Question : In ‘Sadhana Ke Anubhav’, a unique and wonderful book on spiritual practices and experiences written by Brahmaleen Param Sant Dr Chaturbhuj Sahay Ji Maharaj, there is a discussion in the 22nd chapter about the principles of Mukhya and Gaun. Could you tell us something about this principle?
Answer : In chapter 22, Param Pujya Gurudev is talking about the difficulties that arise in the spiritual path due to which we are unable to break free from the clutches of Maya. One of the difficulties is that we attach primary importance to worldly matters. Spiritual issues come a poor second. We are ready to spend time, energy, and money on worldly matters but we have no time, energy, or money for our own spiritual development. Mukhya means ‘primary’, Gaun means ‘not important’. We have money for wife and children, for fashion, cinema, restaurants etc. We have time to go to cinemas, markets, visits to relatives, trips to tourist places, etc. But we have no time or energy or money for our own spiritual progress. Because it is not a matter of prime importance for us. It is not mukhya but only gaun. In that case we cannot expect to attain complete and true knowledge, eternal bliss, eternal peace, and freedom from the cycle of births and deaths. We will get what we strived for – Maya i.e. momentary happiness and lasting sorrow, false, untrue knowledge, disease and death – in unending cycles. For attaining eternal life, eternal bliss, complete and true knowledge and complete freedom from the shackles of Maya, we have to make spiritualism the mukhya subject of our life. Everything else should be gaun. We should happily accept worldly losses if that is required for growing spiritually. We should happily sacrifice worldly benefits for spiritual gains.
We should remember that money, riches, property, name, fame, power, position, etc., are transient. They will not accompany us even till the cremation grounds. Friends and relatives will only accompany us till the cremation grounds. But what thereafter? Thereafter, satkarma, satsang and subh sanskars are the only three things that can serve us. So it is no use trying so hard to achieve these transient objects. Rather we should try as hard as possible to progress on the spiritual path because only these achievements will serve us -- before as well as after death – on this material plane as well as on the non-material plane.
We should try to live a simple life of minimum needs. We should control our desires. We should spend only minimum time, energy and money on worldly matters. Only that much without which things can’t be managed. We should reserve the balance time, energy and money for making spiritual progress.
We should also try to avoid the company of materialistic people to the extent practical and feasible. Because they dump a lot of negativity from their huge stocks on us even within a very short time. Those negative things pull us strongly back to the materialistic world.
By following the teachings of our Guru and treading this path carefully, we will be able to achieve eternal bliss, eternal life, complete and true knowledge and freedom from the cycle of births and deaths.
We should also try to avoid the company of materialistic people to the extent practical and feasible. Because they dump a lot of negativity from their huge stocks on us even within a very short time. Those negative things pull us strongly back to the materialistic world.
By following the teachings of our Guru and treading this path carefully, we will be able to achieve eternal bliss, eternal life, complete and true knowledge and freedom from the cycle of births and deaths.
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