Does single mindedness occur while letting attachment to a personal self-dissolve?
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An excellent question dear blessed soul Jason Skeie, U.S.
Letting attachment to a personal self-dissolve on your own is very difficult task rather impossible. It is possible only when single mindedness occurs.
With the awakening of spiritual virtues, one can gain affectionate devotion which leads to attain extreme stage of adoration with dedication and complete surrender to God. This is how one initiates to achieve single mindedness,
The affectionate devotion attains to the state of divine exaltation. This devotion is a feeling of tenderness for the desired object, which includes within itself all the experiences of devotees, even pangs of separation and occasional disenchantment and tears. There should be nothing for a devotee except the longed-for God. If the devotion to him is perfect, it embraces the virtues that provide access to the Supreme Spirit.
One kind of wealth is the external riches which are needed for physical sustenance, but that has nothing to do with the Self. The really lasting wealth of man, which he can truly call his own, is realization of his Self, the God within.
In the Brihadaranyak Upanishad, Yagnavalkya teaches the same to his wife Maitreyi when she asks him, “My lord, if this whole earth belonged to me with all its riches, should I through its possession attain immortality?” The sage replies, “No, your life would be like that of the wealthy. None can possibly hope to be immortal through wealth.”
Revered Gurudev teaches us very often:
“Believe that adoration of the Supreme Spirit has commenced when, even while one is leading the life of a householder, there are signs of weariness and tears, and sentiment so powerful that it chokes the throat.’ ’Manifold strands are entwined in love: of dharma, precept, restraint, pious association, and sentiment.
Now question is what may bring about the arising of the “longing”……..???
Number of spans of our life are even too short to share this subject but we can certainly find some way outs as preached by our enlightened masters.
Lord Ram has preached the great devotee Shabari in Ramcharit Manas:
The first step to devotion (Bhakti) is to keep company of the saints (Satsang).
That is what Bhagavad Gita confirms also:
“Obtain that knowledge (from sages) through reverence,
inquiry and innocent solicitation,
and the sages who are aware of reality will initiate you into it.”
Seeker is advised to approach seers with reverence,
self-surrender, and humility,
to be instructed in true knowledge through devoted service
and guileless curiosity.
These seers will enlighten him on it. The ability to acquire this knowledge comes only with a wholly dedicated service. They are seers who enable us to have direct perception of God. They know the mode of yagya and they will teach it to seeker.
It’s total grace of God to find a pure sage. Without accumulation of righteous impulses, one can never get association and blessings of an enlightened sage.
The most sacred earning of spiritual life is to take refuge in accomplished sage and to serve such sages with mind, heart and all actions with selfless motive.
To approach really enlightened seers with reverence, self-surrender, and humility, to be instructed in true knowledge through devoted service and guileless curiosity must be on the top priority.
“Meeting the True Guru, the wandering mind is held steady.
it comes to abide in its own home.
It purchases the Naam, chants the Naam,
and remains absorbed in the Naam………”
Bow down in lotus feet of revered Nanak Gurudeo ji….!!!!
“Among the means and conditions necessary for liberation,
bhakti alone is supreme.
A constant contemplation of one’s own Real Nature is called devotion.”
~Vivekachudamani~
Nārada Bhakti Sūtra onwards enlightens us on Bhakti:
Nārada, says that bhakti consists of surrendering all strivings-to-become unto That (Self, Pure Beingness), forgetting Which one is subject to extreme distress.
Revered Nārada gave three definitions of bhakti, according to three sages, namely Parashara, Garga and Shandilya:
(1) delighting in divine worship – pūjādiṣhu anurāga iti pārāśaryaḥ,
(2) delighting in divine stories – kathādiṣhu iti gargaḥ,
and
(3) removing all obstacles to reveling in Self –
ātma-raty-avirodhena iti śāṇḍilyaḥ.
To become the very embodiment of devotion as a wayfarer
on the path of spiritual quest is the prime necessity.
It is seeker’s love for God that inspires to get ready for the war.
between matter and spirit.
The initial stage is thus of love, adoration.
Revered Gurudev Swami uses to say:
“Believe that adoration of the Supreme Spirit has commenced when,
even while one is leading the life of a householder,
there are signs of weariness and tears,
and
sentiment so powerful that it chokes the throat.”
Manifold strands are entwined in love: of dharm, precept, restraint, pious association, and sentiment.
And then says revered sage Ramakrishna:
“….I tell you the truth: there is nothing wrong in your being in the world.
But you must direct your mind toward God.
otherwise, you will not succeed.
Do your duty with one hand and with the other hold to God.
After the duty is over you will hold to God with both hands…”
Sings Sri Krishna in Bhagavad Gita.
“Seek refuge with all your heart,
O Bharat,
in that God by whose grace
you will attain to repose and the everlasting, ultimate bliss.”
Silence always leads to eternal silence.
When your mind and senses get totally restrained,
there is no way out except to reach to the stage of stillness.
in total silence.
And beloved waits there…. waits for your final merger so that silence may ever last as infinite eternal silence.
You exist no more and identity gets lost forever.
Drop drops in ocean and gets named as ocean.
Oneness….
only oneness exists.
Bow down in lotus feet of Revered Gurudev.
Humble Wishes.
~mrityunjayanand.
