||ShriHari||
Phalgun Shukla Chaturthi , Vikram Samvat 2074, Somvaar
Feb 19, 2018, Monday
For Spiritual Aspirants (Sadhaks) – Discourse 1
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Second important point is that even if an aspirant sees that he lacks good virtues, he should never feel so. Good virtues are imperishable (sat) but bad virtues are temporary and perishable (asat). The perishable (asat) does not exist and the imperishable never ceases to exist –
नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सत: | (Gita 2/16).
Due to associating with perishable worldly material objects, the imperishable or eternal part will never arise. If we renounce the un-natural, perishable (bad qualities), then the imperishable and eternal (virtues) will remain, this is self-evident. One has disinclined from the Sat (real), but it is not absent.
The means to renounce the asat (bad qualities) is that an aspirant should never consider them in himself. As in reality they are not in us, they can never remain in us. Body, senses, mind, intellect and life-force were also not there earlier and neither will they remain with us later. Because they are all perishable, but we are the part of the imperishable, eternal God –
ममैवांशो जीवलोके (Gita15/7).
Perishable things keep on changing and moving but soul (atma) never changes and always remains as-is. In spite of being imperishable. Due to its attachment with the worldly things, it has become dependent and is caught in the cycle of birth and death.
Gita says –
पुरुष: प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङक्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् |
कारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु || (Gita 13/22)
‘One who is attached to material world, he only has to bear the fruits of the three modes (gunas). The association of the soul with these gunas causes its repeated birth in superior or inferior wombs’
From book ‘ Sadhakon ke Prati’ by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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