BABA EXPLAINS - Method of Reaching God

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REACHING GOD: THE METHOD:

 

NG Chandorkar: Baba, again I am asking you for the third time, who

God is, what he is like and where he is?

 

Baba: I have already told you. If you act upon what I have said, you

would be equipped with Sadhana Chatushtya i.e., the four helps.

N.G. Chandorkar: What are they.

Baba:

1. Viveka

2. Vairagya

3. Scama

4. Mumukshuta

 

First is (Viveka) Nitya-Anitya Vastuviveka i.e., discriminating

between the real and unreal. Some people make others believe that

they are such vivekis and become varkaries i.e., pilgrim to

Pandharpur, without however, knowing who Hari really is, what he is

and where he is. But this pilgrimage is not real devotion, but a mere

device to get respect from others.

 

Persons who merely read and memorise many works without making their

hearts pure, pour out precepts at debates, cavil at others and are

full of self adulation. These are not vivekis and they do not attain

Brahma Jnana.

 

Vairagya is second. The real vairagi cares not for the good things of

this world or of the next.

 

Baba's Vairagya.

(1) When Damia Rasane offered Baba a share in the profits of his

proposed business Baba said `I am not to be entangled in anything.

(2) Baba's advice to a Madrasi Swami. : If you are so fond of your

mother, why did you assume the garb of a sanyasi. Kashaya and mamata

(attachment) cannot go together. … Utter renunciation alone leads to

bliss. Bo Bhagavatha Sapthaha thrice with intended meditation. That

will quench all vasanas. all illusions will end.

 

Scama, the third. Scama is preventing the mind from going into the

objects of the senses. Dama is the withdrawal of the mind, when it

does go in, by control of external activity.

 

Titiksha is putting up with pain that results from prarabdha karma,

without murmur.

 

Uparati is looking upon wealth, women, children, friends etc., as

unreal and thus escaping the meshes of Maya.

 

Sraddha is faith (Viswasa of the mind)

 

Samadhana is equanimity i.e., looking on pain and pleasure equally

unexited and with firmness of mind.

 

Mumukshuta is the fourth help

 

Mumukshuta is strong desire for Moksha (with dislike of joys and

sorrows of phenomenal existence), accompanied by the idea that

Aparoksha jnana i.e., realisation of Brahman alone is the solution.

Moksha is not Heaven, Kailasa or vaikunta. It is subtle and not

gross. It is the invisible origin of the universe-pure consciousness,

pure being-Suddha chaitanya. Being or becoming that is moksha. That

is immortality and that is the goal of human life. All other alms are

worthless.