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Be in Charge of Your Machinery December 22,
1970 It's cold
outside, isn't it? do you feel? All right. Yes? Going strong each one of you?
Going on all right with you meditations? Thank you. When a man is
within he does not feel cold. It's only when he's thanking of the body and
outside that he feels cold. Keep your consciousness engaged. In that way you
will be air conditioned, you see? Then you won't feel cold. Once it
happened, I'm talking now of fifty now of fifty years back, that I was detailed
by my Master to give talks. It was a hot season. There was a big room, of
course, but it was very hot. The ceiling fan, and the other fan broke; each man
was persecuting. I said, “Look here. engage your Singh here. [Master points
between the two eyebrows.] you won't feel the heart.” They listened to the
talks for an hour and never felt heat. It is we who feel, because we are
identification with the body and outside. When you get an injection (from a
doctor), you just concentrate, “All right, Master now do it.” then you feel. So
it is a question of controlling your attention . you are attention. You give
strength to the body. The whole machinery works on account of you. It is you
who is working at the back. If you come to your own self, then the whole
machinery is at a standstill. This is what you have to learn. It is all a
play of your conscious self. We have not known ourselves, who we are. We have
to know as a matter of inference or as a matter of feeling, but not as a Matter
of self analysis. A factory, any factory, is run by a Power house, there are
switches you turn off, that department ceases to work. And If you turnoff the
main switch the whole machinery stands still. It is on account of you that you
are hearing you are seeing. It is because you do not know how to cut off from
outside, that’s all. You may have
this happen in your experience too: sometimes you're sitting very absorbed;
somebody calls you, your ears are open but you dint hear. He calls you once,
twice, and thrice. He comes up to you and says, “Well you have not heard me? I
have called you so many times.” “no, I have not heard.” “Why?” “my attention was engaged somewhere
else.” So similarly it is your attention that gives life to all your outward
things. You are the giver of all attention to these things and you are dragged
by all these things. How shameful it is, I would say. The whole thing is topsy
turvey. It is you who gives the strength to your mind. Mind controls intellect.
And poor fellow, soul, is being dragged
about. Is it not so? Just come to your own self, that’s all I can say.
You know who you are? Now you understand? forget all outward forms, everything
like that. Master does not give you anything new, only [the opportunity] to
come to your own self, that’s all. You may learn it in a day, ten days ten
years, ten births. Why not learn now? Man body is the golden opportunity you
have got. In this body only, you can do it. this is really your own work,
personal work. All other works are the question of give and take, finish off. Wind
up the whole thing. Do you feel
cold now? [Master tells us about his appointment today at manav Kendra – the man center being built under his daily supervision.] everybody runs
there, you see, because man is in search. He's doing something and still with
still that he is not satisfied. By taking about Bread your hunger won't be
appeased. You see? By taking food, digesting it, your hunger will go. Everybody
is doing something in his own way, with all that he is not satisfied. So when death
comes, it is no bugbear; it comes. Man will shudder, “Oh,” if he has been only
talking about these things and not lived up to them, that’s all. This is a way,
which we can give to you, of practical self-analysis, rising above body
consciousness. If you want that, daily rise and go, and you'll feel pleasure.
When there is heat outside and you go into a cold place, well naturally you
feel very different, you see. So try to put in more time[in your spiritual
practices] and make the best use of the time you are here. That’s all I can
say. There also that God Power is within you, with you, guiding you when you go
back. If you withdraw you can say that. We are one there. |