Positive Engagement

[Paramhamsa Vani]

Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!

Sincere souls will certainly overcome all difficulties in the long run. Lord Sri Krishna Himself gives assurance in the Gita—na hi kalyana-krt kascit durgatim tata gacchati. "A sincere soul will never suffer degradation." When one can really detect one's own defects it is a good sign, because it proves his contact with the real knowledge, however faint it may be, otherwise ignorance cannot be realised as ignorance. So, don't be disheartened. Actually it is not possible for us to eradicate our attachment to worldly objects and ideas which we have inherited through cycles of births and deaths in a day. Those inherited ideas will have their action for some time through inertia. For example, if we switch off the fan, it still moves for some time out of inertia, but its speed will be gradually diminished and it will stop. Artificially if we try to control the senses through austerity it won't have an abiding effect. In devotional spiritual practice, more stress is given to positive practice than to negative i.e., we are to rouse up the eternal natural functions of the real self which is pure love to Supreme Godhead.

--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj