Arrest your downfall
Watch your mind and discover how long it reflects on objects of enjoyment, and how long on God. Be careful; for you may be cheated by the mind. You may imagine that you have engaged it in meditation on God; but it may give you the slip in order to chew the cud of objects of enjoyment, and you may not be even conscious of it. Therefore, watch the mind over and over again. The more you will watch it, the sooner will it come under control. Bring it back whenever it runs away, and fix it on God. Place before it, again and again, the auspicious form of God, the repository of all beauty, sweetness, glory, joy, peace and blessedness. Try to tempt it, again and again, with that enchanting Divine form.
Truly speaking, worldly objects are all frightful, they appear beautiful only on the surface. Owing to ignorance, our enemy, they appear nice and sweet, like the ball of sweet mixed with poison. But God is eternally graceful, eternally sweet. If the mind once gets even a distant view of Him, if it can taste the nectar of the transcendent beauty, it will not easily withdraw itself from there. When God will will be the object of love of mind, the lover then leaving everything will automatically move along the right path. Try to make it so. Relying on the grace of God, try again and again to merge yourself in the ocean of His Divine Essence. Through God’s grace you will succeed.
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