“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“Your thoughts are against you. Your knowledge is working against you. Your character is working against you. Your perception is against you. All your energies are working against you. They have tied your hands to yourself and rendered you helpless. Only the Lord’s shelter can lift you up now.” — Pujyashri Gurudev expounding upon Shri Parshwanath Bhagwan Stavan by Shrimad Devchandraji
“As long as you see joy in anything you cannot give it up. You need efforts to pluck a green leaf but the dry one falls off effortlessly.” — Sadguru Whispers to me. No suppression will do. That will only lead to the desire becoming latent for a while and then pop up again when you least expect it via your subconscious. I’ve experienced that. Feeling light and airy on the outside while this giant volcano of uncontrollable desires is literally waiting to consume me entirely. The plan is to unlearn, focus on His Love, His state, His Ajna. It is a tough process daily - it is only Him that gives the courage to wake up again and restart. A million refreshes will be needed but in the end, He will be victorious and I’ll be in His cradled arms.
Recognize the swarm of bees that will sting you for a single drop of honey.
“The high of overcoming a recurring desire through the lovely Guru’s words. Unmatched.”
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“Thou hast given me a fixed disposition to go forth and spend my life for thee; If it be thy will let me proceed in it; if not, then revoke my intentions. All I want in life is such circumstances as may best enable me to serve thee in the world; To this end I leave all my concerns in thy hand, but let me not be discouraged, for this hinders my spiritual fervency; Enable me to undertake some task for thee, for this refreshes and animates my soul… Fit me to quit all hopes of the world’s friendship, and give me a deeper sense of my sinfulness. Fit me to pray with a sense of the joy of divine communion, to find all times happy seasons to my soul, to see my own nothingness, and wonder that I am allowed to serve thee. Fit me to enter the blessed world where no unclean thing is, and to know thee with me always.” — THOU GOD OF MY END - Excerpts from a Puritan Prayer
True knowledge (from the Sadguru) dispels wrong thinking in your conscious mind.
Meditation dispels deep-rooted ignorance within the subconscious mind. - paraphrasing Pujyashri Gurudev
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Trust in God, as opposed to human exertions - Rumi
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“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.” — Rumi
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