Welcome to the 2017 Issue of Raas Purnima

by Sri Sandip Dasgupta

Dear fellow devotees,

Welcome to the Raaspurnima edition of our electronic magazine. This is the time of the year when Sri Sri Babathakur left his mundane body. In this issue, I will verbatim reproduce some advice delivered by our Master to His devotees on March 15, 1988.

The Master said ‘Don’t be a slave to your mind which is always in search of finding faults with others, instead of finding faults with oneself'. 

He further went on to suggest the following, which should help us in our daily lives.
 

1.  Most impure minds find faults with others.

2.  When the mind speaks ill of others, one should at once know that it is an impure, motivated, tainted mind, influenced by Tamas and Rajas. One should stay quiet, without supporting or offering a chance to speak further to the speaker. One should avoid and leave the place.

3.  One should talk less of the objectives of life and increasingly maintain silence.

4.  One should think of the defects within one’s own self and try to remove them.  For this, one should think of the good qualities of others. The more one cultivates the practice of seeing the greatness of others, the more one becomes qualified. The more one blames others, the more one becomes tainted and diseased.  We will become diseased by finding fault with others.

5.  If you want to be great, try to ignore the offenses of others. Try to maintain your sublime and restful nature. Don’t get excited, biased or prejudiced. 

So, on this holy day, let us pledge to reflect on His words and try to practice His teachings in daily life.

 Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur!