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Omkarananda AshramDiary 2006Sayings ofSwami Omkaranandafor Every Week of The YearWhatever may be the challenges, troubles and difficulties in our life, let us not loosen our hold on God-Consciousness. As long as we are in a position to preserve ourselves in this God-Consciousness, be sure we will get endless strength and power. Your wisdom will be great and the capac-ity to meet challenges and difficulties will be supra-human. The help and assistance of divine Grace will be constantly pouring into us. 1st week What
happens if a person begins to turn his footsteps towards the
Divine while here on earth in the present circumstances? He
is constantly aware of a divine Power with which he has some
kind of relationship, by working out of his love for It and
in consequence of his devotion and self-surrender. This is a
great help when at the end of the day he devotes a few
minutes to meditation. At the end of the day, if he sits
down properly for meditation and spends a few minutes in
meditation, that meditation will be successful, because all
through the day he has been in a meditative mood while
conducting the business in the world. You
have an attraction for holiness, why? Because something deep
down in you is holy. You have a longing for unending Joy,
because something deep down in you is made of joy, and
wishes to recover itself in your conscious
experience. 2nd week Let
us talk about that form of meditation which will be useful
to us in our daily life, which will bring about a total
transformation of our inner nature and illuminate it; a
method of meditation by which we have better power, better
health, better peace, better success in business, better
happiness in life, and an all-conscious, continued awareness
and experience of the Divine. We want that form of
meditation by which we will be in a position to live in God,
even when driving our car. We want that form of meditation
by which we can enjoy endless protection, peace and power
even while executing our household duties. Even
as the capacity for speaking is latent in every child born,
so is the capacity to see, to feel, to experience and
express the Presence, the Peace, the Joy, the Beauty, of the
Truth of the Infinite, latent in all. 3rd week Thunder
should not make us frightened, nor death keep us under the
bondage of fright. We are children of the Divine and
therefore immortal. In fact we are infinitely more than the
body we inhabit, infinitely more and other than the mind we
use, infinitely more than the subconscious and unconscious
riches of our inner nature. Our
positive thoughts, divine feelings and noble emotions can be
the angel in us which can lead us to a quicker experience of
God. We bless ourselves by our goodness. We illuminate
ourselves by our wisdom. Therefore through these positive
things, let us progress closer to God-experience. We have
all that is essential and necessary for our union with the
Divine. These capacities and powers for a dynamic and
all-governing experience of God in daily life, will come
into operation with the increasing purity of our inner
nature. 4th week Where
is Heaven? All around us. Here, now. It has always been
here, it is always everywhere. It is a condition of
consciousness, available for our inner experience. It is not
true that I am now in Winterthur. It may be a statement of
the physical fact, but in truth, in reality, I am everywhere
and the Kingdom of Heaven is with me. I am impure of heart
if I have experienced a town or a city or a group of people.
I am face-to-face, always, with the same all-seeing,
all-knowing God-Consciousness. I wither and perish if
something in my inner consciousness cuts off this
experience. Everyone and anyone can experience this divine
Kingdom. It is a condition of infinite, all-perfect
Consciousness, into which we are released through
meditation, through love of God - all-absorbing and
all-consuming. All
that is created by God, is God Himself. The creature is as
the Creator. 5th week With
the understanding of God's omniscience, omnipotence, and
omnipresence, and an attempt to realize it, there must also
be an attempt to realize several other aspects of Divinity.
Our whole life must be possessed by an intoxicating,
all-absorbing God-Consciousness. Then the thoughts, feelings
and actions that flow from us, will be flowing from this
all-absorbing God- Consciousness. God-Consciousness will be
the leader, the conductor and the guide of our
lives. Man
is the never-sleeping, all-witnessing, allobserving Reality
in a physical organism, and in a psychological entity that
is subject to the conditions of sleep, dreaming and waking.
Man is a self-contained absolute Happiness in a world of
pleasures and pains, happiness and suffering. 6th week It
is true that the physical happiness always alternates with
pain and suffering, or a neutral state which is neither
painful nor happy. But all the external things are passing,
changing, alternating, - and even through these temporary
fleeting experiences of pain and pleasure, man is being
conducted towards some wisdom, some expansion of experience,
some understanding. As he grows, develops, evolves and
understands, he is in a position to come back to the real
source of Happiness, the unlimited and absolute Happiness,
that is deep down in his own being, - God that he really is,
God that he enshrines. This is absolute Life, infinite
Peace, absolute Joy and unlimited Power, which is itself
Love, which is also Beauty and Grace - the indescribable
features, aspects, nature and attributes of the
Consciousness in us. 7th week There
is nothing in meditation except what is in your inner
attitude. If your inner attitude is highly spiritual, every
meditation is highly elevating. But when the inner attitude
is not deeply spiritual, at once you know the differences:
"This is good, this is not at all good, that is bad." All
differences will come in. That is sinning, that is human
nature, a fallen condition. But on the other hand if you are
in a higher state of consciousness, in all conditions you
will find the same peace, joy and divine Presence. So, try
to elevate your mind to a higher consciousness, let your
attitude be the best attitude. Wherever you sit, let that be
a sitting directly in the Presence of the Divine. Wherever
you may repeat the Mantra, let that repetition be the most
powerful, devoted, sincere and earnest. Then you will be
perpetually in Divine Consciousness. 8th week The
Divine is all-merciful, all-hearing: He hears everyone
repeating the Mantra, and being allmerciful, He responds
fully. When the spiritual aspirant has the strong feeling
that the Divine is by me, all around me, watching me,
protecting me, loving me, pouring knowledge, peace and
strength into me, - the all-merciful God is deeply touched.
At once He says, "This person is constantly thinking of me,
this person says I am always with him. This person says I am
pouring peace and strength and joy into him. Therefore I
shall be with him, I will show him that what he is speaking
is true. I will show him that what he is feeling is
absolutely true." So the Divine grants this person purity,
and purity unfolds the spiritual vision. And spiritual
vision beholds and experiences the Divine, and is blessed by
the Divine. What is concentration? Being with one thing to the exclusion of all other things. 9th week Thus
the spiritual individual constantly divinises the earth, the
space, the body and the whole being, and beholds the Divine
everywhere. He is always inspired, always enthusiastic for
progress, always serving more than others, always
sacrificing more than others, always working harder than
others; always progressing more than others; always more
peaceful and joyous than others; always more noble, good and
wise than others. He is always first, for the divine Reality
Itself is first in everything, infinite in knowledge, power,
beauty, perfection, joy and peace. Thus the spiritual
individual progresses minute by minute, hour by hour, day by
day. Every activity is a powerful spiritual exercise - no
matter whether it is typing or floor-tile-laying. Everything
is divinised, everything is for the Divine. So the spiritual
individual becomes a marvellous entity, adored by the
angels, respected by the immortal sages and beloved by the
Divine. 10th week The
spiritual individual constantly generates the strongest
feeling that in every cell of his being, there is the
infinite Power infinite Peace, infinite Grace, infinite Love
and infinite Joy of the Divine. And therefore he resolves to
do the greatest thing in the shortest time. The
spiritual individual while repeating the Mantra, has the
strongest feeling that he is drunk with the love for the
Divine, that he is filled with the power of God, that he is
a flame of God, that he lives and moves for the glory of the
Divine. Always engaged in services for the Divine, always
engaged in making the environment a little more beautiful
for the Divine - always an artist, a scientist, a labourer
or untiring toiler, with an unswerving resolve to be
entirely divine. Thus the spiritual individual is a
representative of the Divine. 11th week Mentally
light millions of candles for the glory of the Divine, and
see them burning gloriously for the Divine. Enter into a
conversation with the Divine, with the all-hearing,
all-seeing Divinity. Create this inner state and remain in
it. If you do this hour after hour, day after day, your life
is transformed and illuminated. It becomes superhuman. All
emotional states like fear, anxiety, worry, greed, jealousy
and hate, all disappear, everything disappears. One becomes
divine. Therefore again and again one has to meditate and
create the inner state, and from that inner state all works
have to be done. When there is no service the person becomes
unbalanced and inner purity is not kept up. With service
higher qualities of nature have to be developed: love,
devotion, faith, patience, perseverance, forgivingness and
understanding, all have to be developed. 12th week With
all your heart say, "Lord forgive the presence of the
potency of anger in my being. Reject the potency of anger in
my being, and implant there a power of unconditioned love. I
love, I adore You, and You are unconditioned, absolute,
infinite love. Let me have in my nature that which is in
You. Make me like You, allloving, all-forgiving!" There
is a great fund of love in your heart. You are blessed. But
this is a limited love, therefore you have problems and
difficulties in life. Gently make this great love unlimited.
Then life will show you that it is completely free of all
problems, difficulties and worries, then life will conduct
you to the Divine, here and now. 13th week Spiritual
progress is not a physical progress. Spiritual progress is
dependent on the discipline of your Spiritual
evolution is a matter of the discipline of our inner
consciousness. That principle in you which makes all
mistakes in your life is not your body. If it were the body,
you could take eight baths a day and thus keep the body
pure. That which makes mistakes in you, that which is the
cause of impurity, is the mind. The
impurities in us are anger, passion, greed, jealousy, fears,
anxieties and ignorance. These have to be thrown out. The
inner being has to be made radiant and illuminated by love,
understanding, wisdom, faith in the Divine and knowledge of
the Divine. 14th week Thoughts,
feelings, actions and experiences that constantly flow from
the depths of love, transfigure the human individual.
Everyone is an image of God, everyone has love, everyone has
life. Love is the cause of all aspirations. It is the
sustainer of all virtues. It is the increaser of all
blessings. Your wisdom is another face of love. Your peace
is another face of love. Your longing for the Truth, for God
or real Happiness, is another face of love. Your good works,
your capacity to give joy to thousands is a sign of the
presence of love. It
is not good to surrender ourselves to suffering, but it can
happen. If suffering were not there nobody would think of
God. The fact of suffering itself is a proof that we must
seek for perfection, and perfection and happiness is the way
out. So, let us try to conquer suffering before suffering
can possess us. 15th week Your
treasure among treasures is: you are an immortal Principle
in a mortal body. Your greatness lies not in the stature of
your body, but in the love in your heart. No matter what
forms love takes - you may be a scientist, a genius, an
artist, a businessman or a housewife - it does not matter
what you are, love is expressed through you. Even when the
negative characteristics of human nature try to hide the
hidden love, - you are an embodiment of love. Love
will finally triumph, will assert itself. The more the human
individual evolves, the more he expresses love. One short
span of life may not be adequate to develop love in all its
dimensions. Therefore the evolutionary nature grants man
more lives in order to develop this love. The final fruit of
evolution is the union of the human heart with the Divine,
the submergence of human love in the divine Love. 16th week Never
be negative, either in your thoughts or feelings or in your
life. Always be full of faith, vision, courage, and peace.
And remember, if the situations of life are very unsettled,
unhappy and distressing, it does not matter because you are
in a position to capture unending joy, unending peace,
unending power and unending perfection. Let us suppose that
the whole world is destroyed by flood and is completely
deluged by ocean waters. Everything about you, around you,
is all destroyed, and you alone are surviving on earth. Yet
never lose hope, never despair, never become distressed.
With tremendous faith and with the power which is in and
around you, with a new vision, new strength and energy, by
intelligent hard work, try to make a small paradise around
yourself, all by yourself. 17th week If
with your emotional energy which is not yet purified, you
try to conquer the emotion of anger, you will not be so
successful. Try therefore to conquer the emotion of anger
and other emotions by something positive - not merely
control the emotion of anger, but also develop love. When
the love becomes more and more powerful, the force and power
of anger diminishes. Only
in God-Consciousness can there be safety, security,
perfection, peace and joy. Only in God- Consciousness, can
you have endless creative potentialities and possibilities.
Your
restless search for peace, happiness, fearlessness and
conquest of death, are all proofs that all these are already
resident and present in you, and are demanding their
realiziation. 18th week We
come closer to the discovery of truth in anything, when we
proceed to interpret and see things not in terms of matter
and motion but in terms of Existence and Consciousness.
Existence is the Substance, Consciousness is the Force, and
the movement and creativeness. Man,
- ignorant of the truth that his spirit is spaceless and
therefore master of all space, timeless and therefore master
of all time, - man is flying today in the space-ships, and
exploring the outer space. To this external conquest of
space, man has to add the dimension of a subjective conquest
of space by the realization of the Spaceless Reality.
19th week Let
us also remember that though bad forces are operative around
the world and are working towards a war, there are also good
forces simultaneously operating and working for peace. And
the greatest service that we can do to the world and to
ourselves, is not to engage our attention upon the negative
things in life and in the world. Let us concentrate on
whatever good there is in us, and seek to develop it to an
unlimited extent. Instead of expecting or watching the
movement of humanity towards destruction, let us strongly
and earnestly pray to God for peace, progress, growth,
development and happiness for humanity. Our prayers bring
blessings not only for others, but also for us. Concentration
is the secret of purification and illumination. How to train
the mind which is never with one thing at any moment? By
repeating the one name of the Divine constantly, again and
again. 20th week Some
prayers go by the name of meditation. The prayer of knowlege
consists of a constant and continuous awareness that God is
always immanent in all the universe, that God is the basis
and the background of all that is manifested and existent.
We
can cure a diseased body, not only by medicines and
vitamins, but also by right and elevating thinking, positive
emotions, faith in God. An
effective prayer is a prayer that proceeds from the deepest
energies of the human emotion of love, a prayer in which the
whole inner being of a human individual arises as a single
flame and touches God's presence and Consciousness. That
prayer is the most effective prayer. 21st week The
spiritual individual constantly clings to the Divine. He
says to the Divine, "You are omnipresent, at no time and in
no place can I be outside you. In all places, at all times I
am within you. You are the Reality of realities, Life of
life, Heart of heart, Soul of soul. You are everything. You
are all-knowing, all-perfect and allpowerful. You are my
only refuge, my only strength and wealth. Let your will be
done, not my will. Let your thought rule me, not my
thoughts. Let your feelings rule me, not my feelings. Let
your actions find their expression through me, not my
actions. You are the breath of my life, the strength of my
being. Wherever I be I am peaceful, happy and strong,
because I am in you, surrounded by your omnipotence, within
the Knowledge of your omnipotence, guided by your Will and
moved by your Love. My whole life is an adoration of you,
all my activities are your activities for your
glory." 22nd week This
infinite, indescribable, unlimited, absolute Consciousness,
this unborn, uncreated, formless, nameless Being, can take
any number of forms if It so wills. Has not the manifested
universe come from His unmanifested Being? It
is conceited to think that prayer is a mode of demeaning
ourselves for another person before someone called God. It
is no such thing, for God is not a person external to you.
He is the Kingdom within you, around you, everywhere. He is
an infinite divine Consciousness and Presence. He is
omnipotent, absolute Knowledge, absolute Delight, absolute
Light and Peace. It is inevitable that the human individual,
conditioned as he is in limitations, must touch this
absolute power and peace and joy, in one way or the other,
if he is not to be shattered by his own limitations, if he
is not to be torn to pieces in mind and will. 23rd week A
name can be given to our bodies, a name can be given to our
mind, a name can be given to our subconscious and
unconscious, - but the infinite Divine Consciousness
residing deep down in us is nameless. It is one, it is
universal, it is cosmic. You fall asleep, into deep-sleep.
In the morning you wake up. You feel that you had a sound,
deep, undisturbed sleep. Remember your conscious mind was
suspended in its activity, and your unconscious mind also
was not active, because if it were active you would have
dreams. Yet you have a memory that you had sound, deep,
happy sleep. What reports to you that you had a happy sleep,
what gives you the memory of this deep sleep? It is this
infinite Divine Consciousness in you. It is never sleeping,
It is an all-witnessing Consciousness in you. 24th week The
Divinity who is all-compassion, taking notice of the
progress of the person, grants him a vision or two in which
he beholds the Divinity. After many such experiences and
visions of the Divine - sometimes in dreams, sometimes in
waking consciousness, - the day arises when the person is in
a position to talk to God directly. At that stage God might
ask the Master of the person to initiate him into yet higher
mysteries, or the Divinity Itself might make arrangements to
take him to higher stages of evolution and perfection. So I
say it is a secret path, because it is a matter between God
and the person. Devotion
to the Divine must be intensified, increased, and deepened.
It is only then that one rises to a condition of inner
enthusiasm and inspiration. It is from such states that the
perception of the Divine becomes easy and the mind is
illuminated. 25th week Life
as it is - within the boundaries in human nature, and under
the pressure of ignorance - is subject to misery,
unhappiness, diseases, death and sin. But a life lived in a
growing love, expanding consciousness, ever-widening
knowledge, a life that is exalted into a divine nature, God-
Consciousness - which means a life of unlimited,
unquestioning service, sacrifice, a life from which a
powerful consciousness of the Divine is never absent - such
a life becomes the instrument for the marvels, the
splendours and the wonders of the Infinite
Consciousness. The
more you are purified and illuminated, the more peaceful you
will be. No matter how intensive the work is, how
distracting your environment may be, you will remain
ever-peaceful, and eversatisfied. This peacefulness and
satisfaction become the foundation for spiritual
development. 26th week There
is the discipline of mental worship of God, and there is the
discipline of the unceasing prayer of the heart, in which
you are conscious that it is not you acting but God acting.
A prayer in which you are conscious it is not you living but
the Infinite living through you; in which you are not
conscious of any power that could be yours but only the
omnipotent power that God is. Thus,
by constant and intensive repetition of the Mantra, the
spiritual individual gains the immense grace of the Divine.
Every repetition is registered by the hand of the Infinite
who sees everything. So, every repetition is a great gain
even when you do not know the effects or how the result
comes. Every repetition has its own result. By constant
repetition, by constant service and love of the Divine, one
becomes slowly and steadily purified and inwardly
illuminated. 27th week The
greatest men of purity sit in one pose continuously, even
without opening their eyes for ten days, ten months, ten
years or one whole life-time. They are the greatest
personalities, they are the embodiments of infinite peace.
Hidden in the world somewhere there are still one or two who
are sitting though 2000 years have passed. They are still
meditating in the same position. Such examples are rare, but
they are real, they are existing. They are extraordinary
personalities, they are filled with infinite peace. They
don't need to put their body in ice in order to preserve it.
Their inner condition of meditation itself maintains their
body. Such personalities are extraordinary. All spiritual
individuals who can sit still for a long time are also
wonderful. It is a sign of purity, of inner rest, inner
understanding, inner wisdom and inner enlightenment. So,
recognise the numberless blessings of the Mantra-repetition.
Make progress. Condition your life to peace, intense service
and meditation. Outside these you should know nothing. Then
your life becomes more and more wonderful. 28th week The
more you settle your concentration on the Divine, the more
the inner nature stands transformed. When the inner nature
is transformed, automatically there is purity, light and
much wisdom. The knowledge dawns that the soul within is
immortal. Things are not as they appear, there is some other
dimension in them which is awakened by the mystical
syllables. This changes your life, strengthens you from
within, and secures high spiritual evolution for
you. Cultivate
the habit of getting up early in the morning. That is a
great achievement. It has many blessings. Among them the
most important blessing is freedom from bad dreams.
Generally dreams which are not good occur between 3 and 6
am. Your spiritual nature increases when you get up early in
the morning. 29th week Life
seems to be a bundle of worries. On everybody's head is a
bundle of worry, life presses a person down. The Divine is
the opposite. He is infinite joy, He strengthens a person
and fills the person with boundless joy. Spiritual
development is marked by increasing inner strength and
happiness. At no time, in no circumstance can you make a man
of God, a saint, unhappy. No matter what the tragedy, no
matter what the circumstances, nothing can affect the heart
of joy that the spiritual individual is. The spiritual
individual dwells in timelessness, in boundless light, in
everlasting life, in boundless treasures, strength, wisdom,
power, beauty, light, love and perfection. 30th week The
ordinary man , because of his deep ignorance, does not know
that there is much electricity in his body. He thinks there
is electricity only in the cable and in the burning light,
he has no knowledge that his body is also full of
electricity. Mystical syllables are full of highest
electricity. Like the radio waves, they reach every corner
of the universe and touch every aspect of the Divine. There
is a mighty power in them. Consciousness, power, light and
electricity are one and the same. One can be converted into
another: electricity can be converted into light, light into
power, and power in itself contains highest consciousness,
and consciousness in itself contains the Divine Reality. All
matter is a manifestation of power, power carries
consciousness in itself. Thus every repetition of the Mantra
touches the whole of the Reality, - and touches every corner
of the universe, every part and aspect of the divine
Reality. The human individual becomes increasingly
transformed. 31st week By
constant repetition of the Mantra, the knots of ignorance
are broken. When the knots of ignorance are broken, there is
light in the soul which perceives the divine Reality. The
whole nature is transformed and one is ruled by the divine
knowledge, by the eternal knowledge. When
you are not in a higher spiritual state, the mind makes
mischief. Those persons who are not in the meditation now
are doing something which is not in harmony with the highest
spiritual consciousness. Their mind will be wandering. It is
best to condition oneself to spiritual activities. Whether
one likes them or not, whether they are interesting or not,
if one tries to condition oneself to such spiritual
activities, afterwards the spiritual activity becomes most
interesting. 32nd week With
every repetition the spiritual individual is engaged in a
conversation with the Divine. The spiritual individual also
enters into conversation with the divine Image. He converses
with the infinite Peace, infinite Joy. He is aware of the
infinite Beauty and Perfection. Always he is in conversation
with boundless Wisdom, boundless Goodness. His resources are
numberless. So try to converse with the Divine with every
repetition of the Mantra. Converse with the Divine even when
you are working. Even when you are at work the heart can be
made to adhere to the Divine inwardly. Life
is serious, it is a challenge. Before it is too late, make
the maximum progress. Always let the heart be crying for the
Divine with joy, strength, peace, wisdom, understanding and
with the fire of aspiration. 33rd week By
constant Mantra-repetition the heart is purified and always
in a mood of wonder, of admiration and of adoration. That is
purity. Wherever someone is like that, know that person to
be pure. Even if this person does not love God, God loves
him immensely; even if this person does not want God, God
always dwells in him and dwells by him. Where such a purity
is there there is heaven, there is always satisfaction.
The
opposite is the worldly man. He is always dissatisfied, no
matter what happens to him. When he is enjoying a pleasure
he forgets his dissatisfaction, but the moment the pleasure
is over, again he is a victim of his dissatisfaction - that
is the nature of the worldly man. The spiritual individual
who is pure, who is always in a mood of adoration, of
wonder, is always satisfied. 34th week The
spiritual individual has always a metaphysical mind, for the
divine Reality is the central subject of metaphysics.
Therefore internally every reference is in relation to the
ultimate Reality. The whole framework of intelligence is led
in the Infinite, is illuminated by metaphysical knowledge,
the knowledge of the metaphysical Reality. Everything that
we can see, hear, know and feel through the senses is
physical. That which is in the physical 'reality' and of
which the physical reality knows nothing, and of which the
physical senses of the human mind see nothing, that is
metaphysical, that is above and beyond the
physical. Different
sounds produce different states of mind. Mystical syllables
are extraordinary, they are all-powerful. But one has to be
in the right mood and spirit. 35th week God-experience:
It is happening in Consciousness. One beholds new dimensions
to this world, too, and discovers the face of the Divine
everywhere. As you sustain yourself in this state,
afterwards even if you open the physical eyes you see the
same divine Kingdom. You are filled with the vision of
Heaven, the experience of Heaven. It is an inner matter, it
has nothing to do with what the spiritual individual is
doing. He may be cleaning the street, typing, cooking,
painting, gardening, or driving a car. No matter what he is
doing, inwardly he is established in the divine experience.
Don't
be jealous of anyone. Don't create artificial problems, and
don't complain. Get what you want by your service. You are
paid back for your service. 36th week Render
your life more and more creative, productive, fruitful and
dynamic. This is the secret of growth and development. Pains
have to be taken, no great success is possible without
pains. One has to develop one's inner qualities. Where there
are a dozen people working, there the ego is tested and
tried: it is there that one has to diminish the power of the
ego. It is a blessed circumstance. Just see how strong your
ego is, weaken it more and more. Give the people around the
feeling that you are their servant, a helper, an inspirer.
Be an elevator, a self-controlled person, a person ruled by
wisdom and love, a harmony-maker, - not a contradictor, a
misunderstander. So try every minute, every hour to do
something wonderful. All circumstances can teach wise
persons, - every circumstance is a wonderful circumstance
for progress. 37th week So
long as there is no surrender, there is limitation of every
kind, and consequent suffering. With the surrender, there is
absolute liberation. That is the glory of surrender to the
Divine. The devotee surrenders himself to the Divine. Added
to this virtue of surrender, he is untiringly serving the
Divine: Selfless service, service for the sake of the
Divine, service in the name of the Divine, service with the
background consciousness of the Divine. Unquestioning,
unbroken selfless service which is ensouled by wisdom and
divine love. Such a heart does not say, "The others are not
working - why should I work?" It says, "Let me work, let
others sit. Let me work for a thousand persons, and the
Divine will give me the strength to work for two thousand
persons." 38th week Bring
all the best flowers from all the gardens of the world,
mentally, and lay them at the feet of the all-seeing,
all-knowing God. Remember it is not imagination - the act of
the mind is more real than the physical act. God does not
judge you by your physical acts, God judges you in your
motives, intentions, and mental activities. And if in your
inner mind you are full of these lighted candles and
beautiful flowers brought in adoration of the Divine,
remember that God who is all-seeing and all-responding
accepts them. That mental activity liberates you from your
human narrowness. Some
people are afraid that they may become stupid by being with
only one thing. They think one has great intelligence if one
has many thoughts. That is a false logic, that is not true.
The greatest geniuses have the fewest thoughts! 39th week Human
mind experiences the outer world through the sense of sight
and the other senses, presents to you a world of opposite
experiences, of limitations, of appearances; a limited world
which is constantly changing, perishing, arising - a world
of time, space and causation. As long as you are
experiencing this world, your glorious philosophy of the
Infinite is nonsense. Your wondrous mental vision of the
Kingdom of Heaven is profitless, useless. Your fine
philosophy that you talk so well, so beautifully and
eloquently, is of no value. Your claims for spiritual life
are hypocritical. You will be judged by your real practice.
You will be estimated by your experience. The
wise sages who have communed with God know that what is
happening around is only an appearance, and therefore there
is no use being affected by it. 40th week Wealth,
however great it may be, is not a guarantee for happiness
and peace. A beautiful, healthy strong body is no guarantee
for peace, happiness and joy in life. Most beautiful wives
and wonderful sons are no guarantee for peace or happiness.
Everything
depends upon how you react to things. If you react to these
divine songs by powerfully feeling the mighty oceanic
presence of the Divine, if you find yourself before the
effulgence and beauty of the Divine, then your mind just now
is wonderful. It is pure, it is with God. In
order to be blessed, be a blessing. In order to be great, be
humble and develop great qualities. 41st week The
body of knowledge concerning the nature of the supreme
Divinity, the body of the methods by which we can experience
the Divinity, is the supreme science. It is the science of
sciences. Why is this science of knowledge and the methods
for Godexperience the science of sciences? Because the
subject matter here is the God. When
a great person of service and sacrifice is sent to the
battle-field, what does he do? With utmost urgency and under
all kinds of challenges, difficulties and problems, he tries
to help as many wounded soldiers as possible. He tries to
finish off his work as quickly as possible. There is no
jealousy, no egoism possible. There is no time for pleasure,
one has to urgently attend to one's duties. Even so, the
spiritual aspirant considers himself to have been sent into
this battlefield of the earth, and he is here to urgently do
the best works, the good works. 42nd week When
divine Mantras are being sung in this manner, if your whole
intelligence is filled with peace and light, then you are
progressing rapidly on the path. The impact such divine
sounds have on your being, determines the nature of your
mind and the extent of your spiritual development. How do
you react to such things? As you are listening, if you have
suddenly found the whole world disappearing into boundless
Love and Light of the divine Presence, if you have found
that the whole world is disappearing in the beauty and grace
of the Divine, - if you have felt a strong presence around
you which you feel in the same way as the wind blowing
through the windows, - then you have progressed very much on
the path and your heart and mind are pure. 43rd week A
truly good person is good under all conditions, and at all
times. He does not say, "Others around me are not good and
therefore why should I be good?" He does not feel that the
whole world is bad and therefore he has no reason why he
should be good. He does not say, "The good are suffering in
the world, the bad are prosperous in the world: it is
difficult to be good and easy to be bad, and therefore I
choose the easier way." The truly good person continues to
be good whether or not others around him are good. A truly
good person does not waste even half a minute in seeing the
defects, deficiencies and the bad side of others. That time
involved in perceiving such defects is utilized by him for
making so much of good that even if ten persons in the world
do some bad it is not proportionate to the great good that
this good person has done. 44th week There
is no possibility of investing man with infinite dignity
unless we see man in relation to the ultimate Truth. It is
that which makes the human individual the crown of creation,
it is that which gives him a proud and glorious position and
mission in the scheme of creation. Today science has reduced
our world to a speck of dust: it has robbed the world of all
its worth, value and dignity. Today psychology and
psychoanalysis have reduced the human individual to the
level of one among the animal kingdom. We have to restore
the human individual to his essential glory, worth and
dignity by understanding the divine Principle that he bears
in himself. Be
always illuminating, a sunshine, and never expect any light
from anyone or anything. This is the law of life. Be
serving, never expect anyone to serve you. 45th week Music
has an intrinsic relation with the infinite divine Truth.
The rhythms that we find in the cosmos are an outward
expression of the inner harmony and music that is resident
in the Infinite. The very nature of the Reality is
infinitely musical. It is infinite harmony. There is
absolute silence, and in the silence there is endless music,
an infinite variety of music. The fingers of the Divine are
countless, they are operative everywhere in and beyond the
cosmos. Wherever the Reality is present there is boundless
Beauty. Beauty is Music, Music is Love, and Love is Truth.
Truth is Joy, Joy is infinite Peace, Peace is eternal Life.
We are rooted in the eternal Life. No
cultural force is so powerful and effective for the
transformation of the unconscious and the nature of man as
music. Music is the heart of God. It is the language of
Nature, and Nature is identical with the Divine in its inner
being. 46th week This
divine Reality is a rhythm in Itself. It is Pranava, It is
movement, It is OM, It is timeless mystical sounds. Sound is
movement, sound is light, sound is love - beauty, art,
science and perfection are all embodied in it. When the Lord
dances, the universe comes into existence. Through the same
dance He can dissolve the universe, and by the same dance He
can sustain the universe. Unless our hearts are rendered sensitive and susceptible to the Divine Presence, there is no possibility of any response to His universal Divine Presence within us and around us. By many types of discipline and processes of self-transformation, by liberation of ourselves from all dark forces, instincts, and urges, by years of practice of virtues, by much suffering and much knoweldge, we come closer to a responsiveness to the eternal Presence within and around us. 47th week Our
nature is transformed when we eliminate all kinds of
unnecessary dirt and dust and so on from our inner being. It
is only then that we can think of lighting the candle. Every
day in our life we must be very busy and vigilant inwardly
and constantly seek to eliminate every form or energy of the
lower nature from inside us. There must be a constant
exercise of self-conquest, an exercise of self-mastering. We
should not be led away by the impulses and instincts, we
must grow conscious of their pressure on us and give them a
new direction, turn them towards constructive
purposes. A
longing for earthly pleasures must be turned into a longing
for higher pleasures - the pleasures of the mind, of
service, of pursuit of knowledge, and of artistic
activities. All these will liberate us from our lower nature
and give us a sufficient and adequate freedom from excessive
body- and physical consciousness. 48th week God
is all-perfect, all-beautiful, all-peaceful and full of
inconceivable and endless harmony. He is not a judge, He is
our Beloved, He is one who pours His blessings on us. It is
His very nature to illuminate our path, enlighten our minds
and make our lives full. Imperfections, weaknesses, crimes,
evil, and darkness are non-existent wherever God
is. When
a person commits suicide he commits no crime in the eyes of
God, but in his ignorance he damages himself. He has done
something unnatural, and therefore he suffers from his
unnatural death. He is punished by his own action, he is not
punished by God. The inflictor of punishment is his own
action. 49th week Life
is a passing show, a fleeting phenomenon. Behind this life
there is the eternal Truth, the Mind of God, the Presence of
God, the Reality of God. This Reality contains all kingdoms,
all wonders in Itself. It is everlasting, It is not passing
show but ever-abiding Truth, Reality, Joy, Peace and
Perfection. The
human individual is lost and absorbed in the passing beauty
of the external things. The blessed aspiring individual is
conscious of the divine Beauty behind the beauty of nature,
and therefore he is absorbed in the abiding indescribably
beautiful Beauty of the Divine. The outer beauty in nature
has acted as a stimulus for absorption into the Beauty of
the Divine behind. 50th week Be
sure you can never be without Him, even for a twinkling of
an eye. He is always with you. The wise man and the saint,
the blessed, the spiritually illuminated, see this Reality
more clearly than you now see two candles on the
table. No
great saint, poet, sage, philosopher or prophet has ever
succeeded in describing the beauty of the Divine, so
wonderful is the Divine. It is indescribable. Even if all
the heavens were filled with persisting beauty it would be
ugliness in comparison to the indescribable beauty of the
mere presence of the Divine. Try to understand this more and
more. This understanding is the greatest thing that you can
carry with you after your death. 51st week The
deep-sleep state teaches you that there is unending,
infinite, immeasurable happiness and peace in being with the
One. There is endless stillness in being with the One. But
the moment you are conscious of many things, of the body and
environment, the moment there are two thoughts in you,
troubles arise. How
to be consciously with this one Existence, with this one God
of infinite Peace and Happiness? There is the method of
constantly thinking of only one thing, of the Divine. How do
you think of the Divine constantly? By repeating the name of
the Divine, the same name you repeat again and again; and as
you repeat the name of the Divine your mind is automatically
brought from different things back to the Divine.
52nd week A
person who is becoming master of the Mantra, though he is
seeing many things, is only with one thing. He is a man in
'deep-sleep' though he is talking to us and working with us.
He is a man in unending Peace and Happiness, in Illumination
and Knowledge, though he is talking with us, asking us what
is a typewriter and how does it work; though he is seeing
the movies, or though he is amidst people; though apparently
he does not know how to make a tomato soup, and is watching
how it is being made. He is a man in deep-sleep state. His
state is comparable to deep-sleep state, with a great
difference: in the deep-sleep state you know nothing, from
that state you cannot talk, you cannot work, you are not
conscious in that state. Whereas here in this type of
deep-sleep state you are full of inner Light, you are full
of the Consciousness of the Divine, you can talk and move
about. You are fully conscious of what you are experiencing.
L
ife has to be fulfilled in That which is infinitely greater
than life. What is it that is infinitely greater than life?
The Divine. There is nothing greater than the Divine. Be
intoxicated by the thought of the Divine, live for the
Divine, breathe for the Divine, be inspired by the knowledge
of the Divine. Swami Omkarananda
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