!! Shree Hari !!

Param Shradhey Shri Swami

Sharnanandji Maharaj’s Spiritual
Enlightenment Thoughts

My own experience is that our benefit/progress is in the not happening of

what we want to happen. Whenever I have agreed with my wants and
done according to them, as a result I have not received anything save and
except my downfall and degress. I am placing my personal experience
before you, and if you want to benefit from the same then do not want
fulfillment of your wants/desires and let what God wants happen... and
God wants that which is happening naturally.

If those who believe in God do not have natural remembrance of God, and
have to make an attempt to remember God - what can be sadder than
this ? What can be more surprising than this ? You naturally remember
the persons who are dead and gone, you naturally remember the wealth
that you lose, then has God become so cheap that you have make an
attempt to remember Him. You do not naturally remember Him only
because you do not accept Him as your own.

Accepting the (independent) existence of the world you want to attain

God - it is not possible. What will happen ? God will come, but you will say
that my wife is unwell, let her become well. Do you want to attain God or
do you want a healthy wife ? Think
The saadhak who does not respect his own knowledge, cannot respect
and learn from the knowledge of teachers and scriptures also. Like, one
who does not utilise the power of his eyes, cannot utilise the power of the
sun.

The one who desires nothing is 'the King if Kings'. The one who - desires
less than what he is capable of is 'Wealthy'; desires what he is capable of
is 'a Labourer' and desires more than what he is capable of is 'a Pauper'.

The completeness of life is only in the appearance of Love. Love flows in

only the one who is complete. The one who is desireless, who has no
desire for either liberation or any worldly pleasures, Love is established
and stays only in him. The Love that lovers experience is just a shadow of
the Love of the Complete (God).

Desire is destroyed only with the appearance of Love. Love is the nature
of the Beloved (God) and the life of the lover (Seeker/Devotee). There is
nothing else worth attaining except Love.

As soon as the sun of Love rises - the darkness of attachment (ignorance)

is removed. By Love - desires are destroyed and by attachment - desires
are created. You Love your 'Self' and you are attached to the body. You
Love only One, and are attached to many. As soon as Love appears - all
sensual attractions/ disturbances are destroyed....

Only he who has ended all his desires can gain victory over death and
experience the Eternal Life. Only he who has experienced the
separateness with the body can gain victory over all illness.

The world appears to be indispensable to man only as long as he is bound

to it by attachments. When attachements are dissolved, the sadhaka
realises his freedom. Desirelessness is the key to fearlessness.

The natural want of man is covered over by the unnatural phantom of

desire. When the natural want of man consumes the artificial desire, he
becomes desireless; and the Eternal Life follows desirelessnes - just as
day follows night.

Desire is the food, the source of sustenance, of the ego. The cessaion of
desire makes for the disappearance of the ego. With the disappearance of
the ego - the flood gates of Divine Life opens.

The right use of favourable circumstances is to make ourselves generous

to all and the right use of unfavourable circumstances is to awaken
ourselves to the illusoriness of the same (circumstances) which will lead
to true renunciation.

To separate our so-called worldly life from our spiritual sadhana in two
separate water tight compartments is a delusion.

Man must carefully think over and determine what is his goal. The goal
can only be that which is of his own inmost nature, and therefore
attainable. When the goal is set up (identified), the means come of
themselves.

As the thirsty man drinks water eagerly, so sadhana (spiritual practice)

comes naturally to one whose goal is established. When the sadhaka
(spiritual aspirant) has set up his goal once and for all, and does all work
for the sake of the goal, all his work becomes worship.

The secret of rising above objects and circumstances is to regard them all
as a means to an end and never the end. If our gaze is fixed on the goal,
we will make the best use of all these, which will help us in attaining our
goal. Our real want is for that which is immutable : the Divine Eternal.
That is our goal.

The realisation of one's want enables one to set up one's goal. Thereafter,
a divine discontent carries one forward.
Before the fulfillment of our inner want, we run after the world but the
world eludes us. On the fulfillment of our inner want, the world will run
after us but not we after the world.

The first question which the seeker must enquire into is what is his
ultimate destination, his hidden want; for no traveller can chalk out the
plan for his journey unless he knows or believes where he is to go.

----From Spiritual Discourses by Param Shradhey Shri Swami Sharnanandji

Maharaj