Udiya BaBa

Udiya Baba

It is difficult for common people to understand texts like Yoga-Vasistha; There for such people, MaharajJi would make arrangements for Ramayana, Gita, Bhagavatam and Bhakta-mala (a garland devotees in Hindi) .

EMPHASIS ON PRACTICE
Along with dispassion he would stress the importance of Abhyasa i.e. practice. Regarding practice, he would say, referring to his own experience.

What is only the pure consciousness appears, due to constant wrong thinking to be a hard physical body. See, this is the effect of practice! There fore it
is necessary to constantly practice the opposite one.

Loose practice (i.e. casual and inconsistent) won’t work. One needs to practice consistently with alert and attentive mind.

There are three stages of practice-

1.  Understanding oneself to be different from the physical body. When this practice becomes perfect, one develops the identification with the subtle body.
2.  After this, experiencing the detachment from the objects of senses. As a result of this practice, the vision shifts from the subtle body and abides in the causal body.
3.  There after comes the experience of separation from pain and pleasure. With the practice (third stage) the vision or identification shifts from all the four functions of the mind and abides in the self

For the elimination of the vasanas, one should always be dispassionate to the sense-objects, and maintain the Godly form of mind . By self-control, one can drop the love for a few objects but the love for all the objects cannot go unless one develops love for God. It is only the effect of practice that one does not feel best for mother and sister, when one is in their company, because the feeling of mother and sister is strongly entrenched.

MaharajJi believed that the relish of tongue is the root cause of all evils. Once he narrated an event like this, – “I was studying in the school of king Krishna-chand.
One day the students beat up the cook for the simple reason that he had not cooked kichdi. Since then, I noted it in my mind that the craving (of tongue) for taste is the
root of all evils. All is conquered when the tongue is conquered.

That alone is courage which masters the tongue and genitals. Hence, I had determined to conquer the tongue and genital, because control of these two is victory over all

O mind! Seeing sorrow in all the sense-object contacts, give up the delusion of happiness. Give up the sharpness of tongue by adopting soft words. Keep away the
bad company, by keeping always the company of good people. Give up the ego by remembering that it always feels hurt. Give up the sorrow born of others’ abusing you,
remembering that even the Gods and Rishis and saints who are not to be abused are found to be abused.