What kind of spiritual path followers we are? What kind of ? we are those fortunate once who knows how to behave and who have the guidance of good behavior. So do we follow those guidelines?
Being new on the path it fascinated me to see fellow travellers behaving in one set way, speaking in a set way. It was gentle, humble and calm way. And I used to feel the need to be one of those calm, humble and gentle people. Gradually I tried to find the depth of reality of that behavior. And what good place to start then your own heart.
Our MASTER tells us that if a child doesn’t behave properly the blame goes to upbringing of parents. And so HIS follower we shud behave in a way that people feels the need to ask…who is your FATHER?
And so we religiously try to behave properly. But what if one day we stop and realize that it was merely a lip service? Lip service- said from lips but not actually implemented or believed by heart.
Some of very set words that we all speak- do we really follow them? We say – every thing is HIS will , but then we forget this as soon as we try to make some major decision in our life. Business dealings, job change, place change, home change school change for kids…any decision we take we are sometimes far apart from this fact that every thing is predestined. We are just playing out a pre written drama. And here we forget the words we use while speaking to other fellow travellers—every thing is HIS will. But yes, we do remember it when some thing wrong happens in our life and we need an explanation. Then we realize it’s HIS will and we can comfortably put the blame on HIM…
We always use sentences like …we are nothing..we don’t exist only HE exists. Yet this is what we forget most of the time. If we really don’t exist then so doesn’t our ego. The same ego which keeps us functioning in this world and thus keeps us away from HIM…reaching HIM inside. So how can we use these sentences? We exist…and till we exist we don’t reach HIM, and till we don’t reach HIM are we not being hypocrites when we say- we don’t exist? Why do we use these sentences when we know they are still far from reality? We bow down and humbly welcome anyone at our home or when we meet we greet each other …and yet our heart and mind is busy finding fault and judging the same person whom we are greeting?
We have been so many times told by our GUIDE and MASTER to be humble and yet do we actually follow HIM? From deep down our heart? Once I read a very interesting quote. Here it is…
“Humility, then, is not a matter of beating ourselves up. It is not a question of judging ourselves as stupid or sinful, as hopeless and bad. Who are we to judge these things? Humility, is the gentle acceptance of that most tender place inside ourselves that throbs with the pain of separation from the Beloved. It is that deep knowingness that identification with the false self brings nothing but further separation. It is an initially reluctant dropping down into the emptiness and an ultimate experience of peace when we stop doing and rediscover simple being. It is the Sabbath of the soul when we heed the call to cease creating and remember that we are created. "
---- St John
our mind gathers information. Reading all those books our MASTER lovingly provided us and listening to HIS satsangs..HIS words. Watching HIM behave in life. And we aspire to become the same that HE set an example to or asks us to do. Yet our heart remains the same. Behaving in predictable human ways. It's like gaining knowledge and not really letting it sink in.
We believe ourselves to have surrendered all to our MASTER and we believe ourselves that we are living in HIS will. And yet our heart complains of so many things. I should have more money , earning it should be easy enuf for me to find time for meditation. And yet the life is so miserably hectic I can’t find time for one thing and that is meditation. Can we really find guts enuf to really surrender? HE says all ur worries are ur MASTER’s worries and ur cares are HIS. So give it all to HIM, and u be carefree enuf to just do one thing. Meditation… and we don’t have that guts. We are indispensable. Our life and responsibilities, our job and house work will all fall apart if we don’t keep an eye or lend a hand. We don’t have that guts to really surrender all. How can we then remainwhat we know our self to be???—a big ego???
Something didn’t happen according to our carefully laid plan…and we loose even that amount of surrender that we believe our self to have made to our MASTER… so do we actually qualify to use these remarks? As a genuine spiritual path traveller?
Living in HIS will means complete surrender of ego…and we can count those in fingers who can actually boast of having lost ego. Not all of us can. And then saying things like this becomes hypocrisy. Living in HIS will also means, actively participating. Not just saying it’s HIS will when misfortunes fall upon us. But actually rejoicing in HIS any kind of gift. Be it fortune or misfortune.
Can we actually leave everything in HIS capable hands and just do one thing with our life? Meditation? we meet each other and ask are u doing it? it's so hard to sit , it's so hard to find time. And we comfort ourself from the knowledge that others are incapable too. We are not the only one neglecting most important part of our life. Instead we shud all gather up and encourage each other. go on do it...it's the only thing worth doing in life. For HE can take care of everything else.
so next time before we use any such hypocratical sentence , boosting our ego..that over inflated part of our existence...and believe ourself to be geniuinly good follower...we shoul ask ourself is it true??? or are we just misleading ourself to be a good follower. yes, we should behave as our MASTER asked us to do...but then it should be from bottom of our heart. and this can only come via one way. as our MASTER promised us. that if we meditate we will ourself find changes in us. from milk butter will come up automatically... and good qualities inside us will come up automatically. only then we can call ourself ..."Honest".
Spirituality is a way of life. Not merely in thoughts. It is a reflection of qualities that GOD admire most. And we can fool ourself but we can never fool HIM.. HE knows how much we are faking. Coz HE is sitting there listening to our each and every thought. Even before we can become aware of them...
" Dil ka hujra saaf kar janaa ke aaney ke liye" [ clean ur hearts and minds before u can welcome HIM inside. Coz the place where HE is to be seated should be neat and clean. ]Best wishes to all of us on the path to be geniuine followers and not to do just lip service. So that we can finally welcome our BELOVED to come and grace us with HIS loving presence...
Peace to all. :)
Being new on the path it fascinated me to see fellow travellers behaving in one set way, speaking in a set way. It was gentle, humble and calm way. And I used to feel the need to be one of those calm, humble and gentle people. Gradually I tried to find the depth of reality of that behavior. And what good place to start then your own heart.
Our MASTER tells us that if a child doesn’t behave properly the blame goes to upbringing of parents. And so HIS follower we shud behave in a way that people feels the need to ask…who is your FATHER?
And so we religiously try to behave properly. But what if one day we stop and realize that it was merely a lip service? Lip service- said from lips but not actually implemented or believed by heart.
Some of very set words that we all speak- do we really follow them? We say – every thing is HIS will , but then we forget this as soon as we try to make some major decision in our life. Business dealings, job change, place change, home change school change for kids…any decision we take we are sometimes far apart from this fact that every thing is predestined. We are just playing out a pre written drama. And here we forget the words we use while speaking to other fellow travellers—every thing is HIS will. But yes, we do remember it when some thing wrong happens in our life and we need an explanation. Then we realize it’s HIS will and we can comfortably put the blame on HIM…
We always use sentences like …we are nothing..we don’t exist only HE exists. Yet this is what we forget most of the time. If we really don’t exist then so doesn’t our ego. The same ego which keeps us functioning in this world and thus keeps us away from HIM…reaching HIM inside. So how can we use these sentences? We exist…and till we exist we don’t reach HIM, and till we don’t reach HIM are we not being hypocrites when we say- we don’t exist? Why do we use these sentences when we know they are still far from reality? We bow down and humbly welcome anyone at our home or when we meet we greet each other …and yet our heart and mind is busy finding fault and judging the same person whom we are greeting?
We have been so many times told by our GUIDE and MASTER to be humble and yet do we actually follow HIM? From deep down our heart? Once I read a very interesting quote. Here it is…
“Humility, then, is not a matter of beating ourselves up. It is not a question of judging ourselves as stupid or sinful, as hopeless and bad. Who are we to judge these things? Humility, is the gentle acceptance of that most tender place inside ourselves that throbs with the pain of separation from the Beloved. It is that deep knowingness that identification with the false self brings nothing but further separation. It is an initially reluctant dropping down into the emptiness and an ultimate experience of peace when we stop doing and rediscover simple being. It is the Sabbath of the soul when we heed the call to cease creating and remember that we are created. "
---- St John
our mind gathers information. Reading all those books our MASTER lovingly provided us and listening to HIS satsangs..HIS words. Watching HIM behave in life. And we aspire to become the same that HE set an example to or asks us to do. Yet our heart remains the same. Behaving in predictable human ways. It's like gaining knowledge and not really letting it sink in.
We believe ourselves to have surrendered all to our MASTER and we believe ourselves that we are living in HIS will. And yet our heart complains of so many things. I should have more money , earning it should be easy enuf for me to find time for meditation. And yet the life is so miserably hectic I can’t find time for one thing and that is meditation. Can we really find guts enuf to really surrender? HE says all ur worries are ur MASTER’s worries and ur cares are HIS. So give it all to HIM, and u be carefree enuf to just do one thing. Meditation… and we don’t have that guts. We are indispensable. Our life and responsibilities, our job and house work will all fall apart if we don’t keep an eye or lend a hand. We don’t have that guts to really surrender all. How can we then remainwhat we know our self to be???—a big ego???
Something didn’t happen according to our carefully laid plan…and we loose even that amount of surrender that we believe our self to have made to our MASTER… so do we actually qualify to use these remarks? As a genuine spiritual path traveller?
Living in HIS will means complete surrender of ego…and we can count those in fingers who can actually boast of having lost ego. Not all of us can. And then saying things like this becomes hypocrisy. Living in HIS will also means, actively participating. Not just saying it’s HIS will when misfortunes fall upon us. But actually rejoicing in HIS any kind of gift. Be it fortune or misfortune.
Can we actually leave everything in HIS capable hands and just do one thing with our life? Meditation? we meet each other and ask are u doing it? it's so hard to sit , it's so hard to find time. And we comfort ourself from the knowledge that others are incapable too. We are not the only one neglecting most important part of our life. Instead we shud all gather up and encourage each other. go on do it...it's the only thing worth doing in life. For HE can take care of everything else.
so next time before we use any such hypocratical sentence , boosting our ego..that over inflated part of our existence...and believe ourself to be geniuinly good follower...we shoul ask ourself is it true??? or are we just misleading ourself to be a good follower. yes, we should behave as our MASTER asked us to do...but then it should be from bottom of our heart. and this can only come via one way. as our MASTER promised us. that if we meditate we will ourself find changes in us. from milk butter will come up automatically... and good qualities inside us will come up automatically. only then we can call ourself ..."Honest".
Spirituality is a way of life. Not merely in thoughts. It is a reflection of qualities that GOD admire most. And we can fool ourself but we can never fool HIM.. HE knows how much we are faking. Coz HE is sitting there listening to our each and every thought. Even before we can become aware of them...
" Dil ka hujra saaf kar janaa ke aaney ke liye" [ clean ur hearts and minds before u can welcome HIM inside. Coz the place where HE is to be seated should be neat and clean. ]Best wishes to all of us on the path to be geniuine followers and not to do just lip service. So that we can finally welcome our BELOVED to come and grace us with HIS loving presence...
Peace to all. :)
1. If we shed the ego, there is no need for meditation etc. The ultimate has been achieved.
ReplyDelete2. Do'nt you think in the ultimate analysis, each one of us is all alone and has to fight his battles all by himself??
3. Meditation, I feel, is simply the realisation of this truth.