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Harih Om Tat Sat. Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.
I am wondering how all of you can improve in your life, in your personality. What is the right way and how it can be brought home to the people? I would like you to be aware of your inner personality which alone animates and activates the body and bodily limbs to do even the smallest item of work. Our body made up of matter and energy is completely inert and insentient. The bodily limbs cannot work at all. So, for everything, they have to be activated and animated by mind and intelligence.
About the mind and the intelligence, we are very very ignorant. Our body has its self-arresting condition, that is why latest by the age of 21 the bodily growth stops and the body begins to decline. The only growth or enrichment in human personality can only be in the inner one and that is consisting of mind, intelligence and ego. Ego we can leave out. So, all the development is mento-intellectual development. Our mind can be made to be whatever we want but the point is you should want to have a better mind and a pure mind.
Many people do not know that purity is always a quality. When you want to have good milk, what kind of a milk would you like to have? Good milk as it is milk from the cow. Nowadays we understand that even in dairy farms, part of it is milk and part of it is milk powder. It appears they have developed a combination of different products by mixing which and churning you can have regular milk. You can curdle it, churn it and you can get butter etc. After knowing it, I became so averse to milk. Even otherwise, I am not taking milk for many many years now.
I think we want anything and everything to be pure. People have started having a flair for natural organic fertilizers, organic vegetables and organic everything. Some days back, I read a Sunday feature in Mathrubhumi where they are speaking about an Iyer who wanted to preserve the Vechur cow lineage. It will yield only 3 litres of milk a day. But the ghee made out of it, one kilogram costs 5000 rupees.
There is a variety of cow in Gujarat. They yield upto 6 to 8 litres of milk a day. It seems in the world level she has been considered to be the best cow. I was interested in cows. Then I picked up interest in Jersey and we started developing Jersey and also Swiss brown, etc. At that time, the discussion that ‘the milk was not good’ was not there. It started only recently.
It is not that we always want a greater yield from the cow, we also want a good yield and a quality yield. That means purity. Similarly you must have a pure mind and also a pure intelligence. Generally, the mind and intelligence are impure. So, to make the mind pure and intelligence pure what you need to do is a dialogue with them both. Treat the mind with your own thoughts, your own options, question the mind, make it understand. This is called introspection. And introspection by the intelligence over the mind itself with a view to infuse benefits and quality and refinement into the mind. Such introspection people don’t do. All intelligent people are given to introspection but they are introspecting over their professional needs and professional performances. But in spirituality, the introspection is on the mind and intelligence themselves with a view to make them more and more qualitative, reformed, refined, and cultured.
We want to earn money. That is why Artha is listed as the second pursuit among Purushārtha. But that earning should not be a contaminated earning, cut throat competition – no. You produce an article incurring x cost, add 10 to 15% more beyond all your expenses. That is perfectly okay. But if you want to manufacture a product costing 100 Rupees and you want to sell it for 300, then there is problem.
To run any business whatsoever, we must have a surplus and the surplus should only be to run the business. So we want to have prosperity but the prosperity should be pure prosperity, not impure. Who will say that you should not have 10 to 15% profit on whatever you do? When we get a contractor’s bill for construction, he always asks 15% contractor’s profit and nobody objects to it. Actually if he gets 15% on every bill, at least once in three or four months he can recover the money capital and pool it again. So it becomes at least four times the same money pooled over and over again. 15 x 4 how much? 60% profit he gets. If you take a loan from the bank, it is at 15%. Construction is an item of business where a man becomes fabulously rich in a matter of years.
I think we need purity for everything! We want a purely good mother, purely good children, good husband, good wife. Now how to make this? I think you should engage your mind in a conversation with your intelligence where you will analyze matters for it.
Janaka is having a soliloquy, a talk to himself. “My dear mind, listen to me. You are constantly changing. Therefore, you are not real. You don’t have any experience uniformly with you. How can a real product cause unreal and changing experiences? You are unreal and the world also is unreal; the relationship between the two can never be real. Suppose you are real and the world is unreal, it is like a living man having a relationship with a dead man. Is it possible? My dear mind, listen. I am not able to find a speck of matter in the whole world which remains permanently and which can give you a permanent experience or response.”
Now if you start speaking to the mind in this manner, don’t you think by the very vibrational effect, the mind will change drastically? We talk to others but we don’t talk to ourselves. That is our problem. Talking to ourselves - that is called philosophy. It is called manana, manana, manana. Reflection, rumination, introspection.
So, all of you should develop a habit of generating a dialogue between your intelligence and the mind with a view to infuse the benefits into the mind’s structure and the mind activities. When you know anything to be poisonous, that knowledge is sufficient for you to keep away from it. Organic food is good. The non-organic food is bad. People have started responding to this discrimination. The only point is organic food seems to be costing a lot of money. Cost-wise it is more.
Now the question is, even if cost-wise it is more, can you go on nourishing your body with poisonous substances? So let us reduce our luxury, let us reduce our excess spending. But whatever we eat and wear, let us have it in a sustainable manner. I do agree that in the world not all people will be alike. Every time they will be different. But there should be some families which are always given to goodness, propriety, ethics, benevolence. You decide to which category you want to belong and then develop that.
So what shall I tell you? I think you should develop a habit of talking to your mind. Talking to your mind in what manner? In stressing the importance of purity, stability, goodness, permanence, not at all fall a prey to trifling, stifling things, impermanent items. I think one thought is sufficient - Whatever is real will continue to be so in the past, present and future. Whatever is unreal will prove its unreality in the past, present and future. So, what is that which remains uniformly in the three periods of time? That I think you can always think about.
You should become a knowledge-oriented person. Whatever you do should be good. Whatever you speak should be good. Whatever you think should be good. So, welcome good and noble thoughts and dissuade the opposites. You would want to perform whatever task you are given to, well, benevolently and gracefully. All the words that I am using in my discourse are bearing upon the mind and intelligence.
I always say good is goodness indeed and bad is badness. Bad means it is bad. It is not advisable to have. Good is not advisable to lose. I think, all of you should become revolutionary thinkers. Ask the mind, ask the mind. Don’t keep money idly in the bureau. Always keep it in the bank so that it will be available to others in circulation. Do not keep unnecessary secrets from the children. Let them be exposed to life in a proper manner. It should not be necessary for you to conceal from them. I can speak quite a lot but it is not necessary.
There are many vegetables available, fruits available. Look for whatever is good, proper and affordable. Wash the vegetables after you buy. Then I would like you to keep it in the fridge. I have been telling here also. But when people are more and purchases are more, our people are not able to do it. I don’t know the situation now.
Infusional introspection - Introspection done with a view to infuse benefits into the mind. Why don’t you find out what is that introspection? I was editing a portion from Yogavasishtha Ramayana where Janaka’s soliloquy, its a very very profound portion. There is a lot to be thought about in this area. Try to do it. Don’t tell me that the mind cannot be improved. You can improve the mind in its quality and enrichment to any degree that even the creator will be surprised. In Yogavasishtha, there is a verse about which I infrequently speak.
Even cruel and gentle animals go to a man whose mind is calm and has no desires and they approach him as they approach their own mother. This one verse you keep as your ideal. If you become good, noble and pure, cruel and gentle animals will start coming to us as if to the mother.
Śama means the extinction of desires. You have no desire means you are pure like the sky. Pure like the sky! When you become like that, cruel animals and gentle animals will start coming to you as to a mother. I think all of you should relish this verse, chant it and rub your behavior against this and find out whether you have become a mother or not.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.