Q :
Swamiji I have been viewing your TV broadcasts on Disha Channel. Everything that you say makes perfect sense with me. I understand it all. But problem is in implementation...
Why does my Intellect cannot get activated enough to sublimate my mind????
I fail to implement your teaching even at simple levels like overeating. As per my knowledge, eating unnecessary is not good. I want to control my eating habits. But my body/senses fail me. I cannot control these simple things how can I proceed to higher levels!!! My cook does not cook properly and I tell myself that it is my karmic account and I better tolerate it. I cannot handle the material world that does not bother me. What bothers me is that I cannot stop myself from avoiding my early morning meditation (which always brings me so much joy) Where is my intellect??? How can I increase my Will Power to do that which my intellect tells me is right thing to do.
On few occasions I have got such wonderful messages from the Universe...as if Universe is listening to me and responding to me...It is amazing. But I feel my knowledge is mere knowledge at intellect level, it cannot take reins of mind in its hands.
I have been reading spiritual texts for five years now and today I feel it is of no use if I cannot assimilate it. Your lecture today on INNER SPIRITUAL SPLENDOUR prompted me to request you to please guide me and advice me how do I begin. Mere learning is of no use because I cannot practice it. Despite knowing it all on intellectual level, What is stopping my mind to act in a more responsible and correct manner?
With loads of respect and reverence to you Swamiji. I could connect with you the moment I saw you on TV...as if I had known you for ages. Millions of thanks for your wonderful teachings. I seem to understand them well but why cannot I act on them?
A :
Dear V, throughout whatever you have written you are saying I am not able to do, I am not able to do, I am not able to do; I am not doing, I am not doing. In the same manner you should start saying, I am going to do, I will do, I am doing …. and start doing.
Our mind has got the ability to do, not to do also. Now you are repeatedly speaking about not doing. I would like you to think from today onwards only about doing, doing. One day you start keeping an alarm, start meditating; next day you try to repeat. Maybe one omission is there. Any habit can be cultivated as also lost.
Cultivate it by will and wish, and loose it also by non-indulgence. This is very simple and easy, do not complicate it at all. Just start doing it, everything will be alright.