How to root out our vices? Sri Ramsukhdas ji Maharaj

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Dear Devotees of Divinity in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

Here is a small note from the discourses of Brahmaleen Sri

Ramsukhdasji Maharaj, Rishikesh on " How to root out our vices " . I

hope it is useful to us all. Pl. read and live in it.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

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The more clearly we start seeing our own vices, the more free we

will be from them.

 

When a devotee of God sees vices in himself, he is concerned and

pained and thinks of ways to free himself from these vices. This

distress and pain is healthy and serves as a useful means to free

himself from them. However, it is not a good thing to think that

these flaws and vices are in him Self and at all times. As long as

we have vices in us, we cannot see them clearly. When we see vices

in us, it implies that they are not in us, but they are moving away

from us. If we see them even more clearly, it means that they are

moving even more further away. Therefore if we see vices in us, we

should be pleased to know that these vices are moving away,

disappearing, being rooted out. The mistake a devotee makes is when

he accepts these vices in himself.

 

The test of absence of vices in us, is our ability to see them. The

second test, is the observations that these vices are not there all

the time (e.g. at this present moment the particular vice is not

there). Therefore they are transitory and we must not assume that

they are in us. But if we believe these vices to be in us, we are

actually inviting them.

 

In reality, we have no vices in us. We are flawless, as we are a

part of God (ray of His Consciousness) . We are imperishable,

sentient, pure and filled with bliss and joy. (Manasa 7:116:1). If

only we divert our attention from worldly pleasures, then we will be

established in the Self and experience the natural state of bliss.

 

Gopi Krishna <gopi