Some Pearls to Pick ! ( Devotion )

* A devotee is one who loves his Guru intensely. He always keeps himself internally connected with his Guru. Men of this type possess all those qualities that should be present in a disciple.

* We practiceBhakti or devotion in order to achieve communion with the Supreme Master.

* We should practice devotion without our eyes being fixed upon any worldly object or without caring for the satisfaction of our desires.

* There is a difference between the submission of slavery and the submission of devotion. A devotee is not a slave, though he submits.

* Devotion to the Master, love for the Master means to be like a baby who wants to be nowhere except in its mother's hands.

* Service may be taken as the stepping stone towards devotion.

* Spirituality is a very easy thing, and its achievement does not take much time. One should only increase faith and devotion. And devotion is generated by remembering again and again.<=> = = <=>"Devotion means connection with the real Being."***

(Taken from sahaj marg Education Publications- Series 6 )

About Moderation...!

“I was trying out moderation when I came round to the extract below from Babuji’s book "Reality at dawn". It made me so happy that I wanted to share it with my brothers and sisters.” JDDNN“One of the essentials in the making of a man engaged in spiritual pursuit is moderation. It is a very wide term and covers every phase of human activity. It means balance in all senses and faculties, nothing more or less than what is naturally required at the time for any specific purpose without its slightest impression on the mind. Generally, today, we find moderation disturbed in almost all cases. The reason mainly is that we attach undue importance to whatever thing comes to our view and we strengthen it by the force of our thought with the result that it grows stronger over all others. We cultivate this habit and apply it to different things with varying intensity. The result that follows is nothing but disturbance and mental conflict and it is the root cause of all ourtroubles and miseries. Realization is not possible unless moderation and balance are restored. It corre-sponds closely with the very real thing which existed at the time of creation, when everything was in a perfectly balanced state. Now after the lapse of time, degeneration crept in. Our senses and faculties lost the balanceand everything went into disorder. What we have to do now is to control our senses and faculties in order to restore moderation in them. To cultivate moderation we have to pay special attention to external ways of life too, e.g., gentle and polite language, courteous dealing, sym-pathy and love with fellow beings, reverence to elders, unrevengeful nature and so on. These habits are greatly helpful in our making. Moderation is a characteristic of nature. If we gain complete moderation we are in a way in conformity with na-ture and it is the very essence of spirituality.“(Complete Works of Ram Chandra: Reality at Dawn p.p. 41-42.)