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dear friends

 

At this preliminary level the devotee feels that the Lord exists in a

particular place only and it must be visited to see the Lord. The Lord does not

dwell in any statue or does not stay in a particular place. The priests

belonging to those places for commercial gains only do such advertisements.

 

In such preliminary level, even if the psychology is wrong it has to be

satisfied in its own way. But if you have traveled up to certain point in the

spiritual path, you can analyze the psychology and then only satisfy it, if it

is found to be correct. I can advise you assuming that you are a developed soul

in the spiritual journey. The main aim of the pilgrimage is to change the place

in which you are present. You require fresh atmosphere on a hill or in a forest

or on the bank of a river. The change of the place is essential because the mind

desires always a change. You must satisfy the mind for such small things. You

should not force the mind in every point like your child. If you force in every

point it will not obey you in the major point. The fresh atmosphere is thus

congenial for the mind to concentrate on the Lord. In such place you can sing

devotional songs and conduct spiritual discussions about the Lord. But you need

not do a long journey for such fresh atmosphere. The

long journey has several disadvantages like improper food, absence of movements

of the body in the train or bus, etc. Such bad food and inconvenience leads to

illness. The freshness you got in the distant place is lost in your return

journey. The illness you acquired in the forward journey to reach that place

also will not allow you to receive that fresh atmosphere to your best capacity.

Instead of such long journey, you can make short journey in the end of every

week to get such atmosphere in the near most places.

 

The short journey will not disturb you in any way. Sitting always in the house

is also not good from the point of the psychology of the mind. Both extremities

must be avoided. Therefore do not stay continuously in your house only. At the

same time, you should avoid the long journey. Both the draught and flood must be

avoided. Similarly in the case of food also both fasting and over eating in one

meal only should be avoided. You should not fast on the whole day. At the same

time you must not over eat once in a day and remain fasting for the rest of the

time. You must eat limited food with more frequency in a day. The over eating at

a time releases lot of sugar into the blood, which will damage the vital organs.

Thus, both the food and the journey must be in limited quanta, avoiding both the

extremities. This will maintain a good health, which will be helpful not only to

your worldly work but also to the spiritual effort. Gita says the same

(Yurktahaara Vihaarasya… etc.,). You can

make long journey to visit the Satguru to receive the special divine knowledge

from Him. You can also travel long in propagating the divine knowledge. Sankara

travelled long distances to meet the Satguru called Govinda Bhagavatpada and

also to propagate the true knowledge. But now such long journey is not necessary

in such case also because electronic media at present are well developed to meet

such needs without any journey.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

bhakta_shakta <bhakta_shakta wrote:

Pranams , thank you very much for the clear reply and helpful

information . if you can , please send me more details about these

temples . i will probably start the Yatra from South India and then

travel up North .

may Devi bless you , JAI !

best wishes from

 

Somaadi

 

 

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, prakki surya <dattapr2000 wrote:

 

Dear surya do you wish to say temples and pilgrimage places have no

significance ?

 

There should be something specials about temples and pilgrimages,

which helps in spiritual progress. What it is

 

gs