Now, how to keep the flame of detachment, flame of non attachment burning, not fading away?
How to continue it?
Do you know, those who live in ashram, just you think,
the food which you are eating from where it is coming?
Somebody has given.
Somebody has paid and somebody has given.
Suppose you will find: Today’s annaseva is sponsored by…
Yesterday’s mahaprasad was supplied by…
We hear something.
One who has donated food for us,
remember it is a karma, law of karma, will get some merit of such good deed.
He did a good deed. He will get merit.
And who will pay for his merit or good deed?
Those who ate, you, me, everybody.
If we are going to pay for everything we have; for example, food we have,
the house we have, it is constructed with somebody’s money.
What happens, if someone is not spending time in abhyāsa,
abhyāsa means regular practise, regular prayer, regular meditation.
Then your bank balance of good karma will be eliminated,
bad karma will be accumulated.
Naturally temptation would come, mistakes would come, weakness would come, be careful.
One who practices every day,
one who follows faithfully the teachings will be free,
otherwise again mistakes would come.
Look at this pot.
You might have seen copper pots.
This pot looks very clean.
I was telling yesterday to another swamiji: “Look this pot is so clean.”
And the reply was: “It is cleaned everyday.”
Or somebody is putting some effort.
If you don’t clean, put some water here and there again it will be stained.
Life is like that.
If we do not continue practise sincerely, regularly, again the mind will be going here and there.
It has been said by the Yogis:
“Just like the pull of gravity, the pull of nature is there it is a natural phenomenon.”
You throw a stone into space, sky, again it will fall.
But if through some means you throw a stone in such a force
it goes beyond gravitation, the orbit of gravitational pull
or the plane of gravitational pull what would happen?
It will remain there.
The mind comes down again and again.
The mind cannot stay above all the time.
It comes down.
Again to take it back.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said:
“Those who sing music, those who practise music, SA RE GA MA PA DHA NI.
NI is very high.
SA, again comes down.
You can’t stay in high pitch for a long period of time, you have to come down.
So be careful.
Mind can come down and create trouble making our life miserable if we are not careful.
What to do?
We have to live in this world. There is no other way.
Gurudev said: “īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvam.”
“God is everywhere.”
With this attitude you live in the world.
Yat kiñca jagatyāṃ jagat.
Whatever insignificant it might be, there is presence of God.
Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā.
You use, you enjoy the worldly things with the sense of detachment, sense of not owning this,
because it all belongs to God.