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“ONE MUST BECOME
COLOURLESS WHILE PLAYING WITH COLOURS”
Dr.A.Subbarao
Dear brothers and
sisters
Hearty pranams and
salutations.
The topic of the
seminar ‘One must become colourless while playing
with colours’ is taken from the article on Holi by
Pujya Babuji Maharaj in the book ‘Silence Speaks’(
Pg.No. 533).
The seminar topic
is highly pregnant with spiritual wisdom. It has
many dimensions and can be viewed from several
angles of Sadhana. Man, the epitome of creation has
been causing more concern to God through his thought
,word and deed and so on. The messages of the
Masters, messaiahs, and Godly personalities could
not adequately curtail the propensity of human mind
and senses towards matter and materialism. The
prescriptions of the yester ages and previous era
have almost failed to de-addict the human mind from
the influences of senses and sensory pathways.
Majority of men continue to run after colour (
diversity) and continue to see others and their
actions through coloured glasses ( prejudice). The
inferences from such actions and situations is more
often than not is far from truth and biased. Even
inferences drawn and interpretations given are
distorted and perverse. This is the reason for
conflict, disharmony, unrest, and unhappiness. Truth
is conveniently bid farewell by many so called
God-loving and God-caring people and dogma and
dogmatism are promoted. People in general are
exhorted to follow pleasure seeking, sense
gratifying and ego satisfying methods further
confusing and complicating the life situations and
putting the man at cross roads. As the result of
this man is getting more coloured ( becoming victim
of bias and exploitation)in several aspects of
existence like physical, racial, gender, linguistic,
geographical, traditional, religious and so on. Not
only this, even in emotional ,sentimental,
ideaological, ideational, occupational, aspirational
and spiritual aspects too there is diversity of
thinking and feeling.These aspects could be
categorized as pertaining to one or the other of the
five sheathes . Differently-abled expressions of the
divine are also not whole heartedly accepted with
love and concern by even parents leave alone the
society at large. The discrimination ( coloured
perception) is the root cause for tumult and
disorder at individual and at world level. This is
the plane of ordinary human being who is struggling
and wriggling in the plane of colours and it is the
normal residing place at the level of arrow mark as
depicted in the emblem of ISRC.( Plane of colours).
The Divine resource
in man ( values of service, sharing, sacrifice,
moderation, co-operation , maitri and love ) is
almost forgotten, Human resource ( qualities of
altruism- truthfulness, kindness, non-covetousness
, non jealously and brahmacharya ) is ignored and
Animal resource ( competition, aggression,
impulsiveness, jealousy, greed etc) is encouraged
and is being promoted by all and sundry without
taking into consideration of its impact on the
present and posterity. Therefore prima facie ,
though it appears blasphemous and irreverential ,
man is failing God/Divine rather than working for
the success of God/ Divine as God has no mind and we
have with which we can perform.
The hope of God on
man got rekindled with the ‘Ushering in of New Era (
Advent of Lalaji Maharaj)’ and the Loving Grace of
‘The Special Personality( Pujya Babuji Maharaj )’
who made it possible for man to grow and display
human dignity through the methods of PAM and
dynamically participate in the divine endeavour of
transformation of man and his divinisation.
The Imperience of
Centre ( divinity) yawning towards circumference (
our hearts ) is known to all of us. Further the
repeated influxes of Pranahuti which is continuously
supporting progressively our growth towards
divinity pure and simple ( colourlessness ) is also
acknowledged with profound gratitude to Masters.
The courage that was
blessed through the theory of parallelism in order
to mould our lives in the letter and spirit of the 6th
and 9th Commandments of the Great Master
bears testimony to our enriching, enlivening and
ennobling lives making everyone of us move ,grow and
display the status and dignity of ‘Real man’ ( to
become colourless).
Master says “ Man is
bipolar being. It has got its root nearest to the
base and the other end towards the world. If somehow
the individual mind gets moulded towards its cosmic
mind it begins to appear in its true colour” (
Wisdom unfurled-pg.no.34).
Therefore the call
of the divine and its commitment in assisting the
human endeavour in transforming individuality(colour
) to identity ( colourlessness) through several
intermediate stages of evolution (stages of
negation and beyond) is dynamic
and scientific. The stages of progress on the path
to perfection through the path of Grace is a matter
of experience of all of us.
Therefore, the Great
Master in the article Holi while talking about
colours is talking about diverse temperaments of
men. There are people who are overt and others
presumably inert but inherently inclined. All in
someway or the other fascinated by colours or the
display of the colours. It is matter of our
experience on the path that we develop proper
discrimination after progressive growth and
development through the knots of pind desh (
elemental sphere and realm of colours) to the realm
of no boundary consciousness ( Brahmand – Achromatic
realm) where refined discrimination and wisdom is
reigning . These are the realms of colourlessness
which evolve further and further and get rarified
farther and farther towards infinity.
It is imperative
that one strives to develop Goal clarity, keep
restless craving dynamic and emulate the Master so
that one can reach the pinnacle of human perfection
and as Master puts it “Human perfection lies in
realizing the Master as a Master in true sense , and
oneself as His slave devoted entirely to His
service.”(Dus Usool-pg.no-57).In this connection it
is most appropriate on this most auspicious occasion
to remember and keep remembering the real goal of
human life “ Service is the goal – Service is the
means” well in tune with the objective and motto of
the ISRC ( In the service of the Eternally present
Supreme Personality) For that it is incumbent that
we become colourless( Identities) while playing
with colours ( Individualities).
Pranams. |
