The Voice of Babaji: A Trilogy On Kriya Yoga – Quotes
P.224 Try to have a clear understanding and discipline of life. My earnest request to the marchers on the path of Truth is to sit at the Lotus Feet of the Satguru or before a picture of Babaji and do his bidding unquestioningly and surrendering unconditionally. Sadhana will give you knowledge and power. The “lamp of wisdom” is lit in everyone. Endowed with the power of understanding, man tries to overcome all difficulties, which he has to face in his daily life. He wishes to move about in society with extreme joy, peace and happiness. He aspires earnestly, works hard and applies himself zealously to this end. But he proceeds on wrong lines. He thinks that living in this world luxuriously without any want whatsoever will bring him this real happiness. Through a monetary success in his career he becomes elated. Finally, he falls a victim to his own ego and pride. At last he finds himself in an insignificant corner of the world.
There are people, though only a few, who understand the real aim in life, the position of man in the cosmic wheel and his true inner being. These people never aspire for any supremacy over others. They rarely exhibit their talents in different aspects of knowledge. Their motto is “simple living and high thinking.” Search within. My dear aspirants, don’t rush pell-mell into a region until you possess a sound knowledge of it. You have spent years of your life in schools and colleges without any regular program for the future. You had a fancy for science. You studied it. You become proficient. You took your M.S. degree. But you had no facilities to improve your knowledge in that particular line. Earning money itself become your major problem. You accepted a clerical job and are now writing address envelopes and affixing stamps in the corner of a room of an office, may be, the secretariat day in and day out. The job by itself is not a bad one. But it is not up to your aim and ambition. You have not achieved success in your life. You were shortsighted even from the beginning. The same fact holds good in spiritual life also. If you approach a saint because you heard paeans of praise about him, or because you are impressed by his writings, you fall short of your aim.
This shortsightedness will mar your spiritual progress. This limitation of ideas and narrow views takes you nowhere. It will only make you rotate on an endless cycle of repeated events. Correct your vision with a proper understanding of things. You are not concerned with the general biography of a saint. By concentrating your attention merely on the broad general outline of his life and teachings you only acquire a superficial knowledge or intelligence of eternal things. You rack your brain in trying to exalt one theory and doctrine (may be your master’s) over all others, or in finding ways and means to reconcile a series of them with an idea to smother the differing opinions of various schools of thought. You begin to show again your limited intellect in corroborating things and waste the rest of your life, forgetting for the second timer, your real aim in life. What concerns you, turns out to be “the miracles of the moment” in the lives of the saints, whom you approach.The word “miracle”may sound very big for you. It is really so for a novice and an embryo on the path of spiritualism. Any act that you may be unable to do in thousands of attempts, if done in the twinkling of an eye by another is really a miracle. This is not the play of psychic powers, as many believe, but are fruit of wisdom. He who feels the Lamp of Wisdom shining within, perceives everything in an inexplicable and incomprehensible manner.
With a balanced mind and equal vision meet all differences, kill the idea of separateness and mix with all, embrace all, love all, serve all, serve the Lord in them. Be self-disciplined, be simple and harmonious in thoughts, feelings, diet and dress. Fear none, shake off lethargy, laziness and fear. Lead the Divine Life. Be seeker of Truth or Reality. Understand the law and dharma. Be alert and vigilant. Overcome sorrow and conflict. Move towards freedom, perfection and eternal bliss every second. Be sincere and earnest. You can make yourself worthy of His (God’s) grace.
