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Respected Tatwamasi

 

nicely told. but how to achieve that? What will you do by eradicating that

desire?

 

that does lead to improving devotion (love on Lord).

 

 

Religion is the context of GOD to establish peace and justice in this world. In

this context, you must control your bad qualities so that you will not disturb

the peace and justice and will not harm any good person in this world. If you

disturb the world by your bad qualities, God will punish you. But, in this

context, it is sufficient if you control the bad qualities since you cannot

remove them. The Religion ends here. Some religions strictly end here without

any spiritualism.

 

 

 

The spiritualism is the context in which you have to make efforts to reach God.

In this context, you need not even control your bad qualities because, God has

no personal objection towards your bad qualities. These bad qualities cannot be

obstacles in any manner in this context. Moreover, when you turn these bad

qualities towards the God, they become your helpers. Any quality whether good

or bad, is created by God only to help you in reaching Him. If you realize the

original aim of all these qualities, good or bad, why should you control these

qualities, which are with you as a helper? No fool controls his helpers. So,

any quality when involved in spiritualism is used for its original aim, it

becomes a good quality. So all your qualities become good in spiritualism and

you need not put any effort to remove or even control them. When the qualities

are not used for their original purpose, they become bad qualities. Therefore,

whatever qualities turned towards the world, are

bad qualities. In this spiritualism, there is no need of any effort even to

control these bad qualities.

 

 

 

Then, for what, our effort should be made? Our effort should be concentrated to

achieve “Bhakthi” which is the love on God. “Bhakthi” is achieved and is grown

by the knowledge of God. For example, you came to know that Bombay City exists.

This is the knowledge of existence of Bombay. By this you want to see Bombay.

As you know the details of Bombay more and more, your desire to see the city

becomes more and more. Knowing details about the Bombay City is again the

further knowledge. So, knowledge is directly proportional to desire. First

Rukmini heard that there is Lord Krishna on this earth. As she heard more and

more about Lord Krishna from Sage Narada, her love on Krishna increased

enormously. Narada means he who gives knowledge. Therefore, ‘Jnana”(knowledge)

generates and develops “Bhakthi (devotion)”. Due to Bhakthi, the Lord is

attained. Gita says the same ‘ONLY BY BHAKTHI I AM ATTAINED’ (‘Bhaktya………’).

 

 

 

In the spiritual path all your effort must be concentrated in acquiring the

knowledge of God day by day. Once this knowledge based Bhakthi (devotion) is

achieved, your qualities good or bad are immaterial. Whatever may be the

vessel, the drink in it is important. The value paid in a hotel is for the

drink only. If you have taken a cup of coffee, you are paying the cost of the

coffee only whether the cup is made of glass or metal. Similarly, God gives

value only for your Bhakthi and not for your quality. I will give a beautiful

example here. “Sabari” is with good qualities and offered fruits to the Lord

Rama who is Vishnu. A hunter called “Kannappa” gave flesh to the Lord Siva.

Sabari reached the ‘World of Vishnu and Kannappa reached the World of Shiva”.

Both have reached the same Lord because Veda says, “Shiva is Narayana”. Both of

them have been given the similar value by the Lord because in both cases, the

intensity of the devotion is the same as both gave even their

food without eating. Therefore, this proves clearly that the Lord has no

objection for your bad qualities. Hence, all the effort should be only to

achieve and increase the intensity of love devotion or Bhakthi on God. It is

not necessary to bother about your qualities that are inherent coming from

millions of births. They are the born qualities. The tail of the dog is

curved. Any effort cannot make it straight. By force, we can keep it straight

but it has not become straight. Similarly you can control your bad qualities

for not disturbing peace of the world by some force. When you come to God, you

come in your natural state because you can deceive the world showing that your

banded tail is straight but not the God. Whether the river comes in straight

path or curved path, the ocean receives only the water with equality.

Similarly, God receives your love irrespective of your quality. He received

“Sabari” and ‘Kannappa” equally. Sabari with good qualities and Kannappa with

bad qualities reached the same Lord, as their devotion is of same intensity.

 

 

 

A piece of gold is wrapped in an old cloth. A stone is wrapped with a metallic

foil. Which has more total value? Similarly, the love with high intensity

covered even by a bad quality has more total value than the love with lesser

intensity covered by a good quality. When the blood flew from the eye of the

Lord, the Priest who is a person with good qualities is trying to apply the

medicine. But, his devotion is less. In the same situation, “Kannappa” plucked

his eyes and donated to the Lord. Kannappa is a person with bad qualities but

his devotion is the highest. Devotion is the highest good quality. Now let us

evaluate the total cost of the priest and Kannappa. The devotion in Kannappa is

+100. The bad qualities in Kannappa are –10. The total cost is +90. The

priest with good qualities is +10. The devotion in him is +20. The total cost

is +30. So, of the two who is good? Obviously it is Kannappa. Gita says, that,

“Even the worst is best by Bhakthi” (Api chet….).

 

 

 

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

surya

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

Tatwamasi <tatwamasi wrote:

A useful article by Swami Sivananda Saraswati

 

Suppression and Sublimation

 

In the practice of brahmacharya, what is wanted is elimination of lust, but not

suppression. Suppression of the sex urge is not eradication. You can never be

free of that which is suppressed. The suppressed sex desire will attack you

again and again and will produce wet dreams, irritability and restlessness of

mind.

 

 

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