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Omkarananda AshramDiary 2009Sayings ofSwami Omkaranandafor Every Week of The YearThe true lover of the Divinity experiences the Light of God today and tomorrow, always and everywhere. He finds in his consciousness an endless number of lights, shining for the Glory of the divine Presence, the divine Kingdom. He remains in the company of the Light which has created all the worlds, which is the Light of all lights, and is the immortal Soul of all souls.
1st week What
is cosmic consciousness? A consciousness pertaining to the
cosmos is cosmic consciousness. What is the cosmos? This
whole field of manifestation. This entire creation,
inclusive of all the invisible worlds of stars, the
immeasurable space, the timeless universe. So, if you are
conscious of the Godhead in the cosmos, if the trees, the
plants, the beings, the beasts are full of God-Consciousness
for your experience then you have cosmic consciousness. If
you are able to encounter, see face to face, an infinite,
all-throbbing Consciousness, in the ocean, in the sky, in
the plant, if in your eyes and in your experience no man is
a man, no woman is a woman, but an embodiment of divine
Consciousness and Light, you have cosmic consciousness
2nd week The
Avatar is God's infinite love taking a human form. It is the
light of God descending on Earth in order that the soul of
humanity may ascend to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is an act
glorious, indescribable of the infinite Consciousness
presenting Itself in a form that could be sensed, seen,
known by humanity. He is with us now not only outside us,
but also deep in our own inner hearts. This
infinite love has its own power, this divine sweetness has
its own power. The power of love and sweetness are far
greater than the power of power. The power of power can
break, it can be crude, it can be harsh, but the power in
love is all-conquering, sweet, calm, serene,
divine.
3rd week The
Infinite is always the Father of the finite. And the
finite's strength rests upon the Infinite. The finite
principle or form cannot sustain itself, independent of the
Infinite. The Infinite alone can sustain the finite. The
Infinite always stands in relation to the finite as a father
stands in relation to a son. Let us take an example of a
soap-bubble. There is air inside it. But the air inside is
limited, is conditioned. The air outside it is
unconditioned, illimitable. The difficulties of that bubble
are resolved the moment the limited air in that bubble grows
conscious that it is one with the air outside; that its
present limitation is not inevitable, is only a temporary
condition. Exactly so, every individual, every finite
personality, acquires unusual strength and power the moment
he is conscious that he is one with the Infinite
Consciousness everywhere.
4th week Supposing
I am thrown into the sea, I am experiencing God even there
in it. Supposing I am drawn into a most luxurious hotel in
Switzerland, in Zurich, there also I am experiencing God.
Supposing I am thrown into the fire, there also in the
flames of the fire, I am experiencing God. So, there is no
place, no condition, no circumstance, no situation in which
we cannot and do not experience God when we are constantly
conscious of His Omnipresence Look
upon all as children of God. There is no big man or small
man, all are wonderful. 5th week Remember
the fact that all the world that we see, the world that is
reported to us by the senses, by the mind, by the feelings
and by the body, is a world primarily and essentially
constituted of the infinite Divine Consciousness. If we see
the flower, if we see the wood, the matter, the tree, if we
see man or woman, or the bird or beast, let us not forget
they are all configurations, formations of the infinite
Divine Consciousness. That's why we have always found, in
moments of our experience of the Divine, that walls are not
a bar to our movement. In that Divine Consciousness, when
all of our inner being is one with the Divine Consciousness,
wherever we turn our eyes, we experience the same infinite
Divine Light, Love, Power, Consciousness, Beauty,
Perfection 6th week The
Divine Consciousness in you is all-creative, all-powerful,
all-pervading, all-knowing, all perfect. And it is the only
Power which is really existent. Matter which is a
self-expression within Itself, Mind which is also a
self-expression of the infinite Consciousness within Itself,
are secondary, momentary: today they are, tomorrow they may
never be. Trillions of years ago there was no world, no life
on earth, and trillions of years later there may never be a
world, no matter, no life, no mind but always the inner
Divine Consciousness and Light was, millions of years ago,
and it will be trillions of years later, and It is now. That
is the central Substance, Source, Power, everything.
Therefore, always and everywhere what is is the same
infinite Divine Consciousness. God and God alone
is.
7th week Before
we can experience, realise and know God, we must try to
behave as and be God ourselves. We must be in a position to
think like God, feel like God, live like God, before we can
realise God and express His infinite Perfection, Peace,
Beauty, Light. How does God think, how does God feel, how
does God work? God feels like this: Human feeling is
limited, narrow, conditioned, relative, troubled. God's
Feeling is unlimited, all perfect, untroubled. Human love is
limited, mixed up with dislike and hatred, and governed by
conditions and time and space. God's Love is unlimited.
Therefore constantly we must seek to express unlimited
Love
8th week If
you get spiritual experiences, don't make much fuss about
them, quietly ignore them, and don't talk much about them to
others. To talk of your experience to others means only
feeding your ego and pride and vanity. And even the greatest
prophets, when they are forced by circumstance to perform a
miracle, try to see that the miracle is not announced and
publicised. So we must try to be very careful and guard
ourselves against all forms of pride and vanity. Ignore your
experiences, go on getting bigger experiences. And when
bigger experiences come, ignore them and get yet higher, yet
higher experiences. Don't stop moving as fast as you can
until you arrive at infinite Perfection. Let all in you
become honey, light, gold, and full of God's Power and
Consciousness.
9th week There
are many types of dreams. Some dreams are meaningful and
significant, some dreams are purely chaotic and meaningless.
The causing factors and sources of the dream-phenomena are
different, from time to time. However, during dreams a
personality other than the conscious mentality is operative.
The dreaming personality is more free than the conscious
waking person. Now, it is said that in dreams our astral
body is at work. For the astral body, flying, jumping,
anything is possible. For this astral body it is possible to
penetrate through the walls, and for it it is possible to
appear as a dog or a bear or a tree. It is possible for it
to go to other regions and see other wonders; it is also
possible for us to see the past and future. All these things
are also possible. So, there are many types of dreams, many
forms of dreams, many causes of dreams. It needs a big
study.
10th week I
won't give you the Mantra if I am not myself the supreme
Master of these Mantras, secret mystical Mantras. Now, if I
am so, what is happening? I am living in a world of
timelessness, a world of endless creative life, light, and
wherein all the Gods are visible to us all the time. So we
are establishing personal intimate relations with the higher
Entities, who are omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.
With the result, our joys are entirely inside ourself.
That's why I have always been so bold in my talk: Bury me in
the earth, it does not matter, I am safe, you will see me
walking in the sky. All this is because of exclusive
attention to the higher mystical worlds, realities and
experiences.
11th week When
we achieve a particular Yogic perfection, where we are in a
position to project the astral body, we are in a position to
dissociate the astral body from the physical body, and
travel with that to the friend for helping him. So all that
is possible. But that is not the right way. If somebody is
suffering, attend to him medically first. Secondly, try to
pray. So the best way is: try to grow in wisdom, grow in
love, and contact God. Your struggle to achieve this
projection of the astral body or dissociating the astral
body from the physical body and working a yogic miracle, is
purely a trick. And therefore it is more in the nature of a
mischief than in the nature of a perfection (Siddhi)! It is
only a clever feat. It will make you more egoistic and proud
that you are able to do a miracle, and that egoism itself is
sufficient to destroy you and also the patient you want to
help.
12th week The
knowledge that belongs to the modern fields of human enquiry
is a secondary knowledge. It is a knowledge of effects, of
appearances, of matter, of nature. This is not knowledge. It
is, as declared by men of divine experience, an ignorance.
What then is knowledge? Knowledge is that which tears town
the veils of nature and discloses to us the Divine Presence
behind. The
greatest service to humanity is not by providing them food
or cloth or so on, but providing them the spiritual eyes to
see, to put them in touch with some divine Power which will
not fail them, some infinite, divine, all-merciful,
all-loving Heart which will constantly pour into them
endless peace, strength whatever they want in resources.
This is the greatest service.
13th week Supposing
if you want to walk on the water, in what way is that
superior to the blade of grass that is floating on the
water? So all these are silly tricks which are not
countenanced by wisdom. So, achieve perfection, goodness,
knowledge, wisdom, self-control, power. Some of the masters
of the Himalayas are given these powers, and some of them
may misuse, and some of them may rightly use them. Now,
these men of highest wisdom and love also have endless
number of divine powers but they are never used they are
automatically used by the divine Wisdom, when and where
necessary. There are many types of mystics, of men of God
experience, and each differs from the other in his way, and
in his methods and life. The possession and the conscious
exercise of these high miraculous powers is no proof of
their inner perfection or purity or greatness.
14th week The
whole secret of God-realisation consists in the
Mantra-repetition. People have attained highest supernormal
powers by the Mantra. Keep the Mantra a secret in your
heart, divine matters are secret, divine matters are not for
human ears. So the Mantra is a question of a relationship
between yourself and God, and this relationship you have to
foster in silence and solitude of your inner being. So, keep
the Mantra a secret in your heart, until you achieve the
highest divine perfection, until all in you becomes God, and
God Himself becomes you. This
Godhead is all-seeing, He is just now with us. He is
listening to me. And He is also dictating to me the words
which I should utter.
15th week All
these great masters of the Himalayas, if they want to
exercise powers against me even, they would not be in a
position to do it. They may be successful with others, they
won't be successful with me, either for good or for bad.
This is because a Power that is the Power of their powers,
is with us. An invincible Power of infinite Love and Wisdom
and Presence, is with us. In relation to That even the
highest miraculous power of these big masters or whoever
they may be, is of no consequence. Therefore let us try to
cover ourself with, and live entirely in, a Power which is
power above all powers. Beauty
gives the seeker of God a mastery over the ordinary human
nature, and inspires the person to transform it into the
divine Nature
16th week This
Godhead is an infinite Power whom we cannot escape.
Everywhere He alone is, in the darkness, in the light, at
all times, in all situations, in all circumstances. Wherever
we go, He is with us. He is the light of our light, soul of
our soul, heart of our heart, and the consciousness of our
consciousness. Living
in the world, we have to live in God. Having looked at the
clouds and found them all cloudy and foggy, yet try to see
in the fog and clouds the same white, beautiful presence of
God standing and welcoming you, extending His arms to
embrace you, and take you back into His infinite divine
Perfection, Light, Consciousness and Power.
17th week Your
life's greatest good fortune consists in your little
knowledge of this divine Principle. All your fears will drop
away, you will have proper perspectives to life, all your
anxieties will leave you, you will consciously conquer
death. What is the meaning of conquering death? It does not
mean perpetuating the life of the body for an eternity. When
your shawl becomes dirty and somebody changes it for you, do
you feel unhappy about it? Rather you feel grateful that a
service has been done. The
soul seeks to gain oneness with the Infinite and Eternal
through Dance. Dance is perfect Yoga, perfect meditation,
wisdom, purity and discipline.
18th week I
need no police force. I need no external power to defend me
in any circumstance. My Consciousness and contact with the
Divine Power is so complete, that the demonstration of
superhuman strength is a constant feature of my life. The
demonstration of the truth that time and space are no
barriers to me is a constant feature of my everyday life.
This can also be your experience, because you are no less a
son of God than I am. Nature has not put less consciousness
in you and more consciousness in me. No, equally, all beings
are equally omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient in their
inner nature, divine nature There
are no two Gods. God is the same, man is the same, human
demand for God is the same all over the world.
19th week Mantra
will be effective only when it is given from Master to
disciple. All Mantras are like matchsticks, this matchstick
does not catch fire until it is struck on the surface of a
sulphur. That sulphur surface can be obtained only from a
Master. If other people try to use the matchstick, it
doesn't burn. And they will throw away the Mantra as
useless. They don't know its secrets. Its power has to be
unlocked. And the power of the Mantra is unlocked when the
Mantra is taken from a Master who is the Master of the
Mantra, one who has achieved perfection in the commanding,
in the using of that Power of the Mantra. Each
has to serve according to his capacity, you serve best by
your realisation of the Divine. If you repeat the Mantra,
you serve the Divine
20th week I
can help you whether there is a Centre or no Centre. Our
help is direct, does not depend upon correspondence, does
not depend upon the distance. God is with us, God is in us,
God is working. So, no Centre is necessary; also no form and
mode of contact is necessary. So the Centre's justification
can only be on the basis and foundation of your need for a
Centre like that. If that is so, I am all praise for it. I
feel your suggestions are purely divine. God has inspired
you with that thought of the Centre. And if God wishes to
materialise it, you can be sure that He will give you also
the strength to do so. If things are automatically settled
of their own accord, then you can be sure the Divine Grace
wants things in this direction.
21st week That
universal all-encompassing Principle is full of every power,
knowledge, light, beauty, peace and perfection. In order to
have endless happiness you need not have to enjoy anything
delicious, or possess something very expensive. You have
highest and persisting happiness in this subtle,
all-penetrating, all-pervading, divine Principle.
Like
space being present with you all the time, so is the divine
Presence present with you all the time. You are living in
the Divine though you do not know it. You are moving in the
Divine, you are working in the Divine, though you do not
know it. You are breathing in the Divine though you do not
know it. If you know it you become a Saint, a Sage, a true
spiritual aspirant, a person of great power, peace and joy.
22nd week Even
as the white light is divided into seven different colours,
the supreme Truth, the white, infinite boundless absolute
Existence, God, Truth, Reality manifests itself in the form
of the variegated universe. One begins to wonder how the
white light splits itself into seven different colours, and
these colours in their various mixtures appear as yet more
colours. The whole creation is a manifestation of colours.
Everywhere there is some colour or the other, it is a world
of colours, it is a world of appearance. What is the world
of Truth? It is the white colour, the original colour, the
supreme Reality. A
little faith in God is sufficient to make your life
invincible, and make you the master of all challenges in
daily life.
23rd week We
have to refine ourselves constantly. All the spiritual
awareness that we are capable of must come into activity
with each repetition of the mantra. Then you see that the
mantra will begin to work. Mantra is a matchstick, it cannot
catch fire until the striking ground is coated by sulphur.
The striking ground is yourself. If your mind and heart are
pure and radiant, refined, full of the sulphur of devotion,
faith, vision, Godward longing, purity, then the moment you
repeat mantra once, the Divine stands before you. All in you
has to be sublimated, transformed, transfigured and your
love for the Divine must be intensified. Great men have
taken endless pain in order that they may see God face to
face, what pains have you taken? You ask yourself
24th week When
a person in the world is working for an ideal, for the
Divine, and trying to release into the world a number of
beneficent forces which enrich the world and make it
something like a heaven, giving joy to people when that
person is at a task, if he has to die after 30 years,
naturally these forces which are working there, and God who
is seeing everything, He says, Now look here this work is
most important, I must keep it up. And if the fellow dies at
the appointed period (according to astrology), after 30
years, then the work stops there. Now his life must be
extended. Oh, open the books and see, can it be extended?
Yes, it can be extended. Make it 60 years, and try to see
that within the 60 years so much of light spreads through
him that all the work is finished, and after 60 years he can
afford to detach the body. There is no such a law in Nature
that it frustrates the efforts of good intentions to a great
aim. And when that aim happens to be God himself, He is the
source of everything and Himself the lawmaker, and the
Master of law, and can relax the laws.
25th week Let
us say God gives you something. Let us say I have enormous
magical powers, that is divine supernormal powers: I can
make, unmake, construct, reconstruct humanity, and create
palaces in the open space, and heavens in the open space.
How long will it last? Several billion, billion years, and
afterwards it must come to an end. What is this play and
display? So says the Reality inside: away with it, I don't
want this play! Nonsense. Truth for Truth's own sake, no
dabbling in it. However, there is an established order, the
humanity, and we want to liberate people who are caught in
this established order, and therefore, well, service.
Nothing is worthwhile except the Divine so sit, and relax in
the Infinite, the Presence and Grace and Love and Light. Not
even asking for Grace, only Love. We love Him, love Him,
that's all. And Grace is a consequence.
26th week As
it is natural for the rose to emanate fragrance, so it is
there this divine love here is natural emanation, it is not
a cultivation of love. It is not, I demand, please, my
heart, be good enough to love the Lord, it does not say so.
Love is spontaneous and automatic, uncaused, unmotivated,
not demanded by wisdom. It is there. This is totally a
different state. That is Natural Love, Real Love. And this
God will buy 2 francs of this natural love rather than
million francs of normal love. It does not outweigh, and
therefore you have the phrase, God is the slave of love. I
do not want to love, it is there. And wherever it is there,
that is the only place where He can stand. God cannot stand
in any other place, not in matter, not in the temple, not in
the church, not anywhere, He stands there where the love is
there. And this kind of love is natural, divine,
unquestioning, unwanting, untroubling.
27th week What
will be the end of your ambitions and your ideals? The end
would be infinite Perfection. From here, from your
leadership of the company, you will be promoted to the
leadership of mankind. From here you will be promoted to the
leadership of the Gods and Goddesses, and universal forces,
cosmic systems, other worlds. From there you will be
promoted to the leadership of the domains of Truth and
Beauty infinite and absolute. From there you will become the
Divine Himself, One with the Lord. Indistinguishable from
the Lord, you are the Lord, God is you, you are God. You
don't lose your identity, you gain a marvellous identity, a
perfect, absolute identity, absolute individuality. Human
mind is hypnotising itself, and therefore it thinks to be in
limitations and to have an outward structure is to have an
individuality. It cannot think of a condition where without
the limitations and limited outer structure one can have a
wondrous individuality.
28th week Human
love in human relation, in interpersonal relations, is
emotionalism, sentimentalism, romanticism, some kind of
idealism. Well, that is the basis and foundation, through
that we try to develop the higher dimensions of love. There
is no way of arriving at Natural Love except through these
layers and levels and grades of human love, in growth, in
development and therefore subject to the
time-factor. In
human history we see that in the ancient cultures the kings
and the great generals of the army have always gone to the
Sages, in order to receive guidance, wisdom, illumination.
And to govern the country with wisdom and illumination, they
have obtained guidance from the Sages. And the greatest
kings have been those who have had the good fortune of such
a guidance, spiritual guidance of spiritual teachers.
29th week When
God, the infinite Being, has to create a universe, what does
He do? He has to delimit Himself, in order to unfold a
universe, sustain it, maintain it, and develop it. So, the
infinite Truth called the unmanifest, eternal Truth from
eternity to eternity, that eternal Truth is on the top. The
eternal Truth is there, infinite eternal Truth. And if It
has to create universal systems, and universes, It has to
delimit Its infinite capacities to a limited intelligence
and limited resources in order to unfold that universe,
sustain it, develop it. This delimited portion of the
unlimited, infinite Reality, Existence, operative here as
the Intelligence, creative Force, is Creator, God. This is
called God, and this is God manifest. God with a
personality, called the Executive Officer. And this, which
is there (on the top), this is also God, unmanifest, not a
personality, not an executive an unmanifest unlimited Being.
And this Officer has to further delimit His powers, and
distribute, diversify those powers, in order to execute
different works in different parts of the
universe.
30th week Your
inner potentiality is always greater than what is made
patent, visible, outside what is manifested, or realised,
achieved, however great that manifested thing be. Any leader
who labours under the preconceived idea that he has
exhausted his inner capacity in doing his best, is doing
himself a great disservice, he is raising a wall against
himself. That there is a limitation of materials, that he
has only ten millions while his work demands twenty
millions, that we can understand. But we cannot grant to him
the idea that he has used his full ten millions in his inner
resources, in brain and intelligence, and heart and will,
and there is nothing more. No such thing. And since there is
no such thing there, outwardly also there should not be any
such thing. If there is a shortage of material, let him use
his existing material to its optimum, then he will find that
this gravitates to him more material.
31st week The
moment I say Elephant, at once there is the image of the
elephant in you, in your intelligence. The moment I say
Zurich at once the whole town is in your imagination. The
moment I say Coffee, at once the idea of the coffee, the
whole picture, image of the coffee is with you. The moment
you repeat this Mantra at once God is there present with
you. Whereas with Zurich, coffee and elephant it is only a
mental image, ineffective, powerless, unless you operate
upon them, act upon them, act by them, imagine them. With
regard to the Mantras we find that when you utter this
mystical syllable, even as the elephant is present when you
utter the word Elephant in your thought, well the Divine is
present, but not in the same way as the elephant is present
when you hear the world elephant, but in a very solid, real
manner. There are structural, organic relations between the
Mantra and the Divinity.
32nd week The
infinite, unmanifest, beginningless, endless, timeless,
all-perfect Kingdom of Heaven, God, Truth, Unmanifest
Reality, is here, the Reality Supreme. Now the Reality says,
something in It, Well, I shall manifest time-space orders,
millions of universes I will create. So, the whole cosmos is
created. This is the manifest universe. Some power from the
unmanifest Reality desires, expresses, maintains the cosmos.
This supreme transcendental Reality, motionless, immutable,
all-perfect It does not move. Why It does not move? Where
does It move, It is everywhere. The river moves, because it
is nowhere, it has no one point. The ocean does not move
because it is everywhere. The timeless and infinite Reality
does not move, it is everywhere. Where is God? Everywhere.
Now, this we called as unmanifest Reality, but in fact this
unmanifest Reality is there everywhere in the manifestation.
33rd week When
we are communing with God and we become one with Him, we are
masters of all that He has created, and we have become one
with His Consciousness which has created this. And so we
have completely transcended our limitations. And this can
happen even when we are individuals, working in this
universe as limited creatures. We can have this knowledge of
our infinity, immortality, eternity, infinite happiness. We
can talk to God as we are talking to each other, we can see
God as we are seeing each other. So in such a state divine
qualities come to us automatically. And even when the divine
qualities are expressing themselves, people cannot recognise
these divine qualities because they think they are human
qualities. What is the Swami? Swami is expressing love, he
is a kind man, he is a loving man says a person. But this
person does not know what that love is. He does not know
that it is a selfless love, that it is a pure love, that the
Swami is loving others not because He gets something from
them.
34th week One
can be a monk in thought and spirit, not necessarily bodily
a monk. One can be a renunciate in thought and spirit, in
attitude, in feeling, in style and pattern of inner life.
The
whole Milky Way is nothing but a small earring on the head
of the Divine. So mighty and beautiful and wondrous is the
Divine. As you repeat the Mantra go on reflecting upon this
wondrous Presence of the Divine. You will never suffer so long as I am by you.
35th week Supposing
the man of illumination desires something, it happens
immediately. Creative possibilities, anything can happen. So
creative possibilities are there. And the soul's very
presence is a creative self-expression. When you are plunged
in the joy of the Divine, well, many of Its beauties reveal
themselves to your perception and experience. You find
wondrous beauties. Its capacity to be present everywhere,
Its capacity to know everything, Its capacity to manipulate
everything, Its capacity to be infinitely still, all these
are beauties. Progress
is very normal and natural, because the Reality is
all-perfect, all-true, all-Science, there is no
irrationality there.
36th week Mantra
is given to you as a most powerful help in order that you
may, with each repetition of the mantra, generate in
yourself a spiritual experience. It is not meant to be
repeated mechanically but with all the love that your heart
is capable of, all the wisdom and knowledge of God that your
mind is capable of, all the longing and earnest yearning
after the Divine that your whole inner being is capable of
must come into operation with every repetition. Every
repetition means such a tremendous generation of heat in
your system, the fire of Godward longing, that it melts away
the impurities in the system and makes you gold, refined,
and ready for the reception of unfailing infinite divine
grace. Purity
of heart enables the human being to see the Divine
everywhere.
37th week There
are spiritual songs, spiritual music, devotional songs,
devotional music. And, apart from this, there is spiritual
music which is received in revelation, received in high
states of inner spiritual inspiration. It is the same as
this music, but the rhythm, the tone, its impact on us, its
inner content, essence, spirit, mood, all are different. It
is inspiring, elevating, soothing, pleasing, these are some
of its characteristics. The joys of divine thoughts and feelings are far greater than the joys of the earth. You do not know how wonderful it is to be a divine personality, but you will soon know it, prepare yourselves.
38th week Supposing
if I am at the building place, what happens? I not only take
work from them, show them an example, work hard, and they
are tempted to work more hard, but also see what is the time
now, who is weak, who needs a little rest, who needs a
drink, who needs a little encouragement, who needs to be
sent away to some other work? All this, a dozen things are
going on in our head and heart. I put human considerations
first, and taking work next, taking work is ten percent.
With the result, what happens? Even if Swami does not call
anyone, does not want anybody, all people come and gather
round the Swami. Because the unconscious in them
understands, his personality is a perpetual invitation. When
the personality is inwardly rich, and full of love, and
understanding, it is a perpetual invitation to others. And
they are like flies attracted to the honey, they are
attracted even when you want to push them out. This is a
field of love, light, ó sacrifice, deep spirituality,
unity, oneness, no man big, no man small.
39th week The
most important temples of India where the Presence of the
Divine is very living and dynamic and responsive and
all-seeing, there also we can initiate special forms of
adoration for our welfare, or for our spiritual
enlightenment. Why one would do such things? Because that is
the direct means of keeping ourselves in communion with the
Divine. There is a living Presence, when you make an
offering to the living Presence of the Divine, ó say
a leaf, or a plantain, or an apple, or your heart of love,
to such a Presence, naturally the Presence immediately
understands it, reacts to it, responds to it, and there are
consequent results reaped by us. Therefore it is a powerful
means of forging special links with the Divine, obliging the
Divine. Every time you do something like that, it is
something like getting into a treaty with the Divine, coming
in direct contact with the Divine.
40th week The
statement that the world is unreal, please remember, is
pronounced from the standpoint of the experience of the
Absolute, from the experience of the transcendental Reality.
We are talking about the standpoint of the experience of the
transcendental Reality, as It is in Itself, Reality as It is
in Itself. From that standpoint nothing exists other than
Itself, all is wonderful in Itself. There is no need for
all. All comes in because of a human concept. It is an
indescribable, nameless, formless transcendental,
all-perfect, One Reality without a second, not even the
world as a second to It. Neither the world is external to
It, nor internal to It, it is just not there, in that
condition. This is a state of illumination.
41st week When
God comes down and says Now I want to unfold a universe, the
moment He says Now I want Ö He becomes an Executive
Officer. And thereafter what does He do? He goes about
searching for means. The first means that are available to
Him are His hands, left hand, right hand, two legs, and His
tongue, and His eyes. What is His tongue? Goddess of
infinite Wisdom, knowledge, speech, Arts. What is His Hand?
The God of Work in the universe. What is His Heart? The God
of Beauty, Abundance, Love, Joy, Happiness, Prosperity in
the universe. So there is a God of Heart/Love, there is a
God of Tongue/Knowledge, there is a God of Speech, a God of
Arts and Sciences, and there is a God of Death, and a God of
Life, and so many departments.
42nd week Even
for the outward management of an organisation it is inward
deep spirituality that can unfold all the necessary
qualities and qualifications essential, for a harmonious
development. The Spirit of our organisation, because it has
emerged from the divine Grace, can never be killed. The
better the organisation, the more the Spirit expresses
itself. One unique feature of the organisation, its main
distinguishing feature and its heart is that the Grace of
the Divine seated in the heart of the people around here
manipulates them. So in a way the Chief Executive of the
organisation is the Divinity Itself, the divine Grace
Itself, because It prompts in them the feelings and the
thoughts. The thoughts that they have, they are prompted by
the Divinity within, the divine Grace. In a way, and
largely, the Divine Grace Itself is the leader here.
43rd week The
Divine picture is no more a picture, but a living
personality, with which one can converse; which can
constantly elevate and uplift. Why are the great temples of
India so famous? Why are they still existing though six
thousand years have passed away? They are there even three
thousand, four thousand years before the birth of Christ.
And still they are there. And they contain nothing but a
stone idol. Yet the temple has survived six thousand years
of history. What is the reason? Many persons, seekers of the
Divine, have meditated upon that stone image. Out of that
stone image the Divine emerged, has appeared to them,
blessed them, granted them immortality, high spiritual
experiences. That image in the temple is no image for the
real aspirant, but something from which the Divine may at
any time emerge in response to the devotion of the
heart.
44th week God
the Father has another dimension, another aspect of His
Being which is unmanifest. You can't call the eternal Truth
as Father. The moment you call Him Father you are
personalising the eternal Truth. And if He responds to you,
He comes to you as a Father, then it means He comes to you
as a limited Being though His limitations are not our
limitations. Our limitations are enormous, infinite
limitations, whereas God's limitations are totally
different. He is omniscient. That is His limitation. He is
omnipotent, all-powerful, that is His limitation. He is
omnipresent, that is His limitation. Now, is there a
dimension to this Father God who is omnipresent, omnipotent
and omniscient, which is unlimited? Yes, there is: the
infinite Reality, unmanifest Reality. That is more then
omniscience. It is Itself alone there, there is nothing else
apart from It. We cannot attribute omniscience or
omnipotence to It, It is the boundless Reality.
45th week The
history of a temple shows, seven hundred years ago a great
man has experienced the Divine emerging from that idol. Two
thousand years ago, another great heart of devotion has
experienced, conversed with that idol, the Divine. And prior
to that, dozens of persons have found the Divine just coming
out of the idol, emerging from the idol. Again and again
they have had spiritual experiences in and through that
idol. In consequence, they have become the world's greatest
poets, though they were completely uneducated; they have
become the world's greatest philosophers, founders of new
religions. So completely they were changed and altered, that
their lives were superhuman, divine, rich in qualities,
capacities. Such wonders have happened through those idols.
For the spiritual individual the picture of the idol is no
more a picture or idol, but a living Personality,
all-hearing, all-seeing.
46th week It
is even said in the scriptures that there are Divinities for
everything, there is a Divinity for the blood, there are so
many Divinities in the body of man, for different functions.
The God of intelligence in one place, the God of love in
another place, the God of power in another place, the God of
procreation in another place, so many Gods in the body, they
have discovered, apart from the Chakras. In the Chakras also
there are Divinities, Deities. There are many Powerhouses of
the Divine, Powers of the psychic body, and so on. The
psychical comes first always in spiritual matters, the
material is only an outward base. The
purity of the heart and a grand and strong hold on the truth
that All is God, comes as a result of the Grace of God
through the Master.
47th week Merely
the thought of such a Divine Personality makes the whole
being calm. All the desires of the heart are fulfilled, or
rather dissolved. Life is fulfilled, one is calm and
peaceful. All the restlessness which the desires create has
disappeared. The desires themselves have disappeared. One is
supremely satisfied in the Divine. Goodness
in its absoluteness, patience in its absoluteness, beauty in
its absoluteness, knowledge in its infinitude, and peace in
its infinitude, perfection in its infinitude, they are found
only in the Divine.
48th week Thousand
varieties of illusion are there, illusions, hallucinations,
visions, deceptions, all these. And of illusion itself there
are many categories. In the desert you see an oasis it is an
illusion, mirage. All these are examples of illusion. In the
dream you experience lots of things, this is again another
example, another form of illusion, a jugglery of the mind.
In this way there are many types of illusion. Among such
illusions our actual experience of pain and body is one. In
order to see how illusory the things are around, we have to
gain a deeper experience of the Divine. Now by saying it is
illusory we are not disrespecting the reality, nor is our
action in this illusory world less efficient, less
successful, less wonderful. On the other hand, our action is
trying to introduce into this illusory world of experience
and events and things, a factor of permanence, emanating
from our knowledge of the Eternal.
49th week Some
animals can be such that the inner heart is always conscious
of something, but it has not the facility to work it out, so
it is hedged in very heavy limitations. Love can be present
in the animal, a vague knowledge that there may be some kind
of God, can be present. Wisdom is there in the animals,
common-sense and reason is there in the animals, love is
there even in the animals, but under specific limitations.
Therefore it is a very rare gift to have a physical human
body, that is the first great gift of God, for through that
body man can become God, through having a body or the human
birth, as we say. So rich is the organisation of the human
brain and heart and so on, there are so many capacities
which can be used and employed properly for the attainment
of divine perfection. 50th week Can
you deny that you are in space now? In air? You cannot, for
the space is a universal, all encompassing Principle. It is
in the one space that you see millions of things. Greater
than all the million things that you perceive in space is
the space itself. There is nothing which is not within
space. Space is greater than everything which it contains in
itself. Space is inseparable from everything. Can you
separate yourself from space? That is impossible. Can you
banish the space within your physical form? You are
inseparable from space. Within you, around, above -
everywhere is space. More real than space, though more
subtle and more invisible is the Divine. From this Divinity
you can never be separated. Be sure wherever you may be you
are in God, with God. 51st week Even
the most illiterate peasant in India has some such
philosophy, about the world being a myth, a Maya, an
unreality, an illusion. The point is, it is a powerful call
for aspirants to come up more quickly to spiritual
experience, but it does not mean that their life is negated,
their world is negated. They have qualified themselves for
such a high state of illumination, where they can actually
experience it to be so. But having experienced the world to
be unreal, yet they do not just disappear into the Absolute,
they may come back from the Absolute with the transcendental
experience, and in this unreal world work for the redemption
of those who are not yet freed from the unreal world. The
Ashram assumes the world to be an expression of the Divine,
and in and through the world the Divine has to be
experienced. And when the Divine is experienced one has to
express into this world something of the treasures of the
Divine. 52nd week The
moment you look at your car and say Om Shri Maha
Tripurasundari Arpanam astu (may this be an offering unto
Thee), it becomes the property of the Divine. When it is the
property of the Divine, the upkeep of that property is the
worry of the Gods, the divisional Officers of God's Kingdom
must keep this up, because the heart inside said It belongs
to God, I am only a trustee of it, it is God's property, my
Father's property, the Truth's property, not the property of
this perishing body, not the property of this dissolvable
ego, not the property of this changing
individuality. The
meaning of namaha is: I adore you. The meaning also is: I am
nothing, you are everything. So, namaha is said to God, we
are saying it to God.
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