Dear associates in the path,
My pranams at the holy feet of all of you who are moving
to a particular destination. I personally never like to
disturb the silence. Still certain routines have to be
done.
There are so many paths; there are so many realised
souls. Every one of them try to assist us to reach a
particular destination. This is where the problem comes.
What is our destination? I think in today’s sayings of
the Master, he says that liberation is something of a
goal that we should have minimum.
But then what is liberation? Liberation from what?
O, Master! Thou art the real goal of human life. That is
what we are asked to start and immediately we are asked
to think about our present condition that we are slaves
of wishes and the liberation that we are seeking is to
be rid of these wishes and desires. So long as we are
going to entertain the wishes and desires whatever may
be the plane to which they may belong, we are surely in
bondage. We have excuses to give and explanations to
give for not observing the Commands of the Master. For
the past two decades or two and half decades, we have
been talking about this subject often, but then, if we
evaluate our selves we find that we are lost in a maze
moving from one pole to another pole instead of moving
towards only one pole. Many of our brothers and sisters
have expressed their displeasure and discontentment in
life though they have succeeded economically and
socially which they thought is the goal. So middle of
thirties we really don’t know afterwards what to do. So
run after the same thing again and again and the day is
over again to start the next day. Attachments,
attachments to people with whom we live, attachments
with the properties that we possess, acquire more and
more materialistic desires and wants, go on creating
them and half an hour or one hour of prayer either in
the morning or in the evening according to our
convenience, we think that is good enough. I have
people who tell me who have been practicing over two
decades or three decades still telling me that my son is
there I am going there, or my daughter is there I am
going there. Go anywhere you want doesn’t matter much
but then do you meditate there? You surely eat there,
you surely drink there your coffee or tea or whatever it
be, but then do you meditate in your relative’s house,
your son’s house or your daughter’s house? Put a
question for yourself then you can say whether you have
got that determination. Simply because we go on camp to
some place, does it mean that we should not attend to
our spiritual duties? This seems to be the first
causality.
Basanth Panchami is a very auspicious day. There are
certain religious functions, I don’t say that you should
not attend them but please don’t forget that there is a
path, a straight path, a nearest path to the Ultimate
given to you by the Master and try to stick to the path.
There are some people who think their attachment to
their brothers, sisters or children is more important
than their attachment to the Master. It is all mainly
because of lack of clarity about the goal of life. Why
they don’t want to have clarity I cannot say. Every
trainer, every one of us whether he is a trainer or not
has got the enormous responsibility of spreading the
message of the Master wherever we go, but instead we
seem to get lost either in the malls or in some shops or
trying to spend time gossiping instead of talking about
noble things. Think about it, you will know how much of
time you are wasting and time is one thing that will
never repeat itself. It will go. Whether the goal is
materialistic or spiritual you have to decide for
yourself. If it is material surely you can go ahead in
the way in which you have been trained and taught but if
it is spiritual you have go to dive deep in to the heart
and try to help others to have the proper introspection
and the values. Today the world is terribly
materialistic. I don’t know how we are going to pass on
the message. Even our own organisations think about
constructing ashrams, statues, photos, what not? All
materialistic things and surely we know that that is not
the way. If we read carefully the Master’s books and
messages we have got from him we know definitely that is
not the way. But then something attracts. Colour,
glitter, glamour, taste - these are the things that
attract us most, and then the consequent problems that
arise out of them. Who can help us under these
conditions? If we put that question and Master himself
says Thou art the only God and power to bring us up to
that stage. That dependency on the Master, but
dependency on the Master in a sense that he should wake
us up in the morning, or he should make us sit in the
meditation etc. We should be in a position to pass on
the message to others without opening our mouth. The
way in which you live will be a lesson by itself for
others. Instead we seem to get converted again in to
the same materialistic extrovert thinking and behaviour.
I really do not like to talk like this because it
appears more and more of a sermon. While I know you are
serious about the goal, I also know very painfully that
you seem to get lost unnecessarily in externalities. We
do require food and therefore we require some money to
earn that, but beyond that, it has no value. If we read
Lalaji Saheb’s life, life style, the way in which he
lived, the way in which he thought, we will see how his
priorities were always towards the Divine. I have some
marriage to attend, I have some funeral to attend and
God surely can wait and my priorities are not linked to
that goal. This is the general tendency to which most of
us come to. If you are going to be with others you
should know that their thoughts and their feelings will
influence you. There is nothing wrong about it but
Satsang is most important. Any company is not Satsang.
They may be well wishers from one point of view but
there are more people who do not promote the thinking of
universal consciousness and the welfare of all. They
promote more and more individual comforts, they talk
only that. Interestingly you will be finding people who
will ask this question. Suppose if you don’t go to any
shop just as I don’t, they will definitely ask you a
question ‘Are you not in habit of going to shops, malls,
you don’t do shopping?’ They put a big question mark.
They think that we are odd but whereas I think they are
odd forgetting what they have come for. Try to
understand the type of life that Lalaji led and the type
of life that Babuji Maharaj led. Try to see whether you
can follow the same pattern. Try to see whether we can
spread the message in the real sense of the term. Few
words you can talk, I can talk any person can talk but
practice will make others see the seriousness of the
message and either they leave us or we leave them. Very
rarely we find real friends. All this is because of
materialistic desires and by the time you are 40 or 50
you are already down the hill and by 60s or 70s surely
that is not the time to start the regular practice. By
that time we should have stabilised ourselves in the
path. So start early. Those who have started early
definitely would be feeling the advantage of this. But
that sadhana should be serious and not giving excuses. Sadhana
in the Babuji’s system or Sahaj system has to be
natural, continuous, all the time we should live in the
thought of the Divine, try to develop the Divine
attributes and be some sort of a path, guide in the
path. We have institutions and maharshis everywhere, I
don’t find fault with them. It is because we many times
forget our goal then we start thinking about such
external structures, very imposing structures are there.
Trying to find spirituality in what we call in matter
which is not going to be there. At any point of time
you are not going to locate it there. The nearest way
path to God is the nearest path to our self. That is
what Babuji says because the Atman and the Brahman are
located in the same place. We have talked enough about
what is Atman and what is Brahman there is no point in
repeating it. We have to grow to the level of the
Brahman. We should feel the presence of the Divine and
that is our way of living should be that. Then you have
no time to think about divisive ways of living,
separations. When we think about the Divine, it
encompasses all, it covers all, it is Universal. There
cannot be a particular which can claim at the same time
to be a Divine but then we try to possess. Including
Gods we try to possess. This possessive tendency is one
of the problems of spirituality. We do attend several
congregations, we try to get inspiration from others who
attend the congregation, see how serious they are about
it and then we try to improve our seriousness also. But
if we forget even for a moment the presence of the
Divine in our heart, to that extent we are drifting away
from the path. My own feeling is that we should not
waste our time either in talking or speaking but we
should try to learn the language of the Divine namely
the silence and live in it and for it and by it. Then we
will be able in a position to pass on some message to
others how we can be satisfied how we can be happy.
Happiness is the goal, not the materialistic happiness
which may properly be designated as pleasure. Pleasure
is different from happiness. We may not have any
material prosperity, we may not have any possessions but
if we possess the Divine we possess everything and that
is not difficult particularly in this path it is not
difficult. Only thing that is required is your
determination. Every day we should know that we are
moving towards a physical end and we should do our best
to see that the Divine consciousness percolates through
every cell of our being. Babuji exhorts us to live like
that. He says when he talks about the message, I think
the number one of the CD, you will find him telling you
that at some stage of our development every cell of our
being gets transformed. Now, whether one cell gets
transformed or not I cannot say but he is claiming that
every cell of our being can be done, can vibrate with
the Divine consciousness. It is for you to accept the
challenge and then do your sadhana as it is expected.
You have got a goal you have committed yourself.
Nobody is compelling you to realise. It is your goal,
your choice. So be serious about your choice. Be
serious about the goal which you have chosen. That is
the only way to succeed.
Pranams.
