Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

Become Fully Immersed in God

 

Question: How do we detach ourselves from our lower nature?

 

Answer: When there is a deep longing for God Realization, then

everything else will drop off. Without having an intense longing for

God Realization, nothing can happen.

 

You have everything at your disposal - this human body has been

received, you have received Gita and Ramayan, you have received good

satsang, you have visited Gangaji, what more can there be?

 

Have only one desire, let there be only one (God) that you trust,

only one dependency (God), only one longing (God). Just like the

chattak bird, that drinks water only directly from the rain showers.

Even though it is dying of thirst, and is at the banks of Gangaji,

yet the chaatak bird will only wait for the rains. Let our

exclusivity and intense longing for that One be like the chaatak

bird.

 

Human life is successful, only on realizing God. We must realize

God. " Tere bhaave jo karo bhalo buro sansaar, ... " Do not worry about

what others are doing, what they are thinking of us etc. Simply

engage in only one thing (God), and everything else will follow suit.

Everything else will become super simple, super easy. If there is one

intense longing, all else will fall off.

 

No one is too young or too old to get started. But they all must have

only one desire. Friends, such an opportunity will not be available

in the future. If you do not have such intensity or deep longing for

God, then it will only be self betrayal. Simply speaking - we must

realize God, no matter what others want, whether others want God or

not.

 

And frankly, what other work do you really have?

 

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2. A Devotee is Friendly and Compassionate to All

 

Gita says a devotee is not only free from malice for every being, but

he is also friendly and compassionate to all beings. " Maitraha karuna

eva ca " (Gita 12:13-14).

 

In Patanjali Yogadarsana " four factors have been mentioned, to purify

the miind. Friendship to those who are happy, compassion to those who

are sad, feeling good for those who are virtuous, and indifference

for those who are sinners (Patanjali 1:33). But in Gita 12:13-14 Lord

Krishna has combined the four into two - friendship and compassion It

means that a perfect devotee is friendly to the happy and virtuous

and compassionate towards those who are suffering, unhappy and

sinful.

 

A spiritual aspirant instead of being indifferent to a sinner, should

be compassionate towards him. This is because the sinner who is

inflicting pain on a spiritual aspirant, is committing new sins and

therefore deserves compassion; whereas the aspirants who is suffering

as a result of the sinner, is reaping the fruits of his past sinful

actions and becoming purified of his old sins.