Power of Scriptural Statements

                          Always look for those scriptural statements which can be applied to your daily life and saadhana. If you are able to discern them and if you start applying them in your life, I think, it will make a great difference. Unless all of you have sufficient stock of spiritual material with you, your progress will be slow and limited.

                     Fill the mind with spiritual statements, spiritual aphorisms and spiritual analysis. That means your whole thought process should become spiritual.

The whole of Bhagavadgeeta dialogue deals with the mind and intelligence. Sri Krishna was providing ideas one after another, and Arjuna was listening to and absorbing them with unshaken Sraddha. The outcome was a complete change in Arjuna's personality. He resolved to take up the battle with a free and enlightened mind. It was by exposure to the ideas presented by Krishna, that Arjuna's perspective changed. So, reflect upon these ideas and absorb them.

Bhagavadgeeta says:

tad-buddhaya: tad-aatmaana: tan-nishthaa: tat-paraayanaa: (5.17).

There are four clauses here:

Tad-buddhaya: – those whose intelligence is steeped in That. Intelligence, buddhi, should be given to reflecting upon spiritual Truths.

Tad-aatmaana: – those who see themselves identified with That.

Your enquiry should be: "Am I not wholesomely spiritual, wholesomely devotional? Being a wholesome seeker,

how did I slip?

Is this the way?

Where is the wrong?

Where did I distance myself?

Am I not the Self?

               Let me abide by this Truth. I am the Self, different from the body." That identity with the Soul should be there. And that identity should set right all errors and omissions in thoughts and behavioural expressions.

tan-nishthaa: – those whose constant pursuit is That. Your only pursuit should be that of gaining identity with the Self by virtue of reflection done by the intelligence and absorption by the mind. That alone should be your nishthaa.

tat-paraayanaa: – those to whom That alone is the refuge. That alone should be your support and help. Drop all other reliance completely.

tan-nishthaa: – exclusivity in this pursuit

Anyone should reflect: "I am a seeker and seeking is my nishthaa. Every ritual is answered by this nishthaa. Every duty is met by this nishthaa. I have nothing else to become. I need no other discipline. This and this itself will look after everything". This kind of exclusiveness is tan-nishthaa:.

Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.