Business and Business of Life

A merchant calculates the debit and credit at the end of a week or month or year, and draws up the balance sheet to arrive at one figure — their earnings. So too, in the business of life, the end may result in some earnings, after the receipts and disbursements are tallied. At the point of death, if one yearns to cater to the tongue, it is proof that throughout their life, the tongue has been the master. Thus, of the inborn desires (samskaras) in life, some are stronger than the rest and stand out to the last. Life is like that; this lesson must be learnt and digested well. The net result of all this living and toiling is whatever comes to memory at the last moment of life. Therefore, direct the current of life towards the acquisition of the mental tendency (samskara) that you want to have during the last moment. Fix your attention upon it, day and night.

Baba (thought for the day)

Baba is using the example of business and business of lift, only it is not the same, because business is in the mind and business of life to be able to direct the current of life towards the acquisition of the mental tendency we want to have during the last moment of our life, we have to have our attention upon it and that is also like a Sadhana or spiritual focus or like a workout, on the mind level. 

The workout and fitness of the body is not the same as the mind. If we want to acquire the mental tendencies and not only muscles and body fitness during the last moments of our life, we have to go beyond the mind.

It is actually a body workout, but we don't acquire muscles and good health and shape on the body level, but also good mental tendencies and that is how we complete it.

Only body is just on body level, if we focus on the acquisition of the mental tendencies we make it whole, we work with body and mind in focusing on the mind. 

 If we get aware of the tendencies in the mind, we actually make a whole body and soul workout. 

We are working with the body, but we are also in the watcher and work with the mind. We can only work with the mind if we are able to go beyond the mind.

We should make a fitness training that includes body mind and soul and the last part is about acquiring character, the byproduct of self-control.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Why should we only control the body and food intake and keep in good shape, we also should focus on mental health and that is what we did with meditation, only the focus was on meditation only.

We should make a work-out in direction of anti-aging method completing the training on body level with a mental work-out acquiring the tendencies in the mind which we want to have at the end of life, shouldn’t we? 

Automatically we get a spiritual training and we have to know what we are doing and why.

With meditation we solve our problems and we go beyond the mind and solve problems without arguing. That is what we had learnt. We never really stopped the meditation practice. If it was an inner processing level, it was possible to look at the issues and letting go afterwards to face truth, but it was insight, it was inner view and we have to understand it right and that is about getting the right knowledge so that we are able to understand it and for that we have to listen to Baba. 

It feels like the inner master got us through it and it is like a mental workout done by the inner master bringing up whatever was there and I would have never known how to address those negative emotions without him being there telling me, ‘your brother does the worst he can do’. 

In bringing it up the workout began on the mind level, we went through the worst emotions without acting it out and it was a way of getting aware of it and now looking at it out of distance, it is kind of amazing to get aware that so much negativity was there actually. It feels like a balloon, we blew it up and afterwards we let the steam out of it again. It has been present on an emotional level without that it needed to be acted out.  

The workout we could name, ‘follow the master, fight to the end, finish the game’.

He tells us the exercise we had to do, the lesson we had to learn and the training that had to be done until it is done finally done and getting aware of it is finishing the game.  

If we follow the inner master, we go through the worst emotions and in the end it has been a lesson but what feels scary is that the tendency is real and not just the idea of it. It seemed a huge issue, but when it is done, not a word has been said, it was only in writing and going feeling it, not in discussion. 

The emotions are like blown up balloons after we have recognized it and felt it as part of our own self and now we look at it and it has relaxed and it is no more an issue. 

We finish the game in letting out the air of the balloon and it seems it will be gone and done and that feels rather good we hope so, but we are also aware of the danger behind it and that we let it be ..., better we let it be, don't mix with it. 

The emotions have no nourishment anymore.

With the inner master it came up and it was blown up because there was energy in it and steam and heat and bad feelings and in following the inner master there was no reaction, but a beginning and an end and we let go of it and that is how we do not nourish it anymore.

It will never be something to argue about it as he said it a certain way and he said finally that there is no interest in the message and why should we go on if there is no interest?

We feel it, we got aware of it and not we let it go. No more discussions, no more emotions and no more heat. 

  

Thus, of the inborn desires (samskaras) in life, some are stronger than the rest and stand out to the last. Life is like that; this lesson must be learnt and digested well. The net result of all this living and toiling is whatever comes to memory at the last moment of life.

We have to go through it nevertheless; we cannot just meditate and avoid it. It will not be done if we don't look at it. In that sense the emotional processing makes sense, we have to follow the inner master to process it on the mind level and we don’t really know what we are doing, but the inner master does, lucky he knows when it should be done.

If we workout the mind and include the being level, we have to go beyond the mind to acquire the mental tendencies that we want to have during the last moment.

Thus, of the inborn desires (samskaras) in life, some are stronger than the rest and stand out to the last. Life is like that; this lesson must be learnt and digested well. The net result of all this living and toiling is whatever comes to memory at the last moment of life. Therefore, direct the current of life towards the acquisition of the mental tendency (samskara) that you want to have during the last moment. Fix your attention upon it, day and night.

Body workout is easier; we have fitness helps to train it but the mental workout needs meditation going beyond the mind. The last moment of our life and what we want is another question and we have to fix our attention upon it and even day and night that means around the clock mind workout what means with other words we have to transcend it.

We need to know how, following the inner master. It is not a technique, but the inner master knows when it is done and how we acquire the tendencies we need in the last moment of our life. 

We should be able to purify the mind and acquire what we want in the last moment of our life, it is our Sadhana, it is right action, otherwise, we don’t get the result we want to have in the last moment of our life. We have to put our attention upon it day and night, around the clock, otherwise, we don’t go beyond the mind, we have to be able to transcend the mind and that is a way of understanding peace and solving problems and also the problems of others etc. 

And if we understand peace and we accept truth as (purification of the mind) and right action (doing it to acquire what we want in the last moment) we will get the experience of ‘pure love’. That are the human values, non-violence will be the result of it. 

We have to know how to join business and business of life to make it whole and keep it business what the Western mind can understand and make it anyhow spiritual. 

It is not that easy as they tried to tell us, otherwise, it would have worked.
Either we are too much in the West and lose the essence of it or we are too much in the East and the West doesn’t get the message …

It doesn’t feel good to see in the insight an empty car with open doors like someone run away as fast as he could and deserted it so fast that there was not even time enough to close the doors and to lock the car.

The doors are open, anybody can go and start it, it just needs a driver.

That was the insight, how strange that inner view, the dark clouds above don’t look great and not enough pleasure of the mind to go for it as long as there is no sunshine, 

It will not be fun to drive the car.