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Love and Surrender, One Pointed Attention What is that, that prevent a person from fully fixing his attention in the middle? You say it the mind, but he cannot still the mind. Is there one faculty behind all this that prevents him from focusing his attention in the middle? Mind gets
strength from your consciousness, does it not? Where your attention is, there
no other outgoing faculty is working. Mind and intellect and outgoing faculties
get strength from attention. You follow me? so you are surat, attention. If
your attention is fixed, mind cannot work. Mind works only when your attention
is slackened. So if I don’t feed the mind it can do anything. It is you who
are feeding the mind. Mind is not conscious. There's a vast difference between
the Eastern and the Western definition of mind. East says mind is material;
West believes it is conscious. Do you see? Truly speaking, mind is a vehicle.
The proof of that is, when you absorb your attention you are absorbed in it, no
other thought intervenes. These are very
delicate points, and they play havoc. Outgoing faculties are like the horses.
Soul is like the chariot and mind is controlling the reins. The soul is being
dragged. So what you have been on is Surat Yoga, not intellectual Yoga. On
surat depends everything. When your whole attention is riveted at a certain
point, you see, you are so absorbed in thought that if somebody calls you, you
don’t hear although your ears are there, sometimes your eyes remain open, but
you are not absorbed you cannot recognize anybody. So the main thing is your
attention. God is greater than attention, greatest attention. And man is minor
attention working. So mind works, or the thoughts intervene, only when
attention is slackened. Do you see why, then, so many thoughts will come up? The ability to focus attention with more firmness; is that a matter of strength or energy or. . . That is a
matter of love – the very easy way. Intellectuals will say otherwise, but it is
a love. No compulsion, nothing of the sort, natural. How do I get that love? God is love and
our soul is also love. And the way back to God is also through love. Now how to
get it. Love is very innate in our soul. This love is distributed into various
things, little here, little here, little here, little there. Take the example
of a flute. Have you seen a flute? There are so many holes in it. Or there may
be a pipe, with so many holes and water running through it. Drop by drop the
water oozes out from those holes. If you shut all the holes except one, the water
will shoot forth. Do you follow? That will shoot forth full strength. So when
you are concentrated, naturally you feel some love within you. That is the
means, but the questions remains, how to get it, that’s the point. The first
way is to come in contact with the higher self. God is love your love will have
a boost upon contact. Until you can do that, what to do? If a body is charged
and anyone else touches it or comes within the area, field of action, he will
also be charged, you see? So the best way to have that love is to come in
contact with somebody who is in tune with God. That’s the best way. Guru
amardas says, “so long as we have got no love within us, we cannot reach God.”
but where to get love. Love is within us. That requires a boost –ignition, you
might say. If there are matchboxes, dozens of matchboxes put into the oven, but
if you want to love someone, or you have got love for someone, what would you
do? You have constant remembrance of Him. Or, as a corollary, if you want to
have love for somebody, remember him. But real love will sprout in the company
of a Saint why is overflowing with love. He is overflowing with the love of God
and intoxication of God. if you become receptive, that will give you a boost.
You will be ignited. This cannot be had from shops nor growing in fields. By
reading, by outward observant, your attention is also diverted to one place,
but real love sprouts forth only when you come in contact with somebody
charged. The very atmosphere is charged by radiation. If a man has got some
perfume in his cloths, whenever he passes the others, those who have open
noses, will smell that perfume. Those whose noses are closed –that’s another
matter. So radiation works. Even when those who are just given up to the
sensuous life come within the area, field of action, they will also be charged
by come within the area, field of action, they will also be charged by
radiation. So love comes
when you come in contact with God into expression Power, Naam or word. until
you have that love within you, come in contact with God into expression Power,
he who is word made flesh, that’s all. Al scriptures say those who love can
know God, not otherwise. Who do not know love, cannot know God. tenth Guru
proclaims, “Hear ye all, hear ye all. “ what? “Whoever loves, will meet God.
not otherwise.” So love is within you, and when you come in contact with higher
love, by concentration, you'll be charged. That is why if you go to a man who
sells perfumes, scents , he may not
give you anything, but the atmosphere is charged with perfume. You'll have all
perfume. If he gives you one small vital, then? So a godman is overflowing with
the love and intoxication of God. Naturally those who come in contact with
that, within that field of action, they will have it; a boost for God, love for
strength, when you see Him, by seeing Him, naturally some desire comes within
you to be like him, is it not so? So radiation works, you see. That’s the best
way. But how can you love him whom you have never met and never enjoyed his
presence? If you have met with somebody, and you have give take by receptivity
, naturally you'll have that what he is. as you think, so you become. But we
have not seen God, that’s the pity. Those who have seen Him in whom God is
manifest, when they become receptive, they will overflow with love, naturally. So that is why
it is said that if you sit in the presence of a Master, in a receptive mood,
for one hour, the effect will be that which you will not have had from years of
penances. There you're directly charged. Now when you're in the presence,
sometimes you will feel that sound principle reverberate. Some of you here have
heard and have sometimes seen spheres. That is by radiation. Once my Master
went to a village. The room in which he used to sit was in newly erected
building. So I locked that room. Whoever entered it heard that music. That is a
charging, the radiation working. At the back
[rear of Master's house in Rajpur,
there's one water tank. If you go thee and sit you'll hear music. [at the back]
I used to sometimes go and sit there in the morning. I have not been there
lately, but the atmosphere is charged. The room is charged. With a little
receptivity you can hear. So it is by radiation you have a boost, impetus. And
when you sit by a Master, it becomes very much easier to see that God is quite
at hand. When you go out of that atmosphere, the same problems arise again.
That is why the presence of Master cannot be underrated. From thousands of
miles you can have that radiation, but only when you have developed
receptivity, not before. So in the physical presence you get a boost, and when
you sit attentively or come in contact with the God-into-expression power which
is light and sound, the room resounds. Anyone else? Master, how can
true receptivity be developed? I issued one
circular on that. Have you read it? I don’t
remember at this moment. That’s pity,
that’s the pity. Anyhow, receptivity is developed only when there's no other
thought intervening between you and the Master. From thousands of miles you see
through television, you hear through radio when you are tuned into the
machines. But you cannot hear sounds in an atmosphere during monsoons or very
rainy seasons. Similarly, in the calm and quiet with no ripples in the
reservoir of mind, except the Master having pity on you, then receptivity will
develop. A help to receptivity is sweet remembrance, constant. That will
develop receptivity. That complete
stillness of mind, is that surrender? Surrender is
something more. Surrendering is dedication, reposing, leaving everything to his
beck and call. I am just defining surrender in different ways. I will give you
one example in the worldly way. When a girl is married away to somebody, in
India, she changes her name; her name is changed, her caste is changed and she
never cares wherefrom she will eat, or get clothes or live. She has wholly
surrendered mind, body and soul to her husband. Surrender, let me give you
another example. There are many different kinds of bhakta devotees among wives
and Saints too. One kind is, “O God, give me this and that thing.” The second
“I don’t eat unless I can remember you,
not otherwise.” There is some condition there. In surrender there is no
condition. If a wife asks her husband for something – even if he does not give
it she remains devoted. That’s the second class of surrender. There's another
wife who does not ask for anything. the third class her clothes are worn out;
she has no other amenities of life. if she has surrendered to her husband,
(real love is involved in surrender too) she says, “Well look here, my husband
loves me, I am his and he is mine but he never questions me as to what I want.
My clothes are torn, I have nothing else.” She thinks, “All right, if in this
condition all clothes worn out, half naked, I am pleasing to him, what more do
I want?” that is surrendering, complete surrendering, you see. So these are
different stages of surrender, complete surrender. In previous times slaves
were sold. Ibrahim purchased one slave and brought him to his own home. He
asked him, “Well, what will you eat?” he said, “I am bought there is no
question of mine.” “Where will you sit?” “What will you wear?” the replies were
the same. There is no question you see. These are the different degrees of
surrender I am describing to you. so if you surrender to God within you, to
Master within you, whether or not he gives you money whether or not he gives
you what you want, even if he given you nothing to eat or nothing to wear, even
then – surrender is there, complete surrender. Now there are so called Saints
like that who say, “All right, O Master O God give me this and give me that
give me that. If you don’t give, I can't do your penances, you see.” His work
is only to obey. Complete obedience. With no condition, expecting nothing in
return. Complete surrender of heart and soul, no choice left. If surrender is
like that… a child is there and a lion is coming. The child runs to the mother.
Do you think the mother will suffer to let her child be eaten by the lion? She would
put herself in the mouth of the lion to save the child. When you surrender to
God in man, he protects you, you see……. |