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True Meditation And The Virtues To Be Developed December 19,
1970 Yes, come up.
Are there any questions? Instead of giving a lecture, it is better if you have
got any questions in your mind they should be clarified. Yesterday morning’s
talk, do you remember, I mentioned that al worries can be wiped away by coming
in contact with the sound principle within. You recorded that talk. Yes. These are not
only for recording but are a remedy for all your ills. [Master asks everyone there how much time they have been putting in for meditation.] The point is,
as you are putting in more time, are you improving as compared with before? The
longer you can stay inside when you see the light, continuously without break,
the more improvement will come. If that light fades away then continue looking
without break, constantly. It will stay, if you continue to look. The longer
time you can put in at that time will give you more, better results, you see;
better results. Yes, beg your
pardon? Can it be
harmful to force yourself to sit longer? I'm not talking
about sitting longer. You may be sitting for five hours, ten hours, but when
you see Light you do not stay there longer. It is the time when you should
continue longer without break. You may be sitting, but mind may be rambling
outside. The time spent in sitting at the door, but your mind is rambling
outside. The time spent in sitting alone does not bear forth fruit, unless your
mind is there continuously without a break. That will grow more. Whatever
experience you have, will grow more and more from day to day. On our diaries,
should we include only the time spent in concentration or should we include all
the time spent sitting? Truly speaking
the time spent as I now explained to
you, will bear forth fruit. So, out of, say, five hours you sit, if you’ve
stayed an hour or two, that will also give something. I'm just explaining in
which way you can have better results. At first sittings, you were not customer
to sit for a long time. now you have begun to sit longer. But your mind should
not be wandering away. As I told you, do one thing at a time, one thing, wholly
and solely. When you are with me, be wholly so, forget everything, your body
and everything. When you are with the God within, then be constantly, wholly
and solely there. Don’t think of the body or the outward environments, what to
speak of other things. So when you sit, sit quite cut off from the outside,
your body and things. So when you sit, sit quite cut off from outside, your
body and your mind. Thank God now
you have begun to give more time in sitting. Then out is the sitting what is
the substantial thing you can have for some better results: the longer you can
stay. If you meet me, for example, ill be sitting by you and my mind is
wandering –that is no sitting. When I sit by you, then wholly, solely you'll be
with me and with you. You see? That will give you better results. As I told you,
God is all alone. he has got no Father, no mother, no brother, no sister, and
no friend. He wishes everybody should come to Him all alone. who are you? You
are a conscious entity, not the body. So he does not like to carry your body
along with you. It means don’t even think of the body you are wearing. Be all
alone with Him. Kabir says, about sitting, “You sit at the door and wait
without wandering outside. Some day he will ask, “Well,, dear friend, what do
you want?’ you see, if somebody is sitting at your door daily; you pass , come
and go and see that he is still sitting. You will one day ask Him, “Well dear
friend, what do you want? Why are you here all alone, quite cut off from
outside. It is for Him to give. You need not be anxious. You are at the door.
He will ask you some day. it's like attending your every day duty. Be fully on
duty. And wait. He is very anxious to look into your eyes. After all, he must
ask, “Well, what are you after?” so it is better to sit at the door wholly and
solely and all the same when you get something be wholly absorbed in it: that
will give much better results. Spirituality is
not difficult if you learn how to do one thing, wholly and solely, at a time.
if I'm sitting by you, for instance, thinking of somebody else, what’s the good
of sitting by me? is it not? When you're at
work be fully at work. When you are eating, thank God. “O God, thank you. “ do
one thing at a time. That will give you better results in every way of life.
why do other things hunt us, do you know? Ill gives one example. Suppose you
come to me. you have something to say. I simply partly to you, not fully so you'll
be waiting. Somebody else comes –I attend to him only for a few minuets. I've
not attended to Him fully. He still has something to say. Then again. Now all
of you will hovering over me. so it is better to dispose of; finalize; then
there will be no new problems every day. Because you
don’t attend fully to them they will wait for you, won't leave you. That
explanations why these other thoughts hunt us. At every sitting these thoughts
of the past or future come because we haven’t attending to them fully. So when
you sit for meditation forget the present, but live in the living moment. This
is what I conveyed this time in my message. If you’re every minute is
vigilantly watched, then? You will go on like that for eternity. You know these
things, but knowing them is not sufficient unless you lived up to them. You may
have many things to eat but if those are not digested then? That will bring out
disease. Each one of you knows many things. When you are asked to give a talk,
you'll give a wonderful talks, I think. Even better than the Saints give. But the point is how far you live up to
them. Well once it so
happened, you perhaps have heard about the pandavas in the mahabhatata. Five
padanas went to their teacher, Guru, he gave then a lesson then a lesson, “Well,
look here, be truthful. All right, go and memorize, then come to Me.” in the
old days one thing was given and they were asked to live up to it. next day all
turned up, except one, yudhistra, who did not come. He asked them, “Where's
yudhistra?” “He says he's memorizing that thing –to be truthful.” Two days, three
days, four days passed and yudhistra did not return. Others said, “Look here
Master, how dull head he is! he cannot memorize the words, “be truth full.”
After some days he turned up. He said, “Master, I have learnt now, be truthful.
“ and all through his life, he was truthful –never told lie. So such like
living is required. You know so much. Your diaries
are there to just bring the failure to your notice. Why don’t you live up to
those virtues? If you live up to one virtue, , suppose you are truthful.
Continue for six months. Then you won't dare to tell a lie. Then habit will
turn into Nature. Be chaste. In word, thought, and deed. After six months
you'll find you can have no unchaste thoughts. Diary is meant for that. This is
one side. And the other way is to come in contact with the abode of all
virtues. Both things are given in your diary, be strictly accurate in keeping
your diary. I issue
one circular on the diary. You must
remember. These circular are for your guidance, and to be lived up to, that’s
all. The pity is we
know so much. We can give lecture, talks. Very tall talks. Very tall talks, I
would say. But these are affected only by our radiation, not by mere words say.
But these are affected only by our radiation, not by mere words. So it is
always said, “it is better to reform your own self.” Swami ram troth
was a great Saint, who said in the papers “WANTED” –what? “reformers.” What
sort of reformers? “not of others but themselves.” What will they get –“
Godahead.” This is what is wanted. All of you can
become ambassadors, only if you live up to what you are told. Then your words
will carry weight. We say something, but live some other way. We appear very
virtuous but understand we are trying to cut the roots of everybody. You cannot
deceive. You can deceive men, but you cannot deceive God who is within you. Be truthful virtues will
follow. So diary is meant for two things. One, weeding out all imperfections;
two, coming in contact with that Power. The more you come in contact with that
Power, the more you sit by fire, all cold no inferences to draw, but a very
delicious dish is served to you; Saints now that you eat it. another thing: even if you eat it, but you
don’t digest. . . . . . .don’t fill your brains with so many things. Eat one
thing. Digest it. other things follow naturally. So to meet God
is not difficult, but to make a man is difficult. God is after finding man –any
man how is there –a God in man body. We are beast in men not men in men, you
see. All religions were meant to turn out perfect men, ideal men. All schools
of thoughts were meant to turn our perfect men. Schools are there. Their
dresses are all right. Their buildings are all right, but how many men are turned
out of them? And the ideal man is one who has the rigging radiance, in and out.
That is the Bread of life. so this is the ideal before you. You're here
for sometime to make the best use of
that. Even when you go away, keep these things to make the best use of that.
Even when you go away, keeping these things, live up to them. Only try for
three months, six months, you'll find changes, a radical, drastic change. Kabir
says, “my mind is so pure, God is after me, calling, ‘Kabir, Kabir, Kabir
wait.’ “ so God is running after each one of us to find a man, somewhere.
Master, the God manifested in Master, is also trying to make men. The pity is
we don’t live up to them. Christ said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.”
If you live with the Master for a hundred years but do not care for what he
says; it is like a stone in the water, you might be don’t care for what he
says; it is like a stone in the water, you might be cold while in the water,
but when the water is away, then? When
the cobra is on the snow, he is very cold, when it gets a little warm he is
hissing. So we have to
learn while in the world. Swimming is learned in water not on dry lands. And
man body is the golden opportunity we have got for that purpose. You may remain
where you are. Outer performance, rituals make no difference. That is only a
symbol on your body. You are not even body, then? First of all,
you're Light. you're the children of Light. jot niranjan, you are. We repeat
these words daily but don’t even have the tight import of what they say, God is
all Light, is it not? All consciousness. God is spirit. And we are? Spirit. And
spirit is God, and God is within us,
naturally; so what is the difference? So facts remain
like that, we are children of Light, the children of God, we are all brothers
and sisters in God. whether we are wearing one form or other that makes no
difference. It's just an amazing thing. Amazing? God is
amazing –you are God. God is within you but you are not with God. That’s all.
Just like fish is always in water. Fish lives in water. Water is the very life
of the fish. If is taken out for a little while it will die. She will die. We
are in Him and he is within us. We are having our being in Him. That we will
some to realize by rising above body consciousness, not before. There's a great
Light that enlivens our body. We are a small tiny light. Now you know
how great you are? You're a micro God. the outgoing faculties are only to serve
you. But you simply become a servant to the outgoing faculties. It is through you only that outgoing faculties, you won't hear
you, you won't see, even with open eyes. Your attention is absorbed in
something higher. This digest has been given in few words, in a very is taken
away then you have got the real protein
there. This is the real only reminding you of the facts which are already there
and we never cared for them, never lived up to them. All right, any
other question? It's 9:30. Make the best
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