Guru Nanak Chamatkar (Part 2)-Bhai Vir Singh English ... - Vidhia.com

GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - "
Y0hri: Then you please tell what should be done?
Guru: Dear yOhri, Mind is an instrument to look after the body, and to
hrive outwardly comforts to the body. But, since it can wander anywhere, it has
gone beyond and is wandering in desires.
If it is reined, only then it will stop wandering and become tranquil.
Then it will experience some inward elevation as against the outward
wandering.
When it is turned inwardly, then inwardly it touches the Lord and it gets
the strength ofthe Lord. Then this connection with the Lord becomes incessant.
When the mind remains connected to the Lord, then while doing the outwardly
chores the mind holds the steering and is not dependent on the wheel.
YOhri: Whatever practices I have said are for this only. Are they fruitless?
Guru: Fruitless is nothing and it is also. But till the mind is not absorbed in
the love of the Lord, one cannot get eternal happiness. Whatever practices
you have said are for concentration of mind and they are a part ofHath yoga.
Whatever you do with stubborn-ness is with ego and ego is a bond. The
efforts done with bondage will hrive fruits of bondage. Then when you control
the body passions with stubborn-ness then the body becomes weak. The mind
is also affected by the body weakness. Then even ifthe mind is controlled, the
ego is suppressed but remains. This suppression is again a cause of illness for
the mind and body. The meditation is for some time only but the mind keeps
wandering all twenty-four hours. The desires are suppressed but they come
up again. That is why the ascetics indulge in dramas, show business and
drinking. The city ascetics close their eyes and ears and say: We are listening
the mystic music but in practical life they are taking bribes, short weighing and
can be seen indulging in vices.
But ifone wants to understand what is really needed for the inner happiness,
then it is evident that the need is to rein the mind from wandering in sensual
and other desires.
With Hath yoga it is not easy to rein the mind. And if you are able to do
it then the body suffers. The mind has to be reined. We may do some yoga
but in a new way. Like, the mind is thinking outwardly all twenty-four hours.
In the same way, we have to give some attachment to the mind that may tum
the mind inwardly all twenty-four hours.
That attachment comes by recitation of the Lord's name, which becomes
a remembrance and hrives a sensation to the mind that becomes incessant and
remains in the mind all twenty-four hours.
The outwardly wandering mind turns and becomes engrossed inwardly.
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