Discourse of Sadguru Sri Nannagaru

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Sadguru Sri Nannagaru is a staunch disciple of Ramana Maharsi

 

Discourses of Sadguru Sri Nannagaru

 

At Juvvalapalem on 15th November 2007

 

My Dear Soul-mates,

 

Man undergoes three states i.e. wakeful, dream and deep sleep. The

real thing exists in all the three states. Thoughts do not exist in

deep sleep state. That thoughtless state should be experienced in

the other two states also. The mind gets separated from the body in

deep sleep state. To obtain that separateness we have to uproot the

false `I' and everything based on it. Fear and anger are like wild

dogs. Sense organs should be disciplined and controlled, slowly,

gradually and steadily.

 

Human body is given to you for performing Saadhana. Begin it now.

You should get prepared like the fully ripened fruit which gets

dropped naturally without any pressure or intervention. When the

Saadhana (Spiritual practice) reaches the maximum saturation point

then naturally divine grace is bestowed.

 

Everybody is earning their livelihood. We should do punyas(merits)

with dedication, devotion and unselfishly. Jealousy is dangerous.

Purification of mind is essential. Everybody does not love us, many

people hate us too. Do not panic. We should love all and hate none.

Lord Krishna is supposed to be a Butter thief. Krishna robs the mind

of those whose mind is soft and pure like Butter. We try to achieve

everything but we never pray to achieve God. It is because our mind

is not good. Accumulated merits of previous births also count.

Gratitude is a very important quality.

 

The paramatma (The Supreme Self), Dakshinamurthy (Lord Shiva), their

state, their peace and stability we can obtain in this birth, if our

conduct is proper and peaceful. Saadhana is not so easy. You should

resume it gradually. Do your duty properly towards your family

members without attachment and with no special regard. Otherwise you

will get bounded to them.

 

Man can give birth to children but not to their destiny. Everybody

has their own life-span. Even with friends we should not have

special regards. You should not have enmity with anybody and if

anybody has enmity with you, ignore it and even in your mind never

entertain such thoughts. Supreme knowledge is cosmic. It has neither

friends nor enemies. Good books are equal to good friends. If you do

not have a good friend, a good book is of great help to you. If you

obtain the supreme state, the whole world will be benefited by you

even without your knowledge. Thought, word and deed should be one.

In spiritual field, basically dispassion is required. The mind

should be balanced under any circumstances favorable or not even in

heavy storms or greater storms. The ups and downs in the mind can be

overcome. Then you can have the glimpses of light. People will take

you as an ideal. You will be of great help to the society.

 

All sorrow comes from the thought that I have achieved, I have

accomplished. If at all you have really achieved something, it is

only by the will of God. It is pre-destined. Present happiness will

turn into sorrow tomorrow. You are not getting insight due to

attachment. ATTACHMENT IS THE GREATEST SIN. Sometimes God sends the

mind outwards and observes whether it is stable or not. It is a

test. World is a training ground. We get useless thoughts, dust.

That is also given by God. Cultivate devotion towards God. He is

your true Father. We don't have respect and faith in Him. We are

faithless. Our body and sense-organs are in good condition and we

are in youth. We should use them only for God now. We have worldly

thoughts and no Godly thoughts. We do not have right thinking. When

you think only of God, He will bear you and everything of you.

 

God's word we feel is unreal because we do not know the Truth. But

when we reach that state, we can understand and believe it. Only a

Mahatma can follow a Mahatma. We have to reach that standard.

Purification of the mind is the entrance to devotion, to Saadhana.

Cultivate Satvaguna(the virtuous quality) enhance it and produce it

in thought, word and deed. Reduce the other two gunas (Raja and

Tama - these are negative qualities). They increase ego and bondage

in us.

 

Start the journey towards God. Mind is fond of thinking. Let it

think of God. Then it will stop going outside and will turn inwards.

You are enjoying the world, whether you understand it or not, like

in a cinema. Learn to enjoy silence. Speech is silver and silence is

golden. The being has to travel alone. Practice to be alone for

minimum one hour daily and comprehend upon your thoughts and

weaknesses and try to eliminate them. Guru Nanak (the great Sikh

Guru) said, however many crores of rupees you may possess you cannot

carry even one pin along with you after death.

 

At the time of death of Goutam Buddha, the message to his brother

Anand was, do not weep for the death of Buddha, but try to attain

the state that Buddha attained. The body of Buddha should be

cremated as of the common man, for He did not crave for recognition.

 

Buddha was a man of compassion, most impersonal love, tremendous

love, 150 people got enlightenment on the spot only by his sight

(darshan). He had boldness and was fearless. He was beyond

everything and He cannot be understood by petty-minded, little-

minded and chicken-hearted people.

 

That rush, and that speed is wanted to do Saadhana which emerges

from sitting on a fire pot.

 

If you have the spiritual strength, a burning desire, true devotion,

longing, craving towards God, God does not delay, instantly gives

you liberation whether you are deserving or not.

 

Sombody asked Bhagawan, Sri Ramana Maharshi that my father expired

and shall I perform the customary rituals for his soul. He replied,

the day you realize the true `I', the true knowledge, your ancestors

will also attain that state in Seven worlds. That is the wonderful

glory.

 

Another devotee asked Bhagawan, I want the required dedication,

devotion neither less not more, for eliminating the false `I', mind,

body-boundedness and they should be burned totally without any

remains. He not only intelligently prayed to Bhagwan but also

surrendered to Him.

 

Krishna said, after death you may go to other worlds, but now in

this birth whoever has controlled the mind, sense-organs obtains

peace and happiness and he need not strive for anything. Try to

attain that state.

 

The great Paramacharya said, Live with faith in God. There is

Iswara. Ishwara's devotion should be done by all human beings.

Cultivate devotion. Do not leave the feet of God. Catch hold of the

feet of God. The fishes fall prey into the fisherman's net but the

fish which is closer to the fisherman's feet does not fall into it.

Similarly when we hold to God's feet, we do not fall into His Maya

(Illusion).

 

Pray for devotion. That is the only path.

 

LOVE TO YOU PEACE TO YOU

 

THANKS TO ALL