Putraishana means always thinking about the progeny, attachment to the children. Tomorrow when they grow up and do not have time for you, you are heartbroken. In reality whose children are they? They are God’s children. You were just the doorway for them to come through. But people say ” Oh my children, my children”. It gets so feverish in your mind that it clogs your thinking and you do not see what is good for them. There are so many problems and sufferings because of this aishana.
Vittaishana is a craving for money. Money is essential but being obsessed by it all the time overshadows you and you are unable to see anything beyond including love. Why worry so much about money? Have trust and say ” Let what i need be provided”. And then put your hundred percent into your work. You will see that whatever has to come will come and whatever has to be spent will be spent.
Then follows Lokaishna – “Oh what will people think about me?” You wanty to be praised by everybody in the world. You want to be famous. See people who are very famous, what is happening to them? Does their fame remain the same all the time? Some other person becomes a little more famous and it puts a lot of fire in them. They are jelous, start criticising people and become very unhappy. When you are at the peak of fame, and in trying to maintain your fame you become very uncomfortable. There is so much fear and uneasiness in you. This want of fame in order to be able to show off, for other people’s sake, for what others will say, is Lokaishana.
Surrender to God
May every act of my will be impregnated with Thy divine vitality. Ornament with Thy grace my every concept, every ex-pression, every ambition. O Divine Sculptor, chisel Thou my life to Thy design!
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Whispers from Eternity”
