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Everyone endeavours hard for it, but only he whom
God ordains is successful.
Sri.
K.C.Srihari
Dear Brothers and Sisters
The above statement taken from the First Message
announces the emergence of the Special Personality
SriRamchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, U.P., India
and the nature of his Mission. The statement
follows with “But what may be the Master's Mission
and the purpose at its back? The simple answer may
be: When a Great Master leaves for the Brighter
world, he usually appoints one of his initiated
disciples as his representative to look to the
betterment of his associates, for which he receives
light direct from the Master himself.” (SDG Page 5)
What is the mission of Master Sri Ramchandraji
Maharaj of Fatehgarh? The Great Master had the task
that of preparing such a personality so as to bring
about a change in the nature of human consciousness
itself. Accordingly, SriRamchandraji Maharaj of
Shahjahanpur, U.P., India was chosen and was trained
and moulded for this purpose. Pujya Lalaji Maharaj
was successful to such an extent in moulding our
Master that all personalities of high spiritual
status handed over their work to move on to the
Brighter World and our Master emerged as a Special
Personality on 4th of May 1944.
A few excerpts below give us a glimpse of what the
nature of the Special Personality is.
According to the Master, the Special Personality has
a superfinest state of super consciousness that is
reserved for Incarnation of Deity and that he enjoys
practically the same position as regards the working
of Nature.
In his book Dawn of Reality in the chapter
realisation he says “The position of a Maha Parishad
is the highest in rank. It is the last godly post
and is very rarely bestowed except when nature
stands in urgent need of drastic change or an
overhauling of the world.” (Dawn of Reality, page
115)
The mission of the Master from the above statements
clearly shows that it is not brick and mortar that
is being talked about. It is the overhauling of the
nature of human consciousness that is the mission.
How is this overhauling possible? It is when the
nature of individual consciousness which is focussed
on the pleasure principle, pampering the lower self
is made to grow into a global consciousness where
co-operation, harmony and balance are the nature of
things.
Participating in this mission requires on the part
of the abhyasis to own up their conditions. Owning
up requires sensitivity. Sensitivity is dependent
on purity and purity demands leaving our indulgences
in superfluities and superficialities. On purity, a
story by my revered father and guide written in the
book adhyatmikatha comes to mind. It goes somewhat
like this:
Once, while talking to abhyasi brothers, one of them
said “Sir, I am able to rise before dawn and do my
prayer but not able to take my bath”. Rev. Sir’s
reply was that “we are seeking the company of the
Divine. Therefore cleanliness of body is also
necessary.” While thinking about this, he remembered
an incident on a visit to Shahjahanpur. The train
as usual reached at 8:30 p.m. The craving to see
Pujya SriRamchandraji that was there even when he
started in Hyderabad became more intense. He went
straight to the cottage where Pujya Babuji was
sitting. Upon seeing him, and pausing a little Pujya
Babuji said “Did you wash your feet and face?”.
Even though his mistake was obvious to him, he sat
for a while silently. Repenting later for his
stubborness, he went immediately towards the tap for
cleaning. Thinking how inappropriate his urgency,
impatience was, he came back and sat near the
Master’s feet, enjoying the relentless show of
grace. Divinity is pure and clean. Any impurity is
rejected by it. On the same subject, Pujya Babuji
has explained how thoughts arise and the nature of
the mind. Only sadhakas can have an understanding
of this. It is our duty to achieve both purity of
mind and body.
From the story, we can relate to the numerous times
where we neglect these basic attitudes needed to
receive the Master’s grace. An attitude of
reverence and etiquette is needed for this. We say
that we are oriented to the Master.
Orient is defined as a point of reference. For
abhyasis that point of reference while following the
system cannot be anything other than the Master.
So, to orient oneself would mean to have that point
of reference in whatever we do. All actions are
done with the inputs taken from the sense organs.
Any action will be using the instruments of sight,
touch, smell, hearing and taste. Let us consider
few of these instruments and how they need to be
moulded to the point of reference that is the Master
Taste:- “The modern civilisation is a dinner
civilisation” (K.C.V Complete Works Vol I page 84).
All that we see over the weekends nowadays is people
thronging to restaurants and eateries. Pujya
SriRamchandraji Maharaj has detailed importance of
eating in the thought of Divine and how it changes
our entire fibre. The mouth is also used for
speaking. One must exercise restraint in speaking.
The mouth must be used to speak about the Master,
the system and the methods given by him.
Eyes: - There is a saying that ‘eyes are the windows
to the soul’. Eyes must be trained to see or read
the works of the Master. Questions arise as to
‘what about the job related books?’. By all means
we should read what is necessary in our field of
work. At the same time, the point of reference must
also not be forgotten. Reading the books of the
Master, referring to the articles from which the
daily inspirations are taken, reading seminar
articles that refer to a daily inspirations keeps
one oriented towards the Master.
Hearing: - By the efforts of the Institute, we have
access to hear the Master’s messages. It is the
experience of abhyasis that everytime we hear the
messages, we get a fresh perspective and something
new about the system. It speaks a lot about the
dynamism of our system. One must endeavor to listen
to Master’s messages everyday. It would be
blasphemy to equate the stotra patams to Master’s
messages. One must not delude himself. As Master
says ‘Some are deluded by their own thinking and
some are illumined by Divine Grace’. We must also
cultivate the habit of not hearing things against
the Master.
Smell: - Traditionally the offering of flowers to
the Lord is present. We do not have any such
practice. But, we are asked to offer our prayer
with a heart full of love and devotion. These are
the two flowers that we can offer and which can take
us to the garden where the grace of the beautiful
flowers can be seen and their fragrance can be
tasted.
“Actions are results of thoughts and thoughts are
our own actions. Truly speaking, we give wrong
suggestions to the mind. People can object to it.
How do we give such suggestions? The environment
creates the circumstances to have such ideas. We
move in that sort of environment.” (SDG Page 30).
When our thoughts are moulded for a higher purpose,
the actions done accordingly will also be of a
higher nature. This moulding of our thoughts
happens through the influx of Pranahuti that gives
us repeated dips into the realms of higher
consciousness and we eventually start living at a
higher level with right suggestions and proper
utilization of the inner environment by starting to
breed divine thoughts.
All of the above said things are preparations on our
part to become more sensitive, driving us towards
purity. “The mind that has come to the lowest end
and is in suffering must turn back to get at the
source or purity itself.” (Dr. K.C.V Complete Works
Vol I page 206). This purity of mind and body is
possible in this system where our tendencies of mind
which are individuated and isolated are moulded to
think in an integrated, encompassing way.
Man has to realise that “Co-operation is the life of
coming events also but if they are wavering they
will be wasting power.” Unless his consciousness is
brought to a state of balance, it will not be
possible to see everything in the same colour.
Master has prescribed 9:00 p.m. prayer in this
message where every abhyasi, wherever he might
happen to be at the time, should stop his work and
meditate for 15 minutes, thinking that all brothers
and sisters are being filled up with love and
devotion and that real faith is growing stronger in
them. It is the experience of every aspirant as to
what are the factors preventing us from following
9:00 p.m. prayer. TV shows, dinner parties are a
few of the culprits. Even if the resolution is
there, the thought is confined to a few good persons
around us. It has to grow beyond this to reach
levels of cosmic, para cosmic and beyond. Only when
we love Him who loves All, it will be possible to
effectively perform this prayer.
Our thought pattern has to change to think like that
of the Master. In any situation, ask the question
what would the Master do in such a case? You may
not like the answer, but courage is one of the
qualities to be developed in this system. The
organism slowly moulds itself to think in Universal
consciousness through the help of the trainer and
our determination to be in that consciousness.
All our efforts must be focussed on developing our
will as can be used by the Divine for its purpose as
it deems fit. Feelings of co-operation, tolerance
and realizing that humanity does not have any other
option is coming to realization of people faster
than ever before. When we perform acts without any
selfish motive, it will have the backing of the
Divine.
Master states towards the end of this message that
“You may also be surprised to note that the link of
connections which existed so far is now no more,
since it has been cut off under Divine directions,
and another one has been established in its place
which every one has necessarily to come up to.
It is therefore essential for you all to turn round
- the sooner the better - towards this new link and
offer me an opportunity to mend and correct your
connections without which one shall remain deprived
of the Master's infinite Grace.” (SDG Page 8)
The nature of consciousness of SriRamchandra is
pure, unalloyed love. When we say that we are
participating in His Mission, it means that we are
having or trying to develop such qualities of
co-operation, tolerance, harmony with ourself and
other, sacrifice, service to name a few. The
commandments of SriRamchandra are given for us to
evaluate ourselves with respect to this. The
methods of meditation are given for us to develop
these qualities. The prayer is given to us to
repent and express helplessness when we are not able
to do so. Complete yielding to the will of the
Master makes the Divine express itself to the
fullest. Our understanding develops to a state that
our very existence is meant for this purpose.
Without Him nothing is.
I end this paper with this statement taken from the
book Path of Grace on the Special Personality.
“Human dignity would lie in understanding this
spiritual fact and work in co-operation with Him who
is effecting the much-needed change in the fabric of
human life.” (PG Page 278)
Namaste
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