“We must never be disappointed of the Divine
Grace.”
(Silence Speaks, Second Edition, pg 313)
Sri. K.C.Narayana
1.
This statement is one of the profound spiritual
truths revealed by the Master. Master while
discussing the problem of disappointment in the
progress we make in sadhana makes this statement.
Master makes a simple and pithy summary of his
system when he said
“God is
quite plain and simple, devoid of everything, not to
speak of any solidity. So, it is absolutely
necessary for us to free ourselves from grossness
and solidity in order to achieve Him. The solidity
comes in by the effect of our own thoughts, actions
and surroundings. Our thoughts must therefore be
regulated, and the individual mind must be
thoroughly disciplined so as to clear off the weight
settled in. We should become as light as possible so
that a single breath of the master may put us to the
highest possible flight.”(s.s.pg.312)
2.
He states further, “In our sanstha, the reality is
infused in to the abhyasi at the first stroke. It
serves as a seed for further growth which, under the
watchful eye of the master, goes on developing,
unaffected by the scorching heat of adverse
circumstances. But it remains for you to keep on
watering it by your constant remembrance which is
the only instrument to ensure speedy progress in
spirituality. We must go on with speedy steps, not
resting even for a moment till we have attained the
Goal. When we have got the right path we must stick
to it firmly and not be away from it at any cost.”
(s.s.pg.312)
3.
As we find some difficulty in facing the problems of
life we tend to swerve from the chosen path and
choose all sorts of alternatives which are
admittedly grosser, explaining such deviations with
all the rationalizations we can muster. Master
firmly states that “All sorts of grosser means and
mechanical practices should be given up. When we
find ourselves growing lighter and lighter day by
day we must conclude that we are proceeding right
towards that which is the lightest and the
subtlest.” (s.s.pg.313)Thus while giving clue to
understand our condition of following the correct
and right path he affirms further that “We must
never be disappointed of the Divine Grace. God is
the supreme Master and His will must be carried out
in every respect. We should think ourselves to be
bankrupt and remain ever busy with worship and
devotion, not minding the interruptions and
disturbances that happen to come in our way.”
(s.s.pg.313)
4.
Because of not following the simple commandments of
the Master in our life we find the disturbances to
be such as to either temporarily stop or totally
give up sadhana as saying that this system is beyond
our capacity. This is nothing but the result of not
having the required determination. Master states
that “We should never be disheartened thinking that
our Pooja cannot be carried on regularly on account
of inner disturbances which I put down as the
‘barking of dogs'. The dogs will never stop barking
even though you give them a good thrashing. Let the
dogs bark but the elephant goes on, paying no heed
to them. If possible you may better train the dogs
so that they may not bark to disturb you in your
pooja. But for that you have to adopt proper means
to mend their irregular habits. (This is possible by
following the simple and plain system of the
Master-K.C.N) If you apply physical force to stop
their barking, there is danger of their becoming
violent and offensive. Therefore it is better to
show them that their barking shall not be a
disturbance to you. When it comes up to this, their
barking will eventually subside. Further, if we had
taken care of it earlier, their barking might never
have come to effect at all. In short, we have only
to train them so that they might, by themselves,
come up to proper regulation and discipline. The
only way for that would be to raise ourselves up to
the level where they may also begin to take the
effect of our inner state of mind. That means
spiritual elevation up to the level at which even
animals may begin to take in the effect. This is the
actual purpose served in the long run by the
practice of meditation.”(s.s.pg.314)
5.
Master adds that “Barking of dogs refers to the
unregulated activities of the mind and the indriyas
which can easily be set right by meditation and
remembrance.”(s.s.pg.314) Thoughts during meditation
and also at other times can be barking at us and
disturbing. The point to note is that thoughts can
take and most of the times do take a form. Not only
our thoughts take form, they also upset our form
most of the time if unregulated. If unregulated we
think of the same thought over and over again and it
becomes strong and tends to become a trend. The
greater the number of times we think about the same
thought, the greater the matter forms. The more we
hold to these thoughts and do not allow the flow of
thought (as it moves in a cyclical manner) the
matter gets frozen to create scope for stagnation.
It is a simple law of Physics that recurring
thoughts are strong patterns of energy. So they
naturally create some sort of matter. And any matter
is a form. Thus the thoughts which were once felt as
a mist becomes deep and heavy like fog. I once saw
the condition of an aspirant given to the grosser
forms of worship, so meshed with dark and heavy
thought forms that his head appeared to be a swarm
and the thoughts were stingy enough that I had to
wait for quite few months to clean his heart using
many methods given by the Master. It must be stated
to the credit of the aspirant that he was terribly
depressed with the type of worships he was doing and
being unable to get out of them was also angry with
himself and the various deities he was worshipping.
The solution to this type of problem is hard work of
cleaning by the aspirant aided by the cleaning done
by the trainer through Pranahuti and absolute faith
in the grace of God. It should be noted that all
this work happens in the prana sarira or the vital
body.
6.
The thoughts that disturb us during meditation and
also at other times mostly relate to fear and anger.
I shall dwell briefly on these two forms of pain in
the prana sarira or vital body. There is fear all
round now a days. All that is due to lack of
security real as well as imaginary. After the
serious setbacks in the world economy recently the
main feeling of the majority is that the end is near
or the end has already come. The main thought wave
that is circumambulating the atmosphere now a days
is fear. Pretty sure it is not the end of life but
the end of life as we know it. From the enlightened
point of view this will appear as something that has
to happen in the cyclical nature of events. From the
Gandhian point of view this situation is what we
have bargained for; it is the result of our
collective neglect and procrastination in dealing
with our economic over-indulgence, nelsons’ eye to
corporate corruption, ‘not my problem’ attitude
towards drugs and violence. It is necessary to know
that the pattern of the world's condition begins in
the patterns of our own behavior and beliefs. As
long as we continue to hang on to the attitudes and
actions that created our current predicament, we
will continue to experience turmoil. Turmoil, chaos,
uncertainty, changes etcetera are all signals of an
old way that is passing away and a new way being
birthed. First the pain and then the joy.
7.
The degree of pain we experience is completely
proportional to our level of resistance to the
necessary and irresistible shift that is happening.
Pain is always caused by resistance to what is. It
is essentially in the realm of Prana sarira that we
feel pain. It is time we wake up and recognize the
unconscious path we have blindly trodden. We would
do well to return to our human and spiritual roots
and be truly grateful for the soul-breathing basics
of life. Now a day’s everyone feels something is
missing. Most of us are likely to think it is our
awareness of our life's purpose. I think it is
something even more fundamental than that. I think
we have forgotten our interdependent connection to
Life itself. Our true nature gets revealed to us in
the Natural Path as not the users and consumers we
have been but that we are divine care takers and
benefactors of the world we live and move in. The
prayer given to all humanity by the Master to be
offered at 9 P.M. is essentially directed to make us
live in that plane of consciousness of benefactors
of the world, which may even termed as Sri
Ramchandra Consciousness. Indeed a great goal to
live. I may even call this real sanity.
8.
Gratitude
comes from being of service to a worthy cause, not
from grabbing everything in our way. If we release
what is necessarily passing away, the pain will stop
and we will awaken to an opportunity to reconnect to
our souls and each other. To the awakened pain is a
phenomenon not of the physical body but the vital
body. My associates who are doctors inform me that
many a case is recorded where the pain is felt in
the limb that is not there due to amputation or
otherwise lost. This should be enough reason to
accept that it is the prana sarira that feels pain.
We are not in destructive times, as the news would
have us believe, we are half way down the birth
canal to real life, the one we are meant to live, is
about to begin; as Dr. K.C.V. used to say ‘the world
is in the throes of a new birth’. Many of us had it
quite good in the passing world of consumerism. We
bought what we wanted, when we wanted. When our
infatuation with a new possession wore off, we
simply got a newer, bigger, better one: bigger
houses; more powerful cars; more expensive
wardrobes. We did not pay much attention to our
gluttonous use of the world's resources and ignored
all heed of the wise. As far as we are concerned oil
and trees and water and air are abundant and
eternal. Today, that arrogant and wasteful way of
life is coming to an end and we are feeling the
pain. But on the heels of that pain, if we choose to
see it, is a renewed sense of abundance for what is
truly meaningful: a life of love and sharing and
sacrifice. We are creating new relationships with
our environment; that which honours our resources
and considers our legacy to future generations with
each decision we make. We are creating new
relationships to each other; which honours
differences and embraces common good. The sense of
insecurity and fear is passing away and we shall
live in confidence and courage we naturally have in
a life of interdependency and cooperation. In the
Natural Path we are treading under the ever vigilant
eyes of our beloved Master Babuji Maharaj we are
excited about the spiritual relationship of
dependency and interdependency we have with him and
all that exists. We in the Natural Path feel
‘appointed’ for this cause and are never
disappointed with the grace of God and shall always
endeavour to carry out His will in every respect.
There is no fear to live according to His will more
so because of the presence of the Master deep within
our heart. I crave your indulgence to mention some
personal matter. In the early 1970’s and even
afterwards I used to feel disappointed with the way
in which work was being done by many persons in the
cause of the Master and his mission. Master wrote to
me and I quote “I feel, I do not know how far I am
right, that sometimes you feel disappointed. When I
am there for your service, disappointment should be
set aside.”( letter of the Master Dt/- 14th
Aug.1972) I think this advice given to me may be
treated as advice to all aspirants and we should
never feel disappointed of his grace.
9.
After fear,
anger is the next most debilitating emotion that
disturbs us in sadhana. Unlike fear, anger is a
complex emotion. And unlike fear, which usually puts
us in a state of stupor, anger can spur us to take
action, though not necessarily in a beneficial way.
Reacting to events that provoke anger will usually
make things worse. If we analyze why we ever get
angry, it is almost always because our expectations
did not match facts or reality. It is not getting
the things that we want that makes us angry, but
only when our expectations of getting a thing, in
the way in which we want is not met, that makes us
angry. Expectation is a quality of the Prana sarira
and to some extent Manomaya kosa. We have built up
our expectations based upon our past experiences and
how we have interpreted them. We then projected
these expectations into the future. It may thus be
seen that anger is a quality essentially of the
vital- mind. As such, quack remedies such as
jumping, running or punching a bag or pillow will be
mostly futile. Following these suggestions will make
us tired, but we will still be angry. And yelling at
people whenever we feel angry is likely to be
counterproductive. The advise in the journalist
columns of psychology- "let it out" anger reactions
are also mostly unproductive. This is because as a
mental quality, we cannot use lower vibrational,
physical energy to diffuse our anger. As Einstein
said, "No problem can be solved at the same level of
consciousness that created it." This means we cannot
use physical means, or even vital or mental means,
to solve a mental problem.
10.
Thus it is obvious that we need to invoke a higher
level of consciousness. We need a spiritual approach
to solve the problem of anger. First and foremost we
should accept the reality of the situation and live
fully in the present. Only when we live in the
present can we consciously decide if it is best to
take action now or continue to accept the facts of
life. We should learn not to resist facts or the
reality of a given situation. Our only two healthy
choices are to act or to accept. It is obvious that
complaining is non acceptance, which will perpetuate
our anger. It turns us into a victim, which the Law
of Attraction tells us will bring us even more of
the stuff we are complaining about. It may be noted
that suppressing our anger is also non acceptance.
It will still attract more anger, and it will
resurface when we least expect it. Therefore we must
act or accept reality. Anger has no benefit, other
than to tell us that we are acting unconsciously,
that we are, reacting, based on habit or past
experience. Getting angry is a habit that we all
have felt. If we know this and control ourselves we
have taken a step towards higher consciousness. Then
we can take an enlightened course of action to solve
the problem.
11.
While all this is possible the best method would be
to try to solve the problems of fear and anger and
many other debilitating emotions by moving to a
higher plane of consciousness and feeling our
interdependent nature with the Master and his
creation. It is obvious that our sense of separation
creates the problems. Our ego is responsible for
misleading us into identifying ourselves with our
body, emotions and thoughts. We do have a body, we
do feel emotions and we do think thoughts but none
of these are us. We are essentially spiritual
beings. Identifying with anything other than our
true spiritual self leads to suffering. By following
consciously and rigorously the commandments of the
Master and practicing the cleaning procedures
assiduously we can enable ourselves to move into the
higher level of consciousness.
12.
Movement to the upper portion of the heart and
living consciously in that plane is the
characteristic of one established in divine realms.
This however we know through our practice is not all
that easy and we falter and in fact fall many times.
The additional practices of meditation on points A
and B does in fact help us to live in this plane.
But the basic urges and emotions are so strong even
a saintly person has the danger of falling down
often. We do require a capacity to attend to the
problem in the present and we understand our effort
can be dramatically facilitated by an external
source of high-vibrational energy from a highly
evolved person amongst us who can help us sustain
our living in the higher plane through the process
of Pranahuti. Dr. K.C.V. states that “You must use
your mind. You must use it yourself. The mind that
has come to the lowest end and is in suffering must
turn back to get at the source or purity itself. Now
Master says at this point, it cannot be done with
your own efforts, but only a Divine personality, can
help you to connect your lower end with your own
higher end, because you have created so many
barriers to your own flexibility to connect yourself
with the original condition. Therefore,
the Supreme personality or the
Divine personality alone can connect you back and
also create that flexibility in you by moulding your
whole being by removing the knots and other
interferences and putting back to the Ultimate. And
that is to be done by that Mind.”(Complete works of
Dr. K.C.V. Vol.1- page 206.)
13.
Modern science informs us that higher frequency
energy is more powerful than lower-frequency energy.
When we infuse higher dimensional energy into a
lower dimensional form, the lower energies must
leave or be transformed. This is what our beloved
Master has stated as we have seen in paragraph 4
above.”That means spiritual elevation up to the
level at which even animals may begin to take in the
effect. This is the actual purpose served in the
long run by the practice of meditation.” By
eliminating the lower density negative energies our
tolerance will grow exponentially, as we will no
longer unconsciously resonate with emotional pains
of others in our prana sarira. We then will remain
compassionate, but detached. Of course, without
changing our thoughts or, at least, becoming aware
of the thoughts that precipitated the painful
emotions, cleaning our system will be only a
temporary solution. That is why though every day we
feel calm and relaxed and feel light after the
cleaning session we feel the need to go through the
process the next day. But when our prana sarira is
thoroughly cleaned and is pure, we will be less
likely to identify with it. This is obviously beyond
our capacity and the help of the master is
absolutely necessary. Aspirants would do well to
understand this and avail the opportunities for
individual sessions with trainer when much of the
cleaning work will be attended to. When the prana
sarira is cleaned unhealthy feelings will become the
exception, rather than the rule. We will come to
identify with our true self, and not our emotions.
When our Prana sarira is clear, the Law of
Attraction will work in our favor. People who were
previously attracted to the emotional pains in our
prana sarira will no longer be attracted. I have
personally felt so many people leaving me over the
period of these years of sadhana and know that is
what happens in other aspirants’ lives also.
Purification eliminates the toxins that attract
"toxic people." When by following the commandments
we turn the pain, which we feel were caused in us by
others by love and other higher vibrational
energies, we tend to attract higher minded,
spiritual people and will actually repel angry or
people suffering from fear.
14.
Disappointment thus it may be seen is the outcome of
the turmoil in which Prana sarira finds itself. But
when we become aware of the continuing and abiding
presence of the Master facilitated by assiduous
cleaning of the same we feel ourselves appointed for
a noble cause of life and the question of
disappointment does not arise. Grace of Master is
everywhere and every time but it is the pining souls
that we need to be to have it. When such a craving
for Him is established in us all other desires and
consequent problems and pains are automatically
dissolved. While He is everywhere and every time it
is only when we do not see Him somewhere and
sometime the problem arises. The problem is an
outcome of our illusion that He is not there when
and where we want. All that we need to realise is
that all that exists is He, even as the Masters
affirmed and live happily with the awareness of His
presence.
15.
Pranam.
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