BLISS BLOSSOM - Purification of Mind

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Baba said, "Purification of mind is absolutely necessary, without it

all our spiritual endeavours are nothing, but useless show and pomp"

in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XVI & XVII.

 

It is the impurity of your own mind that is mainly responsible for

bringing to your notice only the dark side of other's character. Make

your own mind faultless and you will find that the number of sinners

in this world is very much reduced.

 

Cultivate the habit of observing your own faults, examine the

weaknesses of your heart very critically and you will realize that

your mind is full of impurities; then you will hardly find any time

to detect the fault of others.

 

Every thought arising in the mind of a man carries with it a feeling

of love or hatred, which brings in joy or sorrow, and which prompts

him to see virtue or vice in another. Even the vices of him whom we

love appear to us as virtue, and the virtues of him whom we hate

appear as vices. Unless we take off these coloured glasses of love

and hatred from our eyes it is not possible to know a person truly.

 

Be an impartial observer of every thought-wave arising in your mind;

very soon you will notice that no thought arises in your mind. This

is a sovereign recipe for controlling the mind. Similarly, if you can

dispassionately observe the impulses of love and hatred without

identifying yourself with them, you will soon find the practice

helpful in eradicating those impulses.

 

Life is very short; live amicably with all, behave well with all;

scatter ambrosia everywhere and do not let fall even a drop of poison

anywhere. Your conduct influenced by love is ambrosia and that

influenced by hatred is poison.

 

If a person calls on you even for an hour, fill his heart with

ambrosia through your loving and guileless behaviour; take care that

none may catch poison from you. Remove all poison from the heart and

fill it up with ambrosia and then scatter it at every step.

 

Courtesy: Wavelets of Bliss – by Sri. Hanumanprasad Poddar

(Shri Vasuki Mahal Shirdi Saibaba Trust, Coimbatore, India)