Discretion: A way to be closer to divinity

Literature of Samartha Ramdas Swami deals with the Philosophy through real life incidences. It is all about attaining spiritual goal by keeping balance between your life and your thoughts. Samartha Ramdas Swami backs the principle which tells about keeping balance between thoughts and actions. “बोले तैसा चाले, त्याची वंदावी पाऊले.” This is what we usually say in Marathi. In his 10^thshloka, Samartha guides mind to love Shree Ramachandra so much that it should become your habit. He asks mind to leave all the pleasures and desires of life behind and keep going ahead on the path of Shree Rama.

   Whatever sorrows we have in life, we shouldn’t feel bad for having them. These sorrows make us remind our God. So one should feel good for having problems in life, because when we have problems, those problems remind us of our aim. These problems encourage us to try more to achieve our goal. Our real life goal is that divine power. Whenever problems we have in the path of attaining our real life goal, just make our mind remind that whatever happening is for the betterment only. These problems work as a medium to continuously remind us of our aim. In the same way, problems in spiritual life are disturbance, lack of concentration, desires, selfishness and many more and these problems make us remind that we are being distracted and our real aim is Prabhu Shree Ramchandra, who is Aatma, Aatmaram, Parmatma and the divine power.

  When would our mind be able to attain this understanding? When would it be able to walk the path of divinity? It would behave the way we want when it would practice discretion that is “Vivek”. Discretion is the ability to behave in such a way, that no one would get offended. It is the ability to behave and talk in a polite manner. When we attain this ability, we would definitely be closer to the God. Because, here God or aim means what we want to achieve in life. When we have the quality of politeness, this quality would take us closer to the people around us and it would help us to achieve our aim. Samartha asks us to adopt that discretion and live life according to that. He asks us to keep in mind the importance of discretion and make it a part of our lifestyle.