MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT

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Sensual pleasure is momentary, deceptive, illusory and imaginary. Mustard

of pleasure is mixed with mountain of pain. Enjoyment cannot bring about

satisfaction of desire. On the contrary it makes the mind more restless

after enjoyment through intense craving (Trishnas and Vasanas). Sensual

pleasure is the cause of birth and death. The body is nothing but a mass of

flesh, bone, and all sorts of filth.

Place before the mind the fruits of self-realisation or life in the Soul or

Brahman or the Eternal such as immortality. Eternal Bliss, Supreme peace

and infinite knowledge. If you remember these points always, the mind

will be weaned from the craving for sensual pleasure. Vairagya, Viveka and

Manukshatva (dispassion, discrimination between the real and unreal and

keen longing for liberation from birth and death) will dawn. You should

seriously look into the defects of the sensual life and into the unreal

nature of worldly life. Whose mind is rendered pure by the agents of

dispassion and repeated practices, becomes a lustrous person. If these

mental waves or thought waves subside, you can attain the absolute state.

Just as you can clearly see the bottom of a lake, when the ripples and waves

subside, so also you can cognise your real self where the Vrittis that

agitate your mind subside.

There are five stages of the mind i.e. distracted, forgetfulness, gathering

mind, one pointed and controlled or well restrained. By gradual and

well-regulated practice of concentration daily, the rays of the wandering

mind are collected. It becomes one- pointed. Eventually it is curbed

properly. It comes under proper control.

Concentration is the only way to get rid of the worldly miseries and

tribulation. Your only duty is to practise concentration. You have taken

this physical body to practise concentration and through concentration to

realize the self. Charity, Rajasuya Yajna (a sacrifice performed by a

monarch) are nothing when compared with concentrations. They are playthings

only.

One should live by destroying “I’ ness”, “mine’ ness”, selfishness

and “attachment”. Then alone he can be really happy, even while discharging

the duties of his life by remaining in the world. The angle of vision must

be changed. All-embracing and all-inclusive love must be cultivated and

developed. Then only one can feel the ‘self in all’, the ‘one in all’.

Then only you can have cosmic consciousness or universal life.

 

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