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In this Satsang, Ma explains how a seeker can attain ‘Chitta Prasadah’ (placidity of the mind). To have peace and placidity, a seeker must cultivate Sattva guna and abandon desires, possessiveness, clinging, ego, and all negative qualities. If he wants liberation from the shackles of the mind and intelligence, he must abandon all evil traits and cultivate noble qualities.

Scriptures like Vivekachudamani, Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangrahah, and the Bhagavad Gita, give guidance to a sincere seeker about the divine qualities to be cultivated and the undesirable traits to be eliminated. Hitopadesha says that the mind does not become purified by a bath in holy rivers. For cleansing the mind, one must have self-restraint and bathe in the Atma Nadi (Soul River), which has truth as its water, characteral virtues as its firm banks, and compassion as its ripples and waves.

The Bhagavad Gita says that fearlessness, wholesome purity, adequate attunement and abidance in spiritual wisdom, charity, sensory restraint, full dedication to the Supreme, study of scriptures, austerity and straightforwardness are divine qualities that a seeker must strive to cultivate.

Normally our mind is gripped by fear of losing something dear to us and facing something we do not want to face. Mind also undergoes fear because of undue speculation and imagination about the past or future. Everything in life—enjoyment, name, fame, beauty, youth, virtue—is coupled with fear. To have fearlessness, one must abandon ego, possessiveness, and desires and cultivate vairgaya (dispassion). Ma emphasizes that fearlessness comes only when a seeker constantly thinks: “I am the Self which is unaffected, eternal, imperishable, indivisible, One.” When he understands that everything in creation is the self alone, then fear vanishes because he realizes that there is no second factor to be fearful of.

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