“My heart remains connected with you all, here and
elsewhere, giving impulse in unbroken silence to affect
the hearts naturally in due course.”
That is exact message that is quoted.
The next sentence is “But it is for every living soul to
wake up to his spiritual needs for the realisation of
the Ultimate“.
The message itself starts with the sentence “It is owing
to my profound attachment with humanity that I lay down
the feelings of my heart to be bubbled up into the
hearts of my fellow-beings, the very part and parcel of
my own being, in order to make every heart over-flooded
with peace and bliss”.
Some time back, when I was talking to Brother Anjaneyulu,
I quoted this sentence and said that is the Master. The
Master is one who lives in all of us. Therefore it
becomes our duty to keep ourselves all the time oriented
to that central essence rather than wasting our time
with activities of sorts. Activities are generated
mainly because of thoughts. Thoughts of sorts, is the
problem.
A question has been always there with me that why should
we disturb silence? When that is the very nature of God,
why should we try to disturb it. From my point of view,
it is an effort we are making to keep our thoughts on
the Master and around Him all the time. If we don’t talk
this, we will be talking something else. It has been my
observation that after every congregation, when we
completed Satsang or a session, we tend to talk all
sorts of talks and activities which do not connect us
with the Divine. We have had occasions to observe that
the Divine is more eager to embrace us and we seem to be
deficient in our orientation, thereby we miss the
opportunity of always being in bliss. ‘Mana Ananda’ is
possible only when we are oriented towards the Divine.
Other types of Anandas are there; somehow we seem to
feel they are more concrete, more practical. People tend
to enjoy activities and thoughts relating to the lower
plane of our being rather than getting into the thoughts
and activities of the Divine plane, which is our birth
right to dwell in. I never wanted to talk today, but I
thought I should, it is some sort of impulse that came
from inside, and I felt like disturbing the silence for
some time asking you to get back to that as early as
possible, as often as possible. We had an earlier
occasion, we have mentioned that we should not disturb
silence unless we are going to better that.
The spirit of ‘Bodhayanti Parasparam’ is drawn as you
know from one of the slokas of Gita, The Lord says
MATCHITTA MADGATHA PRANAAH BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM,
KATHAYANTASTU MAAM NITYAM TUSHYANTI CHA RAMANTI CHA
So these congregations are occasions when we will be
talking about the Master ‘KATHAYANTASTU MAAM’
they talk about Me, ‘TUSHYANTI CHA RAMANTI CHA’
they enjoy, they dwell in My thoughts, their activities
are oriented towards Me. Each one of us have got our own
way of embracing the Divine but my appeal is to embrace,
don’t run away, however tight the embrace may be;
however choking it might be as we find many times in
meditation. Still, we should be prepared to get embraced
by Him, and we in turn should always be embracing Him.
Purity rises only when our thoughts are oriented towards
the Divine. The work of Pranahuti is only that. While
the Master is trying to push us to the higher plane all
the time, but there is no point in thinking about the
role of the Master, it is better you think about your
role. Because, He will always do His job, He will
definitely perform His task. Are we prepared to do our
task that is the question! Are we prepared to get
ourself oriented to Him? Are our priorities all that
clear? These questions are referred not to suggest that
any one of you is lesser, living in a lesser plane. No,
I do not mean that. I am only cautioning in a world like
this where the materialistic impulses or stimuli are
disproportionate to their value are disturbing us.
Congregations do help us to live in the higher plane at
least for the time that we are in the congregation.
Silence is the language. The lesson is love. Carnality
is always confused with the word love, I don’t know why?
Concern, commitment, Commitment to the welfare of
humanity; that would be love. All other sciences will
automatically fall in line under that. Any amount of
our saying that we love the other person or we love God
will make no sense unless there is some concrete action
or very very concrete thoughts that you would be
transmitting for the good of others. The 9 PM Prayer is
the one of the most important lessons, we learn with
love. That lesson is tough particularly when we have got
all sorts of prejudices and notions against others. When
we try to ruin our heart, actually we try to strangulate
our heart with thoughts which are absolutely undivine.
If our way of our life, if our moulding of our life is
really good it will definitely culminate in the 9 PM
Prayer. As one of the initial steps, those who would be
concerned with all sorts of materialistic things, or
self interests, they alone tend to forget the 9 PM
Prayer. And the Master’s command was ‘stop all
activities and do this Prayer’. I am aware of some
abhyasis who are very serious about it. One gentle man,
who is no more, while coming from his place of work to
his residence in his scooter, because it was 9 PM he
used to stop it by the way side and sit on the platform
of the street, meditate for that 15 minutes, offering
this Prayer and then go. It may appear a bit odd, but I
see there, a person who is sincerely concern and
sincerely believing the Master. That this is the method
for the betterment of the world. He is always available
with us, as He says, in this message, this morning,
which I read in our dairies, which is a part of “Easiest
way to God realization”, a talk given by Master at
Gulbarga in 1957. One of the earliest talks. We have
tried to give the ‘Showers of the Divine Grace’, one of
the first classifications we have made for the messages
of the Master. It is an earnest appeal to all of you to
read this as often as you can. To aid further, most of
the sayings of the Master are taken from this book only
so that you will read the article again and again. One
has to sink into these thoughts and get himself totally
soak. I know, I have no business to go on talking like
this, because all of you are already in that state of
mind, but I felt like telling. If I have taken away a
few moments of your contemplation, pardon me for that.
Pranam.