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H.H.Swamiji's Gudipadva Message (for 11 April 2013)
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“Gudi Padva” Message
11.4.2013
❁❁❁❁ Devotional Practice with ‘Expectations’ ❁❁❁❁
(English Translation of H.H. Shree Swamiji’s Gudipadva Message)
My greetings to all pious souls…
I get the opportunity to know you and understand you through the
thousands of letters I receive from all of you; and I am trying to
answer the thousands of letters sent by you through this single letter.
It is possible that this same letter will also be the answer to the
thousands of letters I am going to receive in future. Our ‘expectations’
are always related to the physical body level. Whenever we perform
devotional practice (sadhana) with expectations, it will always be at
the physical level. And meditation should always be at the soul level;
only then will we be able to achieve completion in our meditative
practice. It has often been observed that lifetime volunteers who make
a resolution of service come to the Ashram to offer their services, and
also bring along some of their ‘expectations’. This means that they
don’t come to serve but come with expectations of obtaining
something, and then go away after some time. This leads to a situation
where they ‘neither reach divinity (Rama) nor fulfill their expectations
which are illusionary (maya)’.
However, if they don’t come with any ‘expectations’, they will attain
their goal (sweets in both hands). Expectations always keep us
(stationary) at the physical level. They don’t allow us to progress
spiritually. Many sadhaks meditate with their expectations too; but this
is not appropriate. I haven’t read any (spiritual) books but I can tell
you on the basis of my own life-experiences that I did not come on to
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this path with any expectations. I liked to meditate and so I started
meditating.
“I never had the ‘expectation’ that I should gain something through
meditation”. I meditated because it made me ‘happy’. Later on, it
became a way of life for me. Now I remain in a state of meditation for
all 24 hours; I don’t have to perform anything like meditation. I am
still in a state of meditation even when I am attending a meeting with
you or giving a discourse. You are not able to understand all this
because you keep listening to my words or watch my facial
expressions. But you don’t experience my ‘state’ of meditation.
However, when you do experience it, your eyelids close and you too
reach a meditative state. It is possible for all this to happen because
you don’t realize when the existence of the physical body ends due to
the joy of meditation you experience, and when it transforms into a
‘medium’ of consciousness. This is always a special characteristic of
the ‘medium’. He has nothing that is his own – if you look for the
reason why he said a particular thing - whatever he speaks or tells you
– he has no ‘argument’ in support of what he tells you. He says it
because he feels like saying it. However, what he says is understood
only after the passage of time because the ‘medium’ is always ahead
of his time. Even if an ordinary person receives information about
something before time, he is not able to understand it. The fact that
you have ‘expectations’ means that you are not completely satisfied in
life; and one who is not completely satisfied can never rise above the
physical level as ‘meditation’ is not a physical activity.
The saying - ‘One may receive pearls without asking, and another may
not receive alms even after begging for them’ - is what happens in
meditation. If you meditate with ‘expectations’, you won’t obtain
anything. And if you meditate in order to get happiness, then ‘nothing
more will remain to be obtained in your life!’ This is my personal
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experience. Any Guru-karya that is performed with expectations will
also keep your ego of ‘I’ activated, as both expectations and ego are
related to the physical body. The ego of ‘I’ is your own and no one can
free you of it except yourself! Your surrender before the Guru when
your work is getting accomplished is not real surrender. True surrender
is when your work is not getting done and you still have a feeling of
surrender. Then when you think – the work not getting done is for my
own good – that is the true feeling of surrender!
I am narrating my own experience to you. My Gurudev hit my head
with his ‘sandal’ (pavdi) and broke my head. Then when the blood
started flowing from my head, my feeling of Samarpan (surrender) did
not decrease. I was sure that nothing ‘inauspicious’ could ever happen
through my Sadguru’s action. If we can maintain our feeling of
surrender even in such adverse circumstances, only then it is true
surrender. Do you have such a feeling of surrender? ‘Analyze’ your
own self because no one knows you better than yourself.
Secondly, Guru-karya is like the saying - ‘Be virtuous and throw it into
the sea’ (don’t keep track of your good deeds) – because we are doing
it for our self-satisfaction and not to make a show of it. Self-
satisfaction is our personal experience. ‘fame’ and ‘exhibition’ are ways
of taking one’s chitta outside. Perform Guru-karya only because you
enjoy doing it or else sit quietly at home and purify your chitta and
mature it.
Satisfaction is related to the Nabhi (navel) chakra whereas meditation
is related to the Sahastrar (crown) chakra. The ocean of expectations
is so vast that we are unable to cross it in our lifetime and keep diving
into it all our lives. And I remain seated at the sea-shore waiting and
wondering when you will come out of it, because that’s all I can do!
Come along! Let’s make a beginning in the New Year today with
meditation that is free of expectations and free of ego, and meditate
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only because we get the ‘spiritual experience’ (anubhooti) of happiness
through it. If we begin to meditate in this way from today, then it will
become our ‘basic nature’ to remain in a meditative state; and we will
obtain a state of ‘total satisfaction’ through it, after which nothing
more will remain to be obtained in our lives. I pray to Paramatma that
every sadhak who desires this state may obtain it in this ‘New Year’.
Yours,
BabaSwami
11/4/2013