Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 10

Love Is Supreme

• Anxiety hampers the course of growth
• We are worried about failure and we are worried about how to handle success.
• Planning creates anxiety; every anxiety simply means you are not confident. You don't have trust in nature but a devotee or lover doesn't have this problem; he knows that he belongs to divine and divine will take care of him. This is beauty of divine love which takes anxiety away.
• Anxiety kills us and is worse than death. What are you anxious about?
• Three main types of worries:
• Worries about money
• Worries about enlightenment or progress in life
• Worries about your prestige or fame (who has time to think about you…:))
• Anxiety is contrary to love, surrender and therefore hampers the growth.
• Nature/existence is already feeding us and is taking care of us; don't be anxious, don't be worried
• We all are children of a very rich person who has everything to meet our needs in the best possible way so don't worry; don't beg on streets.
• Sometimes we might have 'small' loses but that is to gain something bigger.
• Realize that every tough time has made us stronger, deeper and more knowledgeable.
• When some loss happens in world, don’t worry. You offer everything to divine and divine will take care of us.
• We lose half of our life to gain wealth and rest half to gain back the health..what an irony…:)
• Righteousness about faith and being in love that we hold, uplifts us.
• When love matures in you, you have to just think and things will start manifesting. But before you get that 'credit card' keep working (in your job) without being anxious. Till you become so centered, keep working. It might takes some time, but till that time don't shun your day today responsibilities, your day today things. Don't be anxious. 'Oh, when will I get this..' this anxiety itself can be hindrance to the process. When 'time' will come, you will get it.
• Anxiety kills love, love destroys all negative; so better we take the side of love…:)
• When we offer, worries don't touch us; they just move like passing clouds.
• But how to do it: don’t be obsessed with the feeling of sex, money, glory and stories of atheist and stories of enemy
• By thinking about sex all the time, people look older than what they are, brain is lost, thinking is lost. Similarly thinking too much about money spoils our brain and stops us from doing what actually will bring us the money. Keep money in wallet or in bank not in the mind..:)
• Thinking about money all the time creates dullness and inertia around you.
• Money is not bad, money is sacred but thinking about money all the time doesn't make you sacred, it makes you dull. But understand that money is means and not the end of life.
• Have faith that whatever is needed and whenever it is needed it will come to you.
• Don’t discuss about people who don’t believe in God (those who are 'Nastika'). Because when you keep listening to the glory of a 'non believer', your own mind starts playing games, you faith might start shaking. He might be a believer from within or his glory might just be short lived. Therefore don’t listen to the glory of non believers this might shake your own faith. Similarly don’t listen to the glory/progress of your enemies.
• Don’t believe all that is visible or the way things are appearing.
• If we take interest in the stories of our enemy our energy goes down and we destroy the love.
• Don't encourage any discussion/story about
• Sex
• Money
• Atheist
• Enemy
• The two main means to start the scandals are: sex and money.
• 'Arrogance' and 'showoff' are another two hindrances in the way of growth. There is nothing wrong in having wealth but taking pride in that destroys the subtle feeling of love, the thing we are. Don't take pride. Nothing here belongs to you, you are just a custodian.
• Aggression inhibits/destroys love, submission, generosity and service awakens the love.