What is Your Heart Saying?

Satsang by Gautam Baiji

How can we make the right choices in life?

When you see a small child or baby, maybe one or two years old, whatever comes into his hands makes it into his mouth. He doesn't care if it's a pen, or paper, whether it's edible or not.

Pen and paper are not edible, but he doesn't know that. Whether it's good for him or not, he doesn't know. 

The same baby, when he's four or five years old, he never tries to do that anymore.

Why?

He has knowledge of what he should eat and not eat. Even if you try to force him, or say, "This pencil is so good and colorful" but no, he knows this is a thing he should not eat.

The same applies when we ask ourselves if this or that karma is good for us or bad for us.

We know if we do the right thing, we'll get happiness, and if we do the wrong thing, we will not get happiness.

How can we get happiness? We need the knowledge of what is good and bad.

How? Check your heart. What is your heart saying?

Our intuition will tell us what words to use, what foods to eat. If we have a sugar problem, or high blood pressure, or a cholesterol problem, and you are eating fried food a lot, you are enjoying it but your inner voice is saying, "Careful, okay? Don't each too much of this." 

But your senses are saying, "No no, it's okay now. Tonight I will walk for two miles or three miles. Just enjoy the kachori, enjoy the pakora... and what happens? We are ignoring the inner voice who knows.

Why? Because we are so involved with the crowd, we don't hear the voice.

We have a small clock here. When it's quiet here, you can hear and even feel the TOCK TOCK TOCK like somebody is cutting wood! If you are sitting here peacefully, it is so loud. 

Now we can't hear anything because there is too much outside noise.

The same way: when we get too involved with the worldly things, with our senses, we can't hear what our soul is saying. We ignore it. And again and again, we get pain and sorrows. 

So how can we get rid of the obstacles? 

(to be continued)