“Monkey Mind”

Everybody wants both God and wealth. Once My wife Padhmawoti said, "I want my businesses to be successful, my children to study well, their health to remain perfect and my households and cars to run without complication".In reply this is what I said to her,"A person should use his powers of discrimination in order to maintain a balance between spiritual pursuit and worldly affairs". You can know God only when He becomes pleased with you and reveals Himself to you and what pleases Him is pure devotion. Remember Him constantly; chant His name all the time. We cannot bargain with God as we do in our worldly life. He may be pleased with one seeker who has chanted His name only seven times and displeased with another who has done chanting seven million times over. How can we eliminate injustice from the world? Viciousness and injustice existed in the world even in the past. Demons existed in the earlier times also. There is always good and bad, Disharmony is the very nature of the world. It will continue till the very end. Some people say that the present days are better than older times and perhaps people are more humane today. The Vedas say that only he who obeys can command others. Only he who possesses character can build the character of others. If society is perceived to be lacking in character, eventually, progress and betterment are bound to follow. The Bhagavad Gita says that whenever unrighteousness prevails, God incarnates on earth to destroy evil and reestablish righteousness. If enlightened people live in isolation, how can the people learn and benefit from them? Some live in isolation, others live amongst people. There was once a Baba who would remain in meditation for six months at a stretch. One day a person asked him: Why don’t you go out and work to uplift society? Baba replied, ‘‘Do you think great Gurus should be like postmen and go door-to-door, distributing discourses, advice and good wishes enclosed in envelopes? Don’t you see that God remains concealed, and yet carries on the work of the whole world? Baba like me does the same’’. What is the simplest way to do meditation? The simplest way to do meditation is to first steady the mind. Artists, scientists and musicians all excel in their work through concentration of mind. You can realize the Truth only by making your mind steady. The mind is as restless as a monkey. The mind becomes steady as a result of knowledge of the Self. God can never be understood by intellect alone. The mind can contemplate the Self but it cannot know the Self, because realization of the Self is a matter of experience, not of intellectual understanding.