SPIRITUAL NATURE CURE

In this way, just as a man’s mind is subjected to a variety of pleasures, addictions, and countless thoughts and alternatives, these too must be sacrificed. This little, precious time of Purushottam Sangam Yug that we have—if it is lost in impure thoughts and conflicting alternatives, and in constantly battling them—then when will the time come to experience unlimited happiness and the joy gained from victory over the vices? By taking these thoughts lightly, we have allowed them to become like guests who visit our mind every day—no, not just that, but like guests who come again and again in different forms, destroying our mental power and consuming all our time meant for invaluable spiritual earnings. Therefore, they must be brought to a halt. When we have already given our mind to God, why do we allow these devils to enter? When we have already offered these vices, impure thoughts, and alternatives to God—when we have sacrificed ourselves—why do we take back what we have already don...

  Various forms of this body consciousness are shame, fear of public opinion, hesitation, blasphemy-praise, insult to honor, and being affected by victory and defeat, etc. If a man sacrifices insult to honor and focuses on this memory, that-''I am a point star of light, I am ever powerful, knower of the three aspects of time, moving in the direction of the ever beneficial Shiv Baba, the supreme soul and our supreme father. Hence, I am moving on the right track. ''   So neither will public honor torture him, nor will he be affected by blame.

  But we must remember that body consciousness does not come in only one form; it has many facets. One of the signs of body consciousness is that a person is always caught in limitation in everything, in an egoistic awareness of the body. For example, such a person will always be trapped in attachment to his small worldly home and his personal relationships. The understanding that, “This whole world is the home of my soul, all souls are my brothers, and I have some duty towards them,” will not be visible in his way of living. From morning till evening, he will remain busy only in serving his small household and his own bodily needs (and even that only from the point of view of the body). Thoughts like, “I have to do something for my soul’s development too; this big world is also my home, and I have some responsibilities towards it,” will be completely absent. Even if he has some spiritual or soul knowledge beyond this, his intellect will remain limited to the particular satsang he...

   This Kaliyugi world has become completely tasteless. When all the juice has been extracted from sugarcane, what is the point of sucking its peel? In the same way, there is no truth left in this world; there is no essence left in it. It has now become totally impure. Just as it is a waste of time to suck the peel of a juiceless sugarcane, likewise, the affairs of this world have become painful. What value remains in them now?   In the same way, this body has suffered from many diseases. It is of a very dark and ignorant nature and is steeped in the vice of lust.   It is disgusting. Hence, to be egoistic about this dirty and suffering body, or to become addicted to the impure, hollow objects of the senses and thus lose the heavenly state of fortune, is utter stupidity. To lose the state of liberation out of attachment to this mortal body is nothing but preparing to hang upside down from the gallows of DharmRaj. Is this intelligence? No! Hence, we should at once reno...

  Yes, if a person, after giving up the ego of the mind, studies this Godly knowledge with discipline and surrenders the attachment and the reins of the intellect to Parampita Parmatma Shiv, then they receive all positive virtues. Just as a kite can be controlled only when its string is held firmly in the hand, in the same way, the soul whose string of intellect is in the hands of Parmatma can be safely guided in the strong storms of Maya and kept straight. Otherwise, it wanders here and there and finally breaks. Therefore, in order to make all kinds of sacrifices filled with joy, the first sacrifice must be that of the “I, I” consciousness. One must, with great importance, consider oneself a student, renounce the habit of overestimating one’s own knowledge, and develop a loving intellect toward Parampita Shiv Parmatma. Otherwise, it is certain that such a person will be destroyed by negative and opposite feelings.   A person who has sacrificed the pride of the mind can be gui...