Hari
OM
Story-day is for cultural exploration, puraanas and
parables and finding out about leading lights in spiritual philosophy.
The following is taken verbatim from
the archives of the Chinmaya Mission. Gurudev was the most prolific letter
writer! Here he advises someone who felt they had fallen from their path of saadhana.
Food for Thought – On Ingrained
Impressions
Yes, when the going is smooth, it is easy to be spiritual and steady
in our inner peace. Then the outer world grins at us we lose our balance and
start living in old individualistic life seeking our security and selfish
fulfilment. Whenever you make such slips, very carefully analyse and discover
the source of the “fall”. Kama aesha – krodha aesha- Kama (lust) otherwise
called as rage (krodha) is the source every time.
Even Ramaswamy Naicker will cry out “Govinda Govinda” when something
sharp suddenly hits him- the old Samskara.
So too we had been living so long at our ego level, that in unguarded
moments we forget our higher nature, and due to our Samskara, we get perturbed.
Tat vismaranai param vyakulatha—says N. Bhakti sutra.
Never mind. Even a very good driver can bump into an unexpected pothole. Overlook it – not to bump into one is the best – but in long travels it
happens.
-From the letters to one of the
devotees.
