The Counselor Ego and the Fools

Inclinations (vasanas) won’t disappear as long as one’s heart is full of the illusion of egotism, even if one is immersed in many heart-purifying spiritual disciplines. Such people, if they want to get rid of the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, must worship the Lord. One whose heart is ruled by the group of six passions can have only ego as counselor! Those who have such a counselor are worse than foolish, however great they claim to be as pundits, aspirants, or renunciants. People experience joy and misery through the ear. Therefore avoiding the cruel arrows of hard words, one should use sweet, pleasant and soft ones — and with that softness, add the sweetness of truth. Making the word soft by adding falsehood only clears the way for more misery. A person who has become a spiritual aspirant should use very soft, sweet, true, and pleasant words. Such a person can be recognized by their good qualities.

Baba (thought for the day)

Do you hear what Baba is telling us? Let's think it over in the end we will for sure hear it. 

Inclinations (vasanas) won’t disappear as long as one’s heart is full of the illusion of egotism, even if one is immersed in many heart-purifying spiritual disciplines.

How can we not understand what he is telling us? 

How can we ignore it? It is possible to not hear it if we don’t know what he means with inclinations in the mind, vasanas, that sounds maybe for some like having a certain taste, like some people like better curry and others more sweets. 

And it is also possible to not know what he means with illusion and egotism and those people will think, the other, but that is not for me, I am too good to have that illusion of egotism, I am such a good devotee. And what else will they think?

Those who don’t to any Sadhana or purifying disciplines will think, you see he tells us again that it is of no use to do all that spiritual discipline. I don’t need to do that.

Such people, if they want to get rid of the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, must worship the Lord. One whose heart is ruled by the group of six passions can have only ego as counselor!

They think that is why we worship the Lord, but when we ask them what kind of worship, they don’t know and don’t answer. They think ‘love only’, but that is just a thought and no practice.

One whose heart is ruled by the group of six passions can have only ego as counselor!

That means the worst people all ruled by the group of the six passions and what do they need, divinity as the listen to the ego counselor and he is not the ego counselor, but he tells us how to get rid of it.

Those who have such a counselor are worse than foolish, however great they claim to be as pundits, aspirants, or renunciants. People experience joy and misery through the ear.

That is no compliment if listen to the ego counselor and that we are worse than foolish and even if we claim to be great advanced spiritualist like pundits (Vedic scientists), aspirants (on the spiritual path) or even renunciants, (sannyasins), that means people having a spiritual profession or spiritual life attitude.

Therefore avoiding the cruel arrows of hard words, one should use sweet, pleasant and soft ones — and with that softness, add the sweetness of truth. Making the word soft by adding falsehood only clears the way for more misery. A person who has become a spiritual aspirant should use very soft, sweet, true, and pleasant words. Such a person can be recognized by their good qualities.

It means we have to avoid cruel arrows of hard words for such fools, we should talk sweet and pleasant and soft – to soften the sweetness of truth, because we talk to fools only.

I just hope that it really helps that soft talk will make the falsehood taste better or it will be less misery. And that is why we should use very soft, sweet, true and pleasant words.

But nevertheless it has to be true.
We had learnt with meditation to always tell, ‘yes but …’, we always accepted the other person first and only then we said but … We used that in the ashram and Baba said, how do you feel and I thought I felt okay and he said, ‘that is not true …’. 

That is why it felt not the way I thought I felt, yes indeed, foolish and I thought I felt the way I had felt at the beginning with mediation or better and at that time it felt that good and  we went ahead remembered only the good and we didn’t talk and I didn’t tell one word that was bad, but it was still bad that feels like foolish indeed and I didn’t know how to make that lady I had interview with, she was mentally sick to stop talking to me after the interview and she was for sure a fool as she was mentally sick, and it was not possible to stop her and I tried to be always nice and even to the extent that I couldn't take it anymore, but it didn't work. I felt like a fool and I acted foolish when I met my ex and I believe in him I made the worst fool out of myself ever.

I never use harsh words, but in writing it is somehow different, because we can name it and we have to look at it, we cannot just write soft spoken when it is about contemplation and the reality we face in that contemplation or at the dream stage of experience, the reality in the dream stage is not in the waking state and it is expressed in a different way than the waking stage, we don’t talk, we write and that is not the same.
In the dream it can take extreme forms and pictures when it is about the reflection of truth and we have to look at it and think it over and it has nothing to do with the way we talk, we can still talk very softly and use never harsh words.

Such a person can be recognized by their good qualities.

And to remember it once more: 

Inclinations (vasanas) won’t disappear as long as one’s heart is full of the illusion of egotism, even if one is immersed in many heart-purifying spiritual disciplines. Such people, if they want to get rid of the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, must worship the Lord. One whose heart is ruled by the group of six passions can have only ego as counselor! Those who have such a counselor are worse than foolish, however great they claim to be as pundits, aspirants, or renunciants. People experience joy and misery through the ear. Therefore avoiding the cruel arrows of hard words, one should use sweet, pleasant and soft ones — and with that softness, add the sweetness of truth. Making the word soft by adding falsehood only clears the way for more misery. A person who has become a spiritual aspirant should use very soft, sweet, true, and pleasant words. Such a person can be recognized by their good qualities.

I don't want to be lectured about my brothers and sisters by someone who is a fool and he thinks he is great and he begins to control on all levels. 

So everything has a good side if we believe in it and we will see …
If we listen to Baba’s thought for the day we think only fools went to him as they need the ego councelor, so we are all fools.

A spiritual center and fools - the other side of it. 

When will I get used to it? 

The mind is a monkey and we cannot expect a monkey to not be a monkey. 

Once I have asked a question and back came a therapy. 

That was actually the taste of it and enough to know that we should rather watch out. 

We write about Baba, back comes therapy. We use his words, back comes self-help group. 

Inclinations (vasanas) won’t disappear as long as one’s heart is full of the illusion of egotism, even if one is immersed in many heart-purifying spiritual disciplines. Such people, if they want to get rid of the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, must worship the Lord. One whose heart is ruled by the group of six passions can have only ego as counselor! Those who have such a counselor are worse than foolish, however great they claim to be as pundits, aspirants, or renunciants.

What he is telling us here, that people full of illusion and egotism must worship the Lord to get rid of the feeling of ‘I and mine’, purifying spiritual discipline is of no use.
But as much as I know that also didn’t help and the silkworm is spinning the cocoon from the inside in which we get trapped by the mind as he said yesterday.

We have the ego as counselor and if we have such an ego counselor we are worse than foolish and we need to worship the Lord to get out of it.

We should get used to deal with foolish people if they all go to him because they listen to the ego counselor and we should not be surprised …

Embodiments of divine love, we can always tell it if we know we are all the same self and we address the higher self in others, if it is misunderstood it is just a means for the ego to feel good, what a great reward for our ego counselor thinking now he is a good devotee. The best we can do is to sing a bit Bhajans to have at least some good influence on the world consciousness.