Jivan Sadhana -3 ; Pujya Gurudev

Jivan Sadhana - A practical path to fulfilling life 

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

You and the people interacting with you since earlier times would then experience the purification and refinement in your personality in few months’ time. Once the spiritual elevation begins, continuous and dedicated follow-up of these steps will become a natural part of your life. This will lead you to reach the higher goals of jivana-sadhana. It should be recalled that the human self, being a manifestation of the Absolute (the Almighty, Omniscient and Omnipresent Thyself), is also complete in itself. It is the ignorance, waste and misuse of the uncountable bequests available to it that cause the infirmities and defects and put a human being into the pitiable state of life. 

This is like dirtying one’s clothes by the nectar-milk of the Kamdhenu (heavenly cow) because of milking it in a porous pot and then cursing and complaining the latter or its milk. This erroneous, evil tendency of draining out and abusing the immense potentials is called incontinence. 

The courageous, farsighted, devout endeavor of restraining it is called "tapashcarya" or "tapa". Tapa is said to be the source of riddhis-siddhis (supramental talents and preeminent, extrasensory powers). Let us imbibe adoption of tapa in practice in our present-day life. God is invisible. The soul also has no perceivable form. What is visible is � the gross manifestation of Nature and Life. Of all the beings, the life of humans alone has been endowed with three magnificent accessories, which can get it all that it aspires for; these divine gifts are.... 
(i) Highly evolved physical body 

(ii) Time and 

(iii) Thought-power. 

These three can effectuate tapping any potential and achieving any goal whatsoever depending upon how wisely and to what extent one makes use of them. Wealth or materialistic success is not the measure of one’s true intelligence because this can also be acquired by destiny or earned by unfair means. 

The real test of wisdom or farsighted reasoning lies in  how and for what purposes is one spending and employing his potentials and available resources? Those having self-discipline and sagacious control over the mind and the senses gain the truly durable affluence and abilities. Conscious control of senses; quietude of mind; judicious and wise use of time and material resources are the four basic and essential disciplines to be mastered for jivana-sadhana.
The sense of true self-identity as a spiritual being, the remarkable potentials of the physical body and the invaluable faculties of its sense organs are ideally used and their capabilities demonstrated in vigilant self-continence and self-refinement and effacement of the ego through selfless service. 

The treasure of time is indeed invaluable. Every moment of it should be used carefully and constructively. Each one of us must have a timetable to schedule our activities in such a way that there could be no room for idleness and misuse of time.

Thanks GOD,Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma