Swami Ramsukhdas Ji Blog

God has infinite and eternal qualities.  All elaborations on God in the holy books and from great saints put together are  incomplete. God’s eternal devotee Goswamiji Maharaj too says – “Ramu ne sakahi naam gun gaayi”  (Manasa. Bala. 26:4). It has also come in the messages of the saints that God Himself does not realize His own power !  God, […]

||ShriHari||   Arjuna: You have told how the man of stable mind sits. Now tell me how he walks? Krishna: O Brother, his walk instead of being an activity, is in the form of an emotion. The Self-controlled striver is free from all attraction (likes) and aversion (dislikes), moving among objects with senses under control, […]

||ShriHari|| Arjuna: What is the loss by having this relish (taste) to enjoy sense objects? Answer:  O Kuntinandana (Arjuna), turbulent by nature “the senses” even of a wise man, (who is practicing self-control) forcibly carry away  his mind to the sense-objects. (Gita 2:60) Arjuna: What should be done to do away with this taste? Krishna: […]

||ShriHari|| Question: “What is the mark of a man of steady wisdom, one who is stable of mind and established in equanimity?” The Lord spoke: When a man abandons all cravings of the mind is satisfied in the self by the Self, then He is called a man of steady wisdom (sthithprajya). (Gita 2:54-55) Question: […]

  Likes (Attachment, Love, Passion, Raag) and Dislikes (Aversion, Hatred, Dvesh) are incoming, transient, alterations of the inner senses, they are not one’s natural tendencies (dharma).  Dharma remains firm and stable, whereas changes are temporary, i.e. they are the kind that come and go.  As attraction  (likes) and aversion (dislikes) are intermittent conditions that come and […]

One of the main obstacles in the path of God Realization is having strong likes (attraction) and dislikes (aversion).   They are thieves.   In spirituality, often the likes – dislikes shift from worldly matters to spiritual matters such as – we do not believe in Shankarji.  We will only say “Jai Shri Krishna” but not “Jai Shankar.”   A belief that […]