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|| Shri Hari || For Spiritual Aspirants Discourse 4 Remain Naturally Established in Your Aim Swami Ramsukhdas
|| Shri Hari ||
For Spiritual Aspirants Discourse 4
Remain Naturally Established in Your Aim
Swami Ramsukhdas
O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !
|| Shri Hari ||
For Spiritual Aspirants Discourse 4 Remain Naturally Established in Your Aim
tvameva mata cha pita tvameva
tvameva bandhuscha sakha tvameva |
tvameva vidyaa dravinam tvameva
tvameva sarvam mama devadeva ||
Swami Ramsukhdas
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|| Shri Hari || For Spiritual Aspirants Discourse 4
Remain Naturally Established in Your Aim
The main point in your spiritual practice is to decide on your aim, your intent, your goal (lakshya). Truly speaking, what is it that you want? A spiritual aspirant may do various practices such as japa (name recitation), meditation, adoration and worship, singing the glories of the Lord, etc., but as long as he does not fix, solidify on a determinate aim, till then the spiritual discipline that takes place naturally and automatically, will not begin. When the aim is fixed, the aspirant will not be able to stop or linger anywhere else without fulfilling the aim, without attaining the goal. The extent to which this aim is firm and decisive, that much quickly he will attain realization. Whereas, to the extent that he is lax in his determinate decision, the attainment of his goal will also be delayed to that extent.
Therefore with solemn earnestness, first and foremost, an aspirant should think about why and for what purpose has God made him a human being ? On thinking deeply he will realize that it is only for the attainment of perfection, attainment of the supreme goal, that this human body has been received. This human body has not been received for the accumulation of
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worldly objects and it’s enjoyment.
Enjoyments of sense pleasures can be received even for the birds and animals etc. Human birth is received for the attainment of the best of all Truths. On attaining this essence, nothing further remains to be done, known or attained. On this subject there is a very beautiful verse in the Gita
Yam labdhvaa chaaparam laabham manyate naadhikam tatah |
Yasministhato na dukhahan gurunaapi vichaalyate ||
(Gita 6/22)
Meaning Having gained which state he does not reckon any other gain greater than that, and wherein established, he is not shaken even by the greatest affliction. (Gita 6/22).
To attain this state is the main aim of this human life. He who remains satisfied without attaining this state is making a mistake. As long as there is any desire to do, to know, to acquire, till then the aspirant should understand that as such what I desire, that essential nature has not been attained.
Just as while going to Badrinarayan, a man stops on the way somewhere for food and rest and other necessities, but he does not pitch his camp out there permanently. He does not stay back, thinking that the place is good, the water and air is pure, the facilities are good. If he stays back, then in reality he did not really want to go to Badrinarayan. Similarly, the
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number of instances in this life are all only part of the journey. Among those roadside places, an aspirant cannot stay put anywhere, he cannot get stuck. He has only one aim, one goal, and that is I want to walk the path towards Paramatma. He wants to reach only where there is nothing remaining to do, to know or to acquire.
A true spiritual aspirant cannot sit still without attaining his goal. In this world, if he acquired wealth, then what is the big deal? If honor and respect is attained, then what is so great about it? If he receives rest and relaxation, then what's so special? Wealth, name, fame, honor, respect happiness, restrelaxation etc, are not the greatest of all things in this world. If the best of all is not attained, then what has been attained? In other words, nothing has been attained. With ease you eat, drink, sleep etc., but even the animals are capable of doing all these things. However, the man with his discriminative faculty is capable of far more. The glories of this human body are that it can attain the highest gains of all the other species. This human body is a rarity even for the demigods 'devatas'. The demigods have access of all types of sense enjoyments, yet they crave for a human birth.
Worldly pleasures cannot make a man happy. The main reason is that the sense pleasures do not stay, while the man himself remains at all times (eternal). For how long will we keep such sense enjoyments with us? How long will these sense enjoyments stay? How much happiness and contentment will you get from them? Man remains negligent and careless, being inattentive to these truths. If one gets millions and billions of dollars, then too there will not be satisfaction. As more money is acquired, the thirst (trushnaa) for it will also increase. As the thirst increases, lies, cheating, stealing, dishonesty, mistrust, trickery etc., and many other sins will be incurred, due to which there will be an even greater fall. This is the absolute
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truth.
You cannot keep the perishable objects with you forever, nor can you stay with them forever. One day you will have to leave all of it. Therefore what great work have you done, by taking in your possession that which will degenerate or will part ways? God has provided for the sustenance of this life for all beings; therefore there is no need to worry about this. The essential need is only one of attaining the true ‘Tattva’ (Divinity, Essence). And for the attainment of this, the two main obstacles are desire for sense enjoyments and hoarding.
It is a very sad thing to remain at ease without realizing one's real Nature (Essence, Divinity).
Man sometimes desires wealth, and sometimes name and fame, sometimes to remain free of disease, sometimes rest and relaxation, but in reality this is not the want of the real Self (essence). Therefore it is extremely essential to decide once and for all what do I really want? Once the aim/goal is decided, then it will not be mistaken or forgotten. He who forgets, he did not have a singlepointed goal / aim in the first place.
As it has been said before, aim is that on attaining which, nothing further remains to be done, to be known or to be acquired. This is called attainment of ‘tattvagyaan’ (Divinity, Self Realization), God Realization, attainment of Divine Love, beholding God etc., whatever one wants, that alone he gets.
From Book 'Sadhakon ke Prati' in Hindi pg 1112 by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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You can also read message in HINDI titled 'Lakshya Prati Sahaj Raho' at : http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/ May 2010
http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.org/swamijibooks/pustak/pustak1/html/sadhkonkeprati/ch4_11.htm
Narayan ! Narayan ! Narayan !
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