A Path to Devotion
October 17, 2007
Human life is a valuable treasure and every moment of it is meant to be devoted to the remembrance of God. Hence it should not be wasted. Carefully devote every single moment to the contemplation on God and his service.
Engage yourself constantly in the service not only through the body and speech, but through the mind as well. Keep it under observation, watch it and take care that no thief enters the chambers of your heart. Drive out those that are already lurking there and let them not enter it again.
Passion, anger, pride, hypocrisy, infatuation, envy, jealousy and ill will are the principal thieves that steal the treasures of your mind. Note each of them and wherever you find them lurking, try to drive them out that very moment. Remember, so long as your mind is haunted by these evils, you are far away from God.
Try to enthrone the Lord permanently in your heart. These thieves will then automatically disappear just as darkness disappears before the sun. Tack the mind unto the Lord, let your mind go wherever the Lord goes and let the Lord accompany you in the mind wherever it goes. Keep an account of every moment of your life. Let not the mind be detached from God even for a moment.
Do not think that the mind is too restive to the Lord’s feet. Remember that the strength of the mind is nothing compared to your own strength. Whatever strength is possessed has been derived from you. You are the master of the mind and not the slave. It is through the strength it has derived from you and because you have forgotten your owns strength that the wicked mind has gained ascendancy over you. If you take courage and give it a hard push it will come around and acknowledge its allegiance to you. Again your faith is that strength. As soon as you cultivate this faith, you will find that infinite strength within you. Compared to this divine strength, all hostile forces confronting you will appear to be insignificant. They will then automatically acknowledge their allegiance to you.
He who imagines happiness to lie only in the enjoyment of the senses can never expect to obtain freedom from the slavery of the mind. Dispel the delusion that happiness exists in God alone who is your nearest and earnest friend. Locate God as the only sea of happiness. The moment you begin to visualize that happiness the mirage of earthly happiness tat you see before you now will at once disappear.
Stay in the world. Like a traveler in an inn always circumspect with no sense of permanence and always be ready to depart. Never allow yourself to be weary for thieves will then deprive you of all that you possess. Thieves like passion and anger are always lying in wait to rob you. Do not treat the place you are living as your personal abode, it is not your home. If you try to settle down there you will be forcefully ejected and will feel unnecessary miserable. If you are not ready and the train streams off, you will repent for having missed it. It will not be easy to catch the train of this human life again. Therefore, always be on the alert.
Ramsahai
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very inspiring grandfather! we need to send this to more people. the world is in such a mess. there is a general degradation of moral and spiritual values. this is what the world needs.
very good speech