Satsang 6 March 2021
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 06/03/2021

Every now and then , one must ask oneself, “am I full”...If not , we must see the cause, why I am not full...

When I am passing through struggles, I must not become depressed...When I am passing through any elating experience, I must not get over-joyous...

Attachment to a small thing can be as bad as attachment to a big thing. Vinobaji speaks about the sadhu who was attached to his koupin. So whether we call 25/5 or 10/2, it means the same..

A small pen, if it is lost , we feel bad...

We get attached to our name, our form, our position...if somebody touches it, then I am upset...

Attachment can be to some person, to object, to our name or form...

If somebody does something we are not affected...If my own family member says that, we are not able to stand it since we are attached to them.. we will say, “how can you say that”....

A man of steady wisdom who is devoid of attachment accepts shubha and ashubha with the same balance. There may be expectation but immediately accepts the opposite coming up. 

Sense objects are so attractive, one can slip at any moment. If the reigns are in one’s hands, one will be able to remain safe. Like a tortoise withdrawing itself into the shell, a man of steady wisdom, becomes, positively indifferent, positively blind, positively deaf. 

Buddha’s story was told by Papa---Once a man abused Buddha for long. In the end, Buddha asked, “suppose you give me something, and I do not accept it, what happens?”...The man says, “it remains with me”. Buddha says “I have not accepted any of your words”....-----this is positive indifference...

In any character building , the disciplining of the sensory energy is required. Without this disciplining there cannot be any character at all...
Though I am a product of Maya, there are two types of Shakti working in me. Vidya Shakti must be nurtured because it warns me when I am likely to slip. Avidya Shakti lets me get dragged down. ...

I may be in an ashram undergoing labelled tapas, mastered all brahmavidya, but next moment I can have a slip...I must be careful...

God will test us to see if we are impervious, unaffected, unruffled, untouched...

One day while going for Arati, one western devotee whispered why ladies and gents are sitting separately. Swamiji told “In God’s eyes, we are equal, in our eyes we are separate”....This norm has to be maintained. Even if we are above the attraction, we must keep away. It is not only seeables, it is eatables and everything else...To become a stitapragna....there must be fixed resolve ....Mahatmas, even after scaling the heights, maintain the same, to set an example to others....

We are disciplining not for the sake of disciplining but for the sake of moving towards God....