"When a man dwells on the objects of sense he creates an attraction for them, attraction develops into desire and desire breeds anger" -- A quote from Bhagwad Gita







Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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"BECOME AWARE OF THE CONSTANT REPETITIVE CYCLE...

There is no boredom in love. When lovers write letters they write love, love, love all over. They never get bored of it. As you keep repeating and doing your practices again and again, boredom vanishes and love arises.

Many eat rice everyday, only the vegetables served are different, but the rice is the same. People who are used to eating rice everyday never get bored with it and in fact feel infact unhappy if there is no rice for even one day.

If you are used to somebody shouting at you all the time, you get so used to it that you let him or her shout, however long they want to and you continue your work. When you are used to anger, the heat of anger does not affect you.

Whatever the mind gets used to because of practice, it never gets bored with it. So there is a close relationship between practice and love. How?. There is repetition in love and there is repetition in practice.

What is the purpose of practice? Practice means doing the same thing again and again like japa or sadhana. The purpose of sadhana is to first bring up boredom and then destroy the boredom. The goal of practice is to root away the boredom within us."

From the book- RISHIMUKH by Shri Shri Ravi Shankar

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