From: Blaine Watson [mailto:blain...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: more about the soul and its nature
Yesterday's quote was from Guru Dev as is this one today.
'Having become a devotee of Paramatman one can never remain unhappy. This is
our experience. The ego (Jiva) is going on doing its work from several
births; its tendency to work exists from time immemorial. Therefore, if the
work is just started with a little co-operation of the mind it shall
continue to go on just like the wagon moving a long way off ... if it is
just jerked and pushed by the engine. It is necessary to bifurcate the work
of the mind as main and secondary. Apply your body mainly and your mind
secondarily to you work .
When your mind is mainly engaged in Paramatman you shall receive his grace,
Paramatman is all-powerful. Even a little of His grace is capable of
bestowing on the ego all that is good in its entirety. The declaration of
the Lord that is proved by the scriptures is this; "Whosoever thinks of Me
with one-pointed devotion, I shall conduct his necessary work also". The
experience of the bhaktis also goes to prove the declaration of the Lord.
Accumulate wealth (artha), but in such a way that is not against
transcendental wealth (param-artha). That which hinders transcendental
wealth and results in accumulation in sin is not wealth but a burden, a debt
(anartha).
As is the cloth, so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities
of the work, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent
thing, which remains with you always. Even in the other world it will
continue to stay with you. Therefore connect it with a permanent thing,
Paramatman, being the eternal existence in animate and inanimate things, is
the only permanent thing of the highest order. Therefore connect your mind
with Him. If the mind is satisfied with wealth, wife or children, why does
it go elsewhere? Because if cannot stick onto anything. From this it is
clear that it is not satisfied with anything of the mundane world. It runs
after things, taking them to be good and desirable, but after a short while
it leaves them.
Nobody wants your mind in this world, and the mind is not satisfied with
anything of the world. The mind is not fit for the world, or the world for
the mind. When the mind realizes the transcendent, it is permanently
established there and does not desire other things. From this we can
understand that the transcendental field of life alone is fit for the mind
and nothing else.
Keep this in mind; that your mind, which is not wanted by anyone else in
this world, is useful to take you near Paramatman. Therefore, in this
marketplace of the world, carry on work with your body and wealth, and allow
your mind to go towards transcendence. Then your work in this world will get
on well, and the path to transcendental wealth will also be clear.'
