Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 13

Dwell in the divine

• Lot of time is wasted in seeking pleasure, being feverish.
• You miss divine love if all the time you think of gains (what am I getting...) and are lost in calculation.
• There is a limit to experiencing pleasure as well.
• Stop brooding on what he/she said to you.
• Drop the craving for pleasure, excitement.
• Desires keep our mind occupied and don't let us calm or settle down.
• A lot of time is wasted in seeking pleasure, being sad, brooding and being feverish.
• Craving and desires makes you restless and put you down. When you put yourself down you become aggressive and violent then we speak untruth and do things for which we regret later.
• If aggression comes, observer and let go. Act but don’t react. If you observe your most of the actions are driven by reaction.
• Let nonviolence ingrained in your lives.
• Nonviolence, truth, cleanliness (inner & outer), compassion, faith in divinity.
• You are already truth, compassion; don't think you are not this and you have to cultivate it. Just assume that you are already that. It is stress that might just make you behave otherwise. So do pranayam and meditation and be free from stress.
• Though love doesn't have any restrictions but still it is good to have some discipline. This will give you the freedom to enjoy the divinity.
• Have faith that you know very little about this existence and a lot is yet to be known, and that you are ignorant. This ignorance makes you light and the knowledge that you are ignorant makes you lighter.
• Worries happen in the head, feelings happen in heart. When feelings are there you are not worried. Drop worrying.
• Feelings can't be same. Feelings come and go. Observe this.
• Mind catches onto the feelings and make you worry.
• Love is not a subject of head or intellect. Intellect can only pave the path for love.
• In all the times and all emotions share with God. Happiness, joy, misery…everything, share with divine. Feel the connection all the times….without worrying.
• Universe is filled with love. There is no place without love.
• Even in misery, cry for God, pray, cry for his help. Cry out your problems but don't worry. When we have such an intense feeling, we will feel serenity, we will feel the divine.
• Communication with god can only be done in silence.
• You can't have conversations with God but you can have communion. This communion is Samadhi.
• Prayer is asking, meditation is listening. Prayer is first step, meditation is second.
• Abhya mudra: come to me, surrender and I will take care of everything.
• Bardh mudra: Means God is saying that I am giving…don’t worry.
• Churning of soul will raise and bring up the divinity that is within all of us.
• When you sing with heart, singing makes you feel the presence of divinity in you.