World or God Dec. 26, 1970 The day before, Christmas, was a feast day when Master allowed those visiting initiates to literally stuff themselves. He fed them as much as they could eat, but the next day . . . . How did you all
find your meditations last night . . . . . . and this morning? . . . . . .
. with what results? I was sick last
night. Are you better
this morning compared with last night/ we’ll get you some medicine. You please? Last night I
saw blue sky Light. this morning I put in a little bit of time. And you,
please? Yesterday I over ate, so I got sleepy. I was greedy yesterday . . . . . . . [laughing] the
real enjoyments is within . . . . . . and you please? I put in three hours this morning, but I didn’t have any Light again. But it will come. I'm going to devote today to eight or nine hours. It is there. It
will come. concentration is required. And yesterday? Yesterday nothing either. You saw
Christmas! Yes, I think I got too involved in the outer . . . . . This is why. So
any way you enjoyed Christmas –the outer. And you, please? I've been oversleeping and I went to the doctor, and he gave me some medicine. I'm sleeping about five or six hours less. Sleeping is due
to something wrong with your stomach. Eat less, that’s the only remedy. Do you
remember once one doctor joined prophet Mohammed. That doctor were about forty
men following prophet Mohammed, here, there, and nobody became sick during
these six months. The doctor came up to prophet Mohammed and said, “I've been here
for six months, but I'm not needed because nobody has fallen sick.” Prophet Mohammed told the doctor, “Look
here, my instructions to them are to eat one morsel less that they really
hunger for. Leave the table little hungry. They also do meditation and work
hard. So, as long as they obey these orders, nobody can get sick. The doctor
gave you something for digestion. It's better that you have a morsel less,
that’s all. That’s the best remedy. When animals, dogs, go innate sense. They
select some grass to eat and that is their medicine. So the best prescription
is, eat a morsel less that you really need. Leave the table a little hungry
–not full. You must have
paid a fee to this doctor? Did you pay? Yes. What? Ten rupees. Ten rupees! If
you had told me, that would have saved you ten rupees. That’s true, very true. You should not
have gone there. You should have told me. you are here –you are not uncared
for. Master, for the
last few years I've had a strong desire to see God but because I was not always
happy and life was grief and now earth life is becoming very enjoyable and I've lost quite a bit of my
desire to see God. Because you are
indulging in outer things, that’s all. But maybe if I got sick again? Look here,
outer things are for your help –not for enjoyment. Make the best use of them,
that’s all. You have begun to enjoy them, and naturally the tendency changed.
If you have got more desires for the worldly things naturally the other side
will slacken. So the best motto should be, “God first and world next.” I don’t desire anything outwardly. I don’t want anything in the world. Your own
statement is contradictory. You say now your desire for God is lessened, is it
not? Have I followed properly? Before is was very strong. The reason is apparent
–your tendency has changed more toward the worldly things. If all desires are
stopped, then that is good. But that will come only when you come in contact
with the God into expression Power, not before. Upanishad say, “What is that by
knowing which all other desires are finished?” that is by coming in contact
with the way you have been given. Perfection
walks slowly. Time factor is necessary. Go on, regularly; after some time
you'll find that you are on the way up. Sometimes you advance a little , then
recede, then again you get some advancement. So diary is meant for that
purpose. Keep your diary very strictly, like a hard task Master. Don’t spare
yourself. As you criticize others, so you must criticize your own self. By
leading such a life, in two or three months you'll change, sure and certain. We
spare our self. We see we have something wrong, but I think, “don’t tell it.
who knows it?” but the God in you knows it. you cannot deceive Him. So that is
why I always say, be true to your own self. God is within you and the Master
Power is there. You cannot deceive Him. Be sincere to your own self. I don’t
say, “be sincere to me.” that God Power is within you already. you cannot
deceive Him. Why do you
loiter away –waste –fritter away time in useless pursuits. You're here only for
that purpose. I have told you, I think, more than a dozen times this very
thing. Make the best use of your time here. stop all thinking of past and
future. Forget. Be here wholly, solely ; live in the living present. Live in the
present moment. If you continue; that will continue for eternity. The child does
not learn running all at once. He wants some support in the beginning. He then
wants to stand: after attempts, falls.
Then the mother helps Him. After some times he begins to run. So go on
with it regularly. To meet God is not difficult. To make man is difficult. You
must make a man out of your own self. God is after finding such men. He's going
around, “is there any man?” Kabir says,
“I'm so much purified from within that God is running after me, “Oh, Kabir
where are you? Come up.” So God is very near and Master is running very close
behind you all calling, “Wait, wait, wait,” if you purify your self. Blesses
are the pure in heart for they shall see God. purity lies in what? You know?
Purity of mind lies in the fact that no other thought than God should remain,
come up. God is in every heart everywhere, we are swimming like, fish in the
water of life. you may have many things in your brain. You may fill up your
whole brain with all the libraries, and the scriptures of the world, but that
won't help you. Only that much will help you, which you have formed as the very
part of your life. The food you
digest, gives you strength, but you can say, fresh. That which is not digests, sleepiness.
You see? Your mind wanders away. One man came to shiv lal, a devotee of rai
sailgram and said, “Well, look here, I get sleepy. “ “ So take care of your
stomach,” he replied. Another man came, “my mind wanders away.” He said, “take
care of your stomach.” Sheik saadi tells us of you want proper meditation
progress then keep half the stomach filled with food, one fourth with water,
and let the other fourth remain vacant. What ever
dreams come up from indigestion will rake up and affect your brain and cause
laziness. And the very prescription I have told you –leave the table when
you're still a little hungry; don’t eat until you're full. And swami shiv dayal
Singh says, “those who want to proper wonderfully on the way should have one
meal a day.” the highest thing for those who are solely for that purpose –one
meal a day. the more the stomach is empty, the better. As I told you the other
day, first is a meatarian, then a vegetarian, then an airarian. They go up like
that. I quoted an instance yesterday. There was once with our Master a lady
about thirty years old; she would not take any water or food and she was
working all day long. The real Bread of life is within you. But you come up to
that in due course, not all at once. So all these troubles can be avoided if
you leave your table having eaten a morsel less. If there is something tasty,
you take too much, and the result is? Yesterday I wanted one chapatti and when you came you said, “take half for me.” All right. But I think it's an example –live your own way like you live in the West, but leave a little bit for me. Yes. So the food didn’t mean anything. That’s your
understanding, right understanding. That’s all right. I understand so
many things, which I already practiced before and everybody says I'm wrong and
they don’t feel so good but not now you're approving these things. . . . . . . Thank God.
thank God . That’s all I can say. Any others also? You please? You want to know about my meditations? What else am I
here for? Are you better today, after you enjoyed Chrisman yesterday? That’s
all right. And you? Can I ask you? I think you must not have taken any food.
That’s Bread of life, be regular. Let no day pass without giving Bread to your
soul. That is within you already. That is why Christ said, “man cannot live on
Bread alone.” outer Bread is only to
sustain he will even carry a broken carriage. Is it not? So on spiritual health
depends the life of mind and body both. We give food to the body, to the
intellect, but we care little for the soul. So you are here only for the Bread
of life and water of life. and it is not lying outside; it is within you
already. it is a mater of inversion. You have to pay nothing for that. Have you
had to pay anything for that? No outer fees are required. It is gift of Nature,
like other gifts of Nature, you see. It seems the people that have the truth burn with passion to share it with others. Why is this so?
God has sent them for that very purpose –to distribute to his children.
Remember when I went to America for the first time in 1955? There, as
everywhere, talks were given all free. Hitherto, these place had donation boxes
and sold tickets. I told them that we didn’t want these things. On the first
day when I gave a talk one man stood up. “Where is the secretary?” “Why do you
want Him? “ “I want to donate $5,000.” “What for?” “You’ve given a wonderful
talk.” I replied, “it is a gift of Nature and like all the gifts are it will be
given free.” You have not to pay for air, sun, do you? So when I left people
offered some bags of money . I told them to just spend it in this mission here.
they were in tears, telling me, “it would have been much better if you gift –free within you. Who is retarding
you from that? “God does not
change the life of a man who does not like to be changed,” the Koran says. If
you have a little inkling that way. He will help . . . . . if a child wants to
stand, the mother comes up to help Him. If he is lying, sleeping, no help is
given. She has many other children to look after first. So were all children of
. the Master is there to help you –the God in Him. The gift of God are life and free will. Yes. This is
what I am telling you. I think mans position should be, sincere he has got free will, to will such a life of praise to God –acceptable to God. That comes when
a man is fed up, when comes to that ultimate urge within Him. Naturally that
would be a most fortunate day in the mans life when this urge comes up within
Him. Then naturally the help will come . where fire burns oxygen comes to help.
So I left my school, education career, I had to decide. What? There were two
things before me –God and the world. It took me about seven or eight days, all
alone at high, in a very lonely place, reflecting on what should be the aim of my
life. I am speaking to you about a question that came up in 1912. I decided:
God first and world next. God first and the world next. So if you have
got some definite aim before you, even if you take one step towards, that, you
will be nearer the goal. But sometimes you are for God, sometimes for the
world. Plus –minus nullifies everything. So decide finally what is your aim in
life. Decision is important. Surely, we have
not decided yet. We are trembling here in the way. Sometimes here, sometimes
there. And mind comes in like a very good gentleman. “Look here, this is your
duty, why don’t you do it?” help your children, that’s all right. I also will
help your children. God has united you. Why have not ethers been united to you?
It is the flowing pen of God that has united you, as brothers, sisters, ,
wives, and husbands. Attend to them properly. Pay off given and take. And? You
have got the human life to know God. That’s our ultimate goal. Don’t sow more
seeds. Wind up all your affairs. And
the Master helps you in that winding up, give and take, that’s all. You
simply live up to what he says. It seems so easy, simplicity leads you to eternity and complex will lead you to perplexity, because you have too many things to distract you. Simple, food,
simple living, simple life are helping factors. Once there was a chief minister
of Akbar the great, a great emperor in India. One day , as was the usual
course, minister keep standing up while the king comes in and sits down on his
throne. But in that over coat which he was holding over his arm there was a
scorpion. now out of respect, he could not move and the scorpion bit Him here,
there, then again. He could not move because that would have been
disrespectful. When the king sat down, he said, “Well, look here, out of
devotion to the king I have not even cared that the scorpion bit me so many
times.” Then he threw off his overcoat and ran away. “thank God, God I will be
your devotee.” Akbar the great said, “this is my chief minister, I rely on Him
for everything. Why has he run away?” so he sent a minister to request Him to
return. The minister pleaded, but he wouldn’t return. “Oh no, I was once his
servant. I was doing everything he wanted. And now I have become the servant of
God.” then the king himself came and told Him, “Well dear well ram, you are my
chief minister. You are the big wheel of my empire.” “dear king, I was fully
devoted to you for the time I was there; now I've changed my devotion to God.”
“How will you eat?” “I've got hands to eat. I don’t need any plates.” Yesterday
morning –perhaps you were there =some people were eating vegetables on leave,
there were no plates. “Well what will you have for your pillow?” the king
asked. “my hands.” The king then asked,
“tell me what you want?” “Well, I want you
to be away from me.” So simple life
is the ultimate. We take hours to make ourselves ready. We take hours to adorn
ourselves. Give rest to the body, save it from cold or heat outside. That’s
good. Give it food. Give rest to the body, so that it may work properly, but
not all twenty four hours. If you take too much work from a horse, you see, it
will not help you. If you work too hard, that’s not good? Not too hard,
but as much as the body bears. Sometimes you have to scarifies for the good of
others, that’s another thing. That’s the law of scarifies. Love knows service
and sacrifice. Give rest to the body, save it from heat and cold outside so
that it may be strong enough to carry on your work, that’s all. But all the
time you spend in getting ready, well, you're wasting time. keep the body
clean, that’s all right. It's a well, you're wasting time. keep the body clean,
that’s all right. It's a temple of God. keep it clean outside and also inside.
See things in their right perspective. Simple life and high thinking will work
in no time. simple life and high
thinking . That’s all. These are only subsidiary questions. The main thing is
to come in contact with God who is within you
already. you have not go anywhere. Outer temples and go to the temples
made by the hand of man? God resides in the temple, which he has made, in the
womb of the mother. Is there any machinery lying inside there? That’s Gods
work. So you see,
take a little less, one morsel less. Keep that thing which is more delicious to
be eaten at another time, not necessarily at the same time. because if you go
amiss , you have to pay for it in some other way. Food that is digested will
give you strength. |