It is the mind which is the cause of bondage ~ 25 Oct 2012

Jaya Guru Datta, Swamiji, Always Datta is testing us and we have to remember that it is our reactions to those tests that are important. We always have a choice to see any situation in either a positive or negative light. Yesterday in Datta Kriya Yoga practice, we pulled Swamiji’s MMS “Pray to God to Transform Your Enemies” on which to meditate–a wonderful message as we have been considering the Devi’s great battle to help us overcome our inner and outer demons. At least two of the students discussed how they believed that in order to begin to transform their enemies, they had to first transform themselves from the inside out. Here you are affirming for us that it is our minds that can create bondage or liberation. Healing of outside situations can often begin within in our own thoughts. This has been my contemplation for Vijayadashami–that healing begins when we bring light to the dark places within ourselves and the spaces between others. Deepest gratitude for this affirmation of that thought…

Jaya Guru Datta Appaji! Watching this video was truly a relaxing experience, then your message appeared and I thank you for this message.
Many times I often find myself being consumed by thoughts that are not positive and allow them to hamper my day, then when I think of you my Guru or I look at photo of you smiling I know that all will be well…. My mind and my entire outlook changes for the better, I can feel the warmth of your presence and my mind is once more at ease.
Just the thought of you, your words, your actions remind me that in this owrld there are great things ahead for everyone with you as our dear Guru.
Thank you again for keeping me on the right path….
Jaya Guru Datta……

This world with its lures, is a most dangerous place. Adi Shankara in the Nrsimha Karaavalamba Stotram has described it as an ocean filled with sharks exposing their sharp teeth to mercilessly take a bite out of us, a jungle infested with venomous serpents ready to sting us black and blue, and a raging merciless fire ready to burn us to ashes. Who needs hell when we have this world right at the fingertips of our minds? Touching it equals getting scorched. The burns feel pleasurable at first and then they peel our skin and expose the flesh. Be it money, fame, power, children, possessions, or sensory thrills – every little temptation is a deep chasm that is ready to swallow us. “Tasmat Jaagrata! “Therefore, be careful! Our Scriptures warn us and cautions us, and so does our Sadguru Sri Swamiji in so many words, in so many songs, via so many media, in so many ways. Let us wake up to this Truth quickly by following Puttuji’s teachings step by step as taught thru MMS. Jaya Guru Datta

What comes to my mind is…: ) : What is this strange thing called “mind”? Is it bondage, when my mind is fixed on something and wants to have something…and is it liberation when my mind is focused on atman or just relaxed? For me it still remains abstract. While I´m writing, my mind says: you can´t write something silly like that. You must write something intelligent! You´re english is not good enough….and so on…this mind is really exhausting, this monkey mind! For me it is not easy to controll it. One spiritual teacher said: The mind is like a parrot, he is sitting on your shoulder and is talking the whole time. You cannot stop him speaking, but you can learn not to listen to him for the whole time. He is like a crazy uncle, who is paranoid and is telling you a lot of bad and wrong things. You can love your uncle and calm him down, but you don´t have to listen and believe what he´s smattering the whole time. His voice becomes background and you´re no more affected by his fears and bad thoughts…..this is a nice and funny view I think. This helps me. Please Appaji, help us to proceed an get inner peace…step by step….or immediately: )! JGD Rajeshi.

Ja wenn ich denke(und ich habe ständig diesen Gedankenstrom Leben für Leben)…
wenn ich diesen Gedankenstrom nach gehe, also einen Gedanken nach gehe projekziere ich ihn und er bekommt Gestalt in Mannifestation, einher mit den Gefühlen(Kleshas)
Wenn ich sie aber abschneide mittels Praktigen , Mantra Rezitation oder Puja gehe ich keine Verbindung ein und bin somit frei…
Sehr Schwer Swamiji

meine Gefühle dazu sind Ohnmacht

Jai Guru Datta! Everything starts in the mind, any thought, feeling, word, action has its root in the mind.
‘As you think so you are’. When we have noble thoughts, we are noble. When we don’t have any thoughts, we are empty. And ready to receive what is beyond the mind – GOD! Kriya-yoga is the surest way to selfrealisation, it quietens the mind.Until one day there is no mind any more, only pure consiousness. With Sadguru’s immesurable grace. Without His grace, nothing works.

JAYA GURU DATTA! How often our beloved Sadgurudeva stresses that it is utmost important to control our mind. Please, dearest Appaji help us to have only good thoughts and a calm and unwavering mind!
I thank You with all my heart and humble I bow down to Your holy Lotusfeet. S.G.D.!

Jai Guru Datta,
my mind is filled by wich I focus upon. If I focus on my petty wants and emotions I see only those and know nothing else. If I focus on Datta or Ganapathi or Hanuman or Swamiji I can see an exit door. I can´t claim for myself, that I am always focused in such a way as to see the light, but oftentimes, when I am caught in delusion and act accordingly, I remember that there´s an escape route and I switch my mind to Datta or to Hanuman or Swamiji and it helps. I beg Sri Swamiji to strengthen my focus on Him or God alone and to strengthen my sense of discrimination as to what is worth focussing upon.
Sri Guru Datta.

samum devi! skundadwipavadanapeethum stanayugum
thavedum nah khedum harathu satathum prasnuthamukhum
yadalokyasumkakulithahrudayo hasajankah
swakumbhou herumbah parimrusathi ha sthena jhatitha ||

pasya me partha rupani setasodha sahasrasaha
nanavidhani divya vinanavarnakruthini cha ||

Jaya Guru Datta,Thank you Sri Swamii for this wonderful message. Conquering the mind is a herculean task that spans many lifetimes and can only be accomplished by our SadGuru’s grace. There is no other way to control the monkey that is our mind. Sri Guru Datta.

So bete ich und bitte DICH, mein GURUDEVA, gib mir einen kristallklaren Mind und reine Gedanken. Ich achte auf sattvische Nahrung, auf die Regeln und Anweisungen von Yama und Niyama und versuche, alle DEINE MMS zu begreifen und zu verinnerlichen.
Ich danke DIR für DEINE immerwährende Unterstützung und Hilfe.
OM PUSNE NAMAH
OM KALIKAMBAYAI NAMAH

Jaya Guru Datta
Since the mind alone is the cause for bondage, knowledge can path us the way to liberation. We are so blessed to receive everyday a wonderful MMS from Sri Swamiji helping us on our way. It is Sri Swamiji who holds our hand and guides us through all difficulties with such great lessons.
Koti pranams to the Divine Lotus Feed of Sadgurudeva.
Sri Guru Datta
Om Namo Hanumate Namah

What a profound MMS today! Mind is the cause of all our happiness or sadness, and as Appaji tells us here in this message, it is the only cause of bondage or liberation. But the secret is in controlling the mind. Appaji is giving us several ways to keep our fickle minds busy and preoccupied with these daily doses of MMS, music to listen to, practicing Kriya Yoga and encouraging us to chant the names of God… All of which help us to control the mind.
Beautiful video with awesome background music! Jaya Guru Datta!!!

Jai Guru Datta !!

Oh my mind, Oh my mind
Please do not harm me, I shall fall at your feet
Please help me, Set me free
Give me only good thoughts and to follow my Master
Our Kali Matha, Saccidananda, Please hear my prayer and take me along !!

Sri Jayalakshmi mathre namah !! Sri Guru Datta Hanuman ki Jai !! Om Namo Hanumathe Namaha !!

In this dream called ‘Life’ we get so engrossed and involved that we do not wish to wake up from it, I feel. That is why the SGS MMS videos are ignored and brushed aside just like mother’s call in the morning, telling us to wake up. They are like the annoyance of an alarm clock that is disturbing our sweet ‘dream’. The messages are annoying because they are whisking our warm blanket away that keeps us cozily hugging tight this ‘false’ world. We hate to write comments because, the way we believe that what happens in a dream is true while the dream lasts, we think that this world and life are true and are afraid and shy to express ourselves. We falsely believe that all those others who comment, and read our comments will laugh at our language and will criticize our ideas. We forget that this life is a dream and that those are all dream people who do not even exist. They are all only different forms of Mother Goddess appearing here to torment the devils inside us. Jaya Guru Datta

All our attachments and bonds will one day be broken at the end of this life. Too often we use our mind to grow our ego. We think how intelligent, beautiful , how great we are, and how much we have accomplished. We think of family as ours. We strive all our life to create stronger bonds to this materrial world, hardly thinking that all this is temporary. Yet if we use our mind to think of Sadgudeva , repeat mantra we can achieve liberation and infinite bliss. The mind is a powerful tool. We should use it as a good servant and not let it become our master. Please help us Appaji. Om namo Hanumate namaha. Jaya Guru Datta.

JGD. Jaya Holy Messenger Puttuji! May Puttu’s words on perfecting selfless service come true!!! JGD.

Jaya Guru Datta,

Great MMS video message. Mind is the culprit for all good and bad things happening around us. For the pleasure of sense organs we act through mind.
It is not easy to control mind, but by practicing kriya yoga we can control our sense organs by which mind can be controlled. Thank you Appaji for offering Kriya yoga to devotees. I pray pujya Appaji to give me strength to practice Kriya yoga daily and in turn control mind which is the cause of bondage and liberation.

Sri Guru Datta

JGD Appaji
We need to realize our true self is like the sun, clouds will come and cover it and go, we need not attach ourselves to the clouds. We need to realize that the clouds will be there, thoughts will be there, attachment will be there…but just like the clouds these are not permanent. Only with Appajis grace and Blessings this realization is possible.. we need to constantly be contemplating about His teachings and listening to His music, mind will be freed automatically.

Jaya GuruDeva Datta! Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Sadgurubhyo namaha!
By Appaji’s grace: The mind is the basis of the external world we see and experience. It is the foundation of creation, most powerful and highly complex and thus forming the basis of “ego”. There is no stop to it’s own creation, it’s illusion and is impossible to contain it, given it’s nature and power. By Sadguru’s grace only one can start inward focus of mind and realize the inner self and there is NO OTHER WAY than “DEVOTION” and “COMPLETE SURRENDER” to attain Sadguru’s grace.

Sadguru out of limitless compassion, has blessed us with Bhakti (Unconditional love towards God/Sadguru only, there by loving his creation), Nama-sankeerthana, Divine music, Satgrandha parayana, Kriya Yoga, Atma-vichara and Satsang… These are very simple, divine, joyful and the best, very scientific methods and long proven authentic ways of containing, cleansing and transforming the mind, to realize and reflect it’s source, the “Paramatma”.

Om Namo Hanumathe Namaha! Sri Guru Datta!

Jai Guru Datta

Unser Verstand / Mind:
1. Flug über eine Wüste und im Hintergrund bedrohliche Wolken. Und doch ist da der Hoffnungsschimmer der Sonne, wenn man seine Konzentration darauf hält.
2. Flug über eine labyrintähnliche, zerklüftete Felsenlandschaft. Wieder ein wunderbares Bild für das unkontrollierte, ausweglose Arbeiten unseres Verstandes, wenn nicht auch da, wie ein Anker, das Bild von unserem geliebten Sadguru käme, das uns zeigt, wie wir diesen verstandesbetonten Tag meistern können.

Dank an Sri Swamiji für Führung und Hilfe mit Musik und Bildern aus der Gebundenheit in die Befreiung.

Our mind:
1. Flight over a desert and ominous clouds in the background. And yet there is a glimmer of hope in the sun, when we hold our concentration on it.
2. Flight over a fissured rocky landscape as a labyrinth. Another wonderful image for the uncontrolled, hopeless work of our mind, if not there also, like an anchor, the image of our beloved Sadguru would be, that shows us how we can overcome these intellectually stressed day.

Thanks to Sri Swamiji for guidance and help with music and images from the bondage to liberation.

Jai Guru Datta

“My dear mind, if I treat you as an enemy, then you will become wild, isn’t it? I’ll try to watch you carefully from some distance with warm understanding for your funny games. I won´t give much importance to you also without neglecting you – maybe you will sit down quietly… even this I watch from a distance, coming gooing. But: who is watching??” Appaji I pray for the strenght to be in that state more often. Jaya Guru Datta.

If we can resolve to tread the path towards giving up desires and despondency and consciously work towards accquiring stability and equanimity in mind, we have won over our inner enemies. It is all in the mind, really!! The only way we can challenge this illusion and win over it is blindly following the master. He would never want anything unpleasant in our lives, but if there is unpleasantness, it is because we think of it that way. If there is happiness, it is because we think of it that way. Leaving all our questions, doubts and stupidity behind and allowing HIM to heal us from within is the need of the hour. My only prayer is to my Sadguru is to help me resolve more strongly to be equanimous and stable in mind. Jaya Guru Datta Appaji.

JGD.When the Atma realises the Abolute Truth, It feels the liberation from the bondages.The bondage is the Physical expression of the Mind.My father.Mother etc. are expressions towards the outer shell.He looked like this or she looked like this are the expressions of the Mind.

jgd pranaams Swami ji mera mun Aapkey chintana main Aapkey naam simaran mein sukh paataa hein bus yeha Aapkey naam svarup main laya ho jaaye is praarthanaa ke saath onhn sgd

JGD Swamiji!!!

JGD
if I cannot comment sri swamijis mms I feel very unhappy. happily today I fought through all hindrances and experience again how profoundly and holistic our beloved sadguru teaches us with these one-two-minute-videos containing truth absolute. I remember sri swamiji explaining in danmark 1999 that we can turn the key for the bank safe to the right to close it or to the left to open it. it’s just one key and one keyhole. we have the choice to use the mind this way or the other way. I did not understand it then. by Your patient teaching I can see more and more clearly that as human beings we do have the choice. It is the mind alone which is the cause for bondage or liberation. and it is sadguru alone who guides us on the way. may I be able to follow unfaltering joyfully and in all humility.
OM PUSNE NAMAHA
OM KALIKAMBAYA NAMAHA

Jai Guru Datta.
Appaji is blessing our minds in both waking and sleeping states