Lead the Divine Life
Om! Salutations to the
adorable Hari, than whom there is nothing greater, and who is above all this
universe!
Why should you prolong your
bondage unnecessarily? Why should you not attain your divine birthright now?
Why should you not break your bondage now? Delay means prolongation of your
sufferings. You can break it at any moment. This is in your power. Do it now.
Stand up. Gird up your loins. Do rigorous and vigorous Sadhana and attain
freedom, which is immortality or eternal bliss.
The divine within you is
stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of
anything. Rely on your own Inner Self - the Divinity within you. Tap the source
through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the
heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is
base in you. Endeavour to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower
nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and
meditation. This is beginning of your freedom.
Become a good man first. Then
control the senses. Then subdue the lower mind by the higher mind. Then the
Divine Light will descend. Only then the vessel will be able to receive and
hold the divine light.
So long as your senses are not
subdued or weakened, you will have to practise tapas or self - restraint, dama
or pratyahara. You may conquer millions of persons in a battle, but you will
become the greatest conqueror only if you can conquer your own lower self or
mind.
Build your spiritual life on a
sure foundation on the rock of divine grace and strength of character. Take
refuge in the Lord and his eternal Law. There is no power in heaven or on earth
that can bar your path now. Success in Self-realisation is certain. Failure
exists not for you. There is light on your path. All is brilliant.
Purify the heart first and
then climb the ladder of Yoga steadily within courage and undaunted spirit.
Climb onwards swiftly. Attain Ritambhara Prajna and reach the summit of the
ladder, the temple of wisdom, where the cloud of virtue or nectar drizzles from
Dharmamegha Samadhi.
Sufferings purify the soul.
They burn up the gross material sins and impurities. The Divinity becomes more
and more manifest. Sufferings give inner spiritual strength and develop the
will-force, the power of endurance. Hence, sufferings are blessings in
disguise. Spiritual life is toilsome and laborious. It demands constant
vigilance and strong perseverance before substantial progress is made.
Meditation and worship are the
means of evolving your potentialities and seeking a higher level of
consciousness or existence. Practise meditation persistently and calmly without
haste. You will soon attain samadhi. Only when you have purified your heart,
silenced the mind, stilled the thoughts and surging emotions, withdrawn the
outgoing senses, thinned out the vasanas, you can behold the glorious Atman during
deep meditation. Even a ray of your light during meditation will lighten your
path. It will give you great deal of encouragement and inner strength. It will
goad you to do more Sadhana. You will experience this ray of light when the
meditation becomes more deep and when you rise above body-consciousness.
You have yourself build the
walls of your prison-house through ignorance. You can demolish the walls
through discrimination and enquiry of 'Who am I?' When an electric lamp is
covered by many wrappings of cloth, there will be no bright light. When the
cloth is removed one by one, the light grows brighter and brighter. Even so,
with the self-resplendent Atman which is covered by the five sheaths. By
meditation on the pure Self and practise of the 'neti-neti' doctrine, the
self-luminous Atman reveals itself to the meditator.
There are four means by which
perfect tranquility or emancipation can be attained. These form the highest
happiness. They are: Satsanga or association with the wise, dispassion, enquiry
of 'who am I?' and meditation. These are called Heaven. These are religion.
These form the highest happiness.
Without renunciation you can
never be happy. Without renunciation you can never be successful in gaining the
highest good, i.e. Moksha. Without renunciation you can never be at your ease.
Therefore renounce everything. Make happiness your own. Hold renunciation as
the foremost of things.
Life is unfolding of the
latent capacities of the soul. Lead the Divine life. Generate sublime divine
thoughts in your mind through meditation, Japa, Kirtan and study of sacred
scriptures. Worship is the unfolding of the bud of the flower of the soul.
Worship bestows life eternal. Bask the body in the physical sunlight. Bask the
soul in the sunlight of the Eternal. You will have good health and everlasting
life. Bathe in the river of life everlasting. Plunge into it. Take a dip in it.
Float in it. Rejoice!
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