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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
When one has given up pleasure and pain, desire,
gain etc., and is in a state of high expectancy, not
even half a moment should be allowed to go in vain.
Time free from the sway of pleasure, pain, desire,
profit or other worldly considerations, is what every
one seeks; therefore, even half a second should not
be wasted. It should be spent in meditation on God.
Sukha is the quality of Sattva; Duhkha is the
quality of Tamas. Ichcha is the quality of Rajas.
When one has given up pleasure, pain, desire, etc.,
when one has given up the three Gunas, when he is
waiting for the appearance of the Lord in the form
in which He is requested by the devotee to appear,
even half a second should not be wasted. You should
be extremely alert. You should not sleep. Within half
a second, when your mind wanders, God may have
come and gone without your noticing Him. Maya is
very clever to take advantage of your carelessness
even for half a second. You must be intensely watch-
ful and vigilant. Be ever looking forward for God's
appearance. This is high expectancy.
If the devotee is not vigilant and alert Rajas and
Tamas will pull him down from the height he has
attained. Satan will easily find a loophole to enter
and work in him mischief. The mind will become
impure like the brass vessel if it is not cleansed every
day by vigorous meditation.
In youth you are enveloped in darkness. In
adolescence you are carried away by lust and are
given up to sexual pleasure. In old age you groan
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
When one has given up pleasure and pain, desire,
gain etc., and is in a state of high expectancy, not
even half a moment should be allowed to go in vain.
Time free from the sway of pleasure, pain, desire,
profit or other worldly considerations, is what every
one seeks; therefore, even half a second should not
be wasted. It should be spent in meditation on God.
Sukha is the quality of Sattva; Duhkha is the
quality of Tamas. Ichcha is the quality of Rajas.
When one has given up pleasure, pain, desire, etc.,
when one has given up the three Gunas, when he is
waiting for the appearance of the Lord in the form
in which He is requested by the devotee to appear,
even half a second should not be wasted. You should
be extremely alert. You should not sleep. Within half
a second, when your mind wanders, God may have
come and gone without your noticing Him. Maya is
very clever to take advantage of your carelessness
even for half a second. You must be intensely watch-
ful and vigilant. Be ever looking forward for God's
appearance. This is high expectancy.
If the devotee is not vigilant and alert Rajas and
Tamas will pull him down from the height he has
attained. Satan will easily find a loophole to enter
and work in him mischief. The mind will become
impure like the brass vessel if it is not cleansed every
day by vigorous meditation.
In youth you are enveloped in darkness. In
adolescence you are carried away by lust and are
given up to sexual pleasure. In old age you groan