Page 92 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
Consciousness is germane to our spiritual growth. There is no use frowning on sufferings and difficulties. Any rebellious tendencies would jeopardize our spiritual ways and means. On the other hand a life of quiet desperation would be conducive to spiritual path. There lies the wisdom of the method of Bhog. The method is so powerful that the ancient Sages courted sufferings and miseries. The sufferings and miseries can be translated into potent tools which accelerate the individual’s journey towards the Infinity and help him bypass the cycle of births and deaths. It is common knowledge that an individual abides in God or in the thought of God with utmost devotion only while undergoing suffering or pain attached to it. Seeds of repentance get germinated. To perpetuate that sense of abidance in God or Divine, the Sages welcomed the sufferings and miseries and endured them so that their natural course was never diverted by human intervention. On the contrary, the tendencies to suppress the sufferings and find out means to attain happiness and peace or counter productive.
As regards Grihastha the importance of the method is needless to emphasize. It is Grihastha life which offers greatest power of endurance and tolerance. It is here the bhog is nurtured and fostered. It is a play ground of noblest penances. The wisdom of leaving the social life and residing in forests causing miseries to dependents is fully exposed by our beloved Master. Constant remembrance and regular Sadhana will certainly help in harmonizing mental tendencies and our disposition towards Sufferings and miseries. After all, it is mind and its actions that is the root cause of these sufferings. It agitates over everything that is a source or cause of even slightest displeasure. Our Master eloquently put it that mind is a self appointed despot. The haunting mind always looks for a constant source of worldly happiness thereby unconsciously creating a constant and
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