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கேள்வி: வள்ளலார் சமாதி பழக்கம் கூடாது என்கிறார். நீங்கள் கொடுக்கும் பயிற்சியில் ஒருவர் மலேசியாவில் ஜீவசமாதி ஆகியிருக்கிறாரே, இது எப்படி? பதில்: பலர் வள்ளளார் போல ஒளி உடல் ஆக முயற்சி செய்தாலும், நமது இல்லற ஆன்மீகப்பாதையில் ஒரு மனிதன் உச்ச நிலை அடைய முடிவது சமாதி. இதுவே ஆன்மீகத்தில் ஒரு மிக உயர்ந்த சாதனை நிலையாகும். வள்ளலார் சமாதி அடைவதை தவறு என்று சொல்லவில்லை. சமாதி பயிற்சி பழக்கத்தில் மனிதன் பிறரை மதிக்க தவறி விடுகிறான். பயிற்சி செய்யும் ஆணவத்தில் இயல்புத்தன்மையை இழக்கிறான். எனவே வள்ளலார் வாழும் வாழ்கையையே தவமாக (சகஜ பழக்கமாக - நடைமுறை வாழ்வில் ஆன்மீகம்) மாற்ற கூறினார். தியானம் தவம் செய்தால் சமாதி நிலை அடைவார்கள் என்பது என்ன வள்ளலாருக்கு தெரியாதா? அவரும் வாழ்வின் கடைசி இருப்பு வரை தவம் செய்தவர். சமாதி நிலைகளையும் கடந்தவர். மேலும் நமது குருஜி அவர்கள் சகஜ பழக்கத்தையே (PRACTICALITY) சொல்லித்தருகிறார் (உலகில் உள்ள மற்ற எந்த குருவை விட நவீன யுகத்திற்கு தெளிவாகவும் ஆழமாகவும் உண்மையாகவும்). “சகஜமாக வாழும் வாழ்வின் இறுதிப்பரிசே ஜீவசமாதி”. மேலும் இடைவிடாமல் மொத்தத்தையும் துறந்து வள்ளல் பெருமான் வாழ்ந்த வாழ்வு வாழ்ந்தால் ஜோதியில் உடலை கரைக்கும் “சொரூப சித்தி” எனும் நிலையும் அடையலாம். பதில்: பலரும் வள்ளலார் போல ஒளி உடல் அடைய முயற்சி செய்கிறார்கள். ஆனால், நமது இல்லற ஆன்மீகப் பாதையில், வாழ்வின் உச்ச சாதனையாக ஜீவசமாதி நிலையைக் காண முடிகிறது. இது தவறு அல்ல. வள்ளலார் சமாதி அடைவதைத் தடை செய்தவர் அல்ல, ஆனால் அதை பயிற்சி பழக்கமாக மாற்றுவதைக் குற்றமாகக் கூறினார். காரணம், அந்த பயிற்சி பழக்கத்தில் மனிதன் ஒழுக்கம் இழக்க வாய்ப்பு உள்ளது. ஆன்மீகத்தை சாதிக்க வேண்டிய பாதையில், ஒருவர் கர்வம், வெற்றிகொள்வது, மற்றவர்களை மதிக்காமை ஆகியவற்றை ஏற்படுத்தும் நிலையில் பயிற்சி செயல்களை அடிக்கடி செய்வது தவறாகும். வள்ளலார் தானும் தியானத்தில் மூழ்கி தவம் செய்தவர். அவர் கடந்தது ஒளி உடல் நிலை. ஆனால் இன்றைய உலகில், சகஜ வாழ்வின் நடைமுறை ஆன்மீகத்தைக் கற்றுத்தருகிறோம். அவர் வைக்கும் கோட்பாட்டில், “சகஜ வாழ்வின் இறுதிப் பரிசே ஜீவசமாதி” எனும் உண்மை வெளிப்படுகிறது. மேலும், முழுமையான துறவுக்குள் சென்று வள்ளலார் போல வாழ்ந்தால், ஜோதியில் உடலை கரைக்கும் “சொரூப சித்தி” நிலையும் சாத்தியமாகும். #Vallalar #JeevaSamadhi #LightBody #SpiritualAttainment #UltimateRealization #SiddhaPath #GracePath #GuruMahavishnu #Paramporul #SpiritualJourney #HouseholderSpirituality #ModernSpirituality #MeditationState #DivineTruth #SupremeGrace #DivineLife #DetachmentPath #StillnessPractice #InnerSilence #TrueMaster #VallalarWisdom #LightPath #DivineRealization #SelfSurrender #ConsciousLiving #EgoFreePath #NaturalSpirituality #SahajaYoga #SorubaSiddhi #LivingLiberation

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“The only escape from self-love is self-surrender.”Elisabeth Elliot from Keep a Quiet Heart. #elisabethelliot #selflove #selfsurrender #christianquotes #faith #keepaquietheart #womenintheword

Mission Ocupying West completed. Selfsurrender ended successfuly.

Maybe the problem is the quick selfsurrender mind. People just disconnects brain when (for them) it's lost. KDA here is just a bad indicator on why games are lost.

“The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short; the way is difficult, but perfect trust makes it easy.” ― The Mother . . . #difficult #easy #selfsurrender #thepath #trust #themother #divine #spiritual

Even an unselfish devotee of a tamas, rajas or sattvic personality will not attain liberation, whereas even a selfish devotee of Shri Krishna will go to the divine kingdom, yet Kripalu does not suggest, not even .1%, that you people should practice selfish devotion. Your aim should be the highest; your goal should be to go the furthest. Poor Kubja went only as far as Prema Bhakti, that’s all. The selfish ones cannot enter the kingdom in which one tastes the Supreme bliss of Mahabhav. Therefore, your aim should be unselfish devotion. You must love Shyamsunder for His happiness alone. And you know all about Navadha Bhakti (nine-fold devotion). But you have to understand one thing. What is that? The very life of everything, the very soul. What is that? Roopdhyan, i.e. visualizing God. Roopdhyan! It is the very first and the very last word in devotion. Roopdhyan. Some naïve people claim that their love for God is not increasing due to never having seen God. They say that it is easy to love mother, father, wife and son, because they are visible. We can easily love him whom we can see. How can we love Him who is invisible? What is He like? What the holy books say, does not make sense. It is very difficult to do Roopdhyan. It is easy to do keertan. In nine-fold devotion, Navadha Bhakti, eight are easy. But one form of devotion, visualizing God, is the most difficult. This is what people say. But I say the opposite; that there is nothing easier than visualizing God. Try to visualize your father. Close your eyes and think about your father, someone you have seen hundreds of thousands of time. You will not be able to do it. You cannot do it. Visualize him accurately and exactly. The exact same eyes, the exact same nose, mouth and ears. Visualize only this much. You cannot visualize him exactly. No one can. And because you cannot do this, you cannot claim to be thinking of your father. How can you be thinking of your father when you cannot even visualize his face accurately? You have formed his nose, but not his mouth. All right! You have formed his nose and mouth but forgot what his ears look like. You have never paid so much attention to your father’s ears. And even if you succeed in visualizing your father’s face, you will be able to do it after much effort and practice. And if you wish to make the slightest little change, you will no longer be thinking of your father. But there is no problem in visualizing God, because He says, “Create My form according to your preference. You may prefer big eyes or small eyes; blue eyes or black eyes, a high nose perhaps.” Meditate according to what you like, and God will consider it meditating on Him. Everyone is creating a different form of His in mind. Saints have meditated on Him in different ways. If there is uniformity in their meditation, it is only this that they have all placed a peacock feather in His hair; no one has used a pigeon feather. Other than this, no two aspirants think of Shri Krishna in the same way. One difference is in the age. Some prefer little Shri Krishna; they prefer to meditate on Krishna as a five-year old. Some like to think of Him to be anywhere from five to eleven years of age. Some prefer Him to be an adolescent. This is one difference. And then there is the matter of 6 His complexion. Some think Him to be dark blue. Others throw up at the thought of dark blue skin. They prefer light blue. Different people have different preferences. It’s like choosing saris etc. in the world. Our individual likes and dislikes are related to impressions left on the mind from countless lifetimes. This is why God has given us a concession. He says, “My dear children! To avoid problems, I will not restrict Myself to one form alone. You can think of Me as being a round stone, Shaligram. I know that even the greatest sage or yogi cannot meditate on God’s form. Pay attention. Why? Because the one that meditates is the mind, and the mind is material. God, on the other hand, is spiritual. How can a material mind concentrate on the divine form of God? It cannot conceive what God is like. Thus, a material mind can only produce a material meditation. Whether it is the mind of a yogi, a meditator, an ascetic or an illiterate fool. Because he is meditating with his mind and because that mind is material, his meditation will also be material. So who can visualize God accurately? No one. But as you keep on visualizing God with a material mind, your devotion grows stronger - you can call it attachment of the mind or selfsurrender - when the mind becomes 100% surrendered, then-pay attention-God gives to the mind, the eyes, the ears, to each and every sense-organ, His divine power, Swaroop Shakti, which is also called Divine Sattva. There is material Sattva and there is Divine Sattva. When the mind attains this Divine Sattva then it is able to visualize God accurately. Now finally comes accurate meditation. To put it in plain language, it is possible to visualize God only after attaining God. But what can we do before that? God says-I have not fixed any particular form of Myself. Countless are My names, unlimited are My forms. The form you are meditating on is one of countless. If someone insists on visualizing God who has a nose at the back of his head, he can feel free to do so. After all, this is also one out of the countless forms. When God appears, He will appear with a nose at the back of His head. However, the bliss will be the same. It is never lesser or greater. An artist creates a beautiful form of God in his mind, and an illiterate man visualizes God as a round stone, Shaligram. Both are doing fine. Upon God-realization, you will attain divine eyesight. Then – You will see God’s divine form. Everyone will taste the same bliss. Think about it! Such grace, and that too, causeless. No one proposed to God-Maharaj! Since we are unable to meditate on You, please tell us what to do. God declared His laws even before creation. Visualize God according to your preference. Because God is sitting inside, noting down your thoughts, you will attain Godly benefit. And when your sadhana is strengthened and your senses, mind and intellect attain divine power, then you will see God with divine senses, mind and intellect; in other words, you will then see the original form of God. First you get the girl doll and boy doll married; later comes the real thing. First, you have to meditate on God and surrender to Him fully. This is what you have to do. After that, your work is done. Now the Guru will step in, and even he does not have anything much to do. In fact his work takes not even a second. As soon as the vessel is prepared, the Guru will give you everything divine. He is waiting each and every moment to put divine goods in a suitable vessel. The labour involved is in giving theoretical knowledge to the disciple and then when the disciple starts practicing devotion, it will be up to the Guru to 7 solve the difficulties faced by him. The Guru will have to keep an eye on the samskaras of the seeker and help him from time to time. It’s important for me to go to that disciple at this time. Why? Because his bad samskars will appear on the 30th. If I reach him on the 29th, my association will prevent those samskaras from overwhelming him and making him crazy. All this work has to be done by the saint, and he does it all in utmost secrecy. He does not admit to any seeker that he has wasted even two minutes for him. He does not disclose all this. In fact, even if someone asks, he says, “What nonsense! I do my work. Am I crazy that I should be running after you?” Yes, so the Guru will do his work upon the fulfillment of your sadhana bhakti. That is when he will make you his disciple. Note this down. It has become a big joke these days. Disciples are not as anxious to accept a guru as gurus are to accept disciples. This is not the way it happens. Listen! First you have to get the electrical wiring fitted properly; install the rods and bulbs and put the switches in place. After you do all this work, the power-house will provide you with electricity. You have not done any electric wiring, and yet you want electricity. Where will you place this power? In your head? Prepare yourself first. But what do modern-day gurus say? Come one, come all. Everything goes here. Everything goes. They merely recite a mantra in the ear - Ramaya Namah, Krishnaya Namah, Govindaya Namah, Vaasudevaya Namah. But does this mean that God would not be pleased if we spoke to Him in the common language - “O Ram! I bow to You?” Are there language-wars in God’s kingdom as well? Where does it say that God prefers Sanskrit - OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA to Hindi HE VASUDEVA BHAGAVAN, AAPKO NAMASKAAR HAI, i.e. O Lord Vaasudev! I bow to You? Do you know that Mother Yashoda never addressed Lord Krishna as Shri Krishna? She would call Him Kanua. Which scripture mentions the name Kanua, a spoiled version of the name Krishna? Yashoda would call Krishna Kanua, and Balram, Balua. O Kanua! O Balua! Mother Yashoda did not ever chant HARE RAM, HARE KRISHNA like you people do so properly. But I am not saying that you should imitate Yashoda. You are doing the right thing. Do not think that you will attain Yashoda’s seat right in the initial stages.

Shyamsunder is standing in the groves. What is He doing standing there? He is practicing devotion. Devotion is something without which neither the individual soul nor the Supreme Soul can attain happiness. Now the question is, to whom does God practice devotion? Well, for one you know that God devotes Himself to the individual soul with the same sentiment, in the same way and as much as the individual soul practices devotion to God. Shri Krishna says, “I devote Myself.” Let me explain this to you in layman’s language. We desire to serve. We desire to serve God, and God desires to serve us. As much as we desire to serve Him. Neither less, nor more. Depending on whether we love God as our King (Shanta Bhav), Master (Dasya Bhav), Friend (Sakhya Bhav), Child (Vatsalya Bhav) or Beloved (Madhurya Bhav). These are the five moods (Bhav) in Devotion. Shanta Bhav is not important to us; it is practiced by yogis. There are four moods in Devotion: Dasya, Sakhya, Vatsalya and Madhurya. In other words, there are four ways in which ‘Bhagavan’ (God) can be taken out of Bhagavan Shri Krishna. Take out ‘Bhagavan’ and now you are left with only ‘Shri Krishna.’ He is my Master, number one. Number two, still higher: He is my Friend. Number three, still higher: He is my Son. Number four, still higher: He is my Beloved. Out of these, Dasya Bhav saints go as far as Prema Bhakti, no further. You are practicing what is called Sadhana (preparatory) Bhakti at present. The stage that will come next is called Bhav Bhakti. Attaining Bhav Bhakti the mind becomes completely pure. Then with the Guru’s grace you will attain Prema Bhakti. He who practices devotion to God thinking Him to be Master, will reach Prema Bhakti. Sakhya Bhav devotee goes further. He crosses 4 levels-Sneha Bhakti, Mana Bhakti, Pranaya Bhakti and Raga Bhakti. He will stop once he reaches Raga Bhakti. Then come Vatsalya Bhav devotees like Yashoda, who go beyond Prema Bhakti, Sneha Bhakti, Mana Bhakti, Pranaya Bhakti, Raga Bhakti and go to Anurag Bhakti. Vatsalya Bhav devotees go one class further. And the Gopis, Madhurya Bhav devotees, go beyond even Anurag Bhakti to Mahabhav Bhakti. Mahabhav Bhakti is the highest limit of Devotion. There is one more seat, Maadan Bhakti, but it is unavailable to individual souls, for it is a seat reserved for Shri Radha. Anyhow, you have to practice Sadhana Bhakti right now. But your goal should be to reach Mahabhav. This is why Madhurya Bhav should be your aim right from the beginning. There is a lot of facility in Madhurya Bhav. What is that? Whenever you wish, you can accept God as beloved, or son, or friend, or master. Such is the nature of our mind that it desires variety. The truth is that if it were up to us, we would change our mouth, eyes and nose every single day. Yes! But since we are unable to do so, we do our best. We use red eye-shadow one day, blue the next day, and black the next. We change the lipstick colour every day. Being helpless, we do the best we can. If we could, we would change everything about ourselves every single day. In Madhurya Bhav, we have access to all Bhav, or moods. If the mind is not interested at any given moment in Madhurya Bhav, we can accept Vatsalya bhav and think God to be our Son. If the mind tires of this relationship, we can think Him to be our Friend and ride on His back, like a 2 rider on a horse. In other words, we have the freedom to enter every relationship. But a Dasya Bhav devotee cannot even enter Sakhya Bhav, what to speak of Vatsalya and Madhurya. It would be a sin to think of it. Once Tulsidas Ji went to Radha Raman temple in Vrindavan. Upon entering the temple, he saw Shyama and Shyam embracing lovingly. Not statues made of stone, the real thing. There is nothing extraordinary about seeing statues; this is something we can all do. Radha and Krishna gave Tulsidas Divine Darshan. As soon as Tulsidas Ji beheld this sight, he lowered his eyes. Why? Because Tulsidas thinks Radha and Krishna as his mother and father and master. A servant does not have the right to see mother and father embracing each other lovingly. This is undeserved effort. But he did see Them. He had gone to see the temple, but reaching there he saw Radha and Krishna standing in place of the deities. The mischievous Krishna was just having some fun with His devotee. Tulsidas closed his eyes and said, “Maharaj! Please take up the bow and arrow, otherwise the world will accuse me of breaking the rules of Devotion. Maharaj! I don’t care about myself; it is the reputation of Devotion that I am concerned about.” Dasya Bhav contains so many restrictions that it is almost impossible to observe them. Let us say that there is a Guru and a disciple. Dasya Bhav. The Guru is walking inside a hall. It would be a sin for the disciple to walk on the same ground as his Guru. When a teary-eyed Bharat was about to set out for the forest with the intention of bringing Ram back to Ayodhya, people said to him, “Maharaj! Please sit in the chariot. How far will you travel on foot? You are a prince, unaccustomed to physical hardships.” Bharat said, “Sit in a chariot, did you say?” “It is the duty of a servant to place his head where his master has placed his lotus feet.” However, it is not possible for a person to walk on his head. So there are many restrictions in Dasya Bhav. These rules and restrictions shrink in Sakhya Bhav. In Vatsalya Bhav they shrink even further, and in Madhurya Bhav they come to an end altogether. Once in Dvarika, Lord Krishna played a joke by pretending to be suffering from an unbearable body-ache. He started wailing loudly and writhing in pain. In other words, He acted really well. His 16,108 queens gathered around and wondered what was wrong with their Beloved. In the meanwhile, Narad Ji arrived and asked the reason behind the commotion. He asked Rukmini, “Mata Ji! What is wrong?” “Our Lord is suffering greatly.” “How did this happen?” “We do not know, but it happened all of a sudden.” Narad Ji went to Shri Krishna. Since he has been fooled many times, he is exercising great caution this time. Smiling, he asked Shri Krishna, “Maharaj! Since Your illness is of Your own making, the medicine must also be Your own creation. Doctors can prescribe medicine only for physical ailments, not for illness that has been created by You. So Maharaj, tell me which medicine will work on You?” Shri Krishna replied, “Narad Ji! I’m dying of pain and you think it is a joke.” Narad Ji said, “I am asking You in all seriousness. Which medicine will work?” Shri Krishna then said, “The medicine I need is the holy dust of a devotee’s feet. If I mix a devotee’s foot-dust with water and drink it, I will be perfectly fine.” Narad Ji thought to himself, “Devotee? I am a devotee. No, no, no, I will not take part in all this.” Narad Ji thought first to give his own foot-dust. Then he decided against it, thinking, “This must be 3 another one of His tricks. Let me not get involved in it. But why not approach His 16,108 queens? After all, they are the greatest of saints. Yes, let me ask them.” “Rukmini Ji, Satyabhama Ji!” “What is it?” “Your foot-dust is the medicine which will cure your husband.” “Narad Ji! Have you gone mad? Do you think that any woman will give the dust of her feet to her husband? She will be defamed for all eternity and moreover, she will go to hell after death. Have you lost your mind?” Narad Ji said, “I have not lost my mind, but what can I do? Your husband is asking for this medicine.” Shri Krishna said to Narad, “You will not find the medicine here. Go to Braj. That’s where you will find it. I want you to go there and get me the medicine that will cure me instantly. Why are you asking around here?” Narad Ji went to Braj and told the Gopis of Shymasunder’s ailment and also about the medicine. All the Gopis spread their feet out. Narad Ji stood there, stupefied. “Narad Ji! Please hurry. The beloved of my soul is suffering. Use your power of yog and take this medicine to Him immediately.” Narad Ji said, “Yes, yes, that is fine. But tell me something. Do you not fear hell and public censure? You will be defamed in history.” “Narad Ji! Now is not the time for a lecture. First take the foot-dust to Him, then come back and listen to our lecture.” If someone is on his way to get medicine for a seriously-ill patient, he does not stop to chitchat with a friend. No, he rushes to get the medicine. Narad Ji took the foot-dust and tasted it reverently. “Shame on me,” thought he to himself, “For fear of public opinion and tortures of hell, I did not give the dust of my feet, but look at these saints.” “Narad Ji! We have suffered the torments of hell countless times. We will go there one more time. But at least Shyamsunder will be cured. If we were going to hell for the first time, we would have been afraid. Every individual soul has been to hell innumerable times. Countless times we have been to heaven and hell.” Thus, rules of propriety come to an end in Madhurya Bhav. This is why we must aim for Madhurya Bhav right from the start and go into any Bhav at any time. There are no rules; there are no restrictions. And Sadhana Bhakti is divided into two. One is Vaidhi Bhakti, the other, Raganuga. Vaidhi bhakti is devotion which is practiced according to scriptural laws. There are laws and rules in Vaidhi Bhakti. Rules like fasting on Ekadashi and doing puja in a certain way, after bathing and so on. Mind you, Vaidhi Bhakti has within it the nine-fold devotion (navadha bhakti) prescribed in the Bhagavat-listening, chanting, meditating etc. The nine-fold devotion mentioned in the Bhagavat, which all of you practice, is in Vaidhi as well as Raganuga Bhakti. But in Vaidhi Bhakti there is fear. The fear of scriptures. “Do it because it is written in the scriptures. Otherwise, you are sinning.” This is the fear. Raganuga Bhakti, on the other hand, is not the least bit concerned with scriptures. There is only one rule and one restriction in Raganuga Bhakti. The rule is to always think of God, and the restriction is to never forget Him. Scriptures outline many rules and restrictions; many do’s and don’ts. That’s what the Vedas are. Do this, do this, do this; don’t do this; don’t do this, don’t do this. But since we are not concerned with the scriptures, what are the rules and restrictions for us? in all places and at all times, think of God. Do sadhana as you are doing in private, for an hour or two every day. But practice thinking of Him at all other times as well. What do we do wrong? The very first mistake made by most people is not realizing that devotion has to be practiced by the mind. This is why the first thing to remember is to visualize God, to do ‘Roopdhyan.’ First think of God, then do whatever else-chant, do japa, read from the scriptures, etc. People do not have even this basic knowledge. Every one is doing physical sadhana, using the body. Tongue is reciting the scriptures; ears are hearing divine knowledge; hands are busy doing puja, and the mind is not involved in the least. So the first thing to realize is that the mind is the one that practices devotion, not the sense-organs, and the soul does not perform work in the first place. It is good to involve the body in devotion but God does not consider physical devotion real devotion. He only takes note of our mental attachment. So the very first thing to do is to think of God. Whether you are chanting, doing japa or something else, first make God stand in front of you. Whose name are you chanting? For whom are you saying-Hare Ram, Hare Ram? Have Ram stand in front of you. You are, after all, calling out to Him. Look! When you call out to your son, you first think of him. Where is he? You think of him first and then remember his name. Where is he? Where is he…er…where is Ramesh? First you think of your son, then you remember his name. Whenever a person calls out to another, he thinks about the face of that person first and then calls out his name. Similarly, when we do keertan, i.e. call out to God, we should first visualize Him. Otherwise, we are not chanting properly. Thus, Vaidhi Bhakti is ruled by fear and is governed by rules and restrictions of the Vedas and the Shastras. And Raganuga Bhakti is ruled by interest. We practice devotion to Him because we love His names, pastimes and stories. Today, a devotee came up and said to me, “Maharaj Ji, is there all-night keertan tonight?” I said, “No, no, no. Keep it until 11 p.m. as usual. Many of the devotees have to leave early in the morning tomorrow. If they are up all night, they will fall asleep on the train and they may get their luggage stolen. When they reach home, they will curse Maharaj Ji. “Wonderful keertan we went to! Lost even our bedding.” But I was very happy when the same gentleman came back in a few hours and said to me, “Maharaj Ji! Devotees are not happy with the news. Tonight is the last night, they are saying, and on the last night we have always held an all-night keertan. We must do the same tonight.” I said to him, “Then why come and ask me? By all means, go ahead and do keertan all night.” He told me that the all-night keertan would take place on one condition; that on account of my health I would not wake the entire night and that I would go off to sleep at my regular time. I said to him, “I do not like this condition of yours. After all, I am not such an atheist that I cannot sit in keertan all night.” He should have said, “Our condition is that you will not lecture.” But no! The condition is – You will not sit here with us all night. You will go off to sleep as usual at your regular time. All right! I accept the condition since it is beneficial to you. So you see, this is the miracle of Raganuga Bhakti. Despite my saying that you can finish at 11 p.m., you have the desire to do all-night keertan, even in my absence, rather than being happy at the prospect of sleeping early. This is a big thing, a very big thing. When I heard about it, I became puffed with pride, as if I had gained a couple of pounds. Truly. When a student improves, the teacher does feel happy. Parents feel happy when children make progress. In Raganuga Bhakti, therefore, interest is the main thing. But not everyone has this interest. This is why they will have to resort to Vaidhi Bhakti. For example, you people have come here. Whether it is a beggar or a millionaire-and there may be a couple of them here-everyone sleeps under the same basic conditions and eats the same food. I have established the same rules for everyone. This is why a lot of wealthy people do not come here. Sadhana in Mangarh? Ram-Ram-Ram. To go there is to do severe penance. You are not even allowed to speak. There’s not even a market where you can go to buy rasgullas and other such delicacies on the sly. This won’t work. So, I will not be able to withstand all these difficulties. There are many other Ashrams in places like Haridvar 5 where you can get an air-conditioned room equipped with a TV. We have access to all the facilities there; we can eat what we want and sleep when we want. All we are required to do is to stand for Guru Ji’s arati, that is all. Going to such a place is easy for everyone. If one is not interested, he will not come here to this village at least. So, these are all who practice Raganuga Bhakti. In this Raganuga Bhakti, one loves God for His happiness alone. Madhurya Bhav is divided into two sections-loving Him for your own happiness, like Kubja’s love for Shri Krishna, and loving Him for His happiness, like the love of Gopis such as Lalita and Vishakha. Although it is true that you can love Him any which way – Even an unselfish devotee of a tamas, rajas or sattvic personality will not attain liberation, whereas even a selfish devotee of Shri Krishna will go to the divine kingdom, yet Kripalu does not suggest, not even .1%, that you people should practice selfish devotion. Your aim should be the highest; your goal should be to go the furthest. Poor Kubja went only as far as Prema Bhakti, that’s all. The selfish ones cannot enter the kingdom in which one tastes the Supreme bliss of Mahabhav. Therefore, your aim should be unselfish devotion. You must love Shyamsunder for His happiness alone. And you know all about Navadha Bhakti (nine-fold devotion). But you have to understand one thing. What is that? The very life of everything, the very soul. What is that? Roopdhyan, i.e. visualizing God. Roopdhyan! It is the very first and the very last word in devotion. Roopdhyan. Some naïve people claim that their love for God is not increasing due to never having seen God. They say that it is easy to love mother, father, wife and son, because they are visible. We can easily love him whom we can see. How can we love Him who is invisible? What is He like? What the holy books say, does not make sense. It is very difficult to do Roopdhyan. It is easy to do keertan. In nine-fold devotion, Navadha Bhakti, eight are easy. But one form of devotion, visualizing God, is the most difficult. This is what people say. But I say the opposite; that there is nothing easier than visualizing God. Try to visualize your father. Close your eyes and think about your father, someone you have seen hundreds of thousands of time. You will not be able to do it. You cannot do it. Visualize him accurately and exactly. The exact same eyes, the exact same nose, mouth and ears. Visualize only this much. You cannot visualize him exactly. No one can. And because you cannot do this, you cannot claim to be thinking of your father. How can you be thinking of your father when you cannot even visualize his face accurately? You have formed his nose, but not his mouth. All right! You have formed his nose and mouth but forgot what his ears look like. You have never paid so much attention to your father’s ears. And even if you succeed in visualizing your father’s face, you will be able to do it after much effort and practice. And if you wish to make the slightest little change, you will no longer be thinking of your father. But there is no problem in visualizing God, because He says, “Create My form according to your preference. You may prefer big eyes or small eyes; blue eyes or black eyes, a high nose perhaps.” Meditate according to what you like, and God will consider it meditating on Him. Everyone is creating a different form of His in mind. Saints have meditated on Him in different ways. If there is uniformity in their meditation, it is only this that they have all placed a peacock feather in His hair; no one has used a pigeon feather. Other than this, no two aspirants think of Shri Krishna in the same way. One difference is in the age. Some prefer little Shri Krishna; they prefer to meditate on Krishna as a five-year old. Some like to think of Him to be anywhere from five to eleven years of age. Some prefer Him to be an adolescent. This is one difference. And then there is the matter of 6 His complexion. Some think Him to be dark blue. Others throw up at the thought of dark blue skin. They prefer light blue. Different people have different preferences. It’s like choosing saris etc. in the world. Our individual likes and dislikes are related to impressions left on the mind from countless lifetimes. This is why God has given us a concession. He says, “My dear children! To avoid problems, I will not restrict Myself to one form alone. You can think of Me as being a round stone, Shaligram. I know that even the greatest sage or yogi cannot meditate on God’s form. Pay attention. Why? Because the one that meditates is the mind, and the mind is material. God, on the other hand, is spiritual. How can a material mind concentrate on the divine form of God? It cannot conceive what God is like. Thus, a material mind can only produce a material meditation. Whether it is the mind of a yogi, a meditator, an ascetic or an illiterate fool. Because he is meditating with his mind and because that mind is material, his meditation will also be material. So who can visualize God accurately? No one. But as you keep on visualizing God with a material mind, your devotion grows stronger - you can call it attachment of the mind or selfsurrender - when the mind becomes 100% surrendered, then-pay attention-God gives to the mind, the eyes, the ears, to each and every sense-organ, His divine power, Swaroop Shakti, which is also called Divine Sattva. There is material Sattva and there is Divine Sattva. When the mind attains this Divine Sattva then it is able to visualize God accurately. Now finally comes accurate meditation. To put it in plain language, it is possible to visualize God only after attaining God. But what can we do before that? God says-I have not fixed any particular form of Myself. Countless are My names, unlimited are My forms. The form you are meditating on is one of countless. If someone insists on visualizing God who has a nose at the back of his head, he can feel free to do so. After all, this is also one out of the countless forms. When God appears, He will appear with a nose at the back of His head. However, the bliss will be the same. It is never lesser or greater. An artist creates a beautiful form of God in his mind, and an illiterate man visualizes God as a round stone, Shaligram. Both are doing fine. Upon God-realization, you will attain divine eyesight. Then – You will see God’s divine form. Everyone will taste the same bliss. Think about it! Such grace, and that too, causeless. No one proposed to God-Maharaj! Since we are unable to meditate on You, please tell us what to do. God declared His laws even before creation. Visualize God according to your preference. Because God is sitting inside, noting down your thoughts, you will attain Godly benefit. And when your sadhana is strengthened and your senses, mind and intellect attain divine power, then you will see God with divine senses, mind and intellect; in other words, you will then see the original form of God. First you get the girl doll and boy doll married; later comes the real thing. First, you have to meditate on God and surrender to Him fully. This is what you have to do. After that, your work is done. Now the Guru will step in, and even he does not have anything much to do. In fact his work takes not even a second. As soon as the vessel is prepared, the Guru will give you everything divine. He is waiting each and every moment to put divine goods in a suitable vessel. The labour involved is in giving theoretical knowledge to the disciple and then when the disciple starts practicing devotion, it will be up to the Guru to 7 solve the difficulties faced by him. The Guru will have to keep an eye on the samskaras of the seeker and help him from time to time. It’s important for me to go to that disciple at this time. Why? Because his bad samskars will appear on the 30th. If I reach him on the 29th, my association will prevent those samskaras from overwhelming him and making him crazy. All this work has to be done by the saint, and he does it all in utmost secrecy. He does not admit to any seeker that he has wasted even two minutes for him. He does not disclose all this. In fact, even if someone asks, he says, “What nonsense! I do my work. Am I crazy that I should be running after you?” Yes, so the Guru will do his work upon the fulfillment of your sadhana bhakti. That is when he will make you his disciple. Note this down. It has become a big joke these days. Disciples are not as anxious to accept a guru as gurus are to accept disciples. This is not the way it happens. Listen! First you have to get the electrical wiring fitted properly; install the rods and bulbs and put the switches in place. After you do all this work, the power-house will provide you with electricity. You have not done any electric wiring, and yet you want electricity. Where will you place this power? In your head? Prepare yourself first. But what do modern-day gurus say? Come one, come all. Everything goes here. Everything goes. They merely recite a mantra in the ear - Ramaya Namah, Krishnaya Namah, Govindaya Namah, Vaasudevaya Namah. But does this mean that God would not be pleased if we spoke to Him in the common language - “O Ram! I bow to You?” Are there language-wars in God’s kingdom as well? Where does it say that God prefers Sanskrit - OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA to Hindi HE VASUDEVA BHAGAVAN, AAPKO NAMASKAAR HAI, i.e. O Lord Vaasudev! I bow to You? Do you know that Mother Yashoda never addressed Lord Krishna as Shri Krishna? She would call Him Kanua. Which scripture mentions the name Kanua, a spoiled version of the name Krishna? Yashoda would call Krishna Kanua, and Balram, Balua. O Kanua! O Balua! Mother Yashoda did not ever chant HARE RAM, HARE KRISHNA like you people do so properly. But I am not saying that you should imitate Yashoda. You are doing the right thing. Do not think that you will attain Yashoda’s seat right in the initial stages.

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