Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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1. God Can be Attained Simply by Desiring Him

 

God can be attained simply by desiring Him. No one has the ability to

stop the one who desires God, from attaining Him. When a small child

cries, the mother invariably comes to his rescue. The little child

does absolutely no work at home, in fact, he comes in the way of work

that is getting done, but when he begins to cry, then at that time

all members of the household favor the child. They all say to the

mother, the little baby is crying, give it attention, carry it and

comfort it. The mother has to leave all work and pick the child up.

The child's only strength is his crying - " baalanaam rodan balam. "

There is immense strength in crying. With a true heart, with intense

longing if you cry out for God, then all those great devotees and

great souls, they will all be in your favor, and question God why He

is not coming to meet His child. These devotees and great souls are

just like the family members in an household.

 

In reality, God is already attained. It is your worldly desires that

is preventing Him from being realized. You desire money, enjoyment of

pleasures, then God does not force you to leave these. If you leave

worldly desires and desire only and exclusively God, then who can

stop you? There is no one that has the strength to be an obstacle in

attaining God. If you have intense longing for God, then He too will

have intense longing for you. But on the other hand if you have

intense longing for the world, then the world will not reciprocate.

If you cry for the world, the world will not be pleased at your

crying. But if you cry for God, he too will cry.

 

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2. Barriers to Attaining Equanimity

 

In Gita 6:33 Arjuna says -

 

" O Krishna, this Yoga of equanimity has been preached by You but I do

not comprehend it's stability, due to the restlessness of mind. "

(Gita 6:33)

 

" Yo' yam yogastvaya proktah saamyena madhusudana

Etasyaaham na pasyaami cancalatvatsthitim sthiraam. " (Gita 6:33)

 

Lord Krishna, in the gospel of Gita, has laid great emphasis on

maintaining equanimity, in attainment and non-attainment, success and

failure, etc. This equanimity leads a man to salvation. Arjuna was

afraid of sins by waging war. So Lord Krishna said to him. " Treating

alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, engage

yourself in the battle, thus you will incur no sin. " (Gita 2:38).

Just like, in this world, there are many sins that are going on, but

we are not held responsible for these, because our intellect is not

unevenly or disproportionately favoring or unfavoring one over the

other. Rather we are equanimous in these worldly events. Similarly

while performing actions and discharging our duty, if we remain

equanimous, those actions do not bind us.

 

Therefore, Lord Krishna in the beginning of this chapter said, " He

who discharges his duty, without expecting the fruit of actions, is a

Sannyasi and a Yogi. " The result of renouncing the fruit of actions

is equanimity. Lord Krishna describes the Discipline of Meditation

(from Gita 6:10 to Gita 6:32) as a means of attaining equanimity.

 

In this verse, Arjuna seems to indicate that equanimity can be easily

attained by the Discipline of Action, but it is difficult to attain

by the Discipline of Meditation, owing to the restlessness of the

mind.

 

This means that as long as restlessness of mind is not wiped out,

till that time a spiritual aspirant will not be able to meditate and

concentrate his mind on God. And without concentration of mind,

equanimity cannot be attained.