How to judge the control of mind ?
Chapter-1
What is the cause behind withdrawl from the Panchvishvas ?
On the fifth day of the second fortnight of the month of Shravan of
Samvat 1877, Swami Shi Sahajanandji Maharaj was seated in the Verandah
facing north in the Durbar of Shri Jiva Khachar at Sarangpur. He was dressed
in white clothes. Munis and the devotees from the different places were
gathered before him.
Muktanand Swami then asked Shiji Maharaj, The one who has conquered
his mind has conquered the world. How and when the mind be said to
have been conquered?" Shiji Maharaj replied, "When cognitive organs
withdraw from five sense objects sound, touch form taste and smell and do not
retain the desire to enjoy them; they are said to have been controlled. And
when the organs lose the desire to enjoy these sense - objects, the mind would
recede and would not at all stretch towards the cognitive or connative organs.
One who has thus implacably discarded the Panchvishays is said to have
attained control over his mind. If however, there is slightest desire to enjoy the
Panchvishayas, the mind can not be said to have been controlled, though
apparently it may look like controlled.
Then, Muktanand Swami asked further, "Is it Vairagya or love towards
God that drives out attachment from the Panchvishayas?" Shriji Maharaj
replied, "Atmanishtha and knowledge of God in all his greatness and glory
should be developed to drive out attachment for the Panchvishayas. -
Atmanishtha makes one' aware of one's self as Atma, which is
Chitswarup, pure, eternal and blissful, whereas the body is non - sentient,
hellish, perishible and full of miseries. Knowledge of the Atma which is
separate from the body, expels from the mind all desire to enjoy the
Panchvishayas. with this realisation of the knowledge of one's own self as
Atma, one should think of God manifesting himself in human form before
one. He is the Lord of Golok, Vaikuntha, Shwetdeep and Brahmpur as
also the Lord of millions of universes and-their demi-Gods like Brahma
etc This Paramatma Shri Purushottam Bhae;wan resides in his Atma6 and
has also become visible before him in human form. To him the blissfull
Darshan of this Paramatma even for a second is more than all the
happiness offered by the seductive sense - objects of millions of universes.
The bliss that emanates from the smallest particle of his body, throws into
total insignificance all the happiness put togather that is offered by the
Panchvishayas from millions of macrocosms. The bliss from his Divine
abode is so infinitely overwhelming that in comparison with it, the
happiness offered by the Lokas of the demi Gods is described in
Mbkshadharma" as utterly infernal. Why should I leave aside such supreme
Lord, who has come to me in human form and desire for sensual pleasures
which, are nothing but hollows of hell. Pleasures of Vishayas end up in
miseries. Such knowledge of the greatness and glory of God in human
form generate Vairagya which disples all Vasanas. Like this, the
knowledge of self and supreme generates Vairagya and Such Vairagya
removes Vasanas. One. who has thus .discarded the enjoyment, of the
Panchvishayas has controlled his mind and never looks back to
Panchavishayas. But without such understanding even if a devotee exhibits
profound love for God, he is likely to be dragged towards the
Panchvishayas whenever such opportunity offered to him, and he will then
recede from God and will become attached to body and bodily relations
like sons etc or when he is overcome by physical pain or a chronic disease
or is deprived of his physical comforts for want of such knowledge, his
super fluous love for God would fade away and will fall from the path of
spiritual progress. Their Bhakti is like a puppy who looks cute and cuddly
in it's early days, but ugly when he becomes a grown up pariah of a dog,
in later part sililarly the Bhakti of such people may appear good at first
but does not appear good at the cuddly.
Thus Ends Vachanamrit : Sarangpur - 1.
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