Narayanasramam

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Generate Joy from Within

 

Question: Is saadhana meditational?

 

Answer: Meditation is only one part of it. I emphasize more and more the pre-

and post-meditational saadhana. I call it `Interactional Saadhana'.

 

People are meditating but they are not able to strike the right chord. Even

after decades of practice, they say, they have not made any progress. It is

because they lack purity of mind, subtlety and refinement of intelligence. They

don't have qualities like love, sympathy and tolerance.

 

The possessor of 10 billion rupees will bequeath all the money to his only child

– not even to his brother's child who may be living in privation. See how

constricted the mind is! Do the children need so much of inherited property?

Mostly it will spoil them! But the parents don't understand. This is the

constricted nature of the householders. That aspiration for expansion is not

there in them. That is why they fail to succeed in spiritual saadhana.

 

So, we try to prevail upon them to have an expansive mind; to have concern for

others to have enough control over the senses. Once we understand that the

greater joy is in expansion and sharing, the life becomes different. It is our

birthright to generate joy from within.

 

I think, L, you will agree with me that with many things we can be miserable but

with nothing we can be blissful.

 

Desire is the killer of the mind. That is the robber of all contentment. When

you have no desire, you have fulfillment. You are joyous when the object of

desire is gained. You think that the joy comes from the fulfillment of desire.

Actually it comes from the extinction of desire. When a desire is fulfilled it

becomes extinct. Absence of the desire enables you to feel the joy that comes

from within you, until another desire constricts the mind. So, if you can have a

mind free of all desires it is equal to that mind where all desires have been

fulfilled.