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When you develop Ruchi or taste for Dhyana and Japa, you will be able to sit longer for
Japa and meditation. Before going to bed, also in the morning at 4 o’clock, and before taking
meal at noon, you should do Japa and meditation. Just as you take tea three or four times a day,
so also, you should do Japa three or four times a day. Do not worry if the mind wanders. By
gradual practice, it will come under your control. Do Kirtan when the mind wanders much. Do
Nama-smaran while walking and working also¾Sri Ram, Sri Ram.
If you are not able to sit in Padmasan for long, you can sit on a sofa and do Japa and
meditation. It is not necessary that you should sit in Padmasan.
Give up onions and garlic completely. Give it up entirely. Do not prepare it at all at
home. If you try to reduce it, one day you will take a little, another day you will be tempted to
take a good quantity! A cigarette addict who wants to reduce cigarettes, takes a very few
cigarettes on some days, but on some other days he smokes heavily, with a vengeance as it were,
and more than compensates for the quantity foregone by him previously. Therefore, give up
onions completely.
If you give nice cotton seeds and oil-cakes to your cow, it will cease to graze in your
neighbour’s fields, it will give up its wandering habit in search of grass and herbs. Now your
mind is running after Rasagulla and Peda which it has tasted. But if you give the mind the bliss
of Japa and meditation, it will no more run after worldly objects. When you develop Ruchi for
Japa and meditation, the mind will give up its wandering habit.