Re: Facing severe mental difficulties

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Gurudeva and assembled devotees, please accept my full obiesances.

The way I see it spiritual life is a cultivation which purifies the subtle and gross bodies in due course. Spiritual life can be a slow and gradual development, if we are steady in day to day practice.

Through this cultivation the spiritual ego begins to appear to our mind. Even a tiny glimpse (shadow) of that true ego, by the Lord's kindness, is enough to give us resiliance while still living within the subtle body of past accumulation.

This life we may not be fully purified (as quickly as we had hoped), so tolerance and detachment (from mind/body) come to our aid. Realizing a portion of our higher self we can begin to be observers of our mind, rather than identifying with it as our true self. Infact the mind can become a tool and friend, under inspiration of super-soul (buddhi yoga). Buddhi yoga is non-different to bhakti yoga. So we see the mind as a gift (and friend) to cultivate in devotion.

With patience we tolerate the subtle and gross bodies past karma, until the Lord designs that its purpose is finished. Any suffering that arises we can acknowledge as the Lord's mercy (for our final purification), if we have cultivated the necessary qualification.

I lived with a very serious illness for ten years. And these impression may remain in my subtle body until my last breath, but they have become a spiritual substance and sacred scars.

One thing I have learnt in my present situation is that a diseased body (both subtle and gross) is not to be identified with as the reality. We know this from Sri Rupa's Upadesamrta. He gives the example of foam and bubbles in the ganges. So if the Lord desires to diminish all opulence of false attachment, we can pray to Him for the grace to press on, in service mood. Infact old age, disease and death is inevitable...

y.s. Nava.

 

 

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