OM SRI SAI RAM
I feel truly enlightened by the following words of my dearest ones.
Crying is a strong emotion when words are superflous. Does he value your cries better? No.
A Spiritual experience is recorded in the heart while Spiritual information gets to the mind. If the heart is pure mind has no choice but to comply with heart.
Just like the heart is the life source for the Body, conscience is the life source for divinity.
"One moment of madness in love towards Gods wards off serious Sins". It's the ultimate act that could take one nearer to God.
An excellent example for Prema bhakti is “Meera bai”. She never bothered about the worldly happenings, the surroundings and was always in a bliss - in her love for Krishna.
This madness in love does not wait for any analysis, application of mind. Here, in such status, there is no discrimination, in the sense, heart and mind both are thoroughly synchronized. There is no emotion , no analysis, no thinking – only devotional love. The devotee seeks the ultimate happiness always (thrisandhya – all the time) in loving The Lord by their manas, vakk, and karma (thikaranasuddhi). There is no other thing that can deviate them.
Analytical mind is mostly conditioned by Social factors.
Wherever analysis is prevalent, dos and donts are discrimated. For a sadhaka discrimination is an essential criterion in the sense, what is permanent and what is non-permanent – at the ultimate level, what is Chaitanya and what is Maya? It is with this in my ‘mind’, I mentioned the necessity and the domination as well of the brain (Buddhi - mind) over the heart (the Manas – Chitta).
For a devotee, only the heart dominates. There is no need (or may be minimum need) for the usage of brain since, the heart is so pure and filled with the God, love for God, Devotion for God that the brain is thoroughly in tune with the heart that it has to follow and probably has no other function than being mere a physiological organ.
The fact you wanted to show restraint from crying when Baba garlanded his own self is your analytical mind taking control however the gesture wanting to shed tears is madness in love, which is the supreme Sadhana. When did you feel better? While crying or when showing restraint?
This is a very good example. Really I thank you Sri !
Akka showing restraint is the domination that her brain wanted over her heart. By Shedding the tears, her heart had won the situation. Resultant is uncomparable and unbound happiness. The Chitta had won while Buddhi though tried to restrain, kept quiet to take its share of happiness.
Can we perform these actions and at the same time be detached ? This is more important a question we should try to analyze. Detachment is the answer to freedom from emotional challenges.
That is why we take sole refuge of the Lotus feet of our Guru. Even tremendous practice can not be of any use unless and until the Guru Kripa is there for such refinement. Detachment certainly streamlines the emotions. Then the question of emotional challenges does not arise.
BABA KRISHNA WANTS FROM US A COMPLETE AND LONGING SHRADDHA, A COUPLE OF FLOWERS OF FAITH AND A COUPLE OF TEARS OF LOVE. THUS, HE IS DEPENDENT ON THE DEVOTEES.
What a beautiful exopression ! As we are dependent on God, HE is also dependent on pure souls and a pure heart of a devotee is the real abode of HIS.
It is a private matter, unless one is lucky to have like-minded friends with whom to confide, and who understand each other. When conditions are favorable, a pure devotee laughs, and when emotions are not favorable, he cries. All by his mercy!
Indeed, it is HIS mercy that we all are able to share these thoughts here.
Baba bless us
Baba be with us
Jai Sai Ram