THERE IS NOTHING TO RELINQUISH

 

 THERE IS NOTHING TO RELINQUISH

In a real spiritual practice, there is nothing to be relinquished, and there is nothing anyone can relinquish. Since everything belongs to that “Brahman”, if anyone feels that he has relinquished something, it is nothing but his ignorance of relinquishing the materials belonging to the “Brahman”.

Spirituality says that you can possess anything available in this universe, but implores you to get detached from the ownership, because, you are not the owner. When a spiritual practitioner evolves from the clutches of his own self, he becomes the Reality. A saint who is living in the Reality clearly understands that he brought nothing while coming to this world, thereby, nothing belongs to him. He also knows that all his possessions of materials will cease at the time of his leaving the world physically.

Relinquishment of the ‘I’-ness is very much required for spiritual progress, and not that of the material possessions.

EVOLUTION

 

EVOLUTION

 

Evolution means permanent motion.  Only a continuous evolution can bring about up gradation of anything for better and better performance, whether worldly or spiritual.  Spiritual evolution signifies continuous spiritual journey and experiencing higher and higher spiritual conditions.  A stoppage in motion is a stoppage in evolution, which means stagnation.

 

The Tatwa or the Chaitanya which has descended in the NC Guru because of his total negation of Self and total surrender to the Supreme takes him continuously further and further in His journey to the Origin.  Thus it is because of His continuous spiritual evolution that the NC system also becomes an ever -evolving spiritual system.  Higher the level, higher is the subtlety and so also the corresponding potency of the Divine Energy which flows out of Him.

 

Nature does not reveal all its secrets as a package.  Higher wisdom descends as higher and higher levels of Consciousness are awakened.  At each level of subtlety or finer aspects of wisdom are revealed in doses.  Because of this the earlier revelations can get refined and amplified, although they still continue to be truth at their own level.  This is like a person coming to perceive more and more details about an object, as he approaches it from a distance.  Thus the revelations do not contradict but supplement each other.

IMPORTANCE OF PURIFYING THE MIND

 

IMPORTANCE  OF  PURIFYING  THE MIND  

 

What is the use of purifying the mind and when is it to be done? Mind should be kept always pure, only for the reason not to allow any negative thinking inside. The purified mind does not allow any unwanted thoughts which disturb you in your spiritual practice.  This purified mind only can attract the presence of God and shall work according to HIM.  Through this mind, you can find him inside you and need not search for him outside.

 

When the mind is not pure, His energy can’t enter in us but stays outside.   In the olden days, rituals and good behavior was prescribed to prevent impurity from coming inside this human mind.  This does not bring purity into the mind.  Purity is already available inside i.e., the ATMAN, which is pure always, we have to connect our mind towards it and attain purity.  God within in the form of Atman is always pure.

 

In NC, purity is transmitted through the ‘translitting’ method from the Master.  This purity received by the practitioner experiences the lightness of mind as well as transformation towards perfection.  One day it happens, HE comes inside without your knowledge or prior intimation.  Purity only can bring Him and not any worship.  Worshipping Him without purity is a waste.

 

All the pilgrimages are prescribed to conduct with mental purity.  Pilgrimage is a long journey towards reaching some pilgrim centers.  If this pilgrimage centers are charged with purity with deity’s presence, purity can be drawn from this place by the pilgrim through the pilgrim’s purified mind, which helps him throughout his journey without any trouble.

 

Today we have confined Him to idols and puja-rooms.  We have to open the heart, but if it’s impure He cannot enter. When he comes into the Heart, we have to vacate ourselves to the maximum and allow Him to stay as the owner, i.e. we have to be like a tenant in our own house, thinking that it is His house. He will use our own faculties and create what is necessary to keep the house fit. Thinking that the body is His, we must keep the mind pure. Even if the body is unhealthy we must care for it, like a tenant up keeping a house. He will not repair the house (body) as he lives in the mind, but will give the guidance to maintain it. Whatever be the condition of the body (all diseases are due to one’s own samskaras) we have to take care of it through proper medication.  We know very well that we can change a physical house but not the body.

 

                   We must negate from our mind and experience His presence there.   Mind should be allowed to run it the way He wants, leaving everything to him. We can only convey the problems, and not to pray, and He will give the right thoughts. He cannot work alone without our faculties which should be handed over to Him like a driver.  How to know whether He is available in me or not?  It is very easy.  If you are living in the present forgetting the past and future, it confirms his arrival into your mind.  That is a wonderful condition which does not allow your mind for any attachment to anything as yours. You will be in condition of accepting everything without a permanent resistance.

 

            We pray to solve problems, unaware that it’s due to our own samskaras. Nobody is free from problems; we can only maintain our old body, like maintaining on old car but cannot get a new body in this life.

 

             In India we can think of Divinity as we are practiced of accepting the problems, unlike in the West where they only want comforts. In spite of India being a poor country with little facilities, it could produce the Upanishads and at that period people only thought of Him, not minding the problems. But today we do not have time to think of Him, and he cannot help to solve your problems.

 

             In NC, remembering the Master is one of the methods of purifying the mind.  That helps the practitioner to receive more energy from the Master. During the silentation practice, we are not thinking anything except the Master, if the thoughts are disturbing the practitioner. Otherwise blankness is prescribed to maintain.  Blankness confirms Master’s energy working inside.  This blankness expands during the non practice hours improving your purity.  If this purity is increasing, gradually you will be detached from the problems. Doing the practice is only to increase the purity of mind.  More purity is injected during Satsanghs and attending the Satsanghs is a must as far a practitioner is concerned.          Troubles are unavoidable in today’s life. By making the ‘I’ inactive, you will be able to accept the problems, like the rishis did in the old days.

 

        NC practice makes the mind pure, irrespective of your intelligence, brain, property, money etc. possessed by you.  With a pure mind, it is very easy to experience His help, even unexpectedly sometimes.

 

          In NC there is no object of worship, which requires ‘I’.  Continue the practice, there is no material requirement. No problems will arise in practicing silentation.  Adjust your schedules for at least one silentation a day, (though it is prescribed to practice twice minimum per day) either in the morning or evening.

To strengthen Him inside you, reduce the feeling of ‘I’.

Importance and benefits of Satsanghs

 

Importance and benefits of Satsanghs:   

 

‘Sat’ is called the essence of soul.  When that ‘Sat’ is expanded inside the soul, it starts spreading its quality of purity into the area where it is.  Many personalities have expanded their souls, thereby giving the effect of the ‘Sat’.  When such personalities are joining together in a particular place, spreading the purity from the essence, it is called the SATSANGH.  Participating in a satangh is equivalent to taking a bath in Ganga, the purest river of India.  When the ordinary souls, whose essence is not expanded, attend the Satsangh, they receive the benefits from the essence of the other personalities whose souls are expanded and are transmitting their essence. While receiving the essence from other advanced souls, ordinary souls lose their impurities and their expansion also starts without their knowledge.   In this conglomeration of ‘Sat’ or Essence, there may also be present a number of spiritually advanced astral bodies, along with the personalities available in the physical bodies.  In spirituality training, attending regular satsanghs is necessary to support one’s soul for its expansion.

 

In NC spiritual practice, one is required to attend regular ‘silentation’ at NC Centres as well as weekly satsanghs. By attending regular silentation classes, the impurities in the mind of the practitioner get gradually reduced, clearing the way for vacuumisation. This vacuumisation provides the area for the expansion of the soul, while one is attending the satsangh. Attending the silentation classes regularly is hence as important in spiritual practice as attending the satsangh regularly. In other words, by regularly attending silentation classes, the practitioner prepares himself to receive the essence transmitted during satsangh for spiritual expansion.

 

During satsangh, if the physical Master is available, there will be direct transmission and translitting from Him to the practitioners and the effect is multifold.  In case of His absence during satsangh, the same flow of the essence can be received because the Guru Tatwa which is available in the personality is the cause for the flow of energy, with the same effect.

 

When we look at the benefits of attending satsangh, there are many, but a few are mentioned below-

 

1.      An immediate peace can be obtained by removal of thoughts during the process of cleaning at satsangh

2.      Mind will be relaxed completely from all agitations and stress that the practitioner had before the satsangh.

 

3.      Worries and anxieties will be gradually removed by regularly attending the satsangh.

 

4.      A tremendous courage will be developed inside to face the life and unexpected problems.

 

5.      This courage only can help him to continue this spiritual practice and to live as well in this world during his hard times.

 

6.      Satsanghs are full of purity and love and thereby the practitioner starts experiencing the Divine Love from within after some time.  Moreover, after some level of practice, he begins to transmit it to the outside world.

 

7.      Continuous attendance of satsangh improves the purity of mind by regular removal of impurities and leads the practitioner towards higher spiritual stages.  Many positive qualities will be developed in the practitioner and he will be preparing himself to extend his maximum help to the rest of the world.

 

8.      A regular satsanghi cannot have any negative attitudes, like cheating, grabbing other’s properties, unwanted desires and other negative qualities, but he understands his own weakness and strength to improve himself.

 

9.      The practitioner naturally develops a detached attachment towards his family, relatives and friends and his belongings, properties etc., finding a way to get along with the spiritual practice along with family life.

 

10.  He also understands gradually that all attachments he had so far, is really  not at all attached to him but attached to ‘That’;

 

11. Advance spirituality and spiritual conditions are possible only when the practitioner attends satsanghs regularly without break, with some kind of sacrifices in his life. This satsangh only can lead the practitioner to the highest-level spiritual achievement to become a Master of purity and serve others.

 

12. Since life energy (pranahuti) is transmitted, during satsangh it helps the practitioner to live happily in material life also.  Nobody knows the power of this life energy totally. It can give material benefits also along with spiritual elevation.

 

13. Spiritual practice is possible only when practitioner loses his tension of material life.  Satsangh’s energy helps him to balance both.

 

 

 

 

 

Avoid creating negative energies

 

Negative energies formed by us  due to our own thoughts:-

Thoughts where negative energies are created are given below.  AVOID THESE

1) Worrying about future

2) Thinking about past life

3) Thinking of vengeance towards the people who gave you suffering

4) Waiting for opportunities to take revenge

5) Believing bad rumours

6) Thinking bad about someone

7) Self defending when you hear your mistakes

8) Supporting bad actions and bad people

9) Thinking about our own attachments

10) Cursing others

11) Stopping the people from their work who help others

12) Always thinking about material prospects

13) Mingling with impure minded people

 

Spirituality and Banking

SPIRITUALITY AND BANKING

 

Banking means keeping in safe something.  In the initial stages, rich people wanted to safeguard their valuables with somebody with whom the faith is there.  He used to take care of all the valuables in a secured place and the valuables will be returned to the depositor as and when required.  This man may be an employee of a King or a Rich person.  Expenses for the same will be shared by all the depositors.  There was no transactions at that time neither lending money nor valuables to anybody, who need it.

Later on, the depositors, who are all good Samaritans, thought of distributing the wealth to needy people without charging extra, but with a condition to return the same to the Bank.

Since truth was prevailing at that time, people who use the wealth of the bank used to return the wealth in time.  If the loaner is unable to repay the wealth back, the bankers usually write off it because there is no meaning in harassing the person, who could not repay it because of his genuine problems.

Banking of today’s type started few years back.  Rich men never thought of making money from money, since they did not want to do so or they need it.  But after some time, people, the bankers thought of utilizing the opportunity of encashing the help that they do to the needy people.  Initially, simple interest was introduced to the user to use the money or wealth used by them and the interest will be returned along with the principal.

                  Today’s banking has become a business totally and they are not worried about the loaner and his problems.  They want their money back in time with interest, whether he is able to afford the same or not.

 Spirituality is Dharma or Righteousness and Truth which should enable everybody to live with peace and happiness.  Banking industry is one of the best industries today to help people who suffer without money.  But money is not given to a poor guy who may or may not return the same to the bank.  Money is given to develop money again and not for survival and living.

 Dharma says, collect interest from the deserving ones and try to help the poor through lending money for their survival.  Sometimes, the poor may not be in a position to return the loaned money, the bank has to bear and earn through other means.

 There are so many small time businessmen in the country.  Instead of taking interest from them ask a share of their profit.  Thereby they are not pressurized for interest.  Whoever is not making profit, you have to wait until they make profit and further help to be extended, like business consultancy, marketing, investment etc.  Without that how do they utilize the loaned money properly and diligently?

 Simply giving funds does not give a help to a poor guy who is really struggling to do his business.  Further educating the loaner in his business and regular education is to be given to him to educate him like simple arithmetic, language, billing etc.  The more attention given to him and his welfare, he will not try to cheat the bank nor feel of not returning the money.

 Introducing spirituality in banking means to educate the bankers and their employees to know the need of the hour and do help accordingly.  At the same time know the risk before giving, so that the banker can afford the loss or not.  Bring the rich people together through banking and make their wealth for the help of the poor and needy.  Instead of charging interest, become a partner of the lender’s business.  Know the difficulty in business and enjoy the share of profit.  

 Like, the banking industry should involve in the lender’ business to understand his problems and time to time advises should be given whenever crisis come.

 When you practice a right spirituality, your mind will get changes according to the need of today. This spirit inside you really wants to help you and others who are attached to you.  Help comes automatically without your effort and you will find the right customer for your banking and loans. You will not have tension and stress in collecting the money from lender.  There cannot be any NPA and loss. Activate your spirit before doing anything. This spirit gives correct knowledge to act.  The results also come accordingly.

 When you spiritualize anything, it gets the purity and anyone who uses it also gets purity. The behaviour and thinking also change according to the need.  Because spirituality means “Present” or NOW and it does not have anything about the past and future.

Spirituality helps who want to work on the present.  This work gives tremendous effect in the future and every time you work on the present, forgetting the future.

 What is going to happen depends upon the work that you are doing at present.  You cannot work in future, because future has to come to materialize it.  Get energy by spiritualizing yourself to work in the present and strengthen the future without worries and anxiety.

 Select the right customers for advances through spiritual knowledge and truth, to avoid future problems.  Extend your spirituality to your borrowers also to work in truth and Dharma.  Feel the friendship between you and your borrowers and try to help them whenever they need help.

 Be happy by spiritual banking and give happiness by spiritual lending.