tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53078819069180988602024-03-04T20:41:15.665-08:00GurukripayogaSeemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-67557380503060246212016-01-18T02:31:00.003-08:002016-01-18T02:31:48.409-08:00GURU BHAKTI <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You will find in the Gita: “Learn thou this by discipleship, by enquiry and by service. The wise, the seers of the essence of things, will instruct thee in wisdom.” (Chapter IV – Verse 34.)</div>
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The guru must not only be a Brahma-srotriya (well-versed) , but a Brahma-nista (established in Brahman) as well. Mere study of books cannot make one a guru. One who has studied the vedas and who has direct knowledge of the Atman, through anubhava (direct experience), is a guru. If you find peace in the presence of a holy man (mahatma) and if your doubts are removed in his presence, you can take him as your guru. When the guru gives the mantra to his disciples, he gives with it his own power.</div>
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Just as water flows in a river, so also jnana (knowledge) and bhakti (devotion) are ever flowing from a sage. Only a thirsty man drinks water. So too, a thirsty aspirant, who has implicit faith in his guru and is eager to imbibe his teachings can drink the nectar from him. The student can imbibe from his guru only in proportion to the intensity of his faith in him.</div>
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The guru tests the students in various ways. Some students misunderstand him and lose their faith in him. Hence they are not benefited. But those that stand the tests boldly come out successful in the end.</div>
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The periodical examinations in the `University of Sages’ are very stiff indeed. Once a great sage (Gorakhnath) asked some students to climb a tall tree and throw themselves head downwards onto a very sharp trident (trisula). Many of the faithless students kept quiet. But one faithful student at once climbed up the tree with lightning speed and hurled himself down. He was protected by the invisible hand of the sage and had immediate Self-realisation. This man had no deha-adhyasa (feeling, “I am body”), but the others had strong attachment for their bodies.</div>
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Once Guru Govind Singh tested his students. He said: “My dear disciples, if you have real devotion towards me, let six of you come forward and give me your heads.” Two faithful disciples offered their heads.</div>
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Many people debate over the necessity for having a guru. Some assert vehemently that it is not necessary to have a guru for spiritual advancement and that one can attain Self-realisation through one’s own efforts only. No spiritual progress is possible unless a man gets the benign grace and direct guidance of a spiritual preceptor.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-56062166789870211622015-11-15T10:02:00.000-08:002015-11-15T10:02:20.993-08:00DEEKSHA or Spiritual awakening by a GURU by Swami Vivekananda <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most of the great sages and seers of the world had little or no formal education. The status of the spiritual evolution of the inner self is independent of formal education or the regularly measured text book Intelligence quotient of the person.<br />The transmission of spirituality/ spiritual knowledge from Guru to disciple takes place at the level of the subconscious and unconscious cores of the mind and self (Chitta and Ahamkara). Therefore, an interaction between Guru and the disciple on the wisdom of spirituality is not an exchange of knowledge through word of mouth as in the case of regular text book knowledge that is communicated via the intellect.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sacramental rite of ‘spiritual initiation” or (Deeksha) has been assigned a great status amongst all religions. In the process of initiation, a noble Guru uses his awakened spiritual power to interact with the disciple at great depths of the subconscious levels. He transmits bio-electric currents of his own spiritually activated life force into the sub-conscious life force of the disciple. These seeds of bio electric currents of the Gurus life force when nourished by the disciple can grow and fructify in a short time.</span></div>
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The wisdom of spirituality given by a competent Guru is never wasted. A noble Guru bestows “Shaktipata” (extra sensory transmission of spiritual power) upon deserving disciples. The secret process of “Shaktipata” can bring a metamorphosis in the entire personality of the disciple. Many Yogis in India are aware of the awakening of “Kundalini” (also known as serpentine fire or the source of miraculous vital spiritual energy) of man by simply touching the persons head. The author here has personally come across great spiritual masters and Yogis , who can electrify their bodies by activating the hidden force of the tremendous soul power(Atma Teja).In this state ,touching the bio electrically charged body of the sage gives you a shock like that of touching a live wire.</div>
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In our day to day living, we must not miss opportunities of interaction with spiritually evolved and virtuous persons. They bring to our lives the “Midas touch” –turning metal to gold OR in this case enabling the common man to communicate with God. </div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-50253532895669817292015-11-15T10:01:00.000-08:002015-11-15T10:01:01.335-08:00Qualities of real Guru<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Swami Vivekananda further elaborates on the theme of what defines a real spiritual Guide, Teacher or Guru ?</div>
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"<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7652602343253601916" style="color: #1594ff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Now in intellectual development we can get much help from books, but in spiritual development, almost nothing. </span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7652602343253601916" style="color: #1594ff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In studying books, sometimes we are deluded into thinking that we are being spiritually helped; but if we analyse ourselves, we shall find that only our intellect has been helped, and not the spirit. That is the reason why almost everyone of us can speak most wonderfully on spiritual subjects, but when the time of action comes, we find ourselves so woefully deficient. It is because books cannot give us that impulse from outside. To quicken the spirit, that impulse must come from another soul.</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7652602343253601916" style="color: #1594ff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">That soul from which this impulse comes is called the Guru, the teacher; and the soul to which the impulse is conveyed is called the disciple, the student. In order to convey this impulse, in the first place, the soul from which it comes must possess the power of transmitting it, as it were, to another; and in the second place, the object to which it is transmitted must be fit to receive it. </span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7652602343253601916" style="color: #1594ff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The seed must be a living seed, and the field must be ready ploughed; and when both these conditions are fulfilled, a wonderful growth of religion takes place. "The speaker of religion must be wonderful, so must the hearer be"; and when both of these are really wonderful, extraordinary, then alone will splendid spiritual growth come, and not otherwise. </span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">How are we to know a teacher then? In the first place, the sun requires no torch to make it visible. We do not light a candle to see the sun. When the sun rises, we instinctively become aware of its rising; and when a teacher of men comes to help us, the soul will instinctively know that it has found the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Truth stands on its own evidences; it does not require any other testimony to attest it; it is self-effulgent. It penetrates into the inmost recesses of our nature, and the whole universe stands up and says, "This is Truth." These are the very great teachers, but we can get help from the lesser ones also; and as we ourselves are not always sufficiently intuitive to be certain of our judgment of the man from whom we receive, there ought to be certain tests. There are certain conditions necessary in the taught, and also in the teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>In the teacher we must first see that he knows the secret of the scriptures.</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole world reads scriptures — Bibles, Vedas, The Koran and others; but they are only words, external arrangement, syntax, the etymology, the philology, the dry bones of religion. The teacher may be able to find what is the age of any book, but words are only the external forms in which things come. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Those who deal too much in words and let the mind run always in the force of words lose the spirit. So the teacher must be able to know the <span style="color: #0b5394;">spirit of the scriptures.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The second condition necessary in the teacher is that he must be sinless.</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The question was once asked me in England by a friend, "Why should we look to the personality of a teacher? For the knowledge that the physical sciences require is simply intellectual and depends on intellectual strength; a man can have in such a case a gigantic intellectual power without the least development of his soul. But in the spiritual sciences it is impossible from first to last that there can be any spiritual light in that soul which is impure. What can such a soul teach? It knows nothing. Spiritual truth is purity. Therefore in the teacher of spirituality, purity is the one thing indispensable; we must see first what he is, and then what he says. </span></div>
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To give a simile: If a heater is hot, it can convey heat vibrations, but if not, it is impossible to do so. Even so is the case with the mental vibrations of the religious teacher which he conveys to the mind of the taught. It is a question of transference, and not of stimulating only our intellectual faculties. Some power, real and tangible, goes out from the teacher and begins to grow in the mind of the taught. Therefore the necessary condition is that the teacher must be true. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The third condition is motive. </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We should see that he does not teach with any ulterior motive, for name, or fame, or anything else, but simply for love, pure love for you. When spiritual forces are transmitted from the teacher to the taught, they can only be conveyed through the medium of love; there is no other medium that can convey them. Any other motive, such as gain or name, would immediately destroy the conveying medium; therefore all must be done through love. One who has known God can alone be a teacher. When you see that in the teacher these conditions are fulfilled, you are safe; if they are not fulfilled, it is unwise to accept him. There is a great risk, if he cannot convey goodness, of his conveying wickedness sometimes. This must be guarded against; therefore it naturally follows that we cannot be taught by anybody and everybody.</span></div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-39666559195040345642015-09-24T20:45:00.000-07:002015-09-24T20:45:11.425-07:00Dealing with major negative attributes, First the "EGO"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The ego is a kind of absence. Because you don’t know yourself, hence the ego. The moment you know yourself, no ego is found. The ego is like darkness; darkness has no positive existence of its own; it is simply the absence of light. You cannot fight with darkness, or can you? You cannot throw darkness out of the room; you cannot take it out, you cannot take it in. You cannot do anything with darkness directly. If you want to do anything with darkness, you will have to do something with light. If you put the light on, there is no darkness. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">try to see where the ego is. Look deep into it; try to locate it, where it exists, whether it exists at all or not. Before one can sacrifice anything one must be certain about its existence.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Be alert, watchful. Watch the ways of the ego, how it functions, how it manages at all.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The word self-respect may create doubts in your mind because self-respect seems to again mean the ego. It is not so. You have to understand both words, self and respect; both are significant.</span><br />
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Self is that which you are born with. Ego is that which you accumulate; ego is your achievement.Self is a gift of existence to you. You have not done anything to earn it, you have not achieved it; hence nobody can take it away from you. That is impossible because it is your nature, your very being.</div>
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Ego is all that you go on accumulating through education, manners, civilization, culture, schools, colleges, universities… You go accumulating it. It is your effort, you have made it, and you have made it so big that you have completely forgotten your real self.To know the real self is enough: the ego falls flat on the ground without any effort to surrender it. Unless the ego falls on its own, without your effort, it is not going to leave you..The light comes in, the light goes out; it has positive existence. You can light a candle and there is no darkness; you can blow out the candle and there is darkness. To do anything with darkness, you will have to do something with light. The light of knowledge from masters Especially a living Master. </div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-58373145491193646732015-07-28T10:22:00.000-07:002015-07-28T10:22:00.125-07:00Guru Purnima its Importance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Guru poornima is the day to witness completeness of the Guru. The Guru gets his completeness or reaches his peak by spreading the messages and practices of his Guru and when Guru devotes his life completely for the spiritual upliftment of humanity, he himself also reaches his full potential. On this day we surrender to this completeness of the Guru. On this day , one must serve and convey gratitude to all such Gurus who are imparting knowledge and are trying to remove the ignorance. This poornima is known as Vyas Poornima. Maharshi Vyas belongs to a lineage of great ascetics and from his own experience, he himself started Guru poojan so that common person also should get the same divine experience. This is a rich culture of India where we worship those who give us knowledge or help us to serve Divinity. On occasion of Guru poornima, the disciple must perform three duties. First, Guru darshan, spending the day with Guru, being in his company, meeting him physically. Second is Guru poojan. While doing Guru poojan, one must have maximum mental purity, love, and only thought of how can I spend more time with my Guru or hear his divine discourses. Rather than just seeing him from a distance, we should try and meet the Guru personally and spend some time in his presence. Serving Guru selflessly is considered greatest Guru worship. The disciples who await eagerly for this day, who are eager to touch Guru's feet with complete surrender and devotion receive immense benefit.<br />
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There are many benefits of Guru darshan, but there is much more benefit in listening to Guru upadesh and trying to follow it. This is the third duty that a disciple must perform on this day. This is the day to make the rule to implement Guru's teaching and how you can follow this rule all your life. </div>
Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-15696793277732714192015-07-28T09:51:00.000-07:002015-07-28T09:51:05.721-07:00Guru Parampara <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A day to celebrate the beautiful relationship between a Guru and a Shishya. All other relationships are mere bonds of karma, roles in a play of life. Except the relationship between spiritual Guru and Shishya.Its divine love, its divine help, its divine guidance, its divine support and its purest of pure divine concern for all the souls living life of pain, suffering and ignorance.<br />
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Guru parampara is an ancient tradition in India. Its said that after creating the creation and humanity, when the divinity felt the need to guide humanity, the divine forces incarnated as Gurus to guide humans out of ignorance. Since coming of avatar to guide is not possible all the time, hence not only the Incarnations of Divinity took role of Guru, but also accepted and surrendered to some or other Guru themselves, reinforcing the importance of a Guru for spiritual enlightenment. This divine tradition was started by none other than Lord Shiva himself. And since the entire Guru parampara started with Lord Shiva, it got the honour of Guru poojan. All those Gurus who belong to some parampara or lineage of Gurus should be considered as image of SHIVA Himself. Hence Gurus ANUGRAHA should be respected by holding it in very high regards. Many Avatars, siddhas and realized souls have kept this ancient tradition of guru Parampara alive.<br />
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Every real disciple actually belongs to some or other Guru Parampara through his/her link with a "Living Guru" there is nothimg like stand alone Guru. The Guru is actually an active divinity on planet and belongs to GuruTatva a specialized branch of Divinity. This Parampara is started by DIVINITY especially for those who have faith in divinity , have devotion, have inclination to sadhana or practice to improve themselves, have liking for worship, so that they get guidance, feel relief, feel assurance, and gain confidence. Those who do not accept Guru, do not have Guru, who do not worship or devout to Guru will struggle to get lasting peace, happiness or balance.<br />
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To accept or decline this help is completely matter of free will of a person, the opportunities will come, the help will come in the form of a living Guru, to recognize a genuine Guru an then to surrender to him are two extremely difficult tests that a genuine seeker has to give. If you miss its completely your loss, if you delay its completely your own ignorance, if you land up with a crook its completely your bad choice.<br />
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Let me tell you in a nutshell what paramartha is. It is, in essence, going through worldly life without having a sense of attachment for any worldly thing or matter. We remain unaffected by pleasure and pain when we realize that what we call our prapancha really belongs to God, who gave it us. This can be easily achieved by constantly keeping on the lips the nama given to us by the sadguru.<br />That person alone can be called a sadguru who himself has and will lead us to, a permanent sense of contentment. This applies to all sadgurus in all places at all times. Do not attach value to his look and physique, but judge him by his teaching. The sadhana he prescribes should be carried out diligently. To do so is, indeed, paramartha. If you make an alteration in the prescribed thing, it will only mean that your ego still persists, and anything done egoistically is doomed to failure. So first bury your ego and place complete trust in the sadguru.<br />True paramartha does not consist in empty prattle or lofty preaching to others; it is for one’s own sake. In fact, the less known it is to others the better. Public esteem is of no use, actually harmful. To be misled into feeling false greatness is injurious to our purpose.<br />One person opens a confectionery shop, another may sell coal. What difference does it make, so long as the business is profitable? Similarly, worldly status is of no count; what matters is the advancement in paramartha.<br />Any worldly situation can be put to use in paramartha, so long as our approach is same and steady. Control of mind coupled with strong devotion is what is of real consequence.<br />Paramartha, in fact, is easy to achieve. The fun is that it is neglected, not seriously attempted, merely because of its very simplicity. Remember that prapancha is by no means an impediment to paramartha; it can, in fact, be turned into a good aid. All that a sadhaka has to do is to accept his duties as prarabdha and carry them out to the best of his ability, and apply the mind devotedly to God. Let Him be ever in your heart, His name on your lips, and the body employed in doing your duties in prapancha: this, is, in essence, paramartha.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-82111465049434875992015-04-21T17:53:00.001-07:002015-04-21T17:53:43.651-07:00Obey the Sadguru Implicitly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A pure motive is that which looks for neither return nor reward. That is what true devotion must be. Building temples, worshipping, and similar service, japa, and such other things, do not of themselves constitute true devotion if there is the least thought of any return. It should all be for its own sake. With most people devotional duties are merely routine, mechanical acts, carried out by practice, or because of tradition; they should spring from genuine, burning love for God. Action without genuine feeling is as useless as feeling not put into action. We try to carry out whatever is prescribed by the scriptures or the sadguru without imbibing the spirit of them. Such things, therefore, fail to wear out the ego; on the contrary, they feed and fatten it. We should, therefore, implicitly and honestly, carry out the sadhana prescribed by the sadguru. Merely doing something out of the way is of no avail.<br />Spiritualism does not mean giving up normalcy of conduct; it simply means not getting mentally or emotionally involved in worldly matters. What did Arjuna do? He took Lord Krishna not only as the chariot-driver, but as a guide and mentor; and wherever He took the chariot, Arjuna simply shot arrows at the target indicated. So, too, should we do; we should hand over the reins of our life and being to the sadguru, and thenceforward do nothing more than obey him.<br />Remember that one who expects nothing from the world, neither money nor recognition, will always stand distinguished from the rest. When we pick up a coin, we have both the obverse and the reverse in hand; so, when we take up prapancha, following paramartha becomes obligatory. Paramartha pre-supposes faith in God; this the sadguru grants and confirms by giving us nama. chant the name given by the sadguru. It is essential that we repeat this nama with perseverance and faith. Paramartha is brought to fruition by ceaseless nama-smarana; it gives contentment in prapancha, and fulfils the very purpose of human life.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-60027769350680621942015-04-21T17:39:00.001-07:002015-04-21T17:39:21.344-07:00True Service to the Guru<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What after all, is the object of meditation, prayer, religious mortification, rules, sacrifices, etc. ? The attainment of God, or guru. If He Himself comes to you, where is the need for all the effort of sadhanas? Not only is all that not required but, if undertaken, it may only lead to pride of doership, which will actually injure the purpose. Now that you have submitted to guru, accept with gladness whatever happens, treating everything as his doing and will. See my hand in everything that happens, everything you do.<br />What do you think is real devotion to the guru? It does not consist only in bodily service, but, in implicit obedience to him. Of those who come to me, most have in their mind some worldly object –like financial betterment, a child, cure from illness, and so on. In effect, they come not to serve but to be served. You should come not for having a worldly desire fulfilled, but to seek the true fruition of human life. Occasionally I may grant a little of what a disciple desires, but it may be only like beguiling a child with candy to make it take a medicine.<br />That you ascribe omniscience to me is only superficial; if it were earnest, you would take care to do nothing underhand or sinful. Only he who has completely identified himself with me can really feel that I am truly omniscient. Surrendering yourself to the guru implies, nay, necessitates, that your mind completely merges with mine; if you achieve that you are in effect with me even if you are physically away, at a distance. I would like you to be free and frank with me, like a child with its mother. Open your heart to me. What trouble and expense you undergo to come here to meet me! And yet, when you return ‘home’, you go with empty hands; and it is this that pains me most. What you have really to pick up from me is love for God; and this is what you cannot obtain elsewhere.<br />Shri Gondawalekar maharaj</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-30957007149810966482015-04-08T10:37:00.003-07:002015-04-08T10:40:15.366-07:00What the Sadguru Does for the Disciple as told by Gondawalekar Maharaj<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Only he can be said to have truly found a sadguru who feels that he has reached the end of his quest and that there is nothing more to be achieved. A man in good worldly circumstances may feel there is nothing more to be desired, but there is no real respite for a mind which continues to hover over and hanker after one worldly thing and another.<br />
The guru, after all, is what the disciple thinks of him. If the disciple approaches him in unreserved surrender, he takes the disciple under his unreserved guidance and protection. The guru is, indeed, the divine name Incarnate. True sadhana consists in obeying him implicitly, literally.<br />
No saint lives in the body for all time. What is important about a saint is his yearning for God. Many people do meet a saint, but derive no benefit because they fail to understand the importance of association with him. Duty performed selflessly leads eventually to complete annihilation of all expectation. The sadguru indicates to us what our duty is.<br />
You may own a motor car, but, if it is without a proper driver, it may run into trouble. Even a simple bullock cart cannot be driven by a raw novice, even if he owns it. Man conducts his worldly affairs without proper guidance, and lands himself into trouble. If you place the sadguru at the helm, he steers you safely, clear of all obstructions. All you have to do is to keep yourself constantly absorbed in consciousness of God, and rest carefree with trust in the sadguru; then you will be protected by him from danger. You will come to realise that whatever you are destined to get will automatically come — no more, no less; and this will eventually destroy all desire to have or not to have. Thereby you will realise that everything happens by divine will and dispensation. This will give you complete contentment. But all this can only happen if you are pure at heart.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-48687351578511125352015-03-30T20:10:00.000-07:002015-03-30T20:14:53.647-07:00Importance of nama Japa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
That way one can chant any name of God for spiritual progress, but few know the truth that<br />
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The question is often raised if one may begin to repeat a nama of one’s own choice, or must one be first initiated by a sadguru and assigned a specific nama which he should then repeat? Nama is self-existent and complete in itself, and needs nothing else to make it perfect. And yet, nama imparted by a sadguru certainly is something very special, distinctive, in that it is reinforced by his spiritual strength and support, and consequently there is no scope for pride of doership to rise in the sadhaka’s mind. When a sadhaka repeats nama imparted by a sadguru, he gradually develops a relish, a zest for it, and in due course, derives a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. It is therefore highly desirable that nama should be obtained by initiation by a spiritual master, a sadguru. However, till we meet a sadguru we must keep on repeating the nama of our choice; for, this itself will expedite our meeting the sadguru.<br />
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-40409729983207691342015-02-16T09:20:00.001-08:002015-02-16T09:20:43.928-08:00SHIVARATRI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
That way one should offer prayers, love and gratitude to divinity every single day. But special days have certain importance. Whatever knowledge I have recieved from my Guruji Naushir gives this festival a deeper meaning.<br />
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Therefore worship him, worship his feet,<br />
cherish the sandals which house his feet, the<br />
paduka. Just as the essence of Speech is there<br />
below in the basic centre, muladhara, just as the<br />
lowest in the rung - the sudras and the like - are<br />
the effective instrumentations, similarly in the<br />
Ocean of Kula all knowledge is founded on the<br />
paduka. Remember and cherish this paduka<br />
which yields infinitely more merit than any<br />
number of observances, gifts, sacrifices, pilgrimages,<br />
mantra-japa and rituals of worship. It is<br />
that which, remembered, protects in times<br />
of distress and danger and calamity. Study,<br />
remembrance, knowledge, donations and sacrifices<br />
and worship are truly done by him who<br />
ever remembers on the tip of his tongue the<br />
Mantra of this paduka. Look towards the direction<br />
in which the lotus feet of the Guru lie and<br />
bow to it every day with devotion. There is no<br />
mantra higher than that of the paduka, no god<br />
higher than the Guru, no initiation than that of<br />
the Sakta and no merit higher than the Kula<br />
worship. At the root of dhyana is the form of<br />
the Guru; at the root of puja is the feet of the<br />
Guru; at the root of the mantra is the word of<br />
the Guru and at the root of all liberation is the<br />
grace of the Guru. In this world all holy actions<br />
are rooted in the Guru; therefore is the Guru to<br />
be constantly served with devotion for fulfil,<br />
ment. All fear of distress, grief, avarice<br />
delusion, bewilderment, exists only as long as<br />
one does not take refuge in the Guru All<br />
wanderings in samsara fraught with grief and<br />
impurity last as long as one has no devotion to a<br />
holy Guru. The beautiful mantra of the paduka<br />
whose root is in the grace of the Guru, loaded<br />
with the fruit of all fulfilment purifies and leads<br />
to the supreme Truth. As the boon-giving Guru<br />
gives the mantra in contentment and beatitude,<br />
try to please him with devotion, wealth, your<br />
very life. Indeed, it is only when the high Guru<br />
gives himself to the disciple that he becomes<br />
liberated, free from birth. The disciple should<br />
wait upon him till he gets pleased, for once he is<br />
pleased, all the sins drop away. These lovers<br />
of the devoted get for their dependents what<br />
they may not even hope for. When the Guru is<br />
pleased, even Gods like Brahma, Vishnu,<br />
Mahesha, sages and yogins, bestow their grace.<br />
Directed by the compassionate Guru who is<br />
pleased with devotion, the disciple attains<br />
liberation from karma and becomes eligible to<br />
both freedom and fulfilment.<br />
Hence shall the disciple do what is pleasing<br />
to the Guru, by his mind, speech, body and<br />
action. When the Guru so pleased says, 'You<br />
are freed,' indeed, one attains to liberation.<br />
From his transcendent station, the Lord in the<br />
form of the Guru frees one from the bonds of the<br />
pasu. Devotion to the Guru is the one main<br />
truth; without that all learning, all austerity,<br />
family status, observances are useless; they are<br />
only decorations pleasing to the worldly eye.<br />
Whatever one's station is in life, if he be devoted, DEVOTION TO GURU 79<br />
he is dear to the Lord and as adorable as the<br />
Lord Himself.<br />
The fire of devotion to the Guru burns awayall<br />
taint of bad thought. With devotion even a<br />
cooker of kine is laudable and a learned man<br />
without it is an atheist. He who has complete<br />
devotion, steady and constant in the Guru, what<br />
has he to worry about dharma, artha etc.?<br />
Moksha is in the hollow of his palm. For him<br />
who devotedly remembers, "M y Guru is Shiva<br />
Himself who grants liberation and enjoyment",<br />
fulfilment is not far off All objects fructify in<br />
him who has supreme devotion to the Lord and<br />
as to the Lord so to the Guru. As to Narayana,<br />
to Mahadeva, to one's own mother and father, so<br />
is devotion to be had to one's own Guru. Look<br />
upon the Guru and his wife as your parents, as<br />
the very Narayana and Lakshmi, as Brahma and<br />
Saraswati, as Shiva and Girija. Not by sacrifice,<br />
gifts, askesis, pilgrimage are all siddhis obtained<br />
in the manner they are by devotion to the Guru.<br />
As the steady devotion for the Guru grows, so<br />
grows one's knowledge.<br />
Why the pains of long pilgrimages? Why<br />
the observances that emaciate the body? All the<br />
fruit anticipated from such austerities can be<br />
easily obtained by motiveless service to the<br />
Guru. The Sruti declares that for those who<br />
seek for fulfilment and liberation, who aspire to<br />
attain to Brahma, Vishnu and Isha, devotion to<br />
the Guru is the Path and no other. Like fire<br />
consuming a whole heap of cotton, this devotion<br />
burns away in a moment all inauspicious karma<br />
and great sins. Glory to that faith in the Guru,<br />
giver of all fulfilments, by which even mud,<br />
wood and stone yield fruit without fail. Neither 80 KULARNAVA TANTRA<br />
yoga nor tapas nor ritual of worship attain;<br />
here in this Path of Kula, free from Maya, only<br />
bhakti excels. When the entire universe is<br />
looked upon as pervaded by the Guru, what<br />
Mantra can fail to fructify in that field of the<br />
devoted ? To perdition he goes who regards the<br />
Guru as human, the Mantra as mere letters and<br />
the Images as stone. Never look upon the Guru<br />
as a mortal. Should you do so then neither<br />
Mantra nor worship can give you success. Do<br />
not associate the holy Guru with the ordinary<br />
folk either in your remembrance or in talk.<br />
Otherwise all the good that is done turns into<br />
evil. The parents are indeed to be adored with<br />
all effort because they are the cause of your<br />
birth. But the one to be worshipped especially<br />
is the Guru who shows what is Dharma and<br />
what is not.* Indeed, the Guru is the father,<br />
Guru is the Mother, Guru is God Maheshwara<br />
Himself. Even when God Shiva is wroth, the<br />
Guru is the saviour; but when the Guru himself<br />
is angered, there is none to save. By mind, by<br />
speech, by the body, by action, do what is helpful<br />
to the Guru; to do what is contrary to his<br />
well being is to invite a precipitous fall. Death<br />
follows the forsaking of the Mantra; wretched<br />
poverty follows the forsaking of the Guru;<br />
forsaking of both the Guru and the Mantra leads<br />
to the very hell. Bear the body for the sake of the<br />
Guru; acquire wealth for the sake of the Guru;<br />
exert yourself for the Guru regardless of your<br />
own life. If the Guru speaks harshly take it as<br />
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a benediction; even a beating from him take as<br />
a gift. Whatever objects of enjoyment there be,<br />
offer them first to the Guru and take to them as<br />
his leavings.<br />
When the Guru is present no tapas is<br />
necessary; neither is fasting nor observances;<br />
neither pilgrimage nor purificatory bath. To<br />
the Guru, you shall not command nor talk in the<br />
singular; with the Guru you shall not transact<br />
any business of purchase and sale or borrow and<br />
lend.<br />
Do not enter into argument with the deniers<br />
of God nor even talk to them; avoid them from<br />
afar; do not sit in their company at any time.<br />
When the Guru is present, do not proceed to<br />
worship another; that worship will prove<br />
fruitless When you hold the lotus of his feet on<br />
your head, you have no burden to carry. You<br />
have only to act as per his command; for the<br />
Guru is indeed the command.<br />
What you hear elsewhere regarding Mantras<br />
and Agamas report to him and accept only what<br />
is approved by him and reject what is not.<br />
What he speaks from his own knowledge, do not<br />
speak of that secret to others; to talk of it is to<br />
break the understanding. Feel one with the<br />
Guru and not as another; and do good to all as<br />
your own.<br />
Service to the Guru is fourfold: service by<br />
self, service by means, service by honouring,<br />
service by happy feeling Please the Guru with<br />
your mind dedicated to his service. The fruit<br />
obtained is the same as from great sacrifices like<br />
the Ashwamedha Such service invites the Grace<br />
of the Divine Mother. If service is accompanied<br />
with a happy devotion it brings in its train all<br />
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fulfilment; the sins dwindl e awa y and merit<br />
grows by leaps and bounds. Whateve r is conducive<br />
to yourself tur n tha t conducive to him.<br />
Service done with devotion according to one's<br />
means ha s th e same merit whethe r little o r<br />
much, whethe r by the rich or th e poor. Even if<br />
you give th e whol e of you r wealt h to the Guru<br />
but without devotion, then the fruit wil l not accrue<br />
to you. For indeed devotion is the onl y cause.<br />
If the Gur u desires an y wealth , do not<br />
partake of it ; whe n necessary a t all do it wit h<br />
his leave If yo u wer e to utilise even a sesamum<br />
quantity or half of it, of wha t belongs to the<br />
Guru, eithe r by greed or delusion, tha t will<br />
fructify in perdition. Do not appropriat e even a<br />
fragment of wha t is his unless it is given to you;<br />
you wil l slide downward s wit h disastrous<br />
consequences Cast not you r ey e on anythin g<br />
that belongs to the Guru. Breaking of his<br />
command , stealth of his wealth , disagreeable<br />
behaviour - thes e ar e treacher y to the Guru, a<br />
great sin. Even you r own wealt h yo u shall utilise<br />
only after offering to the Guru. He wh o<br />
damage s the position of the Guru, his Tradition ,<br />
his Dharma , is to be ostracised by the Gurus; he<br />
merits punishment. Ruin follows from the<br />
anger of the Guru ; sin from treacher y to the<br />
Guru ; bad death from criticism of the Guru ;<br />
catastrophes from the displeasur e of th e Guru.<br />
It ma y be possibl e for a ma n wh o ha s entered<br />
the fir e to remai n alive ; possible also to be alive<br />
after drinkin g poison or even whe n caught in<br />
the hands of Death; but not if he ha s offended<br />
the Guru.<br />
Do not lend you r ea r to an y censur e of the<br />
Guru : wher e such criticism occurs, close you r DEVOTION TO GURU 83<br />
ears, come ou t an d remembe r his name t o<br />
counteract. Do no t disrespect the retinu e of the<br />
Guru ; do not criticise his tradition s - whethe r<br />
based on Vedas or Scripture s or Agama s Th e<br />
sacred sanda l of the Guru is th e ornament ;<br />
remembranc e of his name is japa ; carryin g out<br />
of his command s is duty ; service to him is<br />
worship .<br />
Whil e enterin g the home of the Guru, be<br />
calm of mind, devoted in the extreme ; leave out<br />
you r vehicle, sandals, umbrella , fan and the<br />
like, betel, collyrium and make-up, an d ente r<br />
slowly. Whe n yo u see the sandals of the Guru,<br />
his seat, cloth, vehicle, umbrell a an d fan, bow to<br />
them but do not desir e them for yourself. In<br />
the presence of th e Gur u of the yogins, and in<br />
great centre s of realization and pilgrimag e and<br />
Ashrams, tak e car e to avoid washin g of feet,<br />
bathing, anointin g wit h oil, cleansing of teeth,<br />
micturition, vomiting , shaving, sleeping, sex,<br />
conspicuous sitting, hars h speech, ordering,<br />
laughter, weeping, loosening of th e hair, of the<br />
turba n and the cloak, nudity, stretching of the<br />
legs, debate, acrimony , casting of blame , contortion<br />
of the body, producing of musica l notes<br />
from the body, strikin g of th e hands, dice,<br />
amusements, bouts of wrestling an d the like and<br />
dancing. The y brin g the curs e of th e Deity.<br />
In the presenc e of the Guru, stand wit h due<br />
form; d o not ente r wit h desire ; serve him<br />
looking a t his face ; do wha t he says. In the<br />
service of the Gur u - whethe r expressed or unexpressed<br />
by hi m - do not bo unmindful ; honou r<br />
whole-heartedly wha t he says an d do it withou t<br />
questioning. Th e Gur u is the cause of all checks<br />
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that is the scripture. Intensely devoted to the<br />
Guru, do not commission others for his work if<br />
you yourself can do it even though you may<br />
have any number of attendants.<br />
Whether moving, or standing, sleeping or<br />
waking, doing japa or offering oblation, or<br />
worshipping, carry out only the injunction of<br />
the Guru with your inner being dwelling in him.<br />
Do not be proud because of class, learning or<br />
wealth; be always in service of the Guru, ever<br />
in his presence Giving up desire, anger, humble<br />
and devoted, lauding in spirit, stand on the floor<br />
and do his work. Whether engaged in your own<br />
work or in the work for others, knowing the<br />
mind of the Guru, be by his side humble and<br />
cheerful of countenance. Should you do anything<br />
in the presence of the Guru what is<br />
normally prohibited, it is extremely blameworthy.<br />
Do not, out of disregard, hear with the<br />
face turned away what the Guru says, whether<br />
it is beneficial or otherwise. To speak falsehood<br />
before the Guru is to commit the highest sin. In<br />
the absence of the Guru who is away and in<br />
distress, do not leave him; go wherever he<br />
commands. When he stands below do not yourself<br />
stand above, do not walk in his front, do not<br />
sit when he stands up. Cross not the shadow of<br />
the Shakti, the shadow of God and the shadow of<br />
the Guru; do not let your own shadow fall on<br />
them. Do not sleep in his presence. Unless<br />
directed by him do not speak, do not read, do<br />
not sing, do not eat there; do nothing without<br />
bowing to him Never fail to carry out his<br />
injunction. Without his command do not believe<br />
on other's word Do everything by the command<br />
of the Guru: do not comment on his spouse. DEVOTION TO GURU 85<br />
Bow down with devotion, hold the palms together<br />
and stand up. Thereafter, bowing down<br />
move out of his residence on foot. Never sit on<br />
the same seat as the Guru with his colleagues. Do<br />
not be seated in the presence of the Deity and the<br />
Guru. The highest seat shall be given to the Guru<br />
and good seats to the elders; to the younger<br />
give the alloted seats and to others the same as<br />
yours. Whether you are endowed with class,<br />
learning, or wealth, seeing the Guru from afar,<br />
prostrate yourself with joy and circumambulate<br />
around him thrice. Observe due priorities of<br />
the Guru and the Guru's Guru etc in offering<br />
your obeisances. Give due honour to the elders.<br />
In the presence of the great Guru, bow to<br />
your own Guru mentally.<br />
Bow to everything, from the Divine to a<br />
blade of grass, as to the Guru, but do not bow as<br />
to God to the idol made of iron or earth. Three<br />
prostrations to the Guru, one to the elders,<br />
joining of palms to the honoured, to the rest<br />
verbal greetings. Bow to the Gods, the Guru,<br />
the Teachers of the Kula, the old in know ledge,<br />
the rich in tapas, the highly learned, those who<br />
are steadfast in their Dharma. Do not bow to<br />
the hated of women, cursed by the Guru, the<br />
learned heretic, the dunce, the doer of wrong,<br />
the ingrate, the transgressor of the ordained<br />
steps (ashramas) in life. While staying in the<br />
same place, should you eat food without offering<br />
to the Guru, that becomes impure. Staying in<br />
the same place, prostrate before the Guru thrice,<br />
during the three sandhyas. If you are away,<br />
prostrate as prescribed.*<br />
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Do not approach royalty, the Deity and the<br />
Guru empty-handed. Offer in the measure of<br />
your capacity, fruit, flower, cloth and the like.<br />
Regard the Shakti of the Guru, the Guru's<br />
son, his elder brother as the Guru himself. The<br />
knower of the self shall look after the younger<br />
brother of the Guru as his own son. Bow to the<br />
Teacher of the Kula, to the eldest and the<br />
youngest of the Guru, to one who is almost like a<br />
Guru, as to your own Guru. Elder in the sacrifices,<br />
elder in order, elder in Kula, the eldest of<br />
the Guru's sons, these are the four elders.<br />
Respect them in that order, in the prescribed<br />
manner.<br />
To the elders like your father, mother and<br />
other worthy relations, express your sentiment<br />
by getting up, prostration and so on But should<br />
you pose to be a teacher yourself, then these<br />
acts become ill of you.<br />
Attained to the status of the Lord, pati, do<br />
not bow down to any in the grade of the animal,<br />
pasu He who attains to the status of the Guru<br />
by meditation on the Mantra of the Padukat<br />
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The disciple shall be one<br />
who is<br />
endowed with auspicious features; of good qualities<br />
and culture; clean of body and apparel; wise;<br />
devoted to Dharma ; pure of mind, steady in<br />
observances; of truthful practice; gifted with<br />
faith and devotion; diligent; sparsely eating;<br />
deep-thoughted; serving without motive; scrutinising;<br />
heroic; free from poverty of mind;<br />
skilful in all action; clean; obliging to all;<br />
grateful; afraid of sin; approved of the holy<br />
and the good; believer in God; liberal; engaged<br />
in the good of all creatures. He shall be one<br />
who has trust and modesty; who is not given<br />
to deceive in matters of wealth, body etc.,<br />
achieves the impossible; is brave, enthusiastic<br />
and strong; engaged in favourable activities;<br />
not intoxicated; able, helpful, truthful, limited<br />
and smiling in speech; not given to blaming<br />
others; who grasps what is said but once;<br />
clever; expansive in intelligence; averse to<br />
listen to his own praise and genial to others'<br />
criticism of himself; master of his senses;<br />
contented with himself; intelligent; celibate;<br />
free from worry, disease, fickleness, grief,<br />
delusion and doubt.<br />
He shall be one who is enthusiastic in<br />
meditation, praise and speaking of the Guru,<br />
worship and prostration to the Deity; well<br />
devoted to the Deity Guru; worshipper of the<br />
Shakti; ever in the proximity of the Guru;<br />
pleasing the Guru; constantly well engaged in<br />
his attendance by mind, speech, body; carrying<br />
out the command of the Guru; spreading the<br />
glory of the Guru; knowing the authority of the<br />
word of the Guru; occupied in the service of the<br />
Guru; following the mind of the Guru; functioning<br />
as a servant; free from pride of class,<br />
honour, wealth in the presence of the Guru; not<br />
coveting the wealth of the Guru; aspiring for his<br />
favours.</div>
Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-3681527154970591562015-01-06T03:09:00.003-08:002015-01-06T03:09:16.286-08:00The inner connection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>Sri Chinmoy:</em> Physically, the Master cannot be twenty-four hours a day with the disciples; it is impossible. The Master has many, many disciples and also the Master has many, many things to do. Again, a disciple may stay with the Master day and night, but he may not get anything from the Master. Ramakrishna’s nephew served him for many, many years, but he got practically nothing from Ramakrishna. Again, look at Vivekananda. In the beginning, he used to come once in two or three months. And then how many days did he stay with his Master; So, it is not the physical proximity that counts most. It is the inner awareness of one’s relationship with the Master. Where is the Master? Is he in New York or is he inside your heart? If the disciple feels that the Master is something very sacred and secret, and that the Master is something essential in his life, then he cannot stay without the Master. If he feels that the necessity of the Master is of paramount importance, if he feels that he cannot exist without the Master, any more than he can exist without his heartbeat, then only the relationship between the Master and the disciple is secure and complete.</div>
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If you go back to Venezuela, you have to feel that you are carrying me inside your heart, not that you have left me in New York. Do not feel that my existence is only in one part of the world, no, you have to feel that my inner existence is everywhere. My outer existence, my physical body which is five feet eight inches, can stay only at one place; but my inner existence can roam about many, many places. So you have to feel the necessity of the inner relationship, the inner connection with my heart and soul. Then only will you be able to make the utmost progress.</div>
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Again, if a disciple has already established his inner connection with the Master, if he has established a secure, most intimate and most surrendering and surrendered relation, then if he stays with the Master, then naturally he will be able to get more benefit. In his case, inside he is already one with the Master; now his outer self is crying to become one with the inside. So naturally he will get a double push and progress infinitely faster if he is physically near the Master.</div>
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But, very often, familiarity breeds contempt. When you stay with the Master, cutting jokes and all that, immediately you will say: “He is also like us.” But he is not like you. He can do many, many things in the inner world that you cannot do. But in the outer world he eats the same food and takes ice cream and does everything as you do. But the only thing is that he can do quite a few things in the inner world which you cannot do. That is why first of all his inner existence has to be approached and adored. And if inwardly you have pleased the Master, then rest assured that it is only a matter of a short time before you please the Master in the outer life; not vice versa. In the outer life, if the Master says: “I want to get some stamps,” immediately you will go to the Post Office and bring some stamps. But this kind of connection will not help you considerably if your inner connection is not complete. If the inner connection is complete, and if I say, “Please take me to the beach,” if you take me and make me happy, then you are pleasing me on all ends. Already you have made the inner connection with me. You have pleased me most, and now the outer connection also you have made by listening to me.</div>
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But if you had not made the inner connection with me, then what would have happened? During the two hours that you are driving me, our outer connection gives you peace or joy or harmony or some kind of gratification. But at the end of two hours all vanishes again. But in the inner world, when somebody meditates and thinks of me for five minutes and offers me his life breath, then this lasts forever. Then you have fulfilled me and I have fulfilled you.</div>
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<em>Sri Chinmoy:</em> A disciple can best please his Master if he does not expect anything from the Master. He will give and give and give and offer himself totally and unconditionally. Only then will the Master be most pleased with him. At that time the Master will give him infinitely more than he deserves.</div>
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Right from the beginning, the disciple’s devoted, dedicated action should be absolutely unconditional. The disciple feels that his time, his effort, his capacity and his dedication are all his treasures. When he has given his treasures to the Master, he thinks that he has a legitimate right to expect the Master to give him Peace, Light and Bliss, which are the Master’s treasures. But there should be no bargaining in the spiritual life. If the disciple gives something of his, he immediately expects something in return, because he is living in the world of give-and-take. But the Master knows what is best for the disciple and also when it is best to give it. If the Master gives some thing untimely, instead of illumining the unlit consciousness of the disciple, he will just break the inner vessel. The power of the Master is bound to illumine the disciple if the disciple has receptivity. If the disciple has no receptivity, then the Master’s power will be of no use. On the contrary, it will be harmful. Very often when I touch and bless someone, I get such resistance or unwillingness to accept what I have to offer. And at that time what happens? I can force Light or Power from above into this adamantine wall of resistance, but it would only break.</div>
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So if you want to please the Master in a perfect way, then the word “expectation” should go out of your vocabulary. If you expect, you will expect in your own mental way: “I am doing this for the Master, so the Master will do something for me, or I will be his favourite.” There are so many expectations. But beyond expectation is the divine Truth. The Master knows what to give and how to give. But the disciple has his own way of expecting something from the Master. So there is a conflict between the Master and the disciple.</div>
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By giving something to the Master, if you feel that you will be able to please the Master, to some extent it is true. But you can really please the Master by not expecting anything after you have given him something, for then the Master will be able to operate in the disciple in his own way. The Master will feel “He has given me his treasure, but he does not want anything from me. Now it is up to me to decide what to give. So I shall give him the best, the very best.” But if somebody gives the Master something and then thinks that the Master will favour him in something, or say something very nice about him, then he has already begged for something in the inner world. So naturally the Master will try his best to give him that. But if he had left the choice to the Master, if he had given the Master the opportunity to give what the Master wanted, at that time the Master could have given him abundant Peace, Light and Bliss.</div>
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The best way to please the Master is to give what you have and what you are, but without the least possible expectation. In that way you get every divine thing in infinite measure from the Master and, at the same time, the Supreme in the Master can utilise you for His own purpose.</div>
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According to the minister, these two eyes see the truth, but these poor ears do not hear the truth. I wish to disagree, however. When we use our earthly eyes, we need not always be right. When we see something, we interpret it according to our human capacity. Again, if we hear something from others, that does not mean that it is all falsehood.</div>
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If a great artist has seen a painting and I, who am not an artist, have seen the same painting, his appraisal of it will be infinitely more correct than my own human judgement. I have used my eyes, but what do I know about painting? If a great artist sees a portrait and tells me about it, the truth I hear from him will be infinitely greater than the truth I get by using my eyes and my poor human judgement.</div>
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When we enter into the spiritual life we see that the vision of the physical eyes is very limited. We can see only a very short distance. We cannot see the past, we cannot see the future. We cannot see anything that is beyond the range of the physical eyes. But if we can open the third eye, then we can see far beyond ordinary human limits. With the third eye, past, present and future are at our command. We see everything.</div>
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With our human eyes sometimes we see a thing but we do not see it properly. We see it but we do not actually know what it is. But if we use the third eye, not only do we see the thing properly, but also we know immediately and exactly what it is.</div>
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With our human ears we hear things that are false and also things that are true. The outer ears receive everything: truth, falsehood, rumour, gossip, opinion and all kinds of useless or harmful information. But if we open our spiritual ear, then we will always hear the right things, divine things, fulfilling things. The inner, spiritual ear does not allow anything undivine, unprogressive or unfulfilling to enter into our being from the outside. It allows only messages of Truth, Light and Bliss to enter into the being. The spiritual ear listens only to the dictates of the soul. It hears only the message of Divinity from within us.</div>
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But ordinary people do not use their spiritual vision or hearing. When we see something with our eyes, we do not always give proper value to it. If we hear something with our ears, we may not give full importance to it. Why does this happen? It happens because we are trying all the time to perceive the world in our own way.</div>
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When we look at someone with our own eyes, we try to see that person in our own human way. If we see a beautiful person right in front of us, and if we have jealousy, even though we see that the person is beautiful our jealousy will tell us, “No, he is not beautiful. Far from it.” Although we know that he is beautiful, our inner jealousy will take away our sense of appreciation. And when we hear that somebody has stood first in running or jumping or that somebody has done something extraordinary, our jealousy will immediately try to diminish the importance of his achievement.</div>
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But jealousy will never actually be able to diminish a person’s beauty or the importance of his achievement. No matter how jealous we are, that person is not going to lose his supremacy. But our jealousy will immediately diminish our own power to know the truth. Even if we have the organs necessary to see properly and to hear properly, our internal jealousy will not allow us to see the truth in its own way, to hear the truth in its proper way.</div>
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Since this is the case, we have to use not the mind, not the vital, but the heart. The vital, out of jealousy, will try to destroy the truth. If the vital in us is jealous of somebody’s capacity, it will try to destroy that person so that he cannot achieve. “Let him break his legs so that he cannot run,” it will pray. The mind, out of jealousy, will simply say, “Let me close my eyes. If I do not see him run so fast, then no matter what anybody tells me, I don’t have to believe it.” The mind acts like a crow. A crow thinks that if its eyes are shut, then nobody in the whole world can see it. If it cannot see, how can others see? This is the intelligence that the crow has.</div>
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In the spiritual world also, if you keep your eyes shut, immediately you will think that nobody else can see either, that everybody is blind like you. With your eyes shut you find that the whole world is dark, and naturally, if others are also in your world of darkness, how can they do anything or be anything? But no! You have shut your eyes, and you have made your world dark; but the other fellow has kept his eyes wide open so he can run, and he will win the race.</div>
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See with the heart. The mind plays foolish tricks, and the mind tries to destroy. But the heart will immediately identify. The heart will immediately identify with a person who has accomplished something, or with an object that is embodying something. If there is a beautiful flower before us, when we see and feel with the heart, immediately we identify with the fragrance, beauty and essence of the flower. When we use the heart as our eye instead of the mind, we see the flower as all beauty, all purity. But when we receive the beauty of the flower with our mind and vital, jealousy and destruction come forward.</div>
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When we use the heart to receive the messages that others give, we will be the real winners. If somebody has won a prize or done something extraordinary, immediately that person’s joy enters into us. Our heart identifies with his joy and his joy, his achievement, becomes ours. If that person is proud of his success, our heart also becomes proud. The heart values the achievements of others because of its identification, its oneness.</div>
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When the son gets his Master’s degree, the mother is proud. The son has earned the degree, but the mother feels that it is her son, a part of herself that has received the degree, so she feels as proud as he does. She identifies fully with her son. The heart that enters into somebody else or allows somebody else to enter into it acts like a mother. The mother receives the honour, the prestige, the glory of the son simply because she has become one with him and accepted his accomplishments as her very own. The heart, too, can do this.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-56879382053140523392015-01-05T08:35:00.004-08:002015-01-05T08:36:13.925-08:00No one can fool the Master<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Once when I was practising for Sports Day a Connecticut disciple who has a very bad character, a very bad consciousness, kept hovering near me. Whenever I removed my sweater, he tried to take it. If somebody wants to take my things from me and I don’t like the vibrations of that person because of his bad consciousness, I feel very sad. I can’t give my garment to him because immediately his bad consciousness will ruin its consciousness. And yet if I don’t give it to him, others will say that I hate that person. I don’t hate anyone, but at the same time, why should I give my clothes to someone who is not pure enough? If I have one or two disciples who are extremely pure, naturally I will give my clothes to them. They deserve this privilege because of their purity, because of their aspiration, because of their spirituality, because of their devoted and surrendering consciousness. Those particular disciples deserve to have this divine opportunity, and they will benefit from it; whereas this other disciple did not deserve it at all. He was living an animal life, and he only wanted to show everyone else that he was carrying my sweater.</div>
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For everything, one has to deserve what he receives. Then only can one appreciate the blessing or the opportunity that he gets. You people are crying for God-realisation. Naturally, one day you will deserve God-realisation, and on that day I shall certainly give it to you.</div>
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Those who are trying to serve the Supreme in me with purity, with sincerity, with devotion and with surrender will naturally come forward, and not those who are just trying to grab me, pull me and show off in front of others that they also can become close to me. One must always make an inner sacrifice to achieve inner oneness. One has to pray, concentrate, meditate and cry for inner oneness. Then one will see that in the outer world as well as in the inner world he has become very near, very close and devoted, a truly effective instrument of the Master.<br />
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-44497616063012424462015-01-05T08:27:00.002-08:002015-01-05T08:27:59.078-08:00THE SOURCE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the palace dogs was hungry, so the King’s favourite minister placed some food before him and the King did the same. The dog did not touch the food offered to him by the minister, but he ate all the food given to him by the King.</div>
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The King asked the minister, “How is it that the dog did not touch your food, whereas he ate up all of my food?”</div>
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The Minister’s reply was, “Your Majesty, you should know that even a dog wants to remain faithful to his caste.”</div>
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In the spiritual life also, if a disciple gives something to another disciple, and if the Master gives him the same thing, there is a vast different between the two gifts. One disciple may try to inspire another disciple, and the Master may also offer inspiration to that disciple, but there is a great difference between the height of the Master and the height of the disciple offering his inspiration. When the Master enters into his full spiritual height, his inspiration will be infinitely more powerful than the inspiration that one disciple can offer to another.</div>
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The King and the minister offered practically the same food to the dog, but they each had a different consciousness. It is not a matter of pride or vanity or ego, but just because the King was the King, he had more light — let us call it dignity or divinity, some regal quality. The dog felt something special, something more significant in the food from the King. That is why he ate the King’s food, and not the minister’s.</div>
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A thief may tell you that you are not supposed to steal. A liar may tell you not to tell lies. But their words can never give you real inspiration, because they are coming from the wrong people: a liar tells hundreds of lies a day and a thief steals as often as he can. The thief and the liar are like parrots. Their words have no strength, no significance, because there is no inner conviction behind them. But if a spiritual Master tells you not to tell lies, immediately he injects strength and inspiration into you, so that you don’t tell lies, you cannot tell lies. And if he asks you not to steal, he will give you enough inspiration inwardly so that you will not want to steal anything.</div>
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I tell my disciples that they can help each other. If a man is low today, he can go to his wife and she will encourage him. And if his wife is low tomorrow, then he has to inspire her and uplift her. This is how it should be between husband and wife, and between brother and sister disciples.</div>
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But I don’t tell my disciples to go out into the street and start beating their drums and trying to inspire ordinary people. No! That is not inspiration; that is stupidity, trying to convince people that our belief is by far the best. The Centre is like a shop. Here we have Peace, we have Light, we have Bliss, we have divine Power. If people want these things, they can come to my shop and I will give them as much as they want. But if we go out into the street and try to drag people into the shop, even if they come in they will not appreciate what we have.</div>
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If I tell you to go and inspire people, then go. You will have my inner help. But if you try to inspire people on your own, without my knowledge and approval, they will laugh at you, they will ridicule you, they will insult you, abuse you, perhaps even strike you. In the name of spirituality you will only be consciously or unconsciously encouraging your own stupidity, and not your sincerity. And for that stupidity you will naturally be punished.</div>
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Everyone has a soul. If the soul is really trying to realise the Highest, to achieve the Goal, then it will always try to do what will enable it to make the fastest progress. Those who really want Light will take it whenever it is offered, and in as large a quantity as possible. No truly sincere and dedicated aspirant will prefer to make his spiritual journey alone without a guide to help him reach his destination sooner. He will take as much help as he can, both from his spiritual brothers and sisters and from his Master. And this Master, if he is a real Master, can offer the seeker inspiration, guidance and Light in boundless measure.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-34393497462505397892014-12-19T22:03:00.003-08:002014-12-19T22:03:53.373-08:00Are man's will and God's Will always in opposition?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>Sri Chinmoy:</em> To some extent it is true. Man can unconsciously stand against God's Will and, again, man can consciously stand against God's Will. Sometimes it happens that we know what God's will is. Our conscience tells us, but we don't pay any attention to it. We feel that if we listen to the dictates of our conscience, then we will not be satisfied. Here, satisfaction means gratification, our ego will not be satisfied. So we don't listen to our soul. Naturally, then we are standing against God's Will. Again, many times it happens that we are not diametrically opposing God's Will, but we don't know what God's Will is. We know what our will is, but we don't know what God's Will is. At that time, we are not consciously standing against God's Will. We cannot say that at that time our will is in opposition to God's Will.</div>
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But we have to know that either consciously or unconsciously, if we do not fulfil God's Will, then we enter into ignorance and we delay our progress. A child may not know what fire can do to him. But if he touches fire, then the fire will burn him. I know that fire will burn me. But in spite of knowing this, I touch fire and I get burned. So the result of unconscious opposition and conscious opposition is the same. But if somebody does it unconsciously, then he is helpless. In that case God's Grace descends sooner than otherwise. If somebody knows the after-effects of his action, but in spite of that he does something wrong, then God's Grace will not come down immediately. It will take time. The individual has to aspire again most sincerely and devotedly to bring down God's Grace from above. Then, naturally, God's Grace will descend.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-36983529513327312502014-12-19T21:45:00.000-08:002014-12-19T21:45:22.619-08:00 What is the difference between sharing and gossip?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>Sri Chinmoy:</em> Gossip only pleases the vital (Mind) in us. It only satisfies the undivine in us, the destructive forces in us. Once it destroys the world around us — and unfortunately we are not aware of the fact until it happens — then it destroys us. It destroys our inner good qualities. Gossip will never illumine others. On the contrary, it tries to eclipse others' hearts and eclipses our own aspiring heart.</div>
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In sharing there is an expansion of one's consciousness in a divine way. If we share something with someone, it is not with a sense of pride, not with a feeling that "I heard it first." When we share we feel an extension of our knowledge. When we have any news — whether it is bad news or good news, sad news or divine news — when we share it with others, immediately we feel a sense of expansion. If it is sad news, we will share it with others to strengthen ourselves. If we hear sad news, we feel that we are being forewarned and forearmed. If it is good news that we share, we feel that we are achieving it ourselves. This is the foundation-stone, and here we shall build a tall edifice.</div>
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But gossip is not an expansion of one's consciousness. It is an offering, unconscious or conscious, of a message of destruction. If I offer gossip, it means that I am telling you something bad about a person. I am offering destructive news to you so that you can also use this weapon and destroy the person about whom we are speaking. No matter how important or unimportant it is, in back of gossip there is always destruction. You can't kill a person when he is standing right in front of you. But when you gossip, rest assured that in the inner world you are killing him. If you hear gossip or spread gossip about someone, you are stabbing him in the inner world. And because you are not satisfied with what harm you have done you are asking somebody else to stab him also, so that he will be totally destroyed. You have destroyed someone, but you are not satisfied; so you tell your friend, "Destroy him more, so that he does not stay on earth." This is gossip.</div>
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Sharing does not have any bad motive. You have heard something and you are sharing it with all innocence. But when you indulge in gossip, you have to feel that you are only stabbing a person in the inner world. And you are stabbing not only the person whom you are gossiping about, but also the divinity within him, the divinity which is the real message of inseparable oneness. The moment you indulge in gossip you are breaking the ribbon of universal oneness. In the outer world you will try to do it in such a way that others will not recognise it. But even though others may not recognise it or catch you as the culprit, in the inner world you are already caught. There you can't escape. Gossip is a deplorable tendency in human nature that we cherish.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-48202543858702299152014-12-18T22:48:00.001-08:002014-12-18T22:48:23.433-08:00What is Gurus relationship with his disciples based upon?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>Sri Chinmoy:</em> My relationship with my disciples is based upon love, concern and compassion. Each spiritual Master has the same relationship with his disciples. There is no spiritual Master who does not have concern for his spiritual children. He is like a father. Sometimes a father is strict and sometimes he is not. Some parents feel that it is through strictness that their children will make fast progress. Other parents may feel that it is through love that their children can make good progress. As a spiritual father, I have come to realise that love is undoubtedly the most powerful force, but that love and divine authority must go together.</div>
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There is a great difference between divine authority and human authority. Human authority is autocracy and dictatorship. Divine authority is based on the strength of inseparable oneness with the disciples. Because the Master has taken responsibility for bringing each disciple to God, he knows what is best for the disciple. An ordinary dictator or autocrat gets tremendous pleasure in lording his power over others. But the spiritual Master does not get any pleasure from his divine authority. It is only with deepest concern that he is acting for the disciples' own good. If he tells a disciple to do something, he knows that it is for the disciple's own progress. He says, "I will be one with you in your ignorance in order to take you to the Goal." Then the Master's divine authority encourages the disciple not to exploit his own soul's patience, or the patience of the Supreme, whom the Master represents.</div>
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So my relationship with my disciples is one of constant concern and love, and also divine authority. If you really follow my path, you will do as I tell you. If you don't like my path, you are at liberty to leave my path today. I will not compel you to stay with me. But if you follow my path and if you really want to make good progress, then along with my love and concern, I will also use my divine authority. If I see that you are wallowing in the meshes of ignorance, I will use my divine authority to compel you either to come out of ignorance or to leave my path.</div>
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My strictness is also a form of my divine concern. When I am strict with someone, at that time it is not punishment. I am only trying to bring to the fore the roaring lion inside the disciple, so that his ignorance will be destroyed. Because it is used in many forms, people may misunderstand it; but my disciples, my sincere and devoted disciples, know that when I use my divine authority, it is not my dictatorship; it is only my inseparable oneness with them.</div>
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-49827364068536863382014-12-17T21:31:00.001-08:002014-12-17T21:32:18.263-08:00Masters Scolding, a step for our good<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"My daughter, why do you look so sad today? You should be happy and proud that I have asked you to come to my ashram to work for me."</div>
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"I am sorry, Master. I cannot help thinking of your scolding yesterday."</div>
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"Yesterday I scolded you mercilessly, true, but today I am showing you my infinite Love and Affection. Why do you always have to think of my scoldings?"</div>
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"I don't know, Master."</div>
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"Do you feel resentful?"</div>
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"Master, is it a feeling of resentment or a feeling of helplessness?"</div>
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"In this case, my daughter, it is not a feeling of helplessness it is an inner revolt."</div>
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"What should I do so that I won't revolt in this way, Master?"</div>
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"You have to feel that everything I say is absolutely correct, absolutely necessary. No matter what I say, even if I do it in a joking manner, it is for the good of my disciples. If you become annoyed or embarrassed by something I say, then you will not receive my Light."</div>
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"Sometimes I feel really useless and hopeless when you point out so clearly my limitations and weaknesses."</div>
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"At that time, my child, do not feel depressed or disheartened. Instead, feel that here is someone who really loves you, who has unconditional Concern for you."</div>
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"Do you ever feel disheartened when I make the same mistakes over and over?"</div>
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"If I had been an ordinary human being, I would have given up my efforts with you long ago. I would have said, ‘She is useless, hopeless. To transform her nature is an impossible task.' But the divine in me will never take this attitude. When I deal with my spiritual children, it is my unconditional Love, Concern and Compassion that are operating. No matter what you have done, no matter what you do, I will always continue to show you my infinite Concern."</div>
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"Master, I am sorry that I don't deserve it."</div>
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"Everything is unconditional, my child. As I have been asking you to be unconditional and unreserved in your love, devotion and surrender, so also I am being unconditional with you. I do not only preach: I also practise. Again and again I will come to you and offer you my unconditional guidance in the hope that gradually, gradually you will improve."</div>
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"Am I improving, Master? Will I improve?"</div>
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"Yesterday I talked to you for an hour and a half. That means that I feel you can receive my Light and Wisdom. You should be happy and proud that I spent so much time with you. If I had felt that your case was hopeless, then I would simply have given up the fight. Your problem is that you don't feel confident that you can transcend your weaknesses. But if you feel me in your heart at all times, then you will have confidence in yourself."</div>
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"Master, there is something else I should tell you. Sometimes I feel so ashamed of my weaknesses.</div>
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"Daughter, if I am your Supreme Lord, your Beloved Supreme, which is what you always tell me, then you should not feel that you have to hide anything from me. There is nothing you should try to keep from me, nothing in your nature that you have to be ashamed of. If you know that I am your dearest Lord, then only feel our oneness, our inseparable oneness. The creation does not try to hide from the Creator. If you have a lump of clay and you offer it to be moulded, then it will no longer remain unformed, dirty, impure. Similarly, if you offer me your ignorance, then I can transform it. My daughter, don't you feel how lovingly and divinely I have been guiding, moulding and shaping you?"</div>
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The Master paused. "How great is your surrender to me, my child? If I asked you to go and work somewhere else, would you do the work as cheerfully as when you are here with me? When I ask you to do something, do you do it willingly, cheerfully, unconditionally?"<br />
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Seemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580616208264766956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307881906918098860.post-30416645130274501762014-12-17T21:19:00.000-08:002014-12-17T21:19:01.827-08:00Rules of the Master , understand the deeper meaning. The greater benefit.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Once there was a spiritual Master who was very strict with his disciples. Once a week, however, he met with new disciples and prospective disciples and with these seekers he was not strict. Now, it happened that one week the Master knew he would be late to this meeting, so he asked one of his close disciples, who had been with him a long time, to read out some rules and regulations before his arrival. Unfortunately, even before the disciple had finished reading, people started shouting questions and insults at him. They vehemently protested against the new regulations which requested disciples to give up drugs, shave their beards, cut their hair and dress modestly. The poor disciple felt that the best thing for him to do would be to leave the room.</div>
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When the Master arrived, the disciple told him what had happened. The Master became furious. He entered the meditation room to formally start the meeting, meditated only five minutes facing the group and then said, "Some people here are cursing the disciples who are responsible either for writing these rules or for reading them to you. But it was my wish that these regulations be worded in this way and it was at my express request that this disciple read them out tonight. I am taking full responsibility for their actions.</div>
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"Some of you are finding these prerequisites very harsh, perhaps undivine. If the wording is harsh and undivine, then you have to know that I myself have been suffering mercilessly from many undivine vibrations caused by the misconduct of both the disciples and the non-disciples. I feel that the time has come for me to be a little strict and to stand firmly by my convictions. If any new seekers approach you about these rules, please tell them what I have just said."</div>
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One new disciple who had a beard said,</div>
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‘Master, I am a little confused, since some of your good disciples do have beards."</div>
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The Master said, "My son, you have just joined our centre. If you want to be my true disciple then please try to follow my request. Now, every rule admits of exceptions. If I ask one individual out of two hundred or three hundred to keep his beard, then I am fully responsible for it. If you see that somebody among my disciples has a beard or long hair, then you have to know that either that person has got my permission or I personally have asked him to keep it. Either it is my necessity or it is that person's necessity. When I approve of something that is not in my rules, I approve for a particular individual; this permission does not apply to all."</div>
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One boy jumped up and said angrily, "Jesus Christ had long hair."</div>
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The Master immediately replied, "If you say that the Christ had long hair, I will agree. If I see the Christ, I will go and touch his feet. But if I see you, I will just run away. If you have the Christ-consciousness, then you can have long hair. I have written and spoken considerably about long hair. It is my feeling that men should look like men and women should look like women according to the present standards. Hundreds of years ago men had long hair, but we have no right to do so now in the twentieth century just because they did. Most of the time people feel that long hair will offer them a kind of soft, gentle or mild quality. But this is not true. Even if you have long hair you can have a very disturbing vibration. I have seen that nowadays long hair creates a ferocious vibration. From now on, you must have short hair and no beard, and your clothes should be neat and tidy."</div>
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"Do you think it is fair," asked another boy arrogantly, "to make us stop taking drugs?"</div>
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The Master said, "If you are still taking drugs, then you are knocking at the wrong door. Our door will no longer be open to you. Drugs , I do not approve of. I always say that gradually, gradually you can stop smoking or drinking, tea or coffee. But in the case of drugs I don't tell seekers, ‘gradually, gradually you can stop'. I tell them, ‘Stop immediately'.</div>
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At this point one seeker said, "I am studying under another Master as well and he is not so strict with his disciples."</div>
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The Master replied, "As we have no right to convert anyone, you also have no right to disturb our peace, our serenity, our prayer. We are not begging you to come to our path. If you have come from a different path, there is no harm in it, provided that you now feel the necessity of following our path. But if you still have another Master and at the same time you try our path or other paths, then you will make no progress. In school there are many subjects. Naturally for each subject you need a different teacher. But in the inner school it can never be like that. In the spiritual life there is one subject and one teacher. If you go to different paths, you are making a mistake.</div>
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Finally the Master spoke to all the seekers and new disciples.</div>
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"Most of my disciples are very sincere and earnest, so I feel I can exercise my authority. If you don't want to follow our path devotedly, soulfully, explicitly, then we do not want your presence. You cannot please two Masters. He who wants to please everyone, pleases no one. If you want to follow our path, you should give us a chance. If after six months or a year or two you feel that you are not receiving anything here, then you should go to someone else. But as long as you remain in my boat you have to abide by my rules, which are the soulful necessities for my spiritual children.</div>
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Then the Master stood up to close the meeting.</div>
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<a href="http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/galaxy-of-saints" style="color: #5e87ad; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Sri Chinmoy, <em>A Galaxy Of Saints</em></a>, Agni Press, 1974</div>
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