Acknowledge Thoughts - Don't Suppress Them

• Whenever you have to create a thought in your mind, bring this thought before your intellect.
• "Who is Arjun? Who is an elevated soul?" The one who dwells upon the thought, the one who embodies the thought, becomes equal to Arjun. Similarly when you create a thought you must become an embodiment of that thought. Arjun was an elevated soul, you are an elevated soul too. You create a thought, but you must also experience it, or what is the use of creating it?
• So an important principle is that whatever thought you create, bring it before your intellect, acknowledge it, experience it.
• Experience, analyse, explain this thought. If it is good experience it; if it is bad, then burn it and finish it.
• Do not suppress any thought.
  

  Mukthi (Liberation)

  Today, man aspires to attain Mukthi (liberation).
                  What is Mukthi?
 It is not the attainment of a heavenly abode.

  Mukthi means freedom from suffering. One needs to have Mukthi at three levels - body, mind and soul. For example, when one is hungry, one eats food and the hunger is satiated. This is a kind of Mukthi. Suppose, one is suffering from a disease, one gets cured by taking medicine. This is also a kind of Mukthi. All this is related to the body. At the mental level, Mukthi means controlling the vagaries of the mind.

  But, true liberation lies in understanding the principle of the Atma which neither comes nor goes. This is termed as 'Nirvana'.

The Bhagavad-Gita does not intend that you should pluck a leaf or a flower or a fruit from some plant or tree and place it before God. Nor does it ask you to bring water from a well or a river or a roadside tap. The Leaf that you have to offer is your own body,  which like the leaf, sprouts green, fades, and finally falls off from the branch. The Flower is the heart freed from the pests of lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride, hate, etc. The Fruit is the mind, the consequence of its yearnings, which have to be dedicated to God. The Water is the stream of tears that flow from the eyes when one is in ecstatic bliss at the contemplation of God's glory. Offering these four is the real act of Sharanaagathi (total surrender).