Removing the Weeds – Little by Little February 21,
1971 Hello. Going
strong? That’s good. When I do my
diaries in the evening, I forget the more delicate failures I committed all
during the day. so what should I do? Do you remember
the pelman system of memory –how to improve your memory? That was written by
one pelman. So in the beginning this is what you have to do . . . . I rose in the morning, I went to the bathroom, took my bath, then took
breakfast, and went away to my office, work, and so forth . . . . . now
further, when you rose in the morning, what thought was crossing your mind?
During the day when you came to the bathroom what were you thinking of? We
simply watch the progress of the physical body, not the mind, and in that way
man is asked to train him to remember from morn till evening. The memory
becomes strong, and there will be an improvement. This you also have to do for
self-introspection; you have to weed out, recall what thoughts crossed your
mind. In the beginning, you'll say “That’s all right, everything was going all
right, few failures.” But if you go down deep into it, you will have to show
that it was not right. Sometimes you'll remember, “He told me this and that
thing, and I called him names. That was all right though. This was tit for
tat.” But later on you will say, “Well if he has done wrong, why should I? “
reactions come from failures, and that reaction strikes you more than once. All those reaction are your failures.
This diary is a court, a very hard taskmaster over your few failures. But as
you daily go more deeply, you will find very few failures. But as you daily go
more deeply, you will find very few failures. But as you daily go more deeply, you will find more and
more, more and more. Really they existed, but we had never gone into weeding
them out. I have read the
lives of great men, many great men. Each one had some system of watching his
failures and weeding them out. hafiz was a great Saint. He used to throw one
pebble in a pile for each failure. After a while there was a big mound. In the
beginning man does not remember. But in the way I just described to you, your
memory will also becomes strong. It is the way of the pelman system of memory scorpions are under your bed. At present
we don’t know how many there are. You
have to weed out. Suppose there
is some dirty water with weeds also growing on the surface. Then, how can you
see your face? Just remove the weeds little by little. Throw them off. Weed
out. the water will remain. When it is still, of mind, and is very much
necessary for meditation. Hitherto, as I told you, when people went to their
Master, to their gurus, they first make the utensils clean, then put something
into it ibrahim was a saint, he was a king who left his Kingdom and came to
Kabir, lived with Him for three four years. He was quite obedient and did not
ask for anything. whatever was giving to Him he would do whatever he was told
to do, like a bought slaves. So loi,
the mother of the house, told Kabir, “Well, he is quite ready, will you give
Him something now?” and wanted? He is
very obedient; he does not say anything; what ever you give him, he eats; he
never grumbles.” “All right, tomorrow
morning when he goes out of the door of the house, you put all of the refuse of
the house into a basket and throw it over his head. Then listen to what he
says.” Next morning when ibrahim went out of the house, loi put all the house
refuse over his head. Ibrahim went out of the house, loi put all the house
refuse over his head. Ibrahim said, “now ! had this been Bokhara . . . .” (he
was the king of bokara, you see), “this would not have been.” His ego was still
there . . . . “I'm a great man living
at his door.” When she told Kabir, he said, “I told you, his vessel is not yet
years. Then some years passed. He remained there for more than ten years. Then
one day Kabir says, “now the vessel is ready.” Loi said, “There is no
difference outwardly.” [Kabir:]”All right, tomorrow morning when he goes out,
just throw all of the night waste over his head .” the next morning she did so.
Ibrahim said, “God, I am worse than that.” And Kabir said, “didn’t tell you? he
is now ready, you see.” So hitherto,
these things were given to you for the purpose of preparing you, clearing your
vessels first. Where's the time now? Can you afford to spend years at the
Master's feet? The times age changed. So , now you get something first! How
great a concession it is. then you are talked to weed out. diary is only for
that purpose. The more you weed out, the more you come in contact from within,
the quicker the results will be. So it is a great concession given nowadays.
This is a very Dark Age of course –what they call the Iron Age and much has to
be done. Diary is very important. Do-nothing ore than to weed out all imperfection
and you'll have transmission. But transivision is no spirituality, I tell you.
you develop that naturally –it follows. Spirituality, as I told you, is a
matter of self-analysis –knowing oneself and coming in contact with God
overhead within you already. yesterday I was telling you that you are mocking
God. [Master chuckles] is it not so? He says “I resides within you and you put
me into temples made of stones. You drive people away from me, lighting candles
and ringing bells, this and that. I am within you, I have told you.” it is
something like that, is it not? So seeing believes. Mere feeling or drawing
inferences are subject to error. You find so much time for other pursuits. Out
of twenty-four hours, perhaps you are spending eighteen hours, twenty hours in
other pursuits. What time do you devote to your own self? And this is the most
important thing with you. a man who is unlearned at the time of death won't
become learned after leaving the body, you see. He remains for years what he
has become at the time of death. So that is the reason for the present, then
the future cannot be set right. Now further, live in the living present, and
even further, the living moment. So this is a most vital question concerning
our own self. All other things are related to give and take; you have to finish
off, wind up. What you have sown you must reap. And one thing more: don’t sow a
further seed, that’s all. This is a time when you can go back to your home,
your term so sentence is coming to completion, telling his fellow prisoners,
“Look here! keep these articles with you. I am coming again;” sowing seeds to
come beck again. Don’t sow further seeds. Pay off what you have already sown. What I am
talking about now, is it not most important? Yes, indeed ,
important. Then? We leave,
we have to leave the body someday. But when nobody knows. Even on the way, we
could be cut off, then ? we are nowhere. And that is why Saints tell us, lying
great stress on that which is your Bread of life and water of life. so on
spiritual health depends the life of mind and body both. This is what we mean.
this is the gist of all scriptures. You do not have
to leave the world. pay off what you have to pay. Wind up all give and take and
dirt your way back to God. man is the highest in all creation. If we don’t make
the best use of this time, then we have to come again like that prisoner, “All
right. Keep this with you. I am coming here again.” So it is high time to go
back our home. But we just keep paying off and sowing new seeds to come back
again? they not go back to your home? And for that we have done little. So God says, “I
am the Light; I resides in you.” and we , what do we do? God lives in the body
which he has made, this man body. It was made in the womb of the mother by Him
and we make his honest so stone and direct people to go there. So we are
dragging people away from symbols to show that suchlike Light is within you.
well really that Light is within you. not outside. We light lights outside,
ring bells outside. They are but the
symbols so nada and the light within you. so these are only imitations;
imitations sometimes are more attractive . . . . and people are deluded . real
diamonds are very few, but imitation diamonds are plentiful. This is the
difference between apara vidya and Para vidya. We make that we have to turn to
see the Light. You people who
have ample resource for that –time, convenience, and can make arrangements, but
most of us are so much given up to outside things we have little or no time to
think about our inner development. Anything? any
questions? Yes. Master, in my
profession, I do a lot of traveling. Yes, that’s all
right. Is it right if
I go to the room where I have to live many days that I pray to Master that he
will purify and clean this room form the bad radiation or bad thoughts or
whatever? In the West are
supplied there. One thing can be done. Turn within. You know how to meditate. No. B they are
supplied there. One thing can be done. Turn within you know how to meditate. I try to. At lest you
know how. You may have had some experience within you, have you not? So pray
and go within. That will work as a sheet anchor against any outward influences.
That’s the only way. Generally in traveling, we forget meditation. That’s put
in more time for meditation . when you have constant remembrance you become as
an air-conditioned room. So by regular practice you will have that. Regularity
pays. Habit turns into Nature. I remember
emersion, a great man, said that when he wanted to be all alone, he used to go
to an inn. “Hundreds came and hundreds went –nobody cared for me; I did not
care for anyone. I was all alone to my
self.” He said when he wanted solitude , he did not go to the woods but to some
inn. There you are left to your own self. People coming and going; nobody knows
whom you are. We strike acquaintances with others. What do we generally say,
“How do you do? From where have you come? What are you, what are you doing
here?” why not leave all these things? This is what emersion said, you see. All great men have something special in
their lives. He wanted solitude in an inn or a hotel, where there is regular
coming and going, and nobody cares who is who. This is the point.
If you live within your own self, nothing from outside can affect you. you may
use your outgoing faculties for any particular thing you want to do. These
slaves you, that’s the point. We simply formed the habit of being enslaved. Now
as I explained to you, is it not like going to an inn where nobody cares who
are unless you strike friendships? –and you live within your own self and go on
with the work you are given to do. So we can live in the world and yet out of
it. Hello. Hello.
How have you come? How? By . . . . By train. All
alone or with anybody else? No.
fine. Oh! Just me. All right.
Everyone else is okay. Yes. They're
all okay. That’s all
right. You, you have made the best use of your time there? Yes. In meditation. Yes. That’s all. One
man left from here. so our one shortage is made up now. Have you brought any
news from Delhi? No, nothing
special. All right. Glad
to see you. have your breakfast now. Nine twenty-five. Time files on like
anything. all right. |