Posted on: 05 Jul 2016
Shri Phani asked: The mind is always attacked with several ideas and due to this even the health gets spoiled. What is the remedy for this?
Swami replied: If one is in the mud pond in which lotus flowers also exist, he will get both the smell of mud and smell of lotus flowers. Both the scents reach one’s mind through nose and this process is unavoidable and inevitable as said in the Gita (Prakrutim yaanti bhutaani, Nigrahah kim karishayati?). The ratio of bad scent of mud and good scent of lotus flowers depends upon the ratio of injustice and justice in the world. In Krutayuga, only good scent was there since the pond is full of good water only and no trace of mud existed in it. The mud existed as soil outside of the water pond, which never entered the pond as mud. This means that injustice in the form of Rajas and Tamas qualities were created standing outside the world (pond), which were unable to enter the world since all the souls were perfectly disciplined and bound to the word of God. The souls got bored with the monarchy and were eager to have democracy with freedom. Their complaint against the monarchy was that the single king is enjoying Rs.10/- due to which poor are suffering. Then freedom was given and now in democracy ten people swallow Rs.100/- (each RS.10/-) and now the problem is ten times multiplied! Similarly, the freedom given to Adam and Eve brought a tremendous problem of the soil entering the pond as mud. In Tretaayuga, the scent of mud was 25%, in Dvaparayuga the scent of mud was 50% and in Kaliyuga the scent of mud is 75%. The Kaliyuga ends when the scent of mud is 100%. In Krutayuga the scent of mud was 0% since only the scent of lotus flowers existed as 100% Sattvam quality. Of course, freedom of soul was absent. You must always choose the lesser inconvenience since 0% inconvenience is impossible.
The robot behaves as per the information chip fed into it from outside. Hence, the external atmosphere is totally responsible for all the activities of all the human beings. Unless the external atmosphere is purified thorough the propagation of spiritual knowledge, no individual can get salvation from this scent of mud. Individual-salvation is impossible as long as the impure external atmosphere continues. Hence, it is the duty of all the souls to participate in this project of propagation of spiritual knowledge, which is similar to the recent ‘Clean India’ (Svachcha Bharat). How can you have pure air in your house alone if the whole city is unclean emitting bad odours? God is also concentrating very much on this project and people participating sincerely in this project will be highly rewarded. The reward varies from getting the opportunity of human incarnation to any desire of the soul (provided such desire is not polluting the atmosphere further).
Till the ultimate goal, total cleaning, is attained, what are the possible remedies to get at least some relief? Of course, the final step in case of total failure is only to burn the whole city including your house by the last incarnation called as Kalki after 3 lakh 95 thousand years? The partial remedy is not to allow the scent of mud to be experienced by the soul by diverting the mind to God seriously. Since God is omnipotent, He will help you in not getting the bad scent through His unimaginable power. You can also divert the mind to some other worldly item also to avoid the bad smell to some extent. In this case, the total and permanent elimination of the bad scent is not possible since the worldly item is not beyond the natural powers of physical laws. If you are concentrating on some item (best is God), the bad smell visiting your nose is not encouraged to come again to you like a guest neglected by you in the first visit. However, this is neither total nor permanent remedy unless the item concentrated by you is God. People treating self as God don’t achieve total success in resisting this external bad smell. Of course, partial success is possible because diversion of your concentration to any single worldly object including self can achieve such partial success. This means that the self is as good as any other worldly object since the individual soul (Jeeva) or qualified awareness is only a specific work function of inert energy functioning in a specific system called nervous system. In this way of partial success, even an atheist can attain this partial success by the concentration on self. In such way, you have to get yourself detached from the association of such bad smell. In this way the effect of the first attack of the bad smell is inevitable. What can be done at the best is to avoid your further association with it through memory resulting in worry, which spoils the health. Hence, memory of it should be avoided thinking that the bad smell belongs to the mud pond and not to you at all as said in the Gita (Gunaaguneshu vartante...). Such disassociation with Rajas and Tamas of the world will avoid the mental worry, which ends in the self-destruction as per the Gita (Dhyaato vishayaan...). Here, the good scent of lotus flowers (Sattvam) should not be tied along with the bad qualities like tying a donkey with horse. In this verse of the Gita, desire (kaama), anger (krodha) etc., are only mentioned and hence the memory of bad smell only should be taken here. Devotion to God, service to God etc., are good scents, which are to be favoured to take into self like inhaling good scent that leads to joy and not to worry.