The Importance of Samskars | Guruji's Thoughts

The Importance of Samskars | Guruji's Thoughts | 1 min.

The bad habits and tendencies that have grown upon us for the past several centuries cannot be washed off in a single day. Therefore the daily imprinting of samskars is an urgent necessity. Even the body requires to be washed daily. Then the mind which is far more susceptible to contamination requires to be purified with much more diligence and regularity, as it is continuously in contact with various evil tendencies which are in the air all around us.

When Totapuri, the Advaitic Guru of Sri Ramakrishna, was asked why even he, a realized soul, was continuing his daily routine of samskars. He replied that the mind, as long as it exists in this world, is required to be cleansed daily, just as a vessel used for drinking-water needs a daily scrubbing.

Namaste!

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