we need to pick up the key that Lord Krishna gave to Arjun 5,000 years ago
and what was the key of us practice practice practice practice where is this
great swimmer USA who won so many goals what's his name Michael Phelps right I
just read about him recently you know he had an abnormality as a child and he was
diagnosed as having a deficiency syndrome so he had this ADHD and his
teacher said he will not amount to much but what he did was that he started he
was introduced to swimming and he started practicing six hours every day
now the weekends there was no practice so he said let me add Saturday's to it
because that means 52 into six more hours in the earth and then he said why
not practice on Sundays as well because that will add again 52 into six more
hours for the year and that's the kind of commitment to practice that he had
and what was the consequence he became the most felicitated Olympian in all
history 22 gold medals right so now people can say oh you know that's the
way God made him I can never be like him I don't know what is the secret of his
success well what was the secret it was all the practice that he did now really
we are not interested in becoming Olympians out here but we are
interesting did in mastering our own mind because the scriptures and the
Saints tell us repeatedly Shankar Acharya said jaggedy item Kano
Minori inna who shall conquer the world that person who has conquered his her
own mind shall influence the world so if we wish to succeed as human beings we
need to learn and master the art of mind management and how will we know it will
be me mourn with it or will be blame or you know I was not born with it that guy
was born with it no you pick up one gem of knowledge and
practice it again and again and again the more you practice the better you
will become it so how much of practice are you doing on a daily basis how much
time do you take out for your spiritual practice you don't have to answer me you
answer yourself now you want to go faster what do you have to do practice a
little more if you've been putting in 30 minutes every day bring it up to 45 if
we've been putting in 1 hour every day bring in to one and a half it's a simple
formula for spiritual success increase your practice all right and one practice
that's very important from my lifetime experience of teaching people and
guiding them in this path what is that it is a regular participation in such
Sangha I have seen it again and again because every week I am addressing a
group of people for one week and then keeping a track to what extend they
succeeded and I find those people who started coming to satsang within the
space of one year their whole life changed it may seem like a little bit
just coming for satsang 2 hours a week where it was
commitment a starting point you build on one discipline you add another
discipline you add another discipline nobody's only jumps from being a sinner
to a saint everybody moves ahead one step at a time and at one step they took
they made a commitment I will come to satsang regularly made this big
transformation so if you wish to implement I would strongly urge you to
consider to make a commitment we have the Sunday satsangh here in place right
why for the sake of Ramakrishna for your sake
make that commitment I will do it for my sake and then see in one year the
transformation that takes place and you can validate or invalidate Swamiji
statement right the proof of the pudding is in the eating you try it out and see
if you get the results it's scientifically validated by the
experiment if you don't get the results that I potus's is rejected so my
hypothesis that I am presenting to you is that if you just make this commitment
every Sunday I'll come for satsang in one year you will find your life has
been transformed and I'm not just taking it out of a hat it's a result of 34
years now of preaching and guiding people all around the world
they tried out these disciplines these commitments will bridge that gap between
knowing and implementation so if you are fortunate enough to have the toast of
sincerely trying to become a better person then the implementation the
discipline required I am presenting the first Sutra to you make a commitment and
keep it and then see you will keep on taking further steps and before you know
it you will have left that past behind such a long way that you will realize
how exciting this world and life is as a gift of God as an opportunity to do our
best to be our best and become the best person that we can be