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Dear Sir, brothers and sisters,
Sri B. Narasimhulu
Pranams
1.
We find the above observation of
Revered Dr.K.C.Varadachari Garu in his complete
works, Vol.I, page 225.
2.
Further to the above, he explained
that “the most important thing in this matter is, we
are willing to seek God or Master. This is an act
of “Will” not of any “inclination” alone. If we
have decided that we want Master’s help for our own
higher evolution or to reach the Ultimate we will
find that God is very near”.
3.
That is to say that we need God in
our life and the easiest way among many shown to us
by our Revered Master is to love God treating Him as
our mother. In this connection, it may not be out
of place to place before you a parable of a mother
and son.
4.
The son was a soldier who died
fighting on the field. When the news was conveyed
to her, she was disconsolate with grief. Out of the
agony of her pain, she cried “O! that I could see
him for five minutes – just for five minutes!”
5.
An angel appeared before her and
said, “you will see him for five minutes. But tell
me how would you like to see him?” He was a man of
thirty. “would you like to see as he laid down his
life on the battle field? Or, would you like to see
him as he left home to join the forces? Or, would
you like to see him as on the evening he married,
his face wreathed in smiles, more lovely than the
stars in the sky above? Or, would you like to see
him as a school boy, receiving the highest awards
that a student could receive? Or, would you like to
see him as a babe at your breast?”
6.
Slowly the mother said “no, I would
like to see him for five minutes as he was on the
day he asked for my forgiveness for being naughty.
He was so small and so unhappy and tears rolled down
his cheeks without ceasing. And he flew into my
arms with such force that he hurt me”.
7.
To the mother the sweetest memory was
of the moment when her son needed her. God is the
Divine Mother. And nothing pleases Her/God more
than to find that we need her/God.
8.
The essence of mother is love and
forgiveness of her child, no matter how great a
sinner he may be. The relationship between mother
and child is the most beautiful form of human love
that the God has given us.
9.
If a mortal mother could show her
love to her naughty son, inspite of being wayward,
how much more can we expect the God who is the
Mother of all creation to feel overwhelming joy when
we need Him!
10.
It may be quite appropriate to
mention that Revered Babuji Maharaj Wanted us to
treat the Guru/God as a mother to establish a strong
link of attraction which leads us to a state of
devotion and surrender. The same is reproduced
hereunder, as given out by Him in “Dawn of Reality”
in the chapater “Surrender”.
11.
“We submit to our Master thinking Him
to be superhuman Being. We love Him with faith and
reverence trying by all means to attract His
attention and favour. For this purpose we connect
our link with Him in the light of the worldly
relationship only for the sake of facility. We
think of Him as father, brother, Master or beloved.
The process, if taken up right earnest, is greatly
helpful to a disciple. The strong link of
attraction thus established leads him to a state of
devotion and surrender. The conception of a Guru as
a mother is, in my opinion, by far the most
appropriate and advantageous to a disciple. A
mother is the very embodiment of love and
affection. Only a mother’s heart can forbear with
patience all the troubles and miseries caused to her
son, thinking all the while of trying to provide for
son’s comfort and happiness. The same is the
position of the real Master or Guru who is the
spiritual mother of the disciple. As such the Guru
is always on the lookout for the spiritual welfare
of the child, the disciple. It is due to the
affectionate attachment of the Guru with His
disciple that the attention of the Great Father with
whom His spiritual mother is closely connected, is
directed towards him. A mother’s affection is well
known but people know very little of Guru’s
affection and still less of God’s affection. The
function of a mother and of a true Guru are closely
similar. The mother retains a child within her womb
for a certain duration. The Guru, too, retains
the spiritual child within His mental sphere for
a certain duration. During this period, like the
baby in the womb, sucks His energy and gets
nourishment from the spiritual waves of Guru’s
thoughts. When the time matures he is born in the
brighter world and thence his own spiritual life
begins. If the disciple enters the mental sphere of
the Guru, surrendering all his belongings to Him, it
takes only seven months to deliver him into the
brighter world. But the process is generally
delayed for a considerable time because while in the
Guru’s mental sphere, the disciple retains, the
consciousness of his own thoughts and feelings.
Thus we find that the position of the Guru is much
the same as that of a mother. The conception of the
Guru as a spiritual mother promotes within us the
feelings of love, reverence and surrender which are
the main factors of a spiritual life.” (Dawn of
Reality, pages 94 – 96)
12.
God wants of us no big showy things.
If only we offer Him our little gifts of love, He
will accept them with overwhelming joy.
13.
God will not tell us that we should
desire Him above all else, because He wants our love
to be given to Him freely without prompting. He who
created us yearns for our love. He wants us to give
spontaneously without His asking. So long we are
wayward children, pigmies crawling on this ball of
earth and crying for His gifts alone, while we
ignore Him, the Giver, we fall into many pits of
misery.
14.
He does not ask us whether we have
studied Sanskrit or Latin, Greek or Hebrew, but God
asks whether we have studied the little word of four
letters “L-O-V-E”.
15.
We attain our goal in the measure
which we are with Him in consciousness and loving
cooperation. God respects man and would not coerce
him since He has bestowed on him the “Free will”.
16.
The Gopikas were so pure, so full of
love, so simple, transparent, tender and true.
Their tears called Lord Krishna to them.
17.
We have to love Him with the love
that never forgets His Law, love Him with the
longing that is never vanquished by desire, love Him
with the worship of tears and the offering of our
all.
18.
In all His dispensations, God is at
work for our good. In prosperity, He tries our
gratitude, in misfortune our submission, in darkness
our faith, under temptation our steadfastness and
all times our obedience and trust in Him.
19.
Because of the infinite love and
mercy of God, man can learn to realize, thro’ the
lessons of misery on earth, that inherent in him is
the source of infinite bliss and all suffering is
his labour of love to unveil his own infinite self.
20.
Though God hears all our prayers, He
does not respond always. Our situation is like that
of a child who calls for his mother, but the mother
doesn’t think it necessary to come, she sends him a
plaything to keep him quiet. But, when the child
refuses to be comforted by anything except the
mother’s presence, she comes. If we want God, we
must be like the naughty baby who cries till mother
comes.
21.
So long as we depend on our own
exertion, on our own individual, independent, and
insignificant power, we live under the spell of Ego,
which is worthless in value. So long as ego
continues to function, operation of Divine Grace
remains suspended. Grace demands complete
dependence, full submission and total surrender.
22.
It is said that God has bound Himself
to man and in that consists the greatest glory of
human existence. In the spell of the wonderful
rythm of the finite He fetters himself at every step
and thus gives His love out in music, in His most
perfect lyrics of beauty. Beauty is His wooing of
our hearts; it can have no other purpose. It tells
us everywhere that the display of power is not the
ultimate meaning of creation; wherever there is a
bit of colour, a note of song, a grace of form,
there comes the call for love. There is a beauty in
the world which never insults our freedom, never
raises even its little finger to make us
acknowledge its sovereignty. We can absolutely
ignore it and suffer no penalty in consequence. It
is a call to us, but not a command. It seeks for
love in us and love can never be had by compulsion.
Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man,
but joy is. And joy is everywhere, it is in earth’s
green covering of grass in the blue serenity of the
sky, in the reckless exuberance of spring, in the
living flesh that animates our bodily frame, in the
perfect poise of human figure, noble and upright in
living. Joy is there everywhere. It exists to show
that the law can only be explained by love; they
are like body and soul. Joy is the realization of
the oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world
and of the world-soul with the Supreme Lover, God.
23.
Man aspires for spiritual
experience. This gives him the highest delight
because it reveals to him the deepest harmony
between him and his surroundings. It is our desires
that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder
our extension of consciousness and give rise to sin,
which is inner most barrier that keeps us apart from
the God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of
exclusiveness. But sin is not one mere action but
it is an attitude of life which takes for granted
that our goal is finite, that our self is the
ultimate truth and that we are not all essentially
one but exist each for his own separate individual
existence which spells doom.
24.
While we are with God, there is no
place for despair. It comes to us only when in the
place of God, we begin to place our trust in worldly
enjoyments. In that case the fetter of distress and
misery fails to break, on the contrary it becomes
all the more strong. Therefore, whenever we find
even the distant glimse of despair and failure
staring at us, we should understand that our faith
has changed its ground towards enjoyment, hence
gathering it from there, join it to God again.
25.
Confused by adversity, we dishonour
God’s supreme grace. With implicit faith we must
believe that in the form of difficulties, it is God
Himself, the remover of distress, will show us the
way to protect ourselves from misfortune.
26.
Like a medicine tasting exceptionally
bitter or like a long-drawn-out surgical operation,
many difficulties appear at sight to be extremely
terrible, but just as the medicine or operation
removes the disease, even so their after effect is
beneficial. Regarding the circumstances, bitter as
medicine, we sometimes begin to express our
displeasure to God. But this is nothing but an
error on our part. We should understand that the
chastisement of a mother also is inspired by the
deepest love.
27.
We should have implicit faith in God
and that whatever God ordains is full of Good. Evil
is impossible to take place under the dispensation
of God who is the embodiment of Blessedness.
28.
Man’s progress in the path of Eternal
life is thro’ a series of renunciations. That we
cannot possess absolutely the Infinite Being is not
a mere intellectual proposition. It is said that it
has to be experienced and this experience is termed
as Bliss. The bird while taking its flight in the
sky, experiences at the beat of its wings that the
sky is boundless, that its wings can never carry it
beyond. Therein lies its joy. In the cage the sky
is limited; it may be quite enough for all the
purposes of the bird’s life, only it is not more
than is necessary. The bird cannot rejoice within
the limits of the necessary. It must feel that what
it has is immeasurably more that it can ever want or
comprehend and only then it can feel glad.
29.
Thus our soul must soar in the
Infinite and it must feel every moment that in the
sense of not being able to come to the end of its
attainment is its supreme joy, its final freedom.
30.
Regarding union of soul with God, let
us consider the following.
31.
The sun with its rays strikes a
window; but if that window is stained or unclean,
the sun cannot shine thro’ it nor transform it
perfectly into itself, as it would have done, had it
been clean and unsullied. This depends not on the
sun but on the window; so that if the latter were
perfectly clean, the rays of the sun would so shine
thro’ it, and so transform it as to make it seem
identical with the rays, and to give forth the light
thereof, though in truth the window, while it
appears one with the rays of the sun, preserves
still its own separate and distinct identity. In
this case we might say that the window is a ray or
light, by participation.
32.
Thus the soul resembles the window,
the Divine Light of the presence of God in the order
of Nature, perpetually strikes upon it or rather
dwells within it. The soul then by resigning
itself, in removing from itself every spot and stain
of the creature, which is to keep the will perfectly
united with the will of God- for to love Him is to
labour to detach ourselves from and divest ourselves
of everything which is not God-for God’s sake, so
that soul seems to be God Himself.
33.
It becomes more evident that the
fitting disposition for the union is not that the
soul should understand or imagine anything on the
subject of the nature of God but only that pureness
and love which is perfect resignation and complete
detachment from all things for God alone. Hence
there can’t be perfect transformation without
perfect purity.
34.
Herein comes the relevance of the
cleaning, meditation, constant remembrance and
observing of the Ten Commandments of the Natural
Path graciously given to us by Revered babuji
Maharaj.
35.
Our roots must go deep down into the
universal if we could attain greatness of
personality. It is the end of ourselves to seek,
that union. It must bend its head low in love and
meekness and take its stand where great and small
all meet. It has to gain by its loss and rise by
its surrender. His games would be horror to the
child if he could not come back to his mother.
Pride of personality will be curse to us if we
cannot give up in love. We must know that it is
only the revelation of the Infinite which is
endlessly new and eternally beautiful in us and
gives only meaning to our self.
36.
Let me conclude with the following
message of Revered Babuji Maharaj. It sounds as a
caution and encouragement to achieve our goal.
37.
Revered Babuji Maharaj stated in
Silence Speaks that “Nature with Her hands
outsretched is eager today to take you in her lap.
Divine Grace is flowing with full force. Such a
time may not be repeated again for thousands of
years. Those who miss it now, may not have it again
for ages, until the time of the advent of the next
Divine Personality into the World”. (P 107, Silence
Speaks, 2007 Ed)
38.
In view of the above clarion call of
Revered Babuji Maharaj, the present Special (Divine)
Personality, let us gird up our loins and make haste
to avail the present Golden opportunity thrown open
to us graciously to achieve the goal of human life.
39.
May Revered Babuji Maharaj bless us
all in our endeavour!
Amen!
Thanking you,
Pranams. |
