Waking up/past merit/bliss & habits
Question
Dear Brother,
I hope you are doing good. I have series of questions which I request your valuable advice:
1) It is extremely difficult and painful to wake up at 4am and even more difficult to sit in meditation as I always keep on falling asleep. What advice do you have for this?
2) In my office, some people are adulterous. They club and drink and pick up each other. However, god had made them good looking, well educated and successful in their career. How can we reconcile such unfairness and how to maintain brahmacharya in such a situation?
3) Just for information sake, will the bliss that eventually starts coming be similar to the butterflies and happiness a young man gets when he meets the gal he loves? (apologies if my question is abit amateur but the highest happiness I know personally is whenever I met the gal I liked when I was much younger so I don't know anything higher than this)
4) Can we keep images of deities in our bedroom? This is because my bedroom is the place I used to surf porno and masturbate. To instill certain divinity, can I clean my room and put up deities' images or is it wrong to do so?
5) Who is worst of? A man who visits a prostitute every week once and have sex with her only once a week OR a man who masturbates 5-6 times every day?
Your advice and insights will be hugely appreciated.
Thanks alot.
Answer
1. Gradually advance the waking time by 15 minutes every fortnite. In a few months, one can wake up by 4.00 A.M if the urge for self-realization strong.
2. Ones present existence is based on the Punyam (merit) and Paapam (demerit) accrued in previous existences. Some people have some volume of merit which awards them with external things such as looks, wealth etc. As long as such merit lasts, these things last and then disappear. Then, such people like all others become very ordinary to the external eye and have to face the results of their present actions, just as they enjoyed their past merit. This world is an illusory and mysterious place where nothing which appears real is truly real.
Others might lack wealth but have Gnyana (knowledge). All these are the result of past actions. Hence the wise disregard these illusions and set their eyes only for realizing the eternal truth which awards liberation.
3. The bliss of the Atman cannot be described. It increases with spiritual advancement. That bliss of cupid which you describe is no bliss before Atmananda (bliss of the soul), for the apparent bliss of cupid leads to bondage, while the real bliss of the Atman leads to freedom.
4. Yes
5. Both float in the realm of ignorance and delusion that will end in suffering. A poison kills; does it matter which brand or color the poison belongs to? It is like comparing the devil and the deep sea.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)