This is part two of the adventures in Advaita Vedanta... will you travel with me a while?


Saturday Satsang

Hari OM


Only in a cheerful atmosphere of the mind can spirituality develop. Many devotees go to the church, mosque, temple or other places of worship in the hope of attaining such atmosphere. They go to the altar with all their sorrows; they kneel, weep, and pray for hours together. But all the time, the mind is droopy, loaded with its sorrows. Even after years of prayers, such a mind develops an attitude of tragedy rather than a satisfying mood of joy.

So, when you go to the prayer room or to your seat of meditation, bring the mind to a mood of ecstatic joy.

Today, when you have ten minutes all to yourself, sit down and practise smiling in your mind. Watch what is happening. It does not matter if your eyes are open; simply watch the mind and make it smile. Drop all its worries for the time being. In a cheerful mind, there will be very few agitations.

And in a mind with minimum agitations, sattva predominates. In your daily meditation, you need not follow all the various methods and strategies by which the mind can be persuaded to come to quietude.

Each day your mind will bring a different weapon, and from your armoury, you must select the right weapon as an antidote.

On certain days, for example, you will feel an attachment to the body. By relaxing the body to a large extent, your attachment to it will be temporarily released.

Thereafter, the mind’s source of disturbance – the ego with all its anxieties – can be eliminated. Do not curse yourself; anxieties are natural. They come to you because of your relationships. In you, there is no worry. Because of the relationships pertaining to the field of your activities, disturbances reach your mind.



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