DIVINE ADVICE

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LUST conquest – N. G. Chandorkar

 

Two Moslem ladies wearing veils came to take darshan of Baba at the

mosque and N. G. Chandorkar was sitting by him. N. G. Chandorkar

tried to get up and go away.

 

Baba: You had better remain. If they wish to take darshan, let them

come.

 

The ladies came. The older removed her veil and took darshan. Next,

as the younger removed her veil, took darshan and resumed her veil,

Nana, smitten with her beauty, thought to himself "Shall I have one

more opportunity to see that angelic face?", but he said nothing.

Baba struck him on the thigh. Then the ladies left.

 

Baba: Nana, do you know why I struck you?

 

Nana: How can I hide anything from the omniscience of my guru? But I

do not understand how such low thoughts should sway my mind, when I

am in your immediate presence.

 

Baba: You are a man after all. Are you not? The body is full of

desires, which spring up as soon as a sense object approaches, but

are temples with lovely and well coloured exterior scarce in the

world? When we go there, is it to admire the exterior or see the God

within? When you are seeing the God in the shrine, do you care for

the outside beauty of the building or for that of the image or

Paramatama within? Does God remain only in temples? Is he not found

in every object in the world as in temples? We are not to bother

ourselves about the beauty or ugliness of the exterior, but to

concentrate solely on the form taken by and revealing God.

 

Of course there is nothing in looking at the exterior, but as one

looks at it, he must think how clever and powerful is the God that

produced such a beautiful abode, how he resides therein and how

nicely ornamented he is. Nana, if you had directed your thoughts to

this way, you would not have had the desire to get one more look at

the Moslem beauty's face. Keep this always in mind.

 

DIVINE ADVICE:

 

 Baba: Satsanga, i.e., moving with the good is good. Dussanga, i.e.=

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moving with evil-minded people is evil and must be avoided.

 

 Yama, Niyama. Restrain yourself from forbidden food and drinks.

Avoid needless disputation. Avoid falsehood. Have restraint of speech.

 

 Fulfil promises.

 

 Restrain Lust-Wholly in respect of others' wives, and partly in

respect of your own wife.

 

 Enjoyment of marital pleasure is permissible. But be not enslaved =

 

by it. MUKTI is impossible to persons addicted to lust. Lust ruins

mental balance, and strength or firmness. It affects the learned also.

 

 Unruly buffaloes are controlled by tying a log to their neck as a =

 

clog to their movements. Viveka (i.e., prudence and discrimination)

must be tied to one's mind when sex attracts.

 

 Desires must be controlled. You must master them and not be their =

 

slave.

 

 Yet you can (and must) use them, the inner enemies within limits. =

 

E.g., (Besides Kama for the wife),

1. have krodha (anger) against unrighteousness.

2. have Lobha (greed) for Hari Nama, uttering God's name.

3. have Moha (fondness) for Mukti (salvation)

4. have Matser (hatred) for evil action; and

5. have no mada (pride)

 

 

(Courtesy: H H Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji)