GREETINGS

Swamiji:

22nd Dec 2014.
Guru is Bliss

You are lucky if you have a Guru in your life; you are gifted if you have a living Guru in your life; you are blessed if you can all the time hold your Guru in your mind and heart; you earn existential grace if your Guru all the time holds you in his mind and heart. The Upanishads elicit five signs of Satguru. In the presence of a Guru, knowledge, flourishes, sorrow diminishes; joy wells up, abundance dawns and all talent manifests.

23rd.
Develop Divinity
The infant doesn’t know the taste of milk. But by taking it daily, it develops a deep attachment for it, such that when milk is to be given up and rice substituted, it starts to protest. But the mother doesn’t despair; she persuades the child to take small quantities of cooked rice daily, and slowly, the child starts liking rice and gives up milk. Milk though once its natural food, is replaced by rice through practice to such an extent that if rice is not available for a day, the child feels miserable. So too though sense pleasures are ‘natural’ at first, by means of practice and listening to the wise, slowly the joy derived from listening to the glories of the Lord is grasped. Over a period of time, the company of the worldly who chatter about the sense-objects will no longer attract; the company that exults in the Love of Lord becomes sweeter and then you begin to experience the Divine.

24th.
Life is a Pilgrimage

Life is a pilgrimage to God and the path lies before you. But, unless you take the first step forward and follow it with succeeding steps, how can you reach it? Start with courage, faith, joy and steadiness, you will certainly succeed. The mind and the intellect are like two bullocks tied to a cart. The bullocks are not used to the road of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love, and so they drag the cart along the road familiar to them, namely, falsehood, injustice, worry and hatred. You have to train the bullocks to tread the right path, so that they may not bring disaster to themselves and to others. Every object or being in the world will give both pleasure and pain. Control and train your mind to see this real nature of the objective world.

HariOm!