!! The Mission !!

Do you mean to say that God has nothing better to do than to watch millions of humanity through eons of time, looking at each one and seeing what he is doing and what she is doing, and then condemning us and punishing us? On the one side we say, "God is Love"! On the other side we say that He is condemning, He is punishing, and He is sending us to hell this way or to heaven this way. If you permit me to say it, if you pardon me for saying it, it is one of the most childish conceptions of God. And, unfortunately, no religion is free from it. Love is the greatest force. It must be humbly offered up to Him who alone is its true object-God or Master, whichever you may like to call Him. You must love Him in such a way that your love knocks on the door of His heart, telling Him that the lover is waiting outside. Then He begins to love you, and when this happens, all your problems of life are solved! Love Him who loves all." This is the greatest revelation of my Divine Master.The Mission is the spiritual organization which He has created with His loving hands to shelter and succour us. His Divine teachings, and the efficacious, practical system of sadhana, the system of Sahaj Marg, perfected by our Divine Master, is there for our spiritual benefit, to enable us to reach the spiritual goal of human perfection, and Divinisation to the highest level ever open to humanity. It is His sublime Grace and Divine love that has made available to us such an easy method of practice which can lead us to that goal safely and speedily. It becomes our bounden duty to practise it assiduously, with one-pointed devotion, with our hearts full of "Love for Him who loves all," with unswerving faith, to enable Him, our Beloved Master, to lead us up to Himself!

Excerpts taken from The Principles of Sahaj Marg, Volume III - Shri P.Rajagopalachari

!! Anger - control of !!

“Question: [Pujya Babuji] “What is poison for spirituality?” “Answer: [Rev. Lalaji Maharaj] “Anger”.

Revered Master elaborated in detail: “What effect is brought about thereby (anger)? The system acquires heaviness; and pressure is generated. As a result, the free and sublime current of spirituality fails to penetrate and blow through the system; and thought is not able to get rid of the burden outweighing it. Now the question arises as to how one can acquire freedom from it (anger and its effect). The prescription is here: one should consider oneself as humble and subservient (to Master). This should become a matter of trust and perfect belief; and one should remain practising it so as to get that same hue of humility and subservience penetrate every organ of one’s whole system. Every where this control of anger has been praised. Is not the anecdote worth mentioning that sage Durvasa was the guest of Lord Krishna, and went back fully happy there from? Has there ever been a Personality thus far, to stand in comparison with Lord Krishna? Everywhere, a cool heart alone has acquired praise; and just that kind of heart is needed in the sphere of spirituality. This heart is such a tender and light object that starts withering in even a little change in the flow of the breeze”.

[06-09-1945: pg. 56-57 (A.B.II - III)]

!! Make a Difference !!

====================================A man was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along he began to see another man in the distance.As he grew nearer he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.As our friend approached even closer he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up onto the beach, and one at a time, he was throwing them back into the ocean.The first man was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good Evening Friend, I was wondering what are you doing?" And he replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they will die from the lack of oxygen.""I understand," my friend replied "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach and you couldn't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many and don't you realize that this is happening on hundreds of beaches up and down this coast ... can't you see that that you can't possibly make a difference?The local native smiled, bent down, picked up yet another starfish ... and as he threw it back out into the sea, he replied, "It made a difference to that one!"You may feel like you cannot make a difference in the world today, but you CAN make a difference in one life at a time.===================================