“One must become colourless while playing with colours.” – Rev. Babuji Maharaj.

Smt. Kanchan Joshi

Dear Brothers and Sisters, 

My Humble Pranams to you all. Today’s topic is from the book Silence Speaks (page 533, 2007 edition) and appears in the message that the Master has given on the occasion of Holi.

In this article Master has given a very important message of “becoming colourless” which if taken in the deeper or real sense indicates the actual goal of human life.

Master while starting with the article mentions that on the festival of holi there is a great participation in colours and gulal revelries. Further while explaining as to who are these people who are interested in these colours, He says that they are the people whose temperament is inclined towards the play and also all others who are admirers of colours.

Here we must pause and think what he means by the word”colour”.

What I could infer from this is that it encompasses every aspect of a human beings life.

All these colours are given by Master to us, so that while playing with colours i.e. while leading our life here as human beings and as Grihastha, we should be able to become colourless i.e. we should go back to our homeland.

Further on Master explains “I would say this, that as long as the eyes bear the power of distinction between black yellow blue colours etc. which is the real aspect of colour, it cannot be called to have discrimination (real knowledge) about colours. So long as there is variety in inclination, one does not give due respect to colours.” Silence Speaks (page 532-533, 2007 edition)

I understand from above two statements that to have real knowledge, we should not have any specific likings or disliking towards anything in our life i.e. any colour that life offers to us. We should be able to accept everything in a balanced way. In Master’s words we should give due respect to ever colour.

Master understands very well our problems as human beings .We do like or are inclined towards certain things, people, situations and happenings as much as we do not  like or are not inclined towards certain things ,people, situations and happenings in our life.

Master’s commentary on Ten Commandments help us in understanding how to take miseries that come to us because he knows we don’t like them. He also gives understanding as to how to take the wrongs done by others, as Master knows we don’t like it either. Also depending upon our samskaras we constantly do distinction.

Master doesn’t stop here by giving us Ten Commandments. He has graciously given us the meditational practices, each one of which has a very specific purpose. These meditational practices are point B meditation followed by meditation then cleaning process in the evening, 9 p.m. prayer, Point A meditation and prayer before going to bed. Masters support comes in the form of Pranahuti to help us in the journey. Together these practices and his support enable us not to have distinction as slowly we start understanding and later on feeling that everything is given by Master, is of Master and is also enjoyed by Master.

When we do our sadhana as suggested then we are sure to develop the two important attitudes of trusteeship and constant remembrance.

By having constant remembrance we will be maintaining our link with Him and by having an attitude of trusteeship we will be discharging our duties with due attachment and so will not be allowing the colours to colour us.

Master asks us to keep our destination always in our mind and should be rather restless to reach there. He says I am ever ready to help you develop this kind of restlessness provided you also long for it and if somehow we develop that real restlessness for our goal then He says that “rest will be bestowed by the Master (God).” Silence Speaks (page 535, 2007 edition)

I would like to conclude here by saying that we should do our sadhana with love and devotion, follow Master’s commandments, and make sincere efforts keeping our goal always in mind.

Above al this it is very very important for us to recognize that how much ever we do still it is only Master’s grace because of which we are all moving towards our goal.

Dear Revered Sir, Brothers and Sisters I beg your pardon if I have shown any misunderstanding and also thank you all for allowing me to share the thoughts.

Pranams.