Sadhana karu Pyare Part-4

In this episode of the series of discourses on Kripaluji Maharaj's kirtan "Sadhana Karu Pyare"(साधना करु प्यारे), Swami Mukundananda talks about desires and acquiring higher desires for God.
Giving up desire is only half the story. When the scriptures say, "give up desire" it means give up the degrading kinds of desires-those that pull the mind down. They don't say, give up the desire for God or God's knowledge. These are the right kind of desires. Those desires have to be enhanced. That after all, is spirituality and devotion.

Sadhana Karu Pyare Part-3

In the third episode of the series of discourses on Kripaluji Maharaj's kirtan "Sadhana Karu Pyare"(साधना करु प्यारे), Swami Mukundananda says that in order to conquer mind we need God's grace. For that we need to take mind towards God or meditate upon God. He emphasizes that, the proper form of meditation is to meditate upon the form of God. This is also the way to conquer or tame the mind.

                               प्रथम करु हरि ध्यान मन ते, जैसी रूचि हो प्यारे ।
                               ध्यान ही है साधना का, प्राण जीवन प्यारे ।
                               ध्यान बिनु सब साधना है, प्राण बिनु तनु प्यारे ।
                               मन को जो भाये बना लो, रूप वैसा प्यारे ।
                               सामने हरि को बिठा कर, साधना करू प्यारे ।