Kartavya Buddhi – Right actions using our intellect
Shree Swamiji Maharaj and our Gurujans remind us that we (Sadhaks) are to take actions with Kartavya Buddhi or using our intellect and doing our duties. Sometimes we do not feel like taking care of our health, do exercise, do spiritual practice of reciting amritvani, jap, or dhyan, etc.
While we may not feel like it or feel lazy we must take care of our physical, mental, and spiritual health. That is our duty. It seems as if our loving Gurujans, saint-souls have come here on earth again and again us and shown us the way. Our Gurujans have done “Marg Darshan” in every Sadhana Satsang.
Now it is up to us to seek Shree Rams’ blessings and the blessings of Swamiji Maharaj to do our duty while immersed in Ram Naam.
There is a beautiful dhun sung by Pujya Dr. Vishwa Mitter Ji Maharaj in the open Sadhana Satsang in USA in May, 2009 which goes as follows:
Baba meri raksha karna .. Baba meri raksha karna.
Baba meri banh pakarna … Baba meri banh pakarna.
Baba mujhe bhakti dena … Baba mujhe bhakti dena.
Baba mujhe darshan dena … Baba mujhe darshan dena.
(Baba protect me ….. Baba hold my arm …. Baba give me devotion …. Baba give me darshan – vision and blessing)
Add comment June 30, 2009
A message from Pujya Maharajji seems to became clear
Recently Pujya Maharajji mentioned that we don’t get close to God or Divine Mother because .. “Shayad Hamne Dusri Ma Kar Lee Hai” (Maybe we have adapted another Mother).
A few days after I heard It seems as if Maharajji was saying that we bow, and say namaskar to Maya … “Dusri Ma” but not to Divine Mother , at least not with all of our being. Our mind and intellect are still in the world and want the world, more than God.
Shree Swamiji Maharaj also says in Amritvani:
Sarva Shaktimate Parmaatmane Sri Ramaaya Namaha. (I bow before Sri Ram who is vested with all powers … source and reservoir of all powers… seek shelter with the Supreme Soul … dedicate and surreder myself unto Him!)
Also in the end of Amritvani we read and hear:
… Ramaaya Namaha, Sri Ramaaya Namaha.
So let us not do Maya Namaah, instead follow our Gurujans and do Sri Ramaaya Namah.
(Let us not get caught up in Maya but as our Gurujans teach us to bow and seek shelter in Lord Ma, Divine Mother, Supreme Soul Sri Ram only then with the Grace of our Gurujans and Sri Ram we can be liberated).
Add comment June 21, 2009
Power of Ram Naam and blessings of our Gurujans
Through the grace of our Pujya Gurudev we have been blessed with Ram Naam. While we read in Amritvani that Parmaatma Sri Ram is all powerful .. omnipotent. We are connected to the source and reservoir of all powers through Ram Naam.
Then why do we have a weak mind? Why are we not able to use our intellect to take care of our responsibilites and do benevolent actions?
Is it because we do not have total faith in God or do we not yet totally believe what our Gurujans have said? … or is it something else?
Regardless of whether we know the answers to these questions or not, we can at least pay close attention to what Maharajji says,”We have Ram in us but it is lying dormant” – so we must wake up this power in us by Jap, Simran, and Dhyan. And with the strength we gain from our practice we can follow the path shown to us with renewed determination and resolve.
Maharajji explains that in Amritvani it is mentioned:
Ram-Ram Bhaj Kar Sri Ram
Kariye Nitya Hee Uttam Kaam
(and not …. Kariye Nitya Hee Uttam Kaam, Ram-Ram Bhaj Kar Sri Ram)
So as he is guiding us, let us keep Ram Naam in the forefront and do the benevolent actions and take care of our duties and responsibilities and be ready to recieve maximum benefit of Ram Kripa.
Once again Maharajji says be patient and never lose hope.
Jai Jai Ram
Add comment June 10, 2009
Spiritual Path according to Saint-Souls
There are several spiritual paths for people of various mind-sets, cultures, and spiritual traditions. Saint-souls or Sant Mahatmas tell us that any and all true spiritual paths lead to an individual soul uniting with Supreme soul or experiencing the truth about Supreme soul, God, or One Source who is vested with all powers. Some of these wise teachers may say that we realize the truth about ourselves, get enlightenment, or have Darshan of God in His true form.
Most spiritual traditions agree that one of the goal of spiritual practice is for us to become a better person or a better human being. A better human being in thoughts, speech, and deeds.
Each human being has strengths and weaknesses. Each human being has past karma, genes, and DNA that binds us to think and act in a certain way, especially if we are not shown the true path.
A true path can be shown only by Sadguru who has learned to walk on the true path with the grace of Guru and God.
According to Saint-souls from almost all traditions of present and past era, it is God’s grace that inspires us to think about God, reach out to God, to pray and have a yearning to walk on a true spiritual path. When the student is ready the teacher appears as the saying goes … it is again with God’s grace we come in contact with the right guru for us.
Now that we have come in contact with our guru we need to make a commitment to practice according to the instructions given by guru or walk on the path of practice, as shown to us. Sure, most of us being humans, are not going to keep our total commitments due to one reason or another. If we just keep aware of what we are thinking, saying, and doing we know whether we are walking on the path or we are off the path.
By attending satsang or keeping in contact with our guru in person or by remembering the instructions, or how our guru talks, walks, and interacts with others can be highly beneficial to us and it can be a reminder about how to keep our behaviors as close as possible as per guru’s guidance.
What more can we ask for … our Gurujans have shown us again and again with patience, love, and as role models the path we need to walk on for our own good and the good of our families, and for the good of all human beings.
To be a better human being, to do better, is our responsibility … to follow the examples of others who have walked on this path is wisdom.
To err is human… to forgive is divine. Divine are the saint-souls who forgive us again and again and show their love to us and all mankind. Let us also act in a divine way … let us forgive ourselves for our mistakes (God and guru has) and let us all renew our commitment to walk on the path shown to us by our loving Gurujans. Let us do our jap, recite Amritvani daily, study Swamiji Maharaj’s Ramayan (Valmiki version), and follow any other personal instructions given by our guru.
Saint-souls remind us is to do our practice with Nishkam-Bhav… and they assure us that good fruit of this practice is beyond our imagination :
Taarak Mantra Ram hai – jiska sufal apaar,
Is mantra ke jap se – nishchay bane nistaar.
(From Amritvani – booklet available at any Shreeramsharnam – please visit shreeramsharnam.org for centers and treasure of spiritual wisdom)
Jai Jai Ram
5 comments April 22, 2009
Mere Ram, tera pyara naam. Your loving name my Ram.
Har kaam se pehle aur har kaam ke baad,
mein japoo tera pyara naam, mere Ram.
(Before everything, and after everything may I recite your loving name .. my Ram)
Aise hi ho Parmaatma. Jab aise hone lag jayega tau aisa lagata hai ki pehle aur baad ke beech bhi tera hi pyara naam hi chalata rahega mere man mandir mein.
(May it be so O’Lord. When this starts happening, it seems to me that in between before and after also your loving name keeps on ruminating in my mind)
Kripa kar mere Ram aisa hi ho.
(I ask for your Grace, may this be so, my Ram)
Jai Shree Ram.
Add comment January 12, 2009
Shree Ram Ki Mahima – a true story
A person in a western country who had not heard of Shree Ram or Ram Jap was told about how repeating Ram Ram can help him in time of trouble or when he felt low physically or mentally. (He had no initiation from any Guru Maharaj – he was just told to do this by an ordinary sadhak)
According to him one day he was all dressed up to go to work but he was not feeling good inside. He remembered and said Ram only once. Immediately he felt as if some thing inside of him waking up and giving him lots of energy. He felt really good about going to work in just a few seconds.
Imagine what Ram Nam can do for us sadhaks (who have been initiated) if we had stronger faith and practiced according to our Gurujans’ instructions.
Ram Nam ki Mahima – our Gurujans and other Bhaktas have sung glories of Ram Nam recently, over thousands of years, and in all yugas.
Jai Shree Ram.
Add comment December 7, 2008
Connection – Raja Janak in Bhakti Prakash and Pravachan
In Bhakti Prakash and in all his granths Shree Swamiji Maharaj’s probably touches hearts of many sadhaks.
In Janak Gyan:
When Guru Yagavalkaya asks Raja Janak to give him his mind as dakshina he agrees. Then Raja Janak says that Vaasanas are still there in the mind and his mind is unstable, etc.
Guru replies,”This daan/dakshina is not complete – now that mind is mine …. be careful of any paap karam and do your duties”
This also is mentioned by our gurujans in their pravachans that we do not fully surrender our mind to Shree Ram, once the mind is surrendered totally, there is not much else left to surrender.
Add comment November 17, 2008
Grace of God and Guru
People from various faiths have experienced God’s Grace and how it has changed their lives, their relationship with God, and in becoming a better human being.
A seeker was not able to do the spiritual practice with concentration, love, and devotion to God and that caused lots of frustration to the seeker.
One day in a prayer, having a straight-talk with God, the seeker expressed the frustration of not doing the daily practice and living with old negative and bad habits, said to God,
“I am your child, think of me as your little baby – when baby is hungry, baby gets the milk from the mother; when the baby is not able to walk, father holds baby’s hand and helps the baby walk – God, I am hungry for your love, you already know this – I don’t need to ask for your love. I have failed as an adult in trying to be a better human being, so I surrender my knowledge, my intellect, and mind to you. You are merciful, with your grace my life can be transformed”
After a few minutes of crying, talking, the seeker heard, “From now on imagine that your Guru is doing the practice holding your hand, your Guru is doing the devotion, and your Guru is with you every moment”
With that the seeker’s began to experience Grace of God and Guru in a profound way.
Many Gurus, Saints, and Spiritual Masters have shared these kinds of words of wisdom about doing prayer, having a straight-talk with God, surrendering to Lord, etc. They say that any seeker can experience peace, contentment, and love of God.
Guru shows us the path. A humble Guru says that God is Supreme Guru.
Instead of trying to trying to improve our lives, trying to do devotion with concentration, trying to follow Guru – why not hold Guru’s hand and let our life be transformed and be led to God in a much easier way. If a person does not have Sadguru in his or her life then ask God, The Supreme Guru and pray for a Sadguru or a preceptor who can guide us all the way to God.
2 comments October 6, 2008
Ek sadhak ke vichar – A seeker’s thoughts
Ek sadhak ko vichar aaya ki mein tau ek bhooli bhataki atma thi. Parmaatmaa ne kripa ki, Sant-Mahatma ko mila diya. (In a seeker’s mind a thought came that due to God’s grace a great Saint/Master has come in my life)
Mahatma ne bataya ki, “apne aap ko deh mat maano, tum chaitanaya swarup atma ho aur Parmaatmaa sat-chit-anand swarup hai” (This Saint/Master said,”Do not think that you are mind-body-intellect, you are a soul whose essence is consciousness, pure, power; and God is supreme-soul whose essence is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss Absolute”)
Iss-se sadhak ke man mein ek aur vichar aaya jis-se usko laga shaayad RAM ka arth yeh ho:
(With this another thought came to this seeker’s mind that spelled out RAM)
R – Ram (Paramaatmaa Shree Ram Supreme-Soul Shree Ram)
A- Atma (Soul)
M – Mahatma (Great Soul)
Hamare Gurujan kehte hein ki bhavana mein hi Bhagwan hai. (Our Reverred Gurus say that God is in the attitude,feelings, and emotions of a seeker)
3 comments October 6, 2008
