March, Thursday 19th., 2020
Today's Thought for the Day
19 Mar 2020
At times we experience losses, pain and suffering, despite our sincere spiritual practices. How should we reconcile and draw strength to continue our Sadhana? Bhagawan guides us today!
Whatever
inconveniences one may encounter, one must try to carry on spiritual
practices without any break or modification in the disciplines. Taking
all worldly losses, sufferings, and worries as merely temporal and
transitory, and realising that all this repetition of the name and
meditation is only to overcome such grief, the spiritual aspirant should
keep the two things separate, without mixing up the two. The aspirant
must understand that loss, suffering, and worry are external, belonging
to this world, and that repetition of the name and meditation are
internal, belonging to the realm of the love for the Lord. This is
called chaste (pathivratha) devotion. At the specified time, at
least recall to mind the meditation and repetition of the name done at
the same time in the past, even if you are in a railway train, a bus, or
some such inconvenient surrounding. In this way, accumulating spiritual
wealth, one can surely become the master, and attain the Atma.
- Prema Vahini, Ch 64