Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Have a Firm Determination Part 4

 

Question: As long as worldly pleasures do not come in front of us,

till that time we are firm that we will not get entangled in

enjoyment of worldly pleasures. But when we come face to face with

such enjoyments, we become weak. What should we do? (cont'd Part 3)

 

Swamiji: One who has learned how to swing the weapon from the very

beginning, he alone will be able to face the enemy and confront it.

But if the enemy comes before such learnings, and you have not

learned how to use the weapon, then you will have to suffer through

the blows from the enemy ! You have heard the various points in

spiritual discourses, but when enjoyments and pleasures come in

front of you, then you forget these things, and you are unable to

apply them.

 

" Tab laagi sab hi mitre hai, jab laagi paryo ne kaam

Hem agam shudh hot hai, peetal hovey syaam. "

 

When you don't need someone's help, till that time all are your

friends. One needing someone's help, you realize who is your true

friend and who is not. Even gold appears to be yellow and even some

other metals appear yellow, but when placed over fire, the gold

shines, whereas someother metals become black.

 

There are learned things and there are things that one knows, i.e.

things that one has personal experience of them. Knowledge which is

experienced is true knowledge, and it never varies or goes here and

there. That which is learned, only remains at the intellectual

level, it does not reach the Self. But that which is learned,

reaches the level of the Self. Until a particular point does not

reach the level of the Self, till that time it does not translate

into proper actions in the way it should project in relationships.

One whose goal is God Realization, that one is not satisfied by

things that are learned. On not being satisfied, he is on a quest to

know that what is the reality, the essence behind this? On searching

incessantly, that essential knowledge will be known, it will become

experiential knowledge.

 

There is on one hand satsang (association with truth) and on the

other hand is spiritual messages and divine stories and critical

inquiry. Divine stories, discourses etc. one can get at many

different places, but a Great Soul who has experienced the truth,

who has realized God, is a rarity. Such men were a rarity even in

the past (other yugs). Today they are even more rare ! Today

students too are not properly learning the scriptures. Taking

examinations the easy way out, they graduate. When asked, they are

unable to share what they know. They are unable to share even what

they have learned, then where is the question of knowing the

essential truths? These students are far from being able to share

this knowledge! It is my sincere prayer that you realize the truths,

and don't simple do superficial learning.

 

(to be continued)