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The spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Pune, Dada J P Vaswani was born on August 2, 1918, at Hyderabad-Sind. Being a brilliant student, he was given a number of double promotions and thus passed the the B.S. examination when just seventeen. A masters degree and fellowship at a leading college followed and Dada seemed poised at the threshold of a brilliant academic or civil services career. It was at this stage that he gave it all up and decided to follow his uncle and guru, Sadhu T.L. Vaswani, a mystic and philosopher on the spiritual path. Reaching out to people with a message of spirituality became his life mission. As editor of Excelsior magazine, he was initially met with opposition as not everyone related to the spiritual dimension. Still, he took it upon himself to write, proof read, print, get advertisements, package and post the magazine all by himself. The publications popularity grew to the extent that it surpassed the circulation of the leading daily newspaper, The Sind Observer. Ask Dada J P Vaswani |  |
I believe that you will marry the person you are destined to marry. If you explain this to yourself you will be able to get over the experience through which you are passing.
Dear Raj, the mind has acquired the habit of wandering, birth after birth, in this endless adventure of existence. Our little abhyas that we do in this birth can not make the mind ekaagar, one pointed. But a beginning is to be made and the sooner we do it the better. It has been rightly said that if we take one step closer to God, He takes ten steps to come closer to us. Let us do our part and a stage will come when we too will be able to control the mind.
It is easier for a highly emotional person to give up attachment to the world— its pleasures, possessions and power— if only the person gets attached to a holy man, a man of God. The more you feel drawn to holiness, the less is the pull you feel to the world, its attractions and allurements.
You are passing through a state of vairagya. And vairagya, inevitably, leads to moksha.
True spiritual life is being in the world but not of the world. Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa often said to his devotees: you must live in the world but you must not let worldliness enter your heart. He also said: the boat flows on the waters, but the waters must not enter the boat else the boat will sink. I believe to be spiritual is to love God with all your heart and soul— and not the world. Do the work that is allotted to you, attend to your daily chores but not for a moment feel or believe that anything or anybody belongs to you. Our children are not ours. They belong to God. He has given them to us so that we may become their care-takers. He has given us so many things but they are not ours. They are given to us for use. Let us use them wisely and well.
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