How to follow the Right path in life? Who decides it for us? How to discriminate between good and bad? Who decides it? How do we know we are in the right direction from moment to moment? Single answer to all these questions is the Heart that is within us. It is the Heart that is within us that guides our real aspects of life. Heart never misguides.
It is mentioned in our scriptures that Buddhi or Mind is something that is also in us but follows one's Karma. That explains the varieties prevailing in the human species. They say - buddhi karmaanusaarini - buddhi follows karma. But there is also something in us which follows the Divine and that is why never ever misguides us - the Heart.
So we have within us Buddhi that follows Karma and the heart that follows Divine, and are in between, to follow either Buddhi or Heart. The quality of one's life depends on where he/she pays attention. We do NOT actually have really this choice. But most of us pay attention to Buddhi than the Heart. That is how Karma becomes apparently powerful. All that we need to make Karma weak is to pay attention on the Heart consciously and we can gradually perceive the loosening of the Karma's hold on us, though the Laws of Karma cannot be escaped . That is what is spirituality is all about, especially the Heartfulness Sahaj Marg Meditation, a very simple and Natural practice. (Please visit www.heartfulness.org)
Therefore it is OUR ATTENTION that makes the Karma or the Divine in us powerful. Conscious and sustained practice or sadhana would help us to lead a life of Heartfulness. Living life according to Heart becomes natural.
How does one know whether it is the Mind or the Heart that is really guiding?
Heart immediately guides us when we are going wrong and keeps silent when we are right. And when one needs to take a decision between what is right or wrong, the answer that comes from heart will not have any choices but Mind's answer will give lot of options. Heart's decision may be challenging but that is the only right thing that should be done at the moment. When heart says something there will absolutely be no doubt. Generally we lack courage to follow the heart; to follow mind or buddhi is very easy, it needs no courage. This courage can be developed again through a sustained practice by purifying one's own heart. Because the Heart follows the Divine it is NEVER wrong. Because the heart knows the purpose of life it rightfully guides. It is onlt because of our lack of our ATTENTION that we are not able to listen to its voice. Thw whole idea of any spiritual practice is that this voice of the Heart should be audible more and more clearly so that one's life is clear and in the right direction in proportion to the clarity in the voice. There is no end for this clarity it goes on improving as we go deeper and deeper into the Heart through practice. One's evolution is proportionate to the degree of this discrimination he/she possesses. And this discrimination is proportionate to the depths that he/she has achieved in this pursuit. And so the life should go on in the only direction it should be going.
The collective evolution also depends on each heart's evolution. And so the need for every one to meditate on the heart.
May be we can say that Buddhi is karmaanusaarini and Hrudayam or Heart is Daivaanusaarini (follows the Divine Principle) and that is why it is never wrong and NEVER ever misguides and the only thing that is present in each one of us to guide from within. All that we need to do is to pay continuous ATTENTION.
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