Satsang 9 March 2021
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 2021-03-09

STITHAPRAJNA

“How to make myself steady in Your remembrance....I keep changing my colors...At times , I am rajasic, at times I am satvic, at times I am tamasic...Knowing it is not right, I fall into it...Kindly make me hold on to values and move towards you...”

THE ONE WHO CASTS AWAY ALL DESIRES, AND WHO IS SATISFIED IN THE SELF , BY THE SELF, SUCH A ONE IS A MAN OF STEADY WISDOM.......This one shloka is enough....

Desire means wanting to become full....

I have inexhaustible bank account, I have forgotten, so I go here and there...

There is the fd and full guarantee is there...we do not know and run here and there

OM PURNAM ADAHA
PURNAM IDAM
PURNAAT PURNAMUDACHCHATE
PURNASYA PURNAMAADAAYA
PURNAMEVA AVASHISHYATHE...

Few years back the population was so less and it has increased like anything..but there is no dearth of air, no dearth of anything...no lack of anything...Because there is unending fullness....

Dwelling on the fullness ensures we do not develop desires...

Attachment to a person
Attachment to an object
Attachment to a situation

It is this attachment which gives the label , pleasant and unpleasant.....
NOT SHAKEN BY ADEVERSITY
NOT ELATED BY PLEASANT SITUATION

How do we understand detachment...

There should be positive indifference from our side to all objects, persons, situations....

MAADHYASTHA BHAAVA VIPAREETA VRITTOU...
REMAINING NEUTRAL TO THE PAIRS OF OPPOSITES...

How to understand this

When a drunken person speaks foolishly, we become indifferent...

God gives us situations , where we do not react....

Another method, is to put ourselves in the other party’s shoes....

We blame someone of bad behaviour because , we feel offended. Suppose we place ourselves in their situation, then we will not feel bad...

When we are on a higher plane, we will be able to feel that God who is in that person is prompting him to behave that way. 

Even after giving up the sense objects , the craving remains in the mind..Outward control may be possible .....How to get rid of that inner craving...
THE INNER CRAVING FOR SENSE PLEASURES CAN GO ONLY BY CONNECTING WITH GOD...
The pitfall....
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.....From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.


One who can control his senses by practicing the regulated principles of freedom can obtain the tranquility or peace of mind and thus become free from all attachment and aversion.

Godliness is identifying ourselves with others....