IT IS THE MIND THAT MATTERS

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

 

 

Sri Ramakrishna--"It is the mind that matters.

 

If the mind is bound, you are bound; if the mind is free, you are free.

 

The mind gets dyed in the colour you dye it with.

 

It is just like a laundered white cloth. You can get it dyed in any colour--

 

red, blue or green. It gets the colour you dip it in.

 

 

 

Just see, if you study a little of English, you start speaking English in spite

of

 

yourself : Foot-fut, it-mit. (All laugh.)

 

And also putting on shoes (English boots), whistling and singing, all these

actions.

 

And if a pundit studies Sanskrit, he starts quoting slokas.

 

If the mind is kept in bad company, it adopts the same style of conversation and

 

thoughts. If you keep it in the company of a bhakta, meditation on the Lord and

 

talk of Hari and so on would follow."

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA. Vol. I., p. 80)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

>From "Bhakti Shatak" - "One Hundred Gems of Divine Love",

composed by Jagadguru Sri Rama Kripaluji Maharaj, verses 14, 19, 36

 

Verse- 14

 

hari anurAga virAga jaga

apuhim Apu na hoya!

mana te bhajana kiye binA

bhakti na pAve koya!!

 

Meaning-

 

DETACHMENT from the WORLD

and DEVOTION to Lord (HARI)

DO NOT COME AUTOMATICALLY !

 

Without the INVOLVEMENT of

the MIND in WORSHIP and PRAYER,

NO ONE can ATTAIN PURE DEVOTION !!

 

Verse- 36

 

mana mAyA te hI banyO

mAyA te sansAra,

yAte mana bhAvata sadA

yaha sansAra asAra!

 

Meaning-

 

The MIND has been created by MAYA

and the MATERIAL world is also

a VISIBLE product of MAYA!

 

Therefore, the MIND has SPONTANEOUS

AFFINITY to the MATERIAL WORLD!!

 

Verse- 19

 

bandhana aur mokSa kA

kAraNa "mana" him bakhAn,

yAte kaunihu bhakti karu

karu "mana" te hari dhyAn

 

Meaning-

 

The MIND ALONE is the CAUSE of

ALL BONDAGE and LIBERATION!

 

Therefore, the INVOLVEMENT of MIND is

ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in WHATEVER

form of Devotion one PRACTICES !!

 

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Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

> Sri Ramakrishna--"It is the mind that matters.

>

> If the mind is bound, you are bound; if the mind is free, you are

free.

>

> The mind gets dyed in the colour you dye it with.

>

> It is just like a laundered white cloth. You can get it dyed in

any colour--

>

> red, blue or green. It gets the colour you dip it in.

>

> If the mind is kept in bad company, it adopts the same style of

conversation and

>

> thoughts. If you keep it in the company of a bhakta, meditation on

the Lord and

>

> talk of Hari and so on would follow."