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Omkarananda AshramDiary 2005Sayings ofSwami Omkaranandafor Every Week of The YearThe sun is shining, but we can not experience it unless we come out of the darkness of our cells into the open. The Divine is present and visible everywhere, but we cannot experience it unless we come out of the darkness of our little thoughts, views, personality, ego, pride.
Comment: The decoration lead back to the top of the diary. 1st week The
dignity of man is infinite. No-one can demean him, unless he
himself disrespects himself, or demeans himself, or
demoralises himself. Even
under the worst of insults and misfortunes, he has, and can
retain and enjoy, infinite dignity and respect.
Infinitude
alone is natural to man, not finitude. And therefore,
finitude is a state of unhappiness, limitation. It is
unnatural. Man seeks to go beyond it. Infinite
Happiness, Knowledge, Peace, Joy, alone are natural to man.
For essentially, in all his being, man is the
Infinite.
2nd week There
are no degrees in virtue. Man can surpass all the saints in
heaven, and even angels and gods. Even
in this body he can reach a state where it is impossible to
sin. Man is then filled with the Light of God. The divine
Blaze emanates from him on all sides. Man becomes
God.
God
is as close to us as our breath, as near to us as our hands
and feet. Speak
to Him. Establish close, intimate, direct relations with
Him. Speak to Him with all your heart. Speak in love, speak
in faith, speak in surrender, speak in joy, speak in
gratitude, thankfulness and devotion - He
responds.
3rd week Up
to human kind, nature conducts evolution. At the level of
man, nature leaves off evolutionary functions, and permits
man full freedom to evolve further in his own way, and with
methods he can construct. Biologically,
therefore, man has ceased to evolve. Evolution should now
start at the mental, moral and spiritual levels. Again,
the human individual alone in all nature, owns the power and
freedom to regress in evolution or progress in
evolution.
God's
Law and God are one and the same; they are not two different
things. To love God's Law is to love God's infinite
Happiness, Love, Peace, Beauty, Goodness.
4th week You
cannot love God because you don't see Him, He is not for you
like others whom you love. But the one who says that he does
not know God, is in fact affirming God, because God is the
Consciousness within you which helps your intelligence by
seating itself in it as thinking faculty to pronounce that
judgement. In
fact, there is nothing which you love so much in life as
God. The child you love, you love for the sake of God; the
husband you love, you love for the sake of God. If it were
not for the sake of God, no-one would love the other. All
are dear for the sake of God. If
there were not God, who would know whom? Who would be happy?
Knowledge is God. Happiness is God. You can escape
everything, but not God. 5th week You
may experience something or not. But the basis of all
experience is God. All experience is made possible on the
basis of experiencing Consciousness, which is God. It is
true, God is not your thought or feeling, - but He is that
without which there can be no good thought or bad thought,
good feeling or bad feeling.
Gain
the joys of love, the understanding of love; the joys of a
calm and illuminated mind; the joys of a self-controlled
mind.
Those
who have seen Love, have seen God to that extent. And the
Love they have seen will ultimately lead them slowly to
God. 6th week Some
young men kiss a girl and think they love her. It is not so.
They have only found the sensuous pleasure of the kiss, at
her expense. When the girl is in trouble, they will take no
pains to liberate her from it, but would go on seeking
pleasure elsewhere. Such a 'love' does not deserve the name
of love. When
we see a young girl child loving her mother, we see
something of real love, but then, even her love is not as
real as we think. For it is born of the services the child
receives from the mother, the comfort she finds in her.
Real
love is that which admires something that is valuable in the
other. Love that, which is the Highest in all.
7th week I am not living in myself, but in my all-absorbing Love for you all.
Where
pride divides man from man, love unites. Where ego finds a
difficulty, love finds a solution.
Self-sacrificing Love is God. Dynamic Love is God. The Light of real Love is God.
If
God were not love, man would not survive on earth, nor would
he survive death. Love is the giver of ideals, the maker of
heaven.
8th week To all
Creation, To all
Creation, Whatever
flows out with your outgoing breath, let the joy of your
God-consciousness be carried with it. Whatever
thought it be that leaves your heart, let the vibrations of
your strong, dominating good-will be carried with
it. Let whatever thought it be that leaves your mind, encircle the world with its blessings. You
are a Point of God's Creation, a Pole of God's Power, a
Centre of His infinite Joy, Peace, Life. Live as such, love
as such; exist as such, think as such, act as
such. Glory to you. Glory.
9th week A
dead universe ours is not: it is living, dynamic,
responsive, reacting. Look with love, love appears. Look
with joy, joy appears. Look with light, light
appears.
A
characteristic of a man rooted in Truth-experience is: he
cannot be known by anyone except by those who have
Truth-experience and are Sages themselves. He
may have a million devotees, but no-one can know him unless
there is among the devotees a Sage.
Though you move with others, let no-one enter your heart, except God alone.
10th week The
purer, wider, nobler, higher and more inclusive our Love,
the greater is God expressed in our lives. We may not feel God, but we feel Love. Since God is Love we feel God. Within you there is the soul of Love. Behind your good and bad there is the Soul of Love. Look
with Love, and love appears everywhere, and all the world
stands radiant in Love. Look
with the Light of Love, and Light appears everywhere,
dispelling the dullness of the weather, the distresses of
the hour, the darkness of the mind, the annoyances that the
others cause. Look
with the Peace of Love, and Peace appears everywhere, all
the world wears Peace, yields Peace, expresses Peace.
Look
with the Joy of Love, and even the gloomy shall feel happy
in your presence.
11th week Love knows more than the greatest philosophers can teach. Intuition
covers immeasurable reaches of experience - fields of
observation and experience, - far greater than all the
sciences can span. Love
has in it intuition. - Love vitalises the nerves, uplifts
the heart, and makes a divine Holiday of all
existence. Walk in Love. Breathe in Love. Abide in Love. Work in Love. Dogmas
and creeds, the rituals and ceremonies of religion will
continue to repel the intellectuals of the world, provoke
them to increasing attacks on religion, but none can resist
the spell of the Love and Wisdom being the living example of
God-experience, which forms the Core of religion.
12th week Of Love we are born, in Love we subsist, and Love is the all, the fulfilment of life. Where
Love is, there is light, selfless service, joyous sacrifice,
creative activity, enrichment of life, success, happiness,
peace; prosperity of every kind.
To
think a little good is to strengthen whatever good is there
in ourselves, and in the world. And more good will come to
us.
Young
people and those under suffering, must be inspired to
develop a strong will, and see that the solution to some
terrifying problem in life is not in death, but in more
Light and more Life.
13th week Everything
around you and also your own mind can be made miserable,
despondent, wretched. But there is in you Someone Who is
always happy, cheerful, eternally and infinitely blissful.
That is God. That is yourself. This is the only truth about
you. Everything
about you can be destroyed. Your body itself can be
destroyed. Even your mind can be destroyed. Everything can
be destroyed. But there is in you something that cannot be
destroyed. That is God in you. Your Consciousness divine.
Your central Being, the basis of your life, mind, will,
personality. A
realization of that Truth made a sage like Janaka say,
"Nothing of mine is lost", when his kingdom was in flames.
It is a realization of this Truth that made the great sages
say, "I am the stars, I am the king…"
14th week The
Indian philosophy of Vedanta and the notions of the men of
mystical experience present most scientific and fool-proof
descriptions of God, the infinite Reality.
To
think of God is to limit God. To define God is to deny God.
God is unthinkable, beyond mind and senses - even as the
electron or the real nature of electricity is beyond
thought, mind, sight.
What
is integral science, but the science of the total individual
in all his dimensions, aspects, features, possibilities,
potentialities and his inner inalienable relations to the
Infinite?
15th week We
are victims of dangerous habits of thought, which we mistake
for the workings of reason. We say, "Science deals with
facts, philosophy with speculations." It
is not that true science deals only with facts. Science
cannot progress without speculation. Speculation is the
basis of all science. Telegraph, telephone, the airplane,
every little scientific instrument, which deals with facts,
and is a fact, was originally a matter of speculation.
Men
who did not agree with that speculation, dismissed these
greater scientists as speculators. And what is philosophy, but an advanced stage of science?
The
greater the scientist the deeper is his innate spirituality,
the more humble his spirit and the more enduring his words
on the ultimate Reality, which is the one true Parent of all
that is manifest.
16th week Why
does love or faith heal? Is not the whole nature, creation a
grand Manifestation of God, that is, of Consciousness
unlimited? Consciousness
is not only the substance and the form of all that is
created, but is itself the Creator. Consciousness is
involved and present and implicit in all that It has
created. It is then Itself the Creator, the Created; and
that, which sustains the created in the condition of
creation; and also accounts for all later transformations
and transmutations of the created. So we see the whole
creation is a grand Play of God in self-expression.
The
wise ones who know this, are immortal, all-peaceful, have
overcome all forms of fear, worry and anxieties. God is the Beginning, the End, and the Substance of our being.
17th week You
are yourself the sole centre of infinite Love, the only Rock
of infinite Truth, the great embodiment of imperishable and
timeless Light, Delight and Consciousness. And this
fictitious role of yourself as a most limited human being,
all those deeds, trials, triumphs of your earthly life are
an inconsequential nothing in the timeless epic of wonders,
which your Consciousness - as the Infinity of delight,
truth, love and power - will continue to enstage upon its
own unstained bosom.
Established
in divine Consciousness within, go on doing all your work.
God-experience is an inner matter, a thing which happens in
consciousness. Let the Consciousness within be filled with
the Light of the omnipresent Divinity. Reflect upon the
omniscient and omnipotent, all-beautiful
Divinity.
18th week The
spiritual heart intensely repeats the mystical syllables,
feeling the divine Presence, inwardly beholding the Divine,
inwardly expressing utmost devotion to the Divine. Devotion
expresses itself in the form of service and surrender. To
surrender to that which is infinite Peace, fills one with
boundless Peace; to surrender to that, which is infinite
Joy, fills one with infinite Happiness. When a pot
surrenders itself to the mid-ocean, what happens to the pot?
It is filled with endless water - not only is its capacity
full, but the whole ocean is supporting it. Supposing, if
there is a hole in the vessel. If the water is leaking
through this hole, the pot can never be empty. It will be
inexhaustibly supplied, without a break. That is the result
of the pot offering itself to the ocean.
Concentration
is purification, illumination, liberation, and highest
spiritual achievement.
19th week The
spiritual individual feels the Presence of the Divine
intensely. How do you feel when there is a person right
before your eyes? So feels the spiritual heart in the
Presence of the Divine. The spiritual individual cannot move
his hand or shake his head or body without touching the
Divine. The Divine is the Reality of realities, the Body of
all bodies, the Soul of all souls, the Air of air, the Space
of space, the Intelligence of intelligence and the Light of
lights. It is everything and everywhere, it is the greatest
Reality.
The
person who surrenders himself to the Divine, is one who is
infinitely rich in all directions. Common people are
dreadfully afraid of surrender. Surrender for them is
slavery, loss of freedom, or more problems under pressure.
Slaves know nothing beyond these, but the devotee knows the
secret of surrender. Only in the surrender is there infinite
strength and unlimited freedom.
20th week Would
an Incarnation of Divinity need to pass through ever-so-many
stages to Self-realisation? Yes,
by the very fact that it is an Incarnation, that is,
something that is functioning through time and space,
through a form, through the limitations of mind and life.
Infinite
Perfection, the eternally Self-realised Being, has to oblige
the rules of the game of finite life until It stands
totally, in all Its being, liberated from all notions,
ideas, experiences of finitude, of earth, body and
life. So
then, there is the need for a gradual moving through stages,
even for the Incarnation of the Divinity, to Its poise in
the Infinite, as the Infinite, in that Perfection which is
unassailed by the dream of finite life.
21st week Whatever
may be the nature of our life and our occupations, whatever
may be the nature of our mental, moral and intellectual
gifts, in and through these very things we must be in a
position to experience God and express His Peace and
Perfection. Therefore
let us confine ourselves to that form of real meditation
which brings about these results.
The
fire of universal Love, this Force of cosmic feelings,
destroys all the residual forces and potencies of the
subconscious mind, such as passion, dislike or hatred and so
on, and illuminates the inner being so that it becomes ready
for the reception of the Divinity and divine
Experience.
22nd week When
we begin to accept our house as the Lord's property, as
belonging to God, as something that has to be kept for the
sake of God in us; when we begin to take our whole life
itself as a gift from God, as something that is given us in
order that we may properly use it for our profit and high
evolution - what happens? Our whole inner psychology and
attitude begins to change. We are more and more
God-centered, centered in our thought of God. We are living
and moving with the specific purpose of God-experience and
Self-realization. Therefore, all forms and modes of our
daily life become part of our progress towards
God-experience.
The
real secret of success in meditation consists in sustaining
ourselves in some kind of meditation all through the
day.
23rd week It
is true that there are dark forces in us, these forces
belong to our animal part; they have no relation with the
Divinity. The divine Consciousness in us is not affected by
the presence of these animal forces. These animal forces, -
sub-conscious forces, dark unconscious forces, - are a
constant threat to our inner purity. Therefore we must seek
to purify this area of the subconscious and unconscious in
us, and seek to illuminate our inner nature.
When
our heart and inner nature are radiant and pure, naturally
the moment we close our eyes we are face-to-face with God.
Even when we open our eyes we are face-to-face with God.
Though our physical eyes may be reporting physical bodies
and presences to us, something in our soul and heart has
already seen the Divine while our physical eyes are
perceiving physical personalities. This is the secret of
mystic life.
24th week It
is a great deception to take a few lessons in
meditation-techniques and begin to practise meditation and
think that we realize God. All our meditational methods
imported either from the east or from the north will be of
no consequence if we are not growing in our love,
understanding, goodness, sweetness, and noble nature, if we
are not centering our life in the awareness of a Divine
Presence within and around us. Transformation must take
place from within us, then meditation automatically takes
possession of us, then God's Grace automatically conducts
our progress in meditation.
The
greatest reality anywhere is God Himself; and even a little
faith in this all-merciful, all-knowing, all-protecting God
is sufficient to make a heaven of our lives.
25th week Every
selfish feeling within our heart must be replaced by noble,
selfless, divine sentiments. We must refuse to live like a
selfish little beast or animal. We
are children of the Divine. Our blood is holy. Our breath is
divine, we are sustained by the Divine Grace. Our whole
inner being is rooted in God-Consciousness. We have rights
to endless and illimitable peace, power and perfection. Let
us recognize our treasures, our kingdom, our heritage. Let
us assert our rights and enjoy the Privileges and Powers of
God-Consciousness. We
have to be full of Knowledge, Illumination and Love, and
rule life, nature, body, earth and circumstances, not be
ruled by them.
Faith is the mother of all miracles.
26th week The
mathematics of the field of God-experience is totally
different from what we experience in daily life. If not
today then tomorrow, we must sink into this Ocean of
God-experience and God-Consciousness. We have unnecessarily,
by our limited experience and lack of knowledge, cut
ourselves off from the Ocean, and our experience of the
Ocean has been lost. The sooner we recover our union with
the Ocean, the better for us; even a mere faint approach to
this God-Consciousness can light up our daily life with
divine Light, Peace, Inspiration and Joy.
God's
Consciousness is not like any other thing that you see on
earth. It is a central Consciousness which is eternally
dynamic, creating millions and trillions of universes. It
has supra-electronic Eyes in every point of space, It is
seeing us now and is transmitting our images and our
vibrations around the universe.
27th week There
is no impurity in the body you live in, provided you have
made it a means for your God-Consciousness. There is no
impurity in the mind we use, provided we have made it the
means for our God-experience. Impurity
consists in assigning to our body and mind only functions,
which are animal and 'normal' and cut off from the sense of
the divine Presence. There
is nothing wrong even in a mother producing a baby. All acts
are sacred, provided your vision and attitude is sacred.
Everything is holy, provided your inner eye is holy.
The
secret of our God-experience consists in the nature of our
view and vision, attitude and inner feeling. Therefore,
let us provide this preparatory ground for better
meditation. If this preparatory ground is offered, our
meditation will be successful.
28th week The
more we increase our love for God, or increase our knowledge
of the Nature of God, the greater will be the possibilities
for our quick concentration and meditation on God. You know
your heart is there, where your love is. Now, if your love
is on God, your heart will be on Him. Your mind is there,
where your interest is. If God is the Object of your
interest, then your mind will be automatically on Him.
Therefore
if you want quick and successful meditation, increase your
interest and love for God. Naturally your heart and your
mind will jump upon God and assist you to find a conscious
communion and oneness with this infinite Peace, Power and
Perfection.
When
OM is chanted the atmosphere around is being purified. This
is because in the sound body the OM is there as an
energy-body, in the energy-body there is a light-body, in
the light-body there is the Consciousness of the supreme
Divinity.
29th week Have
the little faith that God is now with you, supporting you,
sustaining you, and that His love for you is unlimited, that
you are a child of His heart, and that He loves you
immensely under all conditions and circumstances. He never
forsakes you, He never gives you up. It is your faithlessness that is responsible for your separation from Him.
As
a matter of fact, life in itself does not carry all the
resources essential for the conquest of the trying condition
of life. We need faith in that, which created life:
God.
Remember, there is no alternative to suffering except to be positive.
30th week Our
problems, trials and sufferings are made possible by lack of
faith in God. If only we could recognize the great Truth
that God is always with us, watching us, our lives would be
liberated from all the errors which are the cause of our
unhappiness. If
only you could have a little faith in the omnipotence of the
all-loving God, which is surrounding you all times and
protecting you in all conditions, you would never make the
mistake that people generally do, and your strength would be
inexhaustible.
We
are given the power to conquer the whole world in love, for
love. When faith rises in our inner hearts, many blessings
flow from our personality to the world, we become points for
the radiation of wondrous vibrations which profit the whole
creation. Faith unites our inner soul with the inexhaustible
treasures of God.
31st week The
syllable OM is a mystic Word. It is not a word as such, but
a sound which is inaudible to us but audible to the inner
Being of Perfection in us. This Word carries in Itself the
whole of the supreme Divine Consciousness as manifesting the
universe and also as unmanifest in Itself. It is not a Hindu
term, but an actual Revelation and Expression of the divine
Being. It is a true Name of the Divine. It is a Word of
Power, of spiritual Power. It is highly auspicious, because
it is carrying in Itself the very Body, Heart and Soul of
the infinite Divinity.
I
beg you to continue to hold on to the Divine Presence in
your daily life, and I assure you that God's Grace will flow
into your lives in many ways, many forms, and unfold from
your blessed heart the divine Perfection, divine Light,
divine Understanding and Love.
32nd week Because
God is omnipotent, omniscient and full of Love, Light,
Grace, Mercy and Peace, this Word OM too contains all the
Powers, Attributes and Qualities of the infinite Being. The
forces of discordance and disharmony in the atmosphere are
removed by the chanting of OM. It purifies the inner self of
our being, it spiritualizes our inner nature, it brings
about several changes in the selves of all, and has also an
inspirational value. From every point of view you find the
sacred Word OM is of cosmic inner value.
To
the problems of material life, wealth is not the answer; a
material paradise created by sciences and technology and
commerce is not the answer. To the problems of life, faith
in That, which created life is the answer. Faith in God Who
is the Life of our life, the Soul of our soul, the Heart of
our heart.
33rd week The
real mantras, which bring about the divine realization are
nothing but the very Body and Soul of the Infinite. The
mantras are useless if imparted by a person who has no
experience of the Infinite. The mantra must come from the
consciousness of the God-experienced person, and generally
the mantra is not given to another unless the Divinity
sanctions it. And the Divinity sanctions it because It alone
is in a position to judge the person. Nobody else, not a
human mind, can do this. The Divinity is omniscient and
knows everything about the person's past and future. And the
Divinity also tells the God-experienced person what mantra
should be given to a particular person. This is the real
mantra-science.
The
moment we are one with the Self, the moment we are in
communion with the Divine, we will become the supreme Owners
of the universe.
34th week The
condition of the body looks to you like disease, trouble,
torture, but to me it is nothing because my inner
consciousness is wholly divine and is one with the Divine.
In
me, the human consciousness is liberated into endless
infinite health, strength, power, joy, peace and perfection.
God-consciousness
or God-experience is a matter of inner consciousness, not of
the body.
We
are unnecessarily prolonging our unhappiness and sufferings
by not pursuing divine Perfection, by not realizing the
divine Power in ourselves, in others, everywhere. The more
earnestly, sincerely and urgently we pursue the path of
divine Life and divine Perfection, the better for
us.
35th week What is really happening to those who have absolute devotion to God? These
people are becoming super-human, they have a direct contact
with an infinite Power, Peace and Perfection. Now, what looks like progress for you is nonsense in their eyes.
There
is no bad person anywhere, there is no miserable and lost
person anywhere. One day everyone is bound to exceed the
limitations in which life has set them, and enjoy the
infinite Delight that is there, in God, in each heart. The
whole meaning and significance of life on earth is the
unfoldment of the divine Perfection, which is absolute
Being, and absolute Life.
36th week Meditation
is one of the most powerful means of achieving many
blessings. Of course the first purpose of meditation is to
experience God fully. But meditation is the most fruitful
only, when our nature has been purified, exalted.
Nothing
of our lower nature should persist in our life, and I can
see no other method of purifying and transforming,
illuminating the whole of our life, except by constantly
generating God-thoughts, love of God and
God-consciousness.
You
know that there is a supreme Power, and this Power which is
God, is all-knowing, all-seeing and all-responsive. That
Power is now with you. The more fully you attune yourself
with this grand, all-responding, all-seeing Power, the
quicker the transformation of your entire nature, and the
more perfect and effective is your meditation.
37th week As
you walk along the streets, why not shower a few blessings
upon all humanity? For God is sustaining all humanity. This
way, every man or woman that you see in the street, or
anywhere, would become for you a manifestation of God's
Presence. Thus each act of your life could be converted in a
powerful adoration, or worship, of the omnipresent and
all-knowing Godhead.
Even
so simple an act as sleeping could be rendered a divine Act.
There is no place where God is not present. You can even
feel that you are resting upon the Lap of the Infinite. One
day you will find this to be true, because there is no
imagination here. You are acting in relation to an
all-seeing Power.
38th week Apart
from the spiritual blessings, there are also material
blessings and physical blessings of every kind of being
one-pointed. When you are one-pointed, when you are
constantly repeating the same thing, what happens? There is
concentration. The concentration leads to two things: either
to sleep, or to deep super consciousness, spiritual
consciousness, a higher spiritual state. The
blessings of both conditions, - the high spiritual state and
the sleep-state, - are in some respect identical insofar as
one enjoys peace and rest and happiness. The sleep-state is
characterized by many defects, whereas the higher spiritual
state is characterized by many positive blessings.
Even
from this standpoint, the cultivation of concentration is
very valuable. Continuously to repeat the same mantra, and
deepen the concentration on the Divine, is of great value.
39th week Now
we see how the spiritual individual is really a rational
individual. In him alone reason is assigned its basic
functions. Reason is there to question, to analyse, to
understand and to discover facts and truths, and ultimately,
the Reality.
Love
is a blessing in itself. The greater the knowledge we desire
of the Divine, the more we have to develop love. No saint is
conceivable without love. Saintliness is founded upon
growing and expanding love. Its basis is cosmic, selfless
and divine love. It is the central power of the soul. You
are full of this power, but you have to express it, develop
it, grow in it; expand it, cultivate it, constantly live in
it, and live from it.
40th week The
happiest condition for the physical body is in deep-sleep.
If you have not slept for one night,the next day you are
restless, dull and easily irritated. Sleep is such an
essential thing. How
does sleep happen? You lie down in a comfortable posture
without a break, and sleep takes place. As the time advances
it becomes deeper. When there is deep sleep you are full of
happiness, peace and stillness. No matter how many cars pass
by in the street, you hear nothing, you are enjoying the
blessings of peace and happiness, of stillness, rest, health
and strength. All these are the results of continuous
occupation of yourself in sleep. Even so, continuous
occupation with the mantra-repetition results in similar
blessings: peace, happiness, inner strength, inner
refreshment, and many other blessings. So, the importance
and value of continuous unbroken repetition of the mantra is
very great. The more continuous your repetition is, the
deeper is your concentration on the Divine, the better are
the results and the more rapid is your spiritual evolution
and progress.
41st week When
you give yourself to God, give all of your inner being to
Him. And as the inner being in you is infinite, you have to
give that infinitude with the strength and power of an
infinite love, faith and devotion. Therefore
when you adore God, adore Him with all the powers of your
soul, consciousness and mind.
Mantra
leads you to the experience of only one thing: the Divine.
That is why the mantra has to be repeated continuously
without any break, so that your mind becomes one-pointed.
Outside that, you hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing,
feel nothing. It is then that there is the dawn of divine
Experience.
We have to be the Infinite before we can claim Its experience.
42nd week The
most important thing is the kind of picture that is in your
inner spirit. During meditation, what is in your mind is of
great significance. If your mind is filled with the picture
of the Divine, with the Nature of the Divine as boundless
Light, Peace and Blessedness, then you are closest to the
Divine; but if there are other pictures, then you are caught
in human limitations, and problems will arise.
As
the spiritual individual repeats the mantra, it works his
consciousness into an intense state of awareness of the
Divine, with the result that the impression lasts all
through the day. And as he repeats this meditation four or
five times a day, the impression lasts all through the day
and persists into the next day. As he is repeating the
experience of the sense of the Divine Presence in
meditation, it becomes stronger and stronger. Afterwards the
Divine becomes more real than the physical
universe.
43rd week With
every repetition of the mantra the spiritual heart charges
the whole universe with the Divine Presence. The spiritual
heart tries to fill every speck of space with the Presence
and the Image of the Divine. In all directions it finds the
Divine alone. Even the bones in the body are charged with
the mantra-power.
The
spiritual individual is always thirsting and hungering after
the Divine. Everything reminds him of the Divine, everything
inspires him.
Beg
the Divine to liberate you from the human limitations. Beg
the Divine to open the inner ears of the soul to hear the
celestial music, the music of the eternal Truth, the music
of the divine Presence. Beg the Divine to grant you inner
spiritual sensibility and sensitivity. Be sensitive to the
Divine Presence.
44th week God
is the Consciousness in all. He gives value, beauty and
genius to everything. He gives the sense of enjoyment to
everything and everyone. If you make the best dishes of the
whole world and put them before your dead daughter, it is of
no use. On the other hand just give a dry piece of bread to
a person who has consciousness, at once this person takes it
and eats it. So,
Consciousness is everything. Without that, nothing is of
importance, value or worth.
45th week The
man in general thinks of his human condition and is unhappy
and restless, and he feels weak. The spiritual individual
thinks of the Divine, knows himself to be belonging to the
infinite, omnipotent, all-beautiful, all-blessed,
all-peaceful, all-joyous Divine, and then becomes strong,
peaceful, joyous and blessed. So generate divine thoughts.
Always associate yourself with the Divine Presence. Let the
heart say, "I belong to the infinite Power, the infinite
Power is in me, around me. I belong to the infinite Beauty
and Blessedness. I am conscious of the infinite Peace and
Blessedness, all around me is Blessedness." Thus
the spiritual individual comes closest to the Divine and
finds the world a paradise. All the resources to experience
the world around as a paradise are in him, and are released
from within him. Wherever he turns his gaze, there he finds
a paradise, for from within him the divine Qualities are
being released. Therefore everywhere he finds a paradise,
even where people find difficulties, trials, sorrow and
pain.
46th week The
knowledge of the Divine is most essential for the resolution
of the limitations of human life. Without the knowledge of
the Divine it is impossible to attain any kind of
illumination whatsoever; for the Nature of the Divine is
Light, and in Light all consciousness comes into a fullest
expression, with all its potentialities and
possibilities.
47th week The
spiritual individual considers every hour as the most
important hour, every day as the most important day, and
therefore he clings to the Divine
with a sense of urgency. There is no time for
light-heartedness. Life is earnest, life is sincere, life is
a challenge: anything can happen at any time, nothing of the
future is known to anyone. Therefore
the spiritual individual, with a sense of great urgency,
clings to the Divine.
In
the impossible the spiritual individual finds something
possible, because of his love for the Divine. In a thing,
which is heart-paining he finds something pleasant and
comfortable, because of his love for the Divine. Thus, he
conquers every circumstance, every condition. This is a characteristic of the spiritual individual.
48th week The
metaphysical Reality is penetrating all physical realities.
As everything is in space, - though space is unaffected by
everything it contains, - so is everything in the
metaphysical Reality, and this Reality is unaffected by
everything. The
spiritual individual draws his strength not from the
physical things, but from the metaphysical Reality. That,
which is within, above and around the physical reality; that
which is sustaining the physical reality and is not known
through the physical senses, is the inner metaphysical
Intelligence, which perceives the metaphysical Reality
everywhere. That
metaphysical Reality is the Divine. It is omnipresent,
omniscient and omnipotent; It is the Source of all
treasures; It is Peace, Joy and Power; It is the Source of
all life, wisdom and beauty, the Source of all freedom,
truth and perfection. The
spiritual individual clings to this metaphysical Reality.
All his strength, power, peace and joy are drawn from It. It
is the Divine, It is infinite Love, infinite
Life.
49th week When
a great spiritual person is born there are some
extraordinary signs in nature. They are the expression of
the joy of nature in this person. Nobody can become great
unless one serves the Divine intensely, sacrifices for the
Divine, sacrifices the energies, the time, the whole being.
No one can become great unless through intense service.
Service and love and meditation go together. One who
meditates without love and without service makes no
progress.
Service
and love are essential components of meditation. It is then
that one becomes great. Unless one is great one is not
illuminated. Greatness is essential, and greatness is the
result of hard work, intense devotion; faithful, dynamic
service; perseverance and constant and patient service. All
these have to be combined. The more the service the more the
Divine is pleased,and the more the spontaneous inner
knowledge is born. 50th week The
spiritual aspirant constantly uplifts the whole atmosphere.
If the atmosphere is depressive, he creates light and joy.
Where it is a circumstance of failure he makes of it a
success. He is the opposite of everything negative. Nothing
negative prospers in his presence.
The
greatness of a life lies in the extent to which, through
service, it pours out the vision of the Divine it
holds.
There
is mighty Power in the mystical syllables. You need not be a
prophet in order to experience the Divine. You need not read
all the books of all the great libraries of the world in
order to have wisdom. Experience of the Divine and abundant
wisdom automatically take place in your inner heart when you
go on merely chanting OM. 51st week Glorification
of the Divine by repetition of the mystical syllables is the
greatest thing. It
brings every kind of blessing, it imprisons the Divine in
your inner heart with the result that all the great angels
must visit you, if they have to see God. So great is the
blessing!
When
a person gets everything for nothing, or for mere repeating
OM, you call such a person a cheater. So, this kind of
cheating can be given by the Divine to nobody except to Its
own children. The Divine loves all beings so immensely, so
boundlessly. That is why It is called all-compassionate. And
in Its boundless Love It has given them the easiest method.
By merely saying OM OM OM, they get everything. This is the
highest secret. 52nd week You
need not fast for years, live in the mountain-solitude and
undergo all kinds of ascetic practices. Merely by
mantra-repetition you can attain everything.
The
Divine Mother is the embodiment of OM. She is called
Omkareshwari. That is the supreme Queen of OM, that is the
Divine Mother. She is everywhere. She is infinite Wisdom,
Intelligence, Consciousness and Energy. OM is in everything.
OM is everywhere. OM is supreme Beauty. OM is supreme Life.
OM is supreme Peace. OM is supreme Happiness. OM is supreme
Purity. OM is the supreme Divinity. There is no God other
than OM. There is no God greater than OM. The Divine Mother
is the embodiment of OM. As
you sing OM you are producing vibrations in the Heart of the
Divine, and touching the Heart of the Divine. 53rd week The
saints drink the OM, eat the OM. Their heart is OM, their
body is OM, their eyes are OM. Their whole being is OM. They
breathe in OM. They are made of OM. They live by OM. OM is
their magic. OM is their highest soul. OM is their Soul of
soul. OM is everything for them. OM is the Creator of all
heavens. OM is the sustainer of all heavens. OM is the
supreme Truth, supreme Life, the supreme
Blessedness.
Experience
of the Divine is a thing that happens in consciousness, a
thing that happens inwardly. Deep spirituality is a matter
of inner nature, inner condition, inner experience. In
Consciousness the divine Experience takes place. Where does
the dream experience take place? In consciousness - within
yourself.
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