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Nature Of Thought Right Understanding January 15,
1971 Is ‘doing nothing’ –letting God be the doer –a sign of humility? Look here
–there are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lesson from
everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God
didn’t do anything; he was one and wished to be many. He wished –and there were
many. If he had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient
–there would still be the wordless state. So through be in a wordless state is
very supreme. Some waves are lucking in our subconscious reservoir of mind. Let
there be no waves. So long as these ripples go on, you cannot catch the sound
or light. all ripples should be settled. Where the sea is very deep there are no
outside ripples. It appears all calms and quite in the sea that runs very deep.
If the sea is not deep, there are rolls and waves and ripples going on. One who says,
“I am doing nothing.” Become a conscious co worker of the divine plane. Then he
says, “He is the doer. I'm a mere puppet in the hands of God.” everything has
some lessons to give. So go deep down into what one says. I wish you to do
nothing, that’s all. The more you
become still, the very stillness –the very silence –will sprout forth into Light
–into sound principle. Outer silence cannot give you that. You may have some
Power reserved from not talking, but that is nothing in comparison with the
inner silence. By practice, when you absorb your whole attention into the Light
or sound, that absorption where no thought arises will give you something. That
is why the Upanishads say, “What is that, by knowing which, nothing more
remains to be known?” no clutching, no whys or wherefores –no whys or
wherefores. The whole attention is
absorbed into the higher attention. Then, even if you are working at the level
of the outgoing faculties, still you are absorbed. That is to be developed in due course. Just mark what I am aiming
at –driving at. Every thought, every act, every statement has a big lecture it,
you see. Is it not? Saints have recourse to the natural way. If you absorb your
whole attention into sound, everything is there. By outward observance you will
be still for a while, but so ling a the mind works, you cannot be continuously still for long. If mind does not
succeed in a negative way, it will work in a positive way. It will say, “so you
are doing rather well? Good! You will get something out of it.” you will act
and pose. You may not be giving a direct talk, but in a round about way you would
like to impress on others that : I am doing something,” you see? Then the
little ego is there. True humility arises only when you become a conscious co worker of the divine plan. You
know he is doing. You see. When you see, how can you possibly say you are
doing. All your words will be imbued with real humility. Master, that’s a point that puzzles me. if God is doing it all, and we are doing nothing, then what about all the negative things that we do? It is only when
you're rowing with the stream that you have to make no effort, is it not so?
When you stand –when you work against the stream –then every effort has to be
made. What is negative Power? After, all. It Is the same Power going into expression. What is it? Contrary of Nature. Well, it is
Nature law that has been created. Otherwise, how could all this world have come
into being? Negative and positive are both made by God. is it not so? Is there
any other God? then? Wither accept two gods –or one God encamping both negative
and positive. Then where is God? independent. Turn your mind –your attention –to the direction of God? That’s all.
What does darkness mean? [absence of Light.] what does negative mean? [absence
of good.] that’s all right. Very simple way. These things bring home the very
purpose behind negative and positive Power . after all, negative is God as well
as positive; both were created by God. he was in an absolute, wordless state
when he created the world, then he added the two aspects. Just become a
conscious co worker along with the working of the divine plan, then no negative
Power can affect you. When you don’t work with the flowing pen of God, you
might say, God into expression Power 0nly then, the negative Power arises. Even
death is eliminated: scarifies has no sting fro Him. It is a little deeper, of
course but we still have to come to that sooner or later. These things are not
given in books, that’s the pity. They cannot be given. How can they be? She has
said something –all right, there's a lecture behind it, you see. So I wish you
to do nothing. Let all others observe it. Man really
become a follower when he sees Master within and talk to Him, that’s all. Now
you are all on probation. It is not a matter of outward show. Let the wild
flower grow in darkness. People will look at those flowers when they are
blooming, you see? So when the tree is laden with fruits, let any man come to
eat. Even if people throw stones, on it, even then it will give fruit. We are
in the make. The miracle of Master Power is so great –and the feeling of not deserving it and yet being part of it –we are on the bus and can't get off but that you can't believe that you're really on it. it's so great that it's overpowering. Seeing is
believing. All other beliefs [without seeing] are groundless –having no base.
Seeing is believing. When you see, only then can you believe and not otherwise.
Hollow faiths –hollow beliefs lead you nowhere. They will break under stress. I
remember this Pakistan affair when the two countries were divided. The very religions
people were calling names out to God. “Oh God, where you? Who says you exist?”
because they had not seen, even if you are being killed, you Saints Him
working. So seeing is believing. But to show ones gratitude , how can one do it more and more? Not in one day.
the time is a necessary. Rome was not built in a day. no trees can give in a
moment or in a day. seeds should be sown. The sprout should then be cared for
and nourished by natural forces –air, water and earth –then it will grow into
purpose –sprout forth into a sapling. Then if you still go on giving it food,
it will grow in to a treasure and that one seed will give you hundreds of
trees. I was always under the Impression that everything was choice –right choice –that God gives us our choice. Surely. Right
understanding. What is right understanding? When is the difference between free will and God desires? That you know
only when you rise to the casual planes and not before. For now, the word of
the Master is the law. He see and says. If you want to know for your own self,
what all of this going on is about, why action and reaction, then come up,
cross the astral planes and you'll come to know. Not before. That is why it is
said, “Oh God, let us have the company of somebody who can drive away all our
false notions; who can give us right understanding.” What is right
understanding? I think it will appeal to every common sense man. there is some
Power who made all this universe. Is it
not so? Say if again, Master. There is some Power who has created all of
this., he has made many species of life and man is the highest, you see. So God
made man with equal privileges. Everybody lives in the womb for nine months
–even the Saints who come. When born, they have the same from outside. Who made
that form in the womb of the mother? Is there any machinery in there? So God
resides in temples which he has made. God does not reside in temples made of
stones. Very common sense things. You come to know that your body is the temple
of God, with equal privileges for all. Your present life is based on reactions
of the past. Pauperism, richness, sickness, this and that thing-come as a
reaction of what we have got some freedom.
In all lower species, all are bound –no freedom. When a railway line is
laid down, the train will Run on that line. If you have right understanding,
you'll be lying it so that it leads back to your home. If not, you'll come
back. At least you
see now there is a principle. There's abundance in Nature, mind that. There's
abundance in natural. If you sow one seed of pepper that will give you a
abundance in Nature. If you sow one seed do pepper that will give you a plant
which will grow hundreds of peppers. If you sow one mango, seed, that will give
you a tree which will bear hundreds of mangoes. one good thought will give you
an abundance of good thoughts; all atmospheric right effect will come to you.
One evil thought will bring you hundreds in train, do you follow? Be guiding by
that. Only sow as much as you would like to bear. Think twice before you speak.
Do you know what speaking follows? Right thoughts. Right thoughts follow those
who have got the tight understanding –who see Nature working in it's true
perspective –and suchlike people were very few literature came from where? From
them. If you put into
writing all these thoughts I'm telling you, they will grow into beaks. But you
won't have this right impact from all the books you may be reading. This impact
comes from heart to heart. So the company so the Saints cannot be underrated, you
see. Maulane rumi says, “if you have some times with the Master , heart to
heart, that gives you more than hundred of years of penances” –more than that!
Then you seek of Him and you will try to copy Him. Now you have it. if you
think of fire, “it is warm, this and that, “ that is all good, but in the
physical presence , you feel fire radiation. If you go to some perfume dealer,
he may not give you anything, but by radiation, you will smell good things.
Should he gives you one vial also, then that’s all right. So, company makes a
man worse or good. That you can also enjoy only by developing receptivity from
thousands of miles. If you develop receptivity, you can see, you can hear, just
like on television or radios in Delhi. So, between the Master may be anywhere,
the students may be anywhere, but they are same question to the disciple; they will both utter the same
words. But this is no miracle, I tell you. This is developing by regularity. So
before the television or radio came into begin, who could believe it possible?
Could anyone believe? Now you say, “Yes, these discovers through science are
according to the laws of Nature.” And there are still more hidden laws of
Nature about which you know little or nothing so far. So then if according to the law of Nature we eat something like cookies that might contain eggs, it will have it's influence, whether one knows it or not? If you are in
meditation regularly, even one –you will be affected by the little things. When
I was an account officer with some regiment
in the firing line. I was given an orderly to help me, to cook for your life
but one thing you must guard strictly. Let nobody enter the kitchen when you
cook the food. And you will only go on with the repetition of the name of God or read some scriptures –nothing
more. He obeyed. For two or three days it was all right. My system was at
midnight, while people were sleeping, I was awake, meditating. One night, I
found something in My mind –some ramification. I called Him about one in the
morning. “Look here, who was in the kitchen?” “nobody.” Who do you tell a lie?”
then he agreed.” Yes , there was a man; we were talking.” So if there is much
fifth, within you, a little more filth won't affect you. But if you’ve got no
filth, even a little grain, half one fourth of a grain will affect you. Just
see It. So money should
be earned by heard dint labor –honest earning. And the food earned that
way should pass through the hands of
those who are pious and righteous. Every thoughts of the man bringing food, will
have effect. The quality of the food should also be pacifying. Then the one who
cooks it, his effect is also there. In the old days in India, they did not
allow anybody to enter the kitchen before taking a bath, and when they were
cooking they were only doing remembrance of God. the result was that whoever
ate the food was changed. So we don’t care. If we world care for the farthings,
pounds would be saved, would it not? We don’t care for what we consider
trifling things, but they do affect us. Even your honest earning are affected
by the many stages through which it has to pass. And all things arise where?
Well, I'm talking from a common sense point of view, you see. If man has good thought and food passes through him, that food will carry good effect. When you eat that, it will add to your good. If it passes through some lusty man, those same thoughts will come up. Also evil tho |