Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 7

Crossing the ocean of misery

• Human mind cannot contain either joy or misery, cannot just hold and remain
• Good company: you sit and talk you are lightened as if there is no problem
• Bad company cannot let love blossom in the heart
• Narada says: we all should shun bad company
• People are not bad, only moods are bad; need not to stay away from bad people just don’t shake hands with their state of mind
• Bad company brings in desires, anger, delusion, greed, intellect loses its reason/logic and mind gets agitated; the more you go into bad company the more stronger (like storm in sea) it becomes
• Company creates competition where as compassion creates cooperation
• Divine company is tough to get because there are very few who take the courage to refute the negativity
• One who stays in his own company should not face any problem; we all are bombarded with lot of people and thoughts around us and to save our self from pains we need to move away/beyond this, back to the source
• Everything that can be measured is Maya; measurements and judgments are illusions
• Relative identity that we give with judgment has no absolute identity
• 'What about me' and 'what will happen to me' are the mantras to get depressed
• Freedom comes when you don’t crave for pleasure and when you don't care/crave for freedom, divine dawns (craving for pleasure shows lack knowledge)
• Those who serve the saints get the freedom but what if opportunity saints are not available then do following things: go to secluded place, drop all the concerns/threads/bondages; drop whatever you want - you want what you don’t have or to maintain what you have; drop the fruit of the action; whatever you do, do being centered
• Whatever you have acted don't regret or get excited
• Worry of the action creates anxiety before the action and regret after the action; holding on to the fruit of action brings above two things; and doing the things being in center
• One who drops all the knowledge, lives in pure ecstasy.
• You laugh when you go beyond intellect.
• If you cannot love, be crazy because when you are crazy your ego dissolves.
• Satguru: Diminishing of sorrow, happiness for no reason - upliftment in happiness, protection of knowledge, sense of abundance/prosperity, all round blossom of personality and talents
• Children are satguru as you can learn everything that a satguru will help you gain.
• Your identity is based on the association with the people around you.