My dear associates in the path,
1.
I am very happy
that we all gathered again on the occasion of the 114th
birthday of our Master not only to celebrate the most
auspicious aspect of our lives but to also evaluate our
progress in the path. Rev. Babuji Maharaj put a question
and answered himself in this sentence “What is the
Destination, where we have to reach? It may, preferably,
be called insignificance. If you chose to designate it
as such, it is an insignificance, of which we know
nothing! (Reference: SDG 39)”
2.
The main
problem is that we have very exalted notions about
ourselves and our capacities in many fields make us also
feel that we are invincible and go on inflating the ego.
This pulls us in exactly the opposite direction to the
goal of our life. Though we feel that we have fixed our
goal to be ‘oneness with the Master’ the development of
our ego structure does not enable us to reach the goal.
3.
The books of
the Masters, particularly those on the “Ten
Commandments” are meant to help us progress. It is
always stressed that we must be grateful to those who
show us our faults and so we must be grateful to them
for enabling us to a step towards humility one of the
corner pillars of spiritual life. If a fault is shown we
should feel that a great treasure is shown us and be
grateful. Each time a fault is shown we discover in us a
fault, an incapacity, lack of understanding, or
insufficiency which prevents our progress in the path.
Once we realise our fault with our determination to
reach the goal firmly established it should be easy for
us get rid off the fault. This is mainly because we have
the required disciple for doing the same as also we have
the boon of Pranahuti of the trainer to help us in the
path. We should understand that to discover a fault is
an acquisition. It is as though a flood of light had
come to replace the little speck of obscurity which has
been driven out now.
4.
Once while we
were discussing the problem of ‘refractoriness’, my
revered father said that “ it is a very common human
weakness, although it ought not exist in sadhakas whose
progress largely depends on their recognizing what has
to be changed in them. Not that recognition of the
defect by itself is sufficient, but it is a necessary
element in solving the problem. It is of course a matter
of pride or vanity that considers the weakness as
necessary for strength and standing. Not only they will
not recognize it before others, but they hide their
defects from themselves or obliged to look at it with
one eye look away from it with the other. Or they weave
a veil of words and excuses and justifications trying to
make it something other than what it really is.” It is
thus necessary to observe and know the wrong movements
in us, for they are the sources of our troubles and have
to be persistently rejected if we are to be free.
5.
But we should
not be always thinking about our defects and lapses. We
need to concentrate upon what we are to be and the ideal
with the faith that since it is our goal before us it
must and will come. To be observing faults and wrongs
always, bring depression and discouragement to the faith
we need to have always in ourselves and the Master. We
need to turn our eyes more to the influx of Pranahuti
that brings lightness and less to any immediate
darkness. Faith, cheerfulness and confidence in the
ultimate victory are the things that help; they make our
progress easier and swifter.
6.
Success is
possible only when we are committed to be true to
ourselves and are determined to change our past and be
firm in the new found path of Satyapad. We have to be
friends with ourselves; otherwise we would ourselves be
inimical to our reaching the goal. This is what Lord
Krishna stressed in his famous Bhagavad Gita in the
sloka ‘
‘Bandhur aatma aatmanastasya
Ye naatmaiva atmana jitaha ;
anatmanastu satrutve vartet aatmaiva satruvat:’
B.G. Chap 6, sloka 6.
7. On this auspicious day I pray that we again pledge ourselves
to work for our betterment and joyously participate in
the transformation of humanity.
