Saucham{Value of Values}

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Hari OM! Jai Poojya Gurudev!

 

Saucham

 

Saucham is inner and outer cleanliness in a two fold sense, clean

body, clean clothes, clean dwelling places make life more pleasent

in addition the daily discipline of maintaining cleanliness brings

about a certain attentiveness and alertness of mind.

 

Internal cleanliness is less well recognised.Antara Saucham is

cleanliness of Anthakarana, Each day I wash my clothes, Wash my

body, straigten my desk, It is a day to day affair, until death

sensible and discipline persons do these external acts of

cleanliness Until my body goes I must do this, but regarding

Antakarana suddhi Anthraika Saucham, until in the knowledge of the

self my false identification with the mind goes, my mind must be

cleaned, When there is no daily cleaning outside or inside, the

accumulation makes the taks much more difficult.

 

Pratipaksha Bhavana is mind's real cleanser, the detergent for the

mind, this is to take deliberately the opposite point of view - by

act of will, to think the opposite of the unclean thoughts. This

should be undertaken even though my negative attitude seems to me to

be justified. Someone may do an improper action which insults or

injures me, A resentment settles in my mind. The action may have

been inarguably improper, but the resentment nonetheless is mine; it

is my asucham of the mind, this resentment can build up to hatered,

a painful, disturbing mental state. Seeing,the personal consequende

of allowing asaucham to remain, when the object of resentment comes

to my attention I summon the will to think thoughts opposite to the

negative thoughts that first come to my mind.

 

When I look into anyother person I will find love, I am capable of

loving, Any person is capable of loving. Even a rank criminal has

within him the elements of love and sympathy. Everyone has the

quality which make a person a saint comapssion, mercy, love,

harmlessness. So to clean the mind of resentment and dislikes which

solidify into hatered, deliberatley search for those good qualities

in another person which indicate his humanness his saintliness they

are there in every one.

 

Asaucham of the mind can be in the form of Selfishness,Self-

condemnation,jealousy etc. So pratipaksha Bhavana should be a daily

act.

 

 

With Love & OM!

 

Krishna Prasad