Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

I Want to Only Walk This Path

 

I have received many amazing and extra-ordinary insights from the

Bhagavad Gita, from the scriptures and from saints. I am sharing one of these

insights with you today. All of you have mercy on me and pay close attention! It

is a very simple point, whereby one can make progress very quickly in their

spiritual pursuits. One can can receive immense joy. All sorrow can be wiped

out, once and for all. But for whom are these simple insights? It is for those

who desire their own spiritual benefit and growth. The greater the feeling, the

intensity within - " Let me attain salvation, " for him this point will be that

much easier.

 

One method is that we continue to do various spiritual practices step by step,

and as we do, we continue to reach higher and higher states, and then we will

realize that essential Truth (Knowledge of Self). Another method is such that we

can be at the higher state from the very beginning, and it will not take so

long. You wont have to put in so much effort, but the benefits will be immediate

and extraordinary.

 

On this subject God has said - A firmly rooted intellect with only one

aim is of one type, while the intellect of an unsettled man is all over the

place and dispersed (Gita 2:41). Gita also says - " Even the worst of worst

sinners, if they worship me exclusively, then he should be considered an

ascetic, because his aim and determination is good. (Gita 9:30). In this verse

(Gita 9:30) it is also said " samyagvyavasitohi saha " means that " Now I want to

only walk this path " whereby one makes this firm commitment and determination.

Whether people complain, whether they criticize, whether wealth comes or goes,

whether this body remains healthy or not, whether we live or we die, but I will

remain firm on this aim. In this same way, in the " I-ness " if there is the inner

expression that " I am only a seeker of divinity and truth " then spiritual

practices will happen on their own.

 

Let us accept our relationship with divinity and truth (God, Supreme

Consciousness) from the very beginning - " I belong to God and God is

mine " . You may have heard this point many times, and I have said this

many times, as well, but you all do not pay attention. I pray to you all that

pay great attention to this point. I want to attain salvation and it is only for

that purpose that I have come here, only for that purpose have I been born here,

there is no other work that I have - let there be this one affirmation, one

verdict, one decision. This is called intellect that is exclusively engaged

" vyavasaatmikaa buddhi " . With such a determination and exclusive aim, even the

worst of worst sinners can attain saint hood very quickly " shipram bhavati

dharamaatmaa " . (Gita 9:31).