DIARY Please
make every effort to overcome the many failures as stated by you under all the
failure columns on the diaries. Man making precedes spirituality. Unless and
until you became the master of all the five senses, appreciable inner progress cannot be made. The
recurring failures in various columns of the diary shows that you remain too
much engrossed in worldly affairs, which should be reduced by keeping yourself
immersed in the divine grace. Silence, solitude and serenity should be cultivated by living a life full of spiritual
discipline as enjoined by the Master. You can cut short unnecessary engagements
and wild pursuits by keeping your spiritual goal in the forefront. A well
regulated life earns rich dividends. As
to the points raised by you about the diary; vanity and lack of gratitude
breeds contempt and can be classed under heading Non-Violence. Indulgence go
under chastity of thought word and deed.
Unfortunately,
few, if any, have any idea of what keeping the diary really means. As time
passes, their entries become a mere matter of form, and the whole purpose
behind keeping the diary is lost. We are asked to maintain the diary in thought, word and deed. How many of us
really do so? The majority just react in thought, word, and deed to the
stimulus of the moment, in other words, instinctively. The truth of the matter
is that we must become consciously aware
of every thought that passes through the mind; we must weigh our words
before we speak and not speak idle words as a mere reaction to the situation
that confronts us. If we are able to make some progress in this regard, then we
will be far on the way to controlling our self. This is essence, is the
practice of Raja Yoga. Only when we have advanced far in the practice of living
the life demanded of us (as implied in the keeping of the diary), will we
become fit enough to reap the fruits of the practices of the Surat Shabd Yoga. |