“Rise above the dominance of your taste-buds, your palate…and your selfishness. Life has much more to offer than just these weaknesses !” ” Jeeb ke swaad… aur apne swaarth se upar utho…”

Swamiji says …

“Time is flying by and you are on a roller-coaster called ‘life’ – fast paced, demanding, and grueling… oscillating between time and your desires; between family , friends and foes. In this lifetime of yours you try to do everything that mostly – ‘only’ gratifies your senses. Do you devote a few seconds of your frenetic day in trying to understand the significance, the purpose of your birth? Do you have an aim in life or have you made up your mind to be aimless and waste away this golden opportunity of discovering who you are? Are you so busy in dreaming of scaling ‘materialistic’ heights that you forget to bow your head while crossing a temple, a mosque, a church, a gurudwara. Is it a case of – No time for The Divine.”

“I feel sorry to say that some people are so governed and controlled by their palate, that all they can think of is food and eating. They live to eat, expel excreta from their bodies and eat again. At times, a ninety year old person’s impulse and desire to eat is so strong, that the vice like grip that it has on his palate, prevents him from thinking of anything but food, and eating all the time. As he is unable to think of anything else apart from this, the end result is that – his mind also starts functioning like that of a ten year old child. Couldn’t he have improved his habits before being enslaved by his taste-buds and his tongue that was constantly craving for tasty food? Is this why God had given him a ‘manushya yoni’ in this birth? To waste it away? Couldn’t he have been judicious enough earlier? Taken some reformatory steps early on to save himself from the sad state in which he finds himself now. Unki ‘buddhi’ ko kya ho gaya tha tab?”

“Another detrimental feature raising its ugly head amongst most of us today is ‘swaarth’ – selfishness. It appears that we are ‘so clear’ about what we want that ‘everything’ and ‘all’ that we do is done with the intent of serving our primary vested interests first. Our behavior, inter-action and attitude with different people varies. We use sugar-coated words while speaking with people who could benefit us in some way and think we can wriggle our way through any situation with our smooth talk. Our honey laced words prove to be deceitful and over a period of time – ‘humare swaarthi shabd humein hi gumraah karde tein hain’. These glib talkers otherwise have the gall to abuse a ‘nek insaan’ in everyday life situations. An attentive, docile waiter in a restaurant can be pulled up by them and made to feel like a worm for serving them food that was not palatable. A hard – working parking attendant can be thrashed verbally for not attending to them and allotting them a parking space immediately. The society in which we live is willing to bury a good person, even a ‘sachcha sant’ under the earth by fabricating ‘wise’ reasons known only to it. If this world in which we live not dirty, then what is it?”

“Young couples married for a long period of time…six to ten years, refuse to have children as they are busy indulging themselves and only themselves constantly – their ambitions, their professional and personal goals; and are in a way acting against the very spirit of Mother Nature. Man was born to procreate. What is making us so selfish now? Would these very individuals have seen the light of day on Mother Earth, if their parents had adopted the same mentality, and given preference to their own priorities instead of giving birth to them and sacrificing selflessly for them? It is very disturbing to see such dark, negative trends developing in society; but, who is to be blamed? Are the parents to be blamed for their inability to comprehend what is that they wanted from life, and define how much is too much? Perhaps they ran helter-skelter in all directions … running for that ‘something’ about which they were clueless and now the children too are following suit.”

” It is time for us to retrace our steps from the wrong direction in which we have wandered, maybe unknowingly, and begin a confident walk on the path of selflessness and self-control.”