SHARE HAPPINESS WITH ALL

Share Happiness With All

Once listener asked question to Swamiji: when sense objects appear before us, then we know not why we become fickle or greedy; what should we do at that time? Swamiji answered: one who has already learned the art of brandishing stick in advance, he alone can bravely fight the enemy when faced. But in the case of the enemy appears before you prior to your acquiring the art of brandishing the stick. You will then have to bear or suffer the charge of the enemy. You know many things of “Satsanga” (association with the Holy saint) but on the eve of sense objects pouching upon you, you forget them; they are of no avail.

Crisis is the touchstone of friendship. A friend in need is a friend in deed. Yellow is gold and brass as well. But when you put it in fire course gold shines bright whereas brass is blackened. One is learnt thing and the other one is known thing. Whatever is known is real, which never goes transmutation or change. A learnt thing remains limited to man’s intellect only; it does not reach the self-within. But a known thing has to access direct to the core of man’s heart. Till a thing reaches the heart or one’s own self, that thing does not fitter down characteristically in man’s behavior as it really should. He, whose goal is God-realization, he is never contended with things that are merely learnt. In want of such contentment, his search of God becomes really intense. In due course of his search he gains the experience of the Supreme Truth.

One is “Satsanga” i.e., virtual rapport with the truth through association with the Holy Saint. And the other one is mere anecdote-telling, critical analysis and appreciation of the holy books etc. at many places utterances of saints, interpretational criticism etc. are available in plenty but the company of the God-realized saints and God loving greatsouls that is a rarity. Men of spiritual wisdom and God-experience were countable on finger-tips even before (in Satyuga, Treta and Dwapara Yuga); they are very few even today. Nowadays even students do not study scriptures with requisite care, total concern and right perspective. They merely appear at the examinations and get through. On being questioned, they cut a sorry figure. They can hardly express whatthey have actually read, what to talk of the knowledge of the Real! It is our solemn prayer that you should delve deeper into the mysteries of the truth, and be not satisfied by sheer show of study.

When objects of sense-enjoyment come to our gaze, our head up materials go waste. Here is corroborate. There was a pandita. He used to tell stories every night. He had trained a tamed cat, he used to make the cat sit silently with an earthen lampoon its head, and in the light of burning lamp, he would read the stories sacred to God. If someone complained that his mind was unstable and fickle, he would say: “look even this cat is far better. She sits quiet and calm. You are a man after all! One person thought '' '' let me see how far can the cat preserve its calmness and quietness”? The very next day he brought with him a rat. At a time when pandit ji's katha (story telling) was in full swing, that man let loose the rat before the cat. The moment the cat saw the rat, the cat pounced upon its prey without waiting for a moment and the lamp (dipaka) fell down. Such also is the mental state of human beings. When listening to Satsanga- talks they do keep the requisite silence with utmost solemnest, but when the objects of enjoyment appear before their senses, they lose patience, become slavish and fall prey to them immediately. The reason is that they have in the heart of their hearts magnetic lure and attraction for money, and when the glitter of gold is visible, they lose all self-control. It becomes hard for them to abstain. It is not true that there was no lure of money even before; the attraction was already there. But it lay suppressed in his heart. If a copper bangle is buffed with gold polish, it would certainly look like a golden bangle. In the same manner, the “learnt things are just like the gold polish. But the {known things} have their roots in personal experience and hence they are solid”. He, who has personal experience within, never becomes unsteady, come what may. He remains the same as ever in all circumstances.

People regard God-realization as a very difficult thing: but in reality, it is not so. The redemption from enjoyment of sense-objects is difficult! Lord has said:-“no mind lured by sense-objects and engrossed, in sensual enjoyments and glory of things material, can ever enter. The state of contemplation and divine communion transcendental”. He, who is intensely attached with sense-enjoyments and acquisitiveness, cannot even divide to realize God. What then to talk of God-realization by him! “We have to intuitively discover the Supreme Truth, envision it work out our integral spiritual welfare in life”. This belief has not become an article of faith. There is no resoluteness of will. Obviously thus till there is in the heart of any attraction, importance of sensual joys, people may turn to learn few things of divine life. But they cannot firmly decide for God-realization. When resolve to realize God is not strong enough, how can there be anything like God-realization.

If you rise above inert materiality, unreal and transitory attractions of some-objects, then God –realization is not at all difficult. Where is the definite difficulty in realizing the self-evident? The difficulty is that there has grown an attraction for what “is not”. It is not difficult to realize the “Is”;it is difficult to give up (attachment for) what “is not” of what are we going to renounce, if we do not renounce what “is not!” strange it is that we cannot give up the known “unreal.” When it is also well-known that these things are unreal, perishable, not everlasting and transitory, and yet we do not give them up! This is a big mistake. How to secure redemption from the lure of the unreal? Observe the discipline of karma yoga(yoga of action)-for this. The lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita has spoken about this yoga in a special way and sung its glory. The clarity with which karma yoga is to make others happy and expect nothing in lieu thereof. Impart happiness to mother and father. Give happiness to the wife and son, brother and nephew. Neighbors should also be made happy. Share happiness with all. If you follow this, the lure of the unreal will go away.

Let others be happy by you in one way or the other. Such an emotion is of extreme value, it is not an ordinary thing. If you wish that you should not be lured and fickle when sense-objects happen to be before you; then adhere in action to this principle as to how to make others happy. How can others be relieved? Things will not remain with me; therefore, it is better that these are employed in other person’s services. The generation of such an emotion will produce intensity to do well to others. When you develop keenness and love to be of good and of service to others, it would be easy for you to give up the lure even in presence of objects of sense-enjoyment. But –“how can my happiness be safe? How can relief come to me? How can I be praised? How can my belief hold sway?” if this emotion dominates, then you can be never salvaged. Your welfare shall never be possible. For, inculcation of such an emotion is nothing but animalism. It is not humanity.

In the generation or upsurge of the feeling to do well to others, the desire to enjoy sense-objects for one’s own self will, of its own accord, dwindle into nothingness.