Diwali is around the corner and we can see that people have started preparations to welcome this grand festival of bliss and joy. Preparations includes cleaning the home, making delicious food items, lightening the balcony with lanterns, shopping and so many other things. Cleaning is the important part because it's said, gods and especially Lakshmi(goddess of fortune) resides in the neat and clean home during these days and blesses people living in the home. Cleaning the whole house means a lot of work. It requires lot of energy and active minds. We wonder where to start our cleaning from and how to end this as soon as possible without straining ourselves.
Just like we do house cleaning to invite Lakshmi, we need to clean up our hearts to invoke the mercy of God, husband of Lakshmi, if we want blessing of Lakshmidevi for longer time on us. Our home gets dirty over a period of time if not cleaned regularly similarly our heart and mind have become dirty with the wrong conditionings and nasty thoughts from time immemorial on top of that we haven't done any cleaning from so many years, in fact we were ignorant of its dirtiness. We won't invite guest to our broken and dirty home in similar way we can't invite Lord who is all pure to our polluted heart, we need to clean it.
But how to clean the heart? By drinking more healthy juices or Himalayan water? No...only God has capacity to clean up our hearts. His holy name is best cleansing agent(detergent) and He is best of all cleaners. Although being the lord of everything he cleanses up our heart just like a servant who cleanse a home. Motivational and inspirational talks can help us to suppress pollutants(envy, ego, arrogance etc) of heart for some time but there can be blast of suppressed garbage, it has to be burned completely with the mercy of God which acts like a fire.
Just like while cleaning dirts falls upon head and without discouragement we continue the work and in this way soon whole home becomes cleaned similarly when we chant all nasty and lusty thoughts which were accumulated from many past lives may come up on the surface of mind causing agitation of it but without stopping we need to continue our work of chanting and soon it get relived from pollutants, cleaning will take time according to dirt accumulation, so determination is very important in this process of cleaning. In conclusion Lakshmi is wife of lord, she always follows her husband who always resides in clean and pure heart, so during this Diwali if you want grace of Lakshmi let's engage little heart cleaning too!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by www.iskcondesiretree.com
Just like we do house cleaning to invite Lakshmi, we need to clean up our hearts to invoke the mercy of God, husband of Lakshmi, if we want blessing of Lakshmidevi for longer time on us. Our home gets dirty over a period of time if not cleaned regularly similarly our heart and mind have become dirty with the wrong conditionings and nasty thoughts from time immemorial on top of that we haven't done any cleaning from so many years, in fact we were ignorant of its dirtiness. We won't invite guest to our broken and dirty home in similar way we can't invite Lord who is all pure to our polluted heart, we need to clean it.
But how to clean the heart? By drinking more healthy juices or Himalayan water? No...only God has capacity to clean up our hearts. His holy name is best cleansing agent(detergent) and He is best of all cleaners. Although being the lord of everything he cleanses up our heart just like a servant who cleanse a home. Motivational and inspirational talks can help us to suppress pollutants(envy, ego, arrogance etc) of heart for some time but there can be blast of suppressed garbage, it has to be burned completely with the mercy of God which acts like a fire.
Just like while cleaning dirts falls upon head and without discouragement we continue the work and in this way soon whole home becomes cleaned similarly when we chant all nasty and lusty thoughts which were accumulated from many past lives may come up on the surface of mind causing agitation of it but without stopping we need to continue our work of chanting and soon it get relived from pollutants, cleaning will take time according to dirt accumulation, so determination is very important in this process of cleaning. In conclusion Lakshmi is wife of lord, she always follows her husband who always resides in clean and pure heart, so during this Diwali if you want grace of Lakshmi let's engage little heart cleaning too!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by www.iskcondesiretree.com
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