When the One manifests as Nature composed of the five Elements, do not imagine that its value is affected thereby. When a rupee is changed into ten paise coins, its value is not decreased at all. So too, see the Nature as the Supreme One with many manifestations, not as multiplicity of sense-impressions and attractions. Wherever your eye turns, whatever your ears hear, your fingers touch, your tongue tastes, your nose smells... take all to be God-filled.
Do not allow mere sound, taste, etc. to captivate your senses. Practice to see the Divine, welcome and accept only such thoughts and feelings and discard the others.
Sage Tukaram was once asked how can people keep this monkey-mind controlled from running after sensuous pleasures, the Sage advised, "Let the monkey mind run, you keep the body with you, do not let it go after the mind". He encouraged, "Tell the mind, I shall not give you the body as your servant. Then the mind will desist and it can be defeated."
Baba (thought for the day)
During singing when listening to the other singers, if that awareness of 'I am that' is present, it means we are all the same - just 'that'.
The right inner focus sees the others singer as one voice, one being and only our own self, all being the same.
The right inner focus sees the others singer as one voice, one being and only our own self, all being the same.
The focus is not on the melody or the rhythm only, but on everything together and mostly on that oneness, being all the same and such a state we can feel and experience as God-filled, because he is present in that inner experience.
Focused on being all one, if the eye gets distracted or whatever disturbance hits our ears, whatever the smell or what our fingers touch, we don't get distracted if we go back to the self, to that what relates us all. The focus cannot be distraced by the senses, but it will be centered on that sameness and that higher self level between us all. If we are that way occupied in singing for the Lord, we are all the same. It is an experience of oneness.
In that inner focus when I notice that some people are talking, I know they are not at all focused and distracted by something. They are not even singing, they are in the mind and talking.
In that inner focus when I notice that some people are talking, I know they are not at all focused and distracted by something. They are not even singing, they are in the mind and talking.
Or if someone tells me afterwards that this and that was not okay during singing, it is also a sign of distraction by what she heard, felt or sensed, it means it is mind and not the right inner focus.
So too, see the Nature as the Supreme One with many manifestations, not as multiplicity of sense-impressions and attractions. Wherever your eye turns, whatever your ears hear, your fingers touch, your tongue tastes, your nose smells... take all to be God-filled.
When we are singing, we don't listen only to the melody, we don't just follow our senses, but we should get aware that it is about the Divine. We have to find Divinity in it and that is oneness.
It means we are all the same self, don't get distracted in the mind, but keep the focus centered in that awareness.
Do not allow mere sound, taste, etc. to captivate your senses. Practice to see the Divine, welcome and accept only such thoughts and feelings and discard the others.
If we would have understand those words of Baba, we would all be one-pointed on the Divine and not distracted by anything on the mind level.
Sage Tukaram was once asked how can people keep this monkey-mind controlled from running after sensuous pleasures, the Sage advised, "Let the monkey mind run, you keep the body with you, do not let it go after the mind".
He encouraged, "Tell the mind, I shall not give you the body as your servant. Then the mind will desist and it can be defeated.
What we find in this words is the fact that the mind is always moving towards something, therefore, we have to keep the focus and keep it occupied, it has to go in the right direction and that is inside and not outside.
The mind goes outwards and wants to merge with the sense-objects. If the body doesn't follow, he cannot get any result and will desist from it. If we meditate and direct the mind inside, it will desist to go and search for the sense-objects. It gets transformed into the intellect and from there it can merge with oneness.
How can one get rid of the vicious work of the mind, which impedes further advancement? — Very simply: do not try to "muffle" it, but just think about God! The nature of the mind is such that it is necessary for it to be preoccupied with something, so let it be preoccupied with God! And when it is preoccupied with God, it stops.
The nature of the mind has to be preoccupied with something, therefore, let it be preoccupied with God and it will stop.
After Baba said to me in the interview room, just think about God, I wondered how to do it.
First I began to repeat the mantra thinking that it would be always in touch with God, if I was aware of it or not.
In the mean time during singing or gathering with other devotees and also during study circles we can feel his presence and get somehow the feeling and the experience to always think about God.
I and you are we and that is he, it has to be experienced.
If we think about God, we face reality of love, but also discrimination, of the higher self and a transcendental reality. We talk about the eternal values being always true and we live in the changing values on body mind level, what is experienced by the senses.
To think about God always is discrimination, because the always makes it permanent. He has to be there always.
To think about God always is discrimination, because the always makes it permanent. He has to be there always.
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