Sant Shri Asaram ji Bapu Divine Discourses

Elixir of Life

Excerpts from Sant Shri Asaram Bapu Divine Discourses

1. People, who become sad in unfavourable circumstances and happy in favourable ones, are comparable to iron. Those, who remain happy in adverse circumstances, are comparable to gold. Those, who remain in perfect equanimity in favourable or unfavourable circumstances, are like precious gems. But the rare ones, who are beyond the reach of happiness and sorrow, are the true emperors.

2. When you wake up from sleep you forget your dream. Similarly, wake up for a while from the waking state and forget the world around you. Practice this for fifteen minutes every morning. By thus forgetting the world you will be able to discover your True self. This will lead you to your natural state of existence.

3. True knowledge is attained through love and renunciation. A distressed person develops love and renunciation through discrimination, whereas in a happy person, these virtues are developed through selfless service. One who himself is sad, cannot render service to others, but can contemplate. On the other hand, a happy person remains engrossed in happiness and hence cannot contemplate, but he can do benevolent work.

4. One naturally becomes happy on being praised and respected. He alone, who can feel the same happiness on being insulted, deserves to accept alms.

5. Each aspirant has to proceed towards an entirely novel experience. Therefore the guidance of an enlightened Guru is extremely essential. One endowed with a genuine inquisitiveness is bound to find such a Saint. As the inquisitiveness becomes firmer the disciple feels an inner urge to meet the Guru, whereas the Guru Himself comes to a truly deserving aspirant.

6. A truly liberated soul (Jivanmukta) neither broods over the past nor worries about the future but remains even minded in the happiness or sorrow of the present.

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