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Keep Your Mind Occupied December 2,1970 How much time
did you put in yesterday and today? Yesterday, I guess about six hours. That’s all
right. What do you see? I see a little ball of Light. it's as if it's veiled. It's a little ball of Light. it's not in the center. It's to the side. I can’t seem to get it in the center to focus. Don’t worry
about it. That veiled Light –put your attention into the middle of it that will
grow bright and burst. The sound is all right? I hear a very loud and constant ringing. That’s all
right. But once in a while I hear tinkling of tiny bells, very far away. No, whatever is
out at a distance, don’t follow it. put whole attention into what is clear
only. Sometimes the sound is at a distance. If you follow it, it grows faint
and dies out. listen only to what comes from the right side. That will draw
nearer and then ultimately come from above to drag you up. You're keeping your
diary? That’s all right. Do you have any
questions? Yes, come on . . . . . Master, is it possible
to hear the Master voice and not see the Master form? Look here. when
you hear a voice, tell him to come forward to manifested to you. Sometimes the
negative Power imitates the voice o the Master, and a man is misguided. If you
hear any sound, tell, him to come forward, appear to you. If he appears to you,
then repeat the five names. If he is a man of the highest he will stay –others
will go away. If it is the negative way. He can imitate the Master's voice and
the man is under the delusion, “Oh, it is the Master speaking to you, follow
him” –you may go amiss. That’s it. Yes, anything
else? Are you putting in time al right? And it is getting better? No. then
whets the use of it? there's something wrong somewhere. Sometimes you say you
are getting better. Sometimes you simply just nod your head. How much time do
you put in daily? About six hours. That’s all
right. Then why is it not better? There is seemed reason for it. what are you
doing the other eighteen hours of the day and night? [no answer] do you keep a
diary? No, not fully.
Sometimes . . . . This is wrong,
you see. Sometimes won't do. When you have self-introspection, you are going
within all right. When you oared led away by sense attractions and other
things, naturally that affects your meditations. Obey. When you are told to do
something, why don’t you obey? If you really love me, then : live up to what I
say. Ley not your mind remains vacant. A vacant mind is the home of the evil.
Forget the past, main vacant. A vacant mind is the home of the devil. Forget
the past, as I told you; forget the future. Live in the present moment as I
told you. If each moment is looked after –a vigilant watch is kept –then?
Everything will be all right. Do you
understand me? then why can’t you live up to it? try to live up to it. as I
told you, even if you live like that for a few days, you'll change. Yes? [to
another disciple] It's not getting better, Master. It is not
getting better. What do you have? That’s the point. Well, I have Light. . . . . . . Ever since you
have come –are you improving? That’s the point. If it is getting better, then
it's all right. The word better means more than before. You see? What do you
see now? Well, I see Light at each sitting, but it's dimmer now than it was before. I have difficulty with my mind, controlling my mind. I try to keep remembrance . . . . No, no, no. it
is not you who are to control the mind. It is that Power within you, the
contact of which has been given to you. The more you come in contact with that,
mind will be controlled. It is only God Power that can control it, and you have
been given a contact with that sound begins to be hard, without closing your
ears, all the time, then your mind will be controlled Do you hear the
sound at any tie without closing your ears? yes? It means that will develop and
you will hear all the time, you will have a sort of intoxication, that will
just keep your mind controlled . . .. . . . . . Sometimes my meditations don’t seem to get better during the day, and at night they get better again, then in the morning they . . . . . . . You are living
every moment of life, if any thought crosses your mind that affects it. keep a
vigilant watch over your mind. Keep your mind engaged . when at work, be fully
at work. Work is worship. When you eat, be fully at eating. God has blessed you
with that food; thank God. when you're in good health, thank go you're healthy.
All times , remember in some from or the other. Forcefulness results in
drawbacks. Master, what is the effect when you do simran while walking through busy streets –you cant close your eyes? Look, here,
don’t close your eyes on the way –you'll dashes against something. [everybody
chuckles.] see impediments, see and heart what is going on, but have sweet
remembrance. But does it have an effect? You'll keep
your mind engaged, that’s the effect. The vacant hours always bring trouble.
Look at what is ahead of you. The regular way up is by sitting in meditation.
Have sweet remembrance of Him, of the Master or the God in Him all the time.
you can be doing so many works and all the same be remembering somebody with
whom you have love, can you not? You are not to speak with words. Words are
only the expressions of the love within you, that’s all. The thing I don’t understand is. . . . . . . I feel the Master Power sometimes on the subway and places like that, and then in my meditations I don’t. In meditation,
you sit cut off from all outside. Power is working, that’s right. Sometimes you
see that Power is working, but if you
sit in meditation, you'll go up. But why is that I feel it in the most unlikely places, the presence of the Master Power. That’s all
right . . . . . . That saves you if your attention is directed to that; you
won't be affected by outward environments.
Just as in an sir conditioned room, you won't have the effect of the outer influences. Any newsroom
New York? You have been the latest . . . . . It's growing.
Everybody anxious. God willing, I'll be there. Man is mere puppet in the hands
of God, you see. Man proposed and God disposes. [Master speaks in Hindi or some other language about the satsang and the circular message being prepared –the Christmas message.] The real
Christmas message, has been given here. the message conveys the same things
that I tell you now, the same thing in one form or the other, you see. Every
time you have the same thing in different ways. You have your food; sometimes
you prepared it in one way, sometimes in another way, but it is the same thing,
our present food for thought. Master, how can we comprehend your love? Have you got
love for anybody? A brother or anybody? You. No, no, that
comes next. I'm talking about in the w. how do you develop that? By constant
remembrance sprouts forth into love. Again, where is love there is constant
remembrance . you have to develop love in this way. The same rule applies here
too, you see. This is one way. The most effective way is to come in contact
with or enjoy his presence. Once you have enjoyed somebody, then naturally his
sweet fruit, whenever you think of that fruit, you'll have sweet remembrance.
When you come in contact with the physical presence of the Master, by radiation
what you get carries constant remembrance. To keep sweet remembrance, you have
to develop love –have the sweet remembrance of Him all the time. when that
develops then naturally you'll have sweet remembrance. This is one way. And
when you have see Him, his physical body your own level, talking to you, have
enjoyed his presence, then effect carries sweet remembrance all the time.
naturally you see, there's no difficulty. So this is not
grown in any field or solid at any shop. It is within you. You are love. The
main thing about love is to be attached to somebody. Our soul is a conscious
entity –it has to come in contact with the physical too, but that is perverted
love, that’s all. The love of the soul should be with the over soul. Love is
within you. By inversion, you come in contact with Him. When the Master gives
you contact with Him, you have to develop from day to day. the more you put in
the better. When the seed is planted, water it daily –regularly pays. Also
sweet remembrance. You –do, you
have to say anything? nothing? If you go away, you'll say, “Oh, I had to ask
this thing and I had to ask that thing.” Then . . . . . . when you go away,
you'll just say, “Oh, I should have talked to Him and asked Him this and asked
Him that.” Now you have nothing to say.
How are you getting on? Quite fine? You? Does the carpet help? You must be cold
on the ground. No? love knows no inconvenience. That’s all
right. Yes, anything come up? Master, I was wondering would it be because of work, work a day life that my meditation before seemed to be better. I would progress more on a two hour sitting than as I would in about four hours here now, would that be because I was working there and I am not here? You see, man
cannot put in longer hours in one thing unless he does it by regular practice.
There you only had one or two hours but you put your whole attention into that
time. now you are going at ease, “Oh, all right, I'll do this and that . . . .
.” you are simply loitering away time. how so we live it? there you were
occupied with something. You kept your mind occupied, you see. Work is worship.
Your whole attention was there. Vacant mind is the home of the devil. Now,
you’ve got more vacant time. you must be more vigilant. Master, but most of the time is pretty well put in, for meditation or one of the other things are occupying my mind, but I don’t think it has the same effect. No, no, no.
follow what I say. When a donkey is burdened it will go on all right. But when
you take off the burden, he will play frolics. So keep your mind occupied,
that’s all. Work is worship. Keep you remind engaged earth some pure pursuits.
When you're not engaged, remain in sweet remembrance –you are here only for
that purpose, and no other. Keep your mind engaged in, I might use the word ,
“pure pursuits.” Pure pursuits, not sensuous. That will help in your occupation
and you'll have better results. Everybody should go on progressing. If you do
not go on progressing, there is something wrong some where, and what
electricity you get is earthed [grounded]. If you live only a month or two like
that, you'll change. Have you got any other job here? No. Let it[mind] be
occupied fully on that. You have to change the course of your mind. Keep it
occupied, in a righteous living, that’s all. And it cannot be controlled, as I
already told you. It is the God Power within you, by coming in contact with
Him, that mind is controlled; no other way. Outwardly, even your chanting
controls the mind for a while, then it runs away again. Just as a fire is set
ablaze there. But if you put water on the fire, then even a cyclone may come
but won't have any effect. Try to
understand –live up to it, that’s all. To know a thing is good, to understand
the theory is all right, but unless you live up to it . . . . . there's a story
in India about Lord Rama and ravana that you might have heard. Ravana was a
very learned pundit –he knew all the four Vedas, all six shastras, and more.
Knowing all that he still abducted the wife of Lord Rama. So with all that
knowledge he fell down. Knowing is not sufficient unless you live up to it. you
may be doing so many things, you may have all kinds of foods, but if you don’t
digest them, that will cause disease. The more the food is digested , that will
give you strength. The more you know of what you say, then the more you will
live up to it. there is a story of five pandavas; they went to their teacher.
He gave them a lesson: “speak the truth! Always be truth full! “ then he
dismissed the class: “All go and memorize It.” the next day , four of them came
up, but one did not come. Yudhistra by name. He asked them, “Where is yudhistra?”
“He says that he is still memorized the lesion.” One day passed, two days,
three days, four days, a week passed. And then they said, “Look here , teacher,
you told us that we must live up to the truth;
we learned that but that very blockhead had not learned these few words
so far even in seven days.” Finally yudhistra came up, and said, “Master, I
have learned it. . . . . “ and he lived all through life being truthful. This
is really learning. He never spoke a lie all through his life. When you see a thing,
live up to it. simple learning by rote or only by memorizing, won't help you. I
am afraid that will make you worse. If a man having a lamp in his hand, falls
into ditch, what is the good of the lamp in his hand, falls into a ditch, what
is the good of the lamp? You have light before you; be careful. With all your
learning, you are nowhere. Learning only means understanding. When you have
understood, that is the secret. We know so much, I think if anyone of you is
made to give a talk here, you know so much I think if anyone of you is made to
give a talk here, you would give a wonderful talk. But the question is of how
you live. We ask so many questions –we ask
a hundred times. We read books, scriptures that are all right. But again the same questions come up? Why?
Digest it, live up to it. or if you live up to, do only one thing, say for
instance, “be truthful, “ all the other things follow. Deeds of darkness are
committed in the dark, not in open daylight. the difference between one who is
advanced on the way, and one who is not advanced, is that he lives up to what
he memorizes, the other don’t. the learned know so many things, of course. I
think each one of you could write a book. You would write wonderful in your own language. But there is radiation
going on, how are, how you live. Even the consciousness of a learned will go
out. and this is what we have to learn. Do you know
that telling the truth is all right? Pardon me? Do you know
that telling the truth is all right? Yes. Do you know
that to be chaste is all right? Yes. Do you
know not to harm anybody’s feelings? Yes. Do you know
that you must help the others who are in distress, having some difficulties? I think you know
intellectually. Then, do you live up to it? Sometimes. Sometimes? And
the other times? That makes the difference, you see. Take one virtue , all
other virtues will follow. Or if you come In contact with the God Power within
you, you will become the abode as all virtues. You have not to think for this
or that; everything will follow. Outer self introspection, as I have told you
so many times before, is only like when you are going to cut a tree; you so
many times before, is only like when you are going to cut a tree; you have
first shorn off the branches; then the stem is cut. When the stem is cut, all
the remaining branches; the stem is cut. When the stem is cut, all the
remaining branches naturally fall away. That stem is ego within you, and that
can only be seaside by coming in contact with the God into expression Power,
the contact of which has been given to you. No more lectures are required, like
yudhistra, go on doing and come up to me only after you have set it. you need
not ask any questions. When I came to my Master I did not ask any questions . I
simply Satguru by Him, and got by radiation. So only one third by receptivity
by radiation. Soul speaks through the eyes. Eyes are the windows of the soul.
Through eyes you'll learn so many
things . the eyes speak such a language that cannot be expressed in
words. Very wonderful are eyes; are they not? You speak through eyes suck like
language, which even the words cannot
express. Is it not so? Perhaps that is why it is said that is better to enter
the world with one eye rather than two, which will take you to hell. These
things are given out in our scriptures. We simply ruminate over them that are
all; we don’t digest them. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of
theories. You know all these things. They should I repeat them? I am not
telling you anything new; only you are not living up to them? I am not telling
you anything new; only you are not living up to them. For that I have to
prescribe keeping the diaries, this and that things. Have the physical
presence. But even from thousands of miles, you can have the same affect
through receptivity that you have got through the physical presence. Of course
physical presence cannot be underrated. You get the radiation when you enjoy
that, then naturally you always carry the sweet remembrance when you think of
Him. No more lecturers are required. That’s all, it's a very simple thing.
There are no very strenuous penances that you have to undergo. Simply sweet
remembrance. What does it cost? Nothing, Master. Kind words
don’t cost anything. You may make
your brain a storehouse of all scriptures, of the East and West, but if you
don’t live up to them, then what is the use. That makes you haughtier –your ego
is strengthened. “I know so much you much,” “I . . . . . .” but you know little
or nothing. So the question remains of whether we live up to it or not. Try to
live up to what you know. If you’ve got one virtues completely, then all others
will follow of themselves. When you come in contact with Light and sound Power
within, you have not to adopt any virtues but everything, all virtues, will
come, within you of themselves. You will become the adobe of all virtues;
you'll learn all virtues given in scriptures, the more you come in contact with
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