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"The way of life should be pregnant with high
morals" (Easiest Way, Showers of Divine Grace, page
65, 2006 Edition)
Sri. T.V. Rao
Our beloved guide, Rev. Pujya Sri K.C. Narayana garu
and Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Namasthe!
While contemplating to understand the actual meaning
of the seminar’s topic, i.e., “The way of life
should be pregnant with high morals”, from the
message of our beloved Master, Pujya Babuji Maharaj
at Madurai on 30-04-1977 on the Eve of His 78th
Birth Day Celebrations”, I wish to put forth below
points / views which are based on my understanding-
Pujya Babuji Maharaj has indicated in below points,
in an unequivocal term, about our duty in this life
which also helps us reach the desired goal of life,
provided we understand the necessity and efficacy of
these points-
1.
“Most of the brothers and sisters assembled here
today have, in some way or the other, a lurking
desire in their minds to achieve God or the
Ultimate. When one has got a mind and a strong
sincere desire to reach the state of Realisation, he
will surely get the means to take him to the state
of Realisation”1.
2.
“If anybody wants that he should get benefited, he
should encourage himself to cultivate right faith,
right cognition, and right morals”2.
3.
“The basis of Yoga has always been the right morals
and proper behaviour. That is why, my Master
Samarth Guru Mahatma Ram Chandraji Maharaj of
Fatehgarh (U.P.) had laid very great stress on this
point. He always emphasized on cultivating
principled character. The way of life should be
pregnant with high morals”3.
4.
“The Natural Path, provides a system in which, while
living a normal worldly life in the way that all our
actions may become penances themselves, we try to
achieve our highest Goal - The Ultimate. Here I can
help to the best of my capability but then it is
your own effort that will count the most. May
you be bold enough to make these efforts sincerely
and seriously. This is my prayer for all of you”4.
I am sure, you all agree with me that we have
abundantly blessed and are being continuously
blessed with the infinite grace of the Master but HE
made it very clear that “it is your (own) effort
that will count the most”.
Now, what is the “effort” on our part that is
required? I feel attending to sadhana as
prescribed, attending satsangs, bhandaras, taking
individual sittings, being good to others, doing
some service here and there, is not enough. Our
effort should extend further to ensure “that our
life should be pregnant with high morals” (As per
dictionary the meaning of moral is- “Concerned with
principles of right and wrong or conforming to
standards of behavior and character based on those
principles”).
This (cultivating of right morals) we can achieve-
1.
By following the commandments-
a.
Commandment No.1: Detach from sloth and indolence
b.
Commandment No.2: To move from animal level to
basal level through love and devotion
c.
Commandment No.3: Constant improvement of faith in
oneself
d.
Commandment No.4: Feeling oneness with all forms
e.
Commandment No.5: Realizing our true nature, i.e.,
total dependence on the Master
f.
Commandment No.6: Realizing the nature of
interdependence with other forms (in nature and
existence)
g.
Commandment No.7: Dependency and devotee
consciousness
h.
Commandment No.8: Maintaining purity (honesty and
piety)
i.
Commandment No.9: All pervasiveness of Divinity
j.
Commandment No.10: Realizing our humble status i.e.,
consciousness of the limitations of existence.
2.
Virtues:
During our journey towards infinity the following
virtues gets refined on a continuous basis, subject
to following the commandments in its ‘true letter
and spirit’-
a.
Viveka and Vairagya (Knot-1: Commandments- 1,2,3,4)
b.
Interdependence (Knot-2: Commandments- 4,5,6,7)
c.
Devotion (Knot-3: Commandment- 8)
d.
Surrender (Knot-4: Commandment- 8)
e.
Balanced existence (Knot-5: Commandments- 9, 10)
3.
Duty:
Master stated that- “Do not ask what God has done
for us; ask what have we done for God”. It means we
need to discharge our bounden duties, as duty bound,
duly understanding the concept of ‘nishkama karma’,
all through our existence duly depending on HIM for
all our activities.
4.
Fear:
The word FEAR, which keeps on hunting us every
moment of our life in some form or other. To manage
the fear we need to understand and remember
continuously the Master’s statement on fear i.e.,
a.
“Some people talk of love while others complain of
fear. To them, I have to say that fear and love both
have the same centre.If we drag ourselves towards
the world, things of fear begin to display their
character and when we are towards the Divinity,
Divinity plays in Divinity itself. So, both the
things are remarkable because they belong to the
same centre. But we should be wise enough to take
the right thing and reject the wrong one. This will
be for our own good”5.
b.
“God abides in the hearts of living liberated- as
they live and yet do not. They do their duty but
never get soiled by it”.
5.
Illusion about permanency:
Despite being aware of our life in this body and its
temporal existence, we do get into the trap that we
live long and consequently gets into the pit of
sloth, indolence, postponing things related to
sadhana, etc., In this context I bring below
statements of our beloved Master-
a.
“The bad news here is that all that is born will
die. The good news is that we are the UNBORN prior
to- and beyond- the cycle of birth and death”.
b.
“Raja yoga always stresses that there is no need to
wait till the body gives out, as this sense of
separation can die right now”.
6.
Surrender:
For me, this word ‘Surrender” seems to be very big
and not that easy to understand and imbibe.
However, below statements of the Master, helps us to
understand it better.
a.
“People usually surrender verbally alone by going to
the temple and bowing to the idol. It is not
surrender at all. Actually, it is a sort of state
when one feels like a child going to the lap of his
mother even if a tiger attacks him. He does not know
whether his mother can save him from tiger. The
Best way of surrender which I have stated is to
“Feel Dependence upon GOD”6
b.
“Surrender is really the outcome of Bhakti
(Devotion) if it is done in the real sense. Real
Bhakti is the inner attachment with the Being. Of
course Bhakti (devotion and love) is the chief
instrument and the highest type of Bhakti is that
when an abhyasi "May not feel what he loves and for
what he is loving"7.
7.
Undue attachment / Trusteeship:
We are, in general, victims of “undue attachment” in
our day to day activities, whether it is towards our
kith and kin, property, job, well being of our near
and dear, etc., I would like to present below the
Master’s statement-
a.
“Almost all our activities in life are connected
with providing means of livelihood for our children
and dear ones. So, if we treat them as children of
God, who are entrusted to our care and whom we have
to provide for and look after as if duty bound, we
are then serving His children, and thereby God
Himself. We shall thereby get rid of undue
attachment too and shall thus remove one of the
greatest obstacles from our path”8.
8.
Courage:
Our spiritual guide, Rev. Sri K.C. Narayana garu
repeatedly advises us “to be fear not” and “to be
dhirahs” while pursuing our sadhana.
For quite a long period I never really used to
understand the word “Dhirah”, why we need to be
“Dhirah” or say as per my understanding ‘as a fully
equipped soldier in the battle field”?
We all are good people, soft spoken, never injure
others either through word or deed, we don’t fight,
we don’t quarrel and very very good disciples of our
beloved Master, hence where is or what is the need
to be ‘Dhirah”?
But due to the blessings and guidance from my
spiritual guide, I slowly stared understanding why I
need to be Dhirah? It is necessary because I need
to fight against my odd notions, to fight against my
sloth, to fight against my undue attachments, to
fight continuously to ensure that I am away from
things which are not conducive to sadhana, to fight
against other vikaras such as, jealous, unnecessary
comparison, biased opinions, brooding upon past
events, self pity and so on and so forth. I feel we
need more and more courage to deal with these
internally, perhaps much more than an a soldier on
the battle field.
I submit below the Master statement which amply says
about the topic-
a.
“The background of spirituality is the "Moral
Courage" which rises when one is moral. My revered
master used to say "How so ever advanced a person
may seem to be, if his moral character is doubtful,
I would say that he has not got even a breath of
spirituality"9.
b.
“And what is morality in the True Sense? It is that
all the faculties may come in harmony for proper
use. How does this happen? When a man begins to be
away from the "Self", it begins to develop. So all
the methods given in any religion are only for this
end, and the methods and procedure of Natural Path
are very easy for it. With the overemphasis on
"Self" morality decays.”10
c.
I may say here that Reality is not the field for
cowards. Lion hearted men alone can dare approach
Reality and men are made so by Natural Path”11.
9.
Cooperation:
We all know and do understand the importance of the
word cooperation which is very vital in our sadhana
or say expressing as a token of gratitude towards
the Master for all that “GRACIOUSLY BLESSED TO THE
HUMANITY”.
Before concluding, I quote below statement from Rev.
Sir’s article on “Divinity is a play and the Divine
the way”
“The Master in his message on 10th Oct. 1981 said
"There is no question of separation. We are coming
closer and closer. This is my message to all."
Thereby indicating that the different traditions
shall meet and a global awareness of the Reality is
very much round the corner. This he reaffirmed in
his perhaps the last message in August 1982 when he
stated that "We are united in the common cause
keeping towards proper order the good of man and
humanity." He also warned in the same message by
saying that "Co-operation is the life of the coming
events also but if they are wavering they will be
wasting power."
I pray that we all move together like lion hearted
disciples of our below Master in the journey of
“Towards the Infinity”.
Pranams!
References
1.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 64
2.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 64
3.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 65
4.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 69
5.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 68
6.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 49
7.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 50
8.
Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra pg 253
9.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 53
10.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 53
11.
Showers of Divine Grace, 2006 Edition, pg 27
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