ENQUIRY/SADHAK/VAIRAGYA 1

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Jai Gurudev

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ENQUIRY/SADHAK part 1...

 

 

"Every one of you should, in this life,try to do virtuous deeds,

practise Ahimsa, Satyam and Brahmacharya, to have aspiration—

intenseaspiration—and burning Vairagya.

 

You may not have it, but you will have to cultivate it by

Satsanga, study, enquiry into the nature of the Self, reflection.

That is your foremost duty.

 

For a man of Vairagya, there is no world, no object of

sense-enjoyment can attract him. When you become a district-judge,

you rejoice; when you get a little thing of this world, you rejoice;

when you have accumulated a little bank balance, you rejoice;

 

A Man of vairagya knows that one cannot have eternal satisfaction in

these objects but that you can have it only in the Atma, the

Innermost Self that resides in the chambers of your heart.

 

Jyotishaamapi tat jyotih tamasah paramuchyate

Jnaanan Jneyam Jnaanagamyam hridi sarvasya vishthitam

 

(That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness;

knowledge, the knowable and the

goal of knowledge, seated in the hearts of all.)

 

These things of the world do not attract them, because they have got

the spiritual wealth of good Samskaras, through enquiry and

reflection. You must possess Vairagya which will lead you to

the attainment of the Atma, the inexhaustible spiritual wealth.

But you do not have aspiration! The mind is full of evil tendencies.

You may be endowed with a little talent; and you will be puffed up.

The mind is veiled. There is Avarana. In spite of your

intellectual faculties and talents, you will not be able to

understand and realise the Universal,Cosmic, Supreme Being, whose

nature is Satchidananda. You can get many Oxford University

graduates, but not many Jivanmuktas who have realised the

Self—that

is the supreme veiling power of Maya. You know; yet you will not be

able to understand it! There is something beyond these

senses, mind and intellect; the Supreme Soul, full of Bliss, the only

Reality! How many educated people have understood this, and are

trying to realise it? How many have got even an aspiration to

realise it? That aspiration is the real wealth.

Aspiration. Renunciation. Meditation. These will make you a king of

kings, emperor of emperors Very few have realised this, and very few

are attempting to realise this. Because, they are satisfied with the

little toys of this world. They have not got the supreme subtle

Vichara-Buddhi which is the greatest wealth of man. That comes through

sselfless service, study, meditation, enquiry, Satsanga. Nobody wants

this! How many people want the wealth of the Atma? How many are

attempting to possess these qualifications which are

necessary? How many intellectual people try to sit in Padmasan and do

Japa and meditation? People don't know what Padmasan is! They do

not

know what Prana is, nor the relation between Prana and

the mind and the will. They want to become scholars. Their mind will

run in that direction only. Their goal is an American degree. If a

doctor becomes an "America-returned" specialist, he will get

Rs. 32 as his visiting fees. God has given you an intellect. You must

understand the magnitude of human suffering. What is the nature of

this world? What is the mind? Ask yourself. Then only will

you become a great man. He is a great man who tries to possess

Vairagya, who tries to practise the Sadhana-Chatushtaya. Equip

yourself with Viveka, Vairagya, Shat-Shampat and Mumukshutwa.

What is Viveka? People do not know. They will deliver lectures on

engineering! Maya will make your mind work along the external

grooves. It is its duty. Maya hides the real and makes the unreal

appear as real. So, you want only external things.

 

Ye hi Samsparsaja Bhogao Duhkha-yonaya Eva Te

Adyantavantah Kaunteya Na Teshu Ramate Budhah.

 

(The enjoyments that are born of contacts are only generators of

pain, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna; the wise do not

rejoice in them.)

 

The pleasure that is derived through contact of sensual objects is

verily the womb of pain.

You will have to meditate upon this; then only will you get the

discriminating intellect, which will

make you bold with the power that is born of the wisdom of the Self.

Cultivate discrimination and dispassion. That only will make you

bold. Otherwise, moving along the sensual grooves, you will

lose everything.God has given you this chance—this human

birth—to

rise above sensual things and to realise the goal of life. How many

of you are attempting to do so? Mere study of the scriptures will

not do. You can talk. But, have you got that burning Vairagya, the

burning aspiration, which Lord Buddha had, which Raja Gopichand had?

Then only can you become the king of kings. If you do

not attempt to possess these, then you fail in your duty.

You forget this truth. It is difficult to give up, to renounce these

sensual objects. But, if you are sincere, the path will be easy; it

is easy for those who resort to Satsanga, who close their eyes and

make a little enquiry: "What is this world, what is the goal of

life, what is mind?" Only such enquiry will lead you to

everlasting

peace. Very few people do this. You will have to generate these

Samskaras now.This clearly proves there is rebirth. You come down

here with your Samskaras. You wanted to become an engineer; God has

given you birth that will enable you to fulfil your ambition. But this

will not give you satisfaction. In your old age you will suffer from

all sorts of diseases and lead a miserable life. Your mind is full of

evil Vasanas. How many selfless acts have you done?

How many people try to do selfless service? All are selfish. Close

your eyes and practise self-analysis and find out for yourself what

are the various kinds of impurities that are lurking in the

mind, and what are the good qualities that you are possessing.

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End of part 1.

 

Love

Jai Gurudev