A gardener has a small piece of barren land. He wants to convert it into a beautiful garden. So he has to prepare the land, remove the weeds and rocks, mix the earth, break the dry earth and prepare the ground. When the soil is ready, he brings the seeds, plants them and looks after them until they are able to flower and give fruit.
If a gardener goes through such a process to create a garden of his liking, then why don’t you bring this concept of gardening into your life?
Therefore, the theme of today is: become a gardener of your life. The moment you can become a gardener of your life, your life potentials will develop spontaneously, automatically, naturally, for they are contained, inherent inside, waiting for the right opportunity to manifest. You have to give this right opportunity to yourself.
When you are running around in your life, what is the aim behind it? Is it success, economic security, becoming famous in society, playing a positive role in the evolution and creation of society? Whatever effort a person makes, the aim behind it is that there be name, fame, happiness, contentment, prosperity, peace.
This is what you wish for in your race in life, from birth to death. The mental conditioning created as a result of this wish proves to be a hindrance in the development of your mind. The central point of yoga is development of the human mind. This aim should be considered the foundation of yoga, and the method of mind development in yoga is related to your behavioural, social, and material life.

 

 

If you can understand this relationship, then, according to yoga, life becomes meaningful and you can identify your intentions and goals.
The basic character of a human being is to seek material, financial, emotional, intellectual and social fulfilment. The drive and effort of everyone is to attain prosperity. Prosperity is a goal of life, fulfilment and satisfaction are goals of life, and your effort is to experience the goal. When the search for prosperity, peace and contentment falter, the results are undesirable.
You have to come back to the basic idea – your life. You have to see your mind as a field on which you can work. If you simply ignore the field and do not cultivate the good, the appropriate, eventually what will happen is there will be an overgrowth of weeds and the land will become unusable for some time until you are able to remove the weeds.

Yoga Sadhana Panorama vol 8, page 25, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati

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A gardener has a small piece of barren land. He wants to convert it into a beautiful garden. So he has to prepare the land, remove the weeds and rocks, mix the earth, break the dry earth and prepare the ground. When the soil is ready, he brings the seeds, plants them and looks after them until they are able to flower and give fruit.
If a gardener goes through such a process to create a garden of his liking, then why don’t you bring this concept of gardening into your life?
Therefore, the theme of today is: become a gardener of your life. The moment you can become a gardener of your life, your life potentials will develop spontaneously, automatically, naturally, for they are contained, inherent inside, waiting for the right opportunity to manifest. You have to give this right opportunity to yourself.
When you are running around in your life, what is the aim behind it? Is it success, economic security, becoming famous in society, playing a positive role in the evolution and creation of society? Whatever effort a person makes, the aim behind it is that there be name, fame, happiness, contentment, prosperity, peace.
This is what you wish for in your race in life, from birth to death. The mental conditioning created as a result of this wish proves to be a hindrance in the development of your mind. The central point of yoga is development of the human mind. This aim should be considered the foundation of yoga, and the method of mind development in yoga is related to your behavioural, social, and material life.

 

 

If you can understand this relationship, then, according to yoga, life becomes meaningful and you can identify your intentions and goals.
The basic character of a human being is to seek material, financial, emotional, intellectual and social fulfilment. The drive and effort of everyone is to attain prosperity. Prosperity is a goal of life, fulfilment and satisfaction are goals of life, and your effort is to experience the goal. When the search for prosperity, peace and contentment falter, the results are undesirable.
You have to come back to the basic idea – your life. You have to see your mind as a field on which you can work. If you simply ignore the field and do not cultivate the good, the appropriate, eventually what will happen is there will be an overgrowth of weeds and the land will become unusable for some time until you are able to remove the weeds.

Yoga Sadhana Panorama vol 8, page 25, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati