Seek God with one-pointed attention

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In Bhagawatham, there is an incident where Yashoda reached the place where the

child Krishna had hidden himself by following the footprints that he had left

behind him with his curd-besmeared feet. He could not be caught and tied when

she attempted to tie a rope round his waist and drag him to herself because the

length of the rope was always short by two finger breadths!!!. This incident

indicates that Lord cannot be caught with the rope of ego. The 'two finger

breadths' are two virtues - Dharmanishtha (steadiness in rectitude) and

Brahmanishtha (steadiness in aspiration). It is enough if you seek him through

one-pointed attention and devotion through his footprints: beauty, strength,

truth, morality, love, sacrifice, goodness in Nature and in the heart of

Man.

 

During Avathar of the Lord, every Leela is made up of two strands i.e., one

earthly and the other divine (One External and the Inner). For instance, In

Krishna Avathar he broke the mud pots wherein the milkmaids of Brindavan kept

the butter they had prepared. The inner meaning is that Krishna broke the

material casement in which their souls were imprisoned and liberated them from

temporary attachments. He then appropriated to himself, the butter of Faith.

This butter is the result of the churning of the mind i.e., the spiritual

discipline of self-purification. In Narasimha avathar, The Lord taught a lesson

that deha-thathwa ("I-am-body" Consciousness) must be split to reveal

dehi-thathwa

("I-am-embodied" consciousness). No pain, grief or pride can tarnish you as long

as you are in the dehi (I-am-embodied) consciousness. Do not separate and

individualise yourself from the sea (Paramathma). The deha is only an

instrument to realise the dehi.

 

You can know your 'self' only by intense spiritual discipline that is not marred

by anger, envy and greed that sprout from the Ego. The Ego will fall away itself

when one grows in Wisdom. So, don't worry about the Ego; develop Wisdom and know

the ephemeral nature of all objective things so that the tail will no longer be

evident. This must be your deeksha (steady pursuit). The deeksha must express

itself in practice as Nishtha (discipline of an unflinching kind) and Sikshana

(Training of the senses and emotions) which are essential for crossing safely

the flood of "birth-death-continuum".

 

The mind must be withdrawn from its present comrades (senses) and make it loyal

to its royal master (intellect or buddhi). You must separate the grain from the

chaff through the exercise of viveka (discrimination) and fix your desire on the

things that last and nourish rather than on things that are flashy and

corroding. Close all the windows (outward-bound) senses so that the flame (mind

concentrating on the single purpose of God-realisation) keeps burning straight.

The outward-bound senses are like frogs that hop about on the petals of the

lotus and unaware of the nectar (sweetness) in the flower (God's name). Only

the intellect can reveal that sweetness to you.

 

Do not postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day. Feed the spirit as

scrupulously as you feed the body.

 

Sent by: "Chugani Ramchand Ghanshamdas" <rgcjp >

 

 

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