Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 7) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Of being hungry maybe I'll be hungry you won't be really

so the that's what happens that's the mind I still remember this poor young man, he was a teacher of mathematics and he went to a Swami very proudly and he said tomorrow's Shiv Ratri I will also fast can

I also fast and the Swami I still remember he said what kind of question is that ten-year-old little children are going to first how aren't you ashamed of asking such a question being

I going too fast or not, of course, you're going too fast and you should see in the poor man's face it became so he looked

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 7) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

so miserable in Bengalis and chi-chi-chi both theological oh no you didn't no shame in saying such a thing little boys are going too fast and you are asking whether I will fast or not and

so I said this ISM in Vedanta it's called Chitika one way of practicing assisted asceticism is put with the troubles in life in spite of little illness I will still meditate I remember

I was very ill once I was on IV and intravenous and the hospital I thought okay I was new I was a novice okay I'm really ill you know sick and some people thought I might die

so I guess it's excused III can sort of lie down in my bed and do a few months Rajab I don't have to sit up and meditate so and to my

everlasting in a big lesson another Swami who was in his 70s or 80s he had come for an operation was done he was sedated and Anastacia he was wheeled in he was transferred to the bed he slept that night next in the morning before dawn,

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 7) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

I saw that Swami was, as usual, up facing the wall sitting like this as a rock and meditating for two-three hours at a stretch this 80-year-old man nearly 80-year-old man who had just had an operation the day before is up and meditating

so whatever the troubles in life

I will pursue my spiritual practice that is a good practice is a good asceticism sickness in life anxiety is there in life sorrow is there in life, such tremendous stories are there Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya he used to go every night there would be some devotees house the Vaishnava would gather led by Sri Chaitanya and they'll be singing of the name of Rama and Krishna and up Laureus chanting of the name of Krishna and Rama and dancing Jetta and they would go into Samadhi and dance and they would surround him and it would be it's called Utsav festival of the holy name and this very senior devotee of his, he organized that that day his son died and he got the information and he suppressed it from everybody including his wife because Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is coming to his house and

so the festival should go on and the festival went on this old man with tears in his eyes, he still sang the name of Rama and dance with the devotees and happily fed them and everything went on perfectly she knew the pain in his heart and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu knew

so when he embraced that man the both of them went into Samadhi because he knew

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 7) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

so that putting up that's an extreme case putting up with the sorrows of the world because of my love for God that's a test that God puts us through that kind of you see what kind of concentration that will bring

so but again common sense this the example had given earlier to novices I knew two extremes one is I have to put up with all sorts of pains and struggles

so he has got knee pain and sitting in the class I'm teaching he goes like what happened pain in the knee and get it treated no I'm putting up with it hitting shots then he's meditating everybody sitting in the meditation hall he's sitting like this a meditating he can't bend isn't he now what is the use you are meditating on your knee you might suppose to meditate on God don't do that remember the first arrow and second arrow spirituality is meant for removing the second arrow the first arrow you take help medicine whatever it is the problem the equivalent help as much as you can get it will work to some extent will not work there are problems which cannot really be cured you have to put up with them

so the first arrow is always like that the second arrow is the really important thing

so that's one Equinix extreme the other extreme is another young monk he got stomach pain a novice and he became used to get worried you know now it's going to the hurt he stopped eating properly became skinnier and he took him to doctors and treatment was going on ever seen no effect no response to the medicines and finally

I told him don't worry about it but worrying was killing him if the pain comes it'll come we are going to good doctors treatment has started with things are being done now resign yourself to God and concentrate on what you have come here's four do you study and meditation and all of that anyway very good monk, he did exactly that and I'm

so happy that years later he wrote a postcard in from another ashram Mauro's you know that stomach pain I had it's finally gone Deven months and months it does not come back again but the good advice was now that things are being done taken care of your concentrate on God don't concentrate on stomach pain

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