and your whole life is sacred.
For
the man of God, the whole world, with all its symbols, places and people
are sacred at all times.
BE A MAN
OF GOD!
|| Jai Guru Dev
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