Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 13

Dwell in the Divine


• Lot of time is wasted in seeking pleasure, brooding over problems, being feverish or thinking about profit that we might get.
• You can not use breath, breath uses you; you can not use love, love uses you.
• People always think in terms of gains - what will I gain out of it.
• All that you desire to accumulate, and all that you accumulate how much can you enjoy? You die and leave that for your progeny. And then your kids fight over it.
• You miss divine love if all the time you are lost in the calculation - what will I get, how much will I get? Don't calculate.
• Similarly pleasure - how much pleasure can you experience? Similarly misery - if you always keep on thinking why did he do this to me,
• Narda says: Drop this craving for pleasure and brooding over pain. Life is mixture of pleasure and pain. They come and go. Similarly desires come and go. Gain happens, loss happens - it is all natural.
• Till the time divine love dwells in you - wait (but don't waste). Don't waste any moment, just wait. Have patience.
• When there is no love, these things (cravings, feverishness) floods our mind; when there is love we are always lost in gaining something; this keeps our mind occupied. This doesn't let you rest.
• When you put down yourself you become aggressive and violence; untruth happen and you do things that you regret.
• Narda says: Ashimsa (nonviolence) has to be cultivated and practiced. Aggression comes, watch and let go. Don't react. Act but don't react. Reaction becomes regret but action becomes fulfillment. Make ashimsa be ingrained in your consciousness, your behavior and your character.
• Non-violence, truth, cleanliness and compassion - all these are there inside you. Don't think you don't have these and that you have to cultivate it. You have to just know that you are ocean of all these virtues. You assume that you are already that.
• If you are not compassionate, it is due to stress not due to you. Just do some pranayama, meditate and you will be calm
• Though there are not rules in love, it is good to have some rules so that we can allow the love to express fully in the life:
• Ashtikya (belief / faith)
• A believer is one who acknowledge his ignorance. He believe that there is lot to know but I don't know. And atheist thinks that he knows everything which is not possible. Have a faith that there is a little that you know. There is some power, an intelligence behind this universe. Recognition of existence of super power is sufficient enough to have that belief. One who thinks he knows everything, he is like a rock. But a person who thinks he doesn’t know everything, is alive, light.
• Ignorance makes you light and the knowledge of ignorance makes you even more light.
• Worry happens in the head; feeling develop in the heart. When you worry feelings are dead and when you are feeling there is no feelings. But feelings is still better than worry.
• Feelings come and go; every few moments your feeling keep changing from happy to sad to happy to again miserable and so on.
• Love is not the subject of head; love is not that you think, conquer through head or intellect. Intellect can just pave the way for love.
• In all the feelings and emotions, dwell in the divine. Share everything with God. Happiness, joy, misery share everything with God. In every feeling, emotion feel that you are sharing with divine, feel that connection with God. There is no way out. There is nothing out side of divine. At all times in all different feelings and emotions, keep sharing the truth and love of the divine - without worrying. You can come out of worry if you involve your self in feelings but you can not come out of feeling if you don't share it with divine.
• Even in misery cry for God; know that he is your companion both in pleasure as well as in misery. When you are happy you be grateful and when you are in misery cry for divine.
• It is worth keep swinging in emotion that keep you alive than sit and worrying; so cry for divine, sing for divine.
• With that intense feeling when you cry or sing for divine you will experience that serenity, peace in you. With intense feeling you can feel HIS presence. You don't need words to communicate with divine. You can only communion (merge) with divine but can not communicate.
• And that communion is what is called samadhi.
• Prayer is asking god for something; meditation is telling ok I am here you tell me. Prayer is asking, meditation is listening; prayer is first step, meditation is second step.
• When you cry out with heart or sing, very quickly you experience HIS presence. Singing is like churning of soul. Singing alleviate. But one who is a lot in intellect, can not enjoy music. It takes time for them to enjoy it. But they should at least know that it is happening.
• When you cry for divine, sing for divine, soon HE makes HIS presence felt to the devotees who love HIM.