—————Divine Living Necessary For Balance—————

Literally, a ‘Balance‘ is an apparatus for weighing things. After or before weighing things, its normal position is that of equilibrium in which two interdependent opposite elements are in balance. They have equal status in the normal position. This is what we use in the material world in our day to day life. In the physical body of the living beings, there too is such a faculty which measures and assesses the situation, utility of an object or thoughts etc. which advises the physical body to do or not any action or reaction accordingly. This faculty is our mind.

The work of the mind is that of balance which, on observation by the five senses given to the living beings by Nature, analyses the matter referred to it and tells its both the positive and negative effects without any suggestion or recommendation for the preference in its use. This is heart, where feelings generate, who decides, suggests or recommends the course to be adopted. For instance, about a poison, the mind says only that it is a poison and one will die if it is taken. The mind does not suggest that it should be taken or not. The suggestions come from the heart to the mind whether how and why the poison should be taken or not. Thus, the heart is a playground of mind. If on a decision both mind and heart confirm, the decision will be the best in the eyes of Nature or God. A balanced mind analyses a subject once and then it goes back to balance. If the mind has to generate thoughts about the same subject on suggestion from the heart, the mind keeps on busy continuously in analysing the subject. Sometimes, on the repeated suggestions on some other subject, the mind switches over from one half analysis to deal with the second subject irrespective of the fact that the previous thought was not analysed completely. In this situation, incomplete files get automatically pushed in the sub-conscious layer of mind where they become solid and take a form of samskara which serve as a covering around the soul.  At present time, on an analysis of human behaviour, we will find that often the individual mind remains busy in analysing this or that subject dealing with complete or incomplete analysis without any reference of any subject to it. This shows that human mind is not in balance otherwise after the analysis of a subject, it should go in balance without any thought of any kind. Sometimes, an individual does not want to think about a subject already analysed, still repetition of the same thought or with some alteration generation of thoughts continues. One even feels tired, still one fails in checking the mind from thinking. This means that one’s will power has also become weak to control the loose bridles of the mind horse which runs independently or in an uncontrolled fashion. It stops only when another important subject is in reference. The previous chain of thoughts is automatically pushed to the sub conscious layer of mind.

Now a question arises as how to bring back the mind to a balance so that it may act according to one’s will. Just as the human mind of to-day is a result of a gradual development from a simple to a complex form, it has to return back to its original form where it was in a balanced position. All the accumulated complexities, in the form of samskaras are to melt down to acquire the original status. In a way, the subtle bodies or coverings around the soul are to be removed to have a balanced mind. For this the addition of new impressions or samskaras is to be stopped simultaneously with the clearance of the past accumulated stock of samskaras. This has been made possible by Sadguru Shri Ram Chanderji of Shahjahanpur, U.P. (popularly known as Babuji Maharaj) who has founded a remodeled system of Rajyoga under the name of Sahaj Marg. He is a Special Divine Personality who, even after leaving His physical form in 1983, is still helping the humanity by the transmission of His Divine Grace all the time to the lovers of God. He has prescribed a Divine living which includes meditation in the morning, cleaning in the evening, prayer at bed time with efforts to discharge all the worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God. If a person is busy in his necessary worldly duties at the prescribed time of puja, he can adjust the timings of puja accordingly.

Now we have to see how the life style as recommended by Babuji Maharaj is helpful in controlling the unbalanced tendencies of mind and freeing the heart from unnecessary burden. Babuji Maharaj selected heart as the only point of meditation on plea that if the heart is Divinised, the person meditating will be Divinised from head to foot automatically, because heart is a supplier of pure blood to all  organs of the body. There is no need of meditating on different points because all other stations in the human body will get awakened in a natural way. We can also experience how this happens. Through meditation Divine Grace is injected into the heart and constant remembrance spreads the Grace in whole of the system. The regular practice by the abhyasi and continuous help of Babuji Maharaj through the transmission of His Grace take the abhyasi at an enormous speed to the goal of attaining total balance which, in other words, can be said to be ‘God Realization‘, oneness with God, where all complexities are over. All subtle bodies around the soul are removed either by Bhoga process or by the Grace of Babuji Maharaj. Human heart becomes fully calm and mind thinks only that much which is referred to it otherwise it too remains silent drowned in the Divine Grace. The worldly duties discharged in the constant remembrance of God makes God as the doer of deeds who Himself is Zero and as such no impressions are formed. The individuality or “I-ness‘ get totally merged in God.

Living and leading a Divine life is the only way to return back to the original position where the lost equilibrium can be regained. Babuji Maharaj has said, “The Divinisation of the human system will make all the faculties, in such a man, act in coordination with one another which will be in conformity with Nature“. Such man will do all works and perform all actions treating them to be all from, for and by God. The sense of duty and necessity will be there. This will save him from indulgence and bring him back to a balance after every action. In fact duty and necessity are the balancing factors which, if are used, will make the life such that there will be no impression left. Both mind and heart will be free after every action because a person doing something as a duty does not bother for the result or reward. The file of thoughts is closed the moment the duty is completed. Similarly, necessity plays an important role in living a Divine life because the limit of necessity is allowed by Nature or God which saves one from indulgence.

This all supports the fact that one should do all actions in life in the remembrance of God which only can make a life to live in balance. Whether in sleep or in action, this way, one can remain in the remembrance of God. The normal condition of mind and heart of such person is silence or balance, because all unwanted obstructions are cleared and Divine Grace occupies the whole system. The action or reaction will be controlled, decided and regulated by necessity of the situation which will leave no impression. Thus a Divine life only can help us in maintaining balance in all walks of life.

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————-BABUJI MAHARAJ and His Sankalpa———-

‘SANKALPA‘, literally, means a firm determination, purpose, main work or aim. All the Divine Personalities and Incarnations have been descending on earth with some ‘Sankalpa’ or work given by the Creator or Supreme power. By means of destruction of unbalancing factors and essential construction work, they all tried to bring back the balance in the atmosphere so that the world may move on smoothly as required by Creator or Supreme power. They all did the repairing work, but the situation, gradually, reached such a stage that the repairing work could not do the purpose and a drastic change was required. On prayers of revered Lalaji Maharaj, the Centre or Bhooma made possible the descent of Shri Ram Chanderji (Babuji Maharaj) at Shahjahanpur on April 30, 1899 with maximum Divine powers possible in human form to complete His only one Sankalpa of Return back of all to Homeland (God). Babuji Maharaj is a Special Divine Personality whose realm is up to Maha Pralaya and then for the creation of a new world. Babuji Maharaj is helping all the aspirants of Divinity by transmission of His Divine Grace all the time. All the previous Divine Personalities are also working in tune with the Sankalpa of Babuji Maharaj.

Finding the humanity grossly indulged in materialism, having way only in the vicious circle of it with no time for God or spiritualism, Babuji Maharaj introduced ‘Sahaj Marg‘, a simplest and remodeled system of Rajyoga to suit with the prevalent conditions where people may not complain that they do not have time to devote to any spiritual object. He prescribed meditation preferably at dawn and cleaning at the dusk time, but He is not very rigid about it because if people are engaged in the worldly duties at these times, then they can do these practices at time convenient to them. Prayer at bed time means that we should sleep after prayer so that we may remain in His remembrance even in sleep. For constant remembrance, we should do all the worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God, simply treating all work as His work and thinking Him as the doer and not oneself. This will, gradually, eliminate ‘I-ness‘ from the person and push one to laya Avastha with God. The beauty of His help and guidance is that there is transmission of His Divine Grace in all the activities of the aspirants. Simplicity of the method is the reason that very soon one prepares oneself to move on the path of God realization. A little of cooperation by the aspirant makes him move faster on the return back journey to Homeland (God) because most of the work is done by Babuji Maharaj.

In a very short time, Babuji Maharaj has pushed thousand of persons towards God realization and so many persons are on the way to the goal. With His help, people are completing their spiritual journey with a goal of God realization in one life which was possible in ancient times in more than thousand years. Now Nature appears to have been working on the principle of ‘Mend or End‘ throughout the world. By natural calamities or man made weapons, the humanity is facing a lot of destruction with an alarm to the rest of the world to come out of gross materialism seeking shelter with the Supreme power or God.

For those who have prepared themselves to move and those who are already moving on the spiritual journey back to Homeland (God), Babuji Maharaj is helping such persons by all means. So far as the worldly needs are concerned, such persons get everything at least according to the level of necessity. As regards mental worries or physical sufferings, one has to undergo them as a result of bhoga process of sanskaras. Bhoga of sanskaras is necessary because their complete clearance only can ensure liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Even in this, Divine help is there. For instance, if the bhoga of some sanskara requires the aspirant face a gun shot, the happening will be there but with a difference that the bullet instead of coming to the heart will pass on touching only the arm of the aspirant. In fact the Divine help reduces the impact of the sanskara. If the mental worry is there, some solution will also be there. Babuji Maharaj is very kind to all of us that He, generally, removes some very heavy sanskaras during our sleep, the impact of which might have been beyond our tolerance while being awake. Generally, in such cases we have an experience that some heaviness has gone out and we are lighter than before. This way, the journey towards our Homeland (God) has been made easy by Babuji Maharaj. Such easy return back has never been possible from the time of creation of the universe. This is happening on account of the fact that Babuji Maharaj has been deputed by the Centre (Absolute Power) with only one Sankalpa of return back of all to Homeland (God).

We can also cooperate Him in earliest completion of His Sankalpa by directly linking ourselves with Him without any medium of preceptor or even His representative because once we have understood that He is a Special Divine Personality, we must make our best efforts to remain connected with Him directly. This will save our time which is already very short at our disposal. Gradually, other brothers and sisters will also derive the benefit of this practice. His Divine Grace is available everywhere around us. In His book ‘Reality at Dawn‘, Babuji Maharaj has written about the glimpses of the future of the world of which a few lines are as under , “There will be enormous bloodshed all over the world and loss of life through various causes will be so great that the world population will be considerably reduced. The new structure of the coming world will stand on bones and ashes. A type of civilization based on spiritualism will spring forth in India and it will, in due course, become the world civilization. No country or nation will survive without spirituality at its base and every nation must sooner or later adopt the same course, if it wants to maintain her very existence“. So, we all should do our best efforts to remain connected with the Divine Personality directly to save our time of spiritual journey.

This should not be treated as a mere prophecy but this is a very little portion of the real picture of the future world. Such easy time to return back to Homeland will never come because most of the journey is being completed with the help of Babuji Maharaj. He has told, “Now Divine Grace is touching the ground. Such time will never come“. This means that the Divine Grace is present in all the particles of the world everywhere and one can have the benefit with a slight attention to it. Only love in the heart for God can make us feel the Divine Grace, but the only condition is that such love should be unconditional, that is, it should be only for the sake of love. During the journey, everybody will feel that he/she is better than before with increasing Divine consciousness. One gets some better experience only when that is necessary to Babuji Maharaj for some Divine work otherwise all have the experience of only betterment, lightness and after completion of the Divine work, again the normal experience will be to all the aspirants. Nobody is kept aware of more than this so that the ego also gets refined at every step. When one reaches the destination (Merger in God ), only Babuji Maharaj knows this fact because ‘I-ness’ merges totally in God. As ‘Return back to Homeland (God) is a sankalpa of Special Divine Personality (Babuji Maharaj), it must be completed within the time fixed by the Supreme Power. Let all of us be a part of His great Sankalpa for our welfare.

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——HIGHER SPIRITUAL CONDITION MEANS FINER CONSCIOUSNESS——-

Even in the spiritual field many persons have been seen to pose themselves so much deeply drowned in the Divine Grace or Divine Love that they have no awareness of the nearby surroundings. They commit mistakes, do wrong or behave abnormally, but they, on being checked by others, instead of feeling guilty, show the ignorance in the matter. Rather, they feel irritated and charge the persons for disturbing them saying that they were in a blissful and forgetful state from where they had to come down to the lower  consciousness. Such situation was referred to St. Sister Kasturiji with a story, “There was a lady, a so called saint, while taking bath in the river Ganga, showed that she was not conscious of her  dress on account of absorption in the Divine and her devotees used to help her in covering her body“. St. Sister Kasturiji remarked seriously , “It is not possible that a spiritually developed one loses one’s consciousness in any situation. We should know that higher the spiritual condition, finer is the consciousness. Subtler is the condition, sharper is the understanding“. Now it is clear that if one is deeply drowned in the deep love of God, one cannot commit any mistake in any situation because God provides much alertness with super fine consciousness for a natural behaviour in the circumstances.

So many questions arise in this situation. Why at all the devotees of God pose themselves losing consciousness that too on account of deep Divine Love? How can they be brought back to the right path? What is the normal behaviour of a person deeply drowned in Divine Love? What precautions are required to check the wrong assessment of one’s spiritual condition? What should be the duty of a real devotee of God?

The devotees of God who pose themselves losing consciousness on account of deep Divine Love, are those who are not blessed with higher spiritual condition but they try to impress others so that they may get better regard in this respect. Such persons sometimes weep and sometimes smile so that others may be impressed. These persons develop such wrong condition in two ways. First is through reading the higher spiritual condition of someone and secondly, by listening to some one’s experiences about higher condition. In both ways, when one’s mind try to cultivate the same condition one starts feeling the same state of mind but it is artificial and not real. If one is really blessed with higher spiritual condition, one will be very polite with magnetism in one’s words and personality. People will automatically feel impressed in such person’s company because there will be a Divine attraction which hearts of the people there will feel. The atmosphere will be charged with the Divine Grace. This happens, gradually, when one enters in Laya Avastha where one starts losing oneself with the replacement of Divine to that extent.

Such persons can be checked from cultivating the artificial state of mind by any real devotee of God by telling them about the difference between the real and artificial picture. It is possible that such persons may retaliate with wrong words but one may speak to them, “The higher is the spiritual condition,the finer is the consciousness and sharper is the understanding with full alertness“. These words will bring them down from a created myth to the reality. Time it may take but this is the surest way to bring them to the correct path and understanding. In the beginning they may defend their condition but their inner must take an effect of reality. Very soon such persons will feel free from the artificial state of mind which they had developed. If they are the true lovers of god then for the time being they may have developed a wrong understanding, but soon with the grace of God they will come back to the correct understanding.

The normal behaviour of a person, deeply drowned in the Divine Love, is that others start feeling that he is better than before in his style, way of talking and living. Others feel a Divine fragrance in his talks and even in his company. This happens only when one has started experiencing the melting tendency in one’s inner being. In fact there is a radiation of waves from everyone according to one’s inner personality. These waves denote the type of person. When the inner of someone is wet with the Divine Love, there will be a Divine smell coming out of him which the inner of other persons will feel. There is an attraction which can be felt by hearts.

Every lover of God must take some precautions so that the artificial condition may not be created. These are as under—

1. Regularity in abhyas;
2. Efforts to discharge all the worldly duties of life  in the remembrance of God;
3. Whatever bitter or sweet experiences one feels, one should attach both of them to the Divine Personality. One should treat them as passing scenes without giving any attention to them so that their journey to the Infinite may continue;
4. One should tell only those experiences to others which may be beneficial to them in their spiritual journey. One should not talk about his higher experiences to others because this may be harmful to them for chances are that they may create similar artificial condition through thoughts;
5. In spirituality, no one is senior or junior. There should be no feeling of superiority or inferiority. We are all children of Babuji Maharaj who is a Special Divine Personality. This will keep us free from any ego;
6. Our efforts must be to live in Him.

All this will help us in our spiritual journey to God Realization.

In fact the duty of a real devotee is to move continuously on one’s spiritual journey surrendering everything good or bad to the Divine Personality. This will help him in melting of the coverings one by one, gradually. One should do one’s best efforts to discharge one’s all duties of life in the remembrance of God. One should treat everything from, for and by Him. One will only be user of the things while God will be the owner of all things. One is the best judge for oneself in assessing one’s action for right or wrong, artificial or real. However the true love for God, specially when  assisted and guided by a special Divine Personality of Babuji Maharaj, will remove all the impediments on way. When Destination (Babuji Maharaj) is itself calling the  masses to return back to Homeland, our slight efforts in this direction will help us a lot in attainment of our goal at the earliest and we will understand the difference between artificial and real spiritual conditions coming on way to the goal. With the blessings of Babuji Maharaj all the lovers of God will have real conditions. The consciousness, alertness and understanding will correspond to the higher, finer and subtler spiritual conditions approaching.

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—————HOW ORIGINALITY IS LOST————–

If the Principal/Head of a spiritual institution is heard saying, “If anybody wants spiritual lesson, he has got the teachers throughout the world for which he has developed an App on the internet “Seek My Help” and if the seeker clicks on the start sign writing ‘I need help‘ on internet even at 2AM, the teacher according to the time in the concerned country will start helping the seeker by the transmission power just like as the seeker of an OLA/UBER taxi gets the  taxi for use in time just by clicking on OLA/UBER App on internet”. Perhaps it is ridiculous to talk like that comparing a spiritual teacher with a taxi. If a spiritual teacher talks like that, it means that he himself has no experience of Divine Grace or Divinity because a man talks only about his experiences. This sort of experience itself denotes that the Head of the spiritual institution has worst experience even in the material world having no connection with spirituality. This way the originality in spirituality is adversely affected.

In fact the Divine personalities and Incarnations have been descending on earth from Centre/Bhooma from time to time for the repair, destruction, reconstruction or any required change so that the universe may move with a natural glow and smoothness. Such work is done by them while remaining in human form or not but within a time fixed by the Centre. The control of the Divine Personality remains up to the time the next Divine Personality in human form takes over the charge of the Divine work ahead. This is a natural arrangement from the Creator. When the Divine Personality leaves His physical form, it is expected from the representatives that they all should present themselves only as a lover of God giving all credit to the Divine Personality and His teachings. Instead of doing this, the representative establishes himself as a Guru with nominal or no reference to the Divine Personality by adding or altering the original sayings of the Divine Personality. As the representation increases, the originality introduced by the Divine Personality is almost lost with the result that materialism starts dominating spiritualism developing the undesired elements even in the spiritual field. When the situation takes a harmful turn, Centre sends the next Divine Personality in human form for the required repair or change. Everything, then, becomes fine but when the Divine Personality leaves His physical form, the representation, generally, has been spoiling the original picture by adding or changing the original sayings to get more self publicity and worldly regard of the people even at the cost of disregard to the real Divine Personality. The result is that people come down from a higher level of spirituality to a lower level of religion by performing social activities like opening of schools, hospitals, free education, arrangement of Bhandaras etc. These so called spiritualists even start talking of spirituality by developing an APP on internet instead of taking the help of God and His Divine Grace. This has been the cause of creation of many groups in a spiritual institution where the group leader poses himself as Guru before the innocent lovers of God deceiving himself and other persons. This is the reason that a few devotees only get the closeness with the Divine Personality which helps them in attainment of main goal of human life God Realization.

Nature has given freedom of thought and action to all individuals and as such even the Divine Personality can help the persons only when they attach themselves with the Divine Personality for help. The efforts for deep attachment is blessed by the Divine Personality converting the attachment into deep love for Him. At present in the human frame only ‘I‘ with name given by parents remains, while the present physical body is a result of several subtle bodies around the soul which is the reason that man has forgotten that soul is a part of God and hence has gone far away from God. Only in our memory, God is our Homeland and the chance to return back to Homeland comes when we come in the close contact of a Divine personality who helps through the transmission of Divine Grace. Only the Divine Personality controls the use and supply of Divine Grace. He uses it through any source.

Now a question arises why a spiritual path gets adversely affected with a deviation from the Divine Personality in the period of His representative? Is there any solution that the period of Divine Personality is always maintained?

The spiritual path gets adversely affected with any deviation from the Divine Personality. The representative is, generally, much below the level of the Divine Personality and this is the reason that when the Divine Personality is about to leave His physical form, He selects the best aspirant of Divinity from available so many devotees and declares him as His representative providing him all required powers, but these powers are kept reserved in Nature till the representative makes himself capable of absorbing these powers which is possible only by attaining complete merger(full Laya Avastha )in the Divine Personality. Unless the representative has acquired complete merger in the Divine Personality, his ‘I-ness‘ remains in him which makes him bring changes in the original Divine sayings and even path suitable to his understanding which is still affected by materialism in order to gain reputation, regard and riches of the world. When such representation continues, the originality is not visible on account of materialistic clouds.

However, the period of the Divine Personality can be maintained only when the representative has acquired complete merger in Him. St.Sister Kasturiji has pointed out on several occasions, “The Divine Personality can put any aspirant on the roof of spirituality but the steps to the roof can be dissolved only by attaining Laya Avastha in the Divine Personality otherwise the chances are of coming down from the roof through the steps“. After Laya Avastha, the physical form may be different but the representative will always talk about the greatness of the Divine Personality. He will insist all the devotees to keep themselves attached with the Divine Personality for the attainment of their goal of God realization.He will never attach the devotees with himself. He will talk in such a way that the Divine Personality was, is and will always remain because God never dies. This way the Divine Personality can be kept alive in all the times to come. The Divine Personality whether in human form or not, will always dominate the hearts of the devotees. Except Him all will be only the seeker or aspirants of Divinity whose aim will be to find Laya Avastha in Him. St.Sister Kasturiji is an example in this reference. She always advised all the aspirants of Divinity to keep themselves attached with Babuji Maharaj who is a Special Divine Personality. She never liked even her appreciation. She always stressed that only Babuji Maharaj is to be loved, appreciated and worshiped. Those aspirants who came in her contact, all talk about the supremacy of Babuji Maharaj. They all make their best efforts to discharge all the worldly duties of life in His constant remembrance. Most of such devotees are either completing their journey to the Homeland(God) or on way to arrive at the  destination. They all have a firm faith that unconditional love with the Divine Personality only can develop Laya Avastha with Him.

Now we can safely say that in the spiritual field, the Laya Avastha of the representative in the Divine Personality is absolutely essential because this is the only way to expedite the Divine work (Sankalpa of Babuji Maharaj )of the upliftment of mankind by ensuring their return journey back to Homeland(God). The Divine Personality is Omnipresent and as such He is present in all the particles of the universe. His help will always be available in all the moments. This way the representative will keep the Divine Personality always alive and every devotee can feel that whatever Divine Grace is there is from the Divine Personality. When the representative is in Laya Avastha with the Divine Personality, even the preceptors will feel themselves as abhyasis first just to tell everybody to remain always attached with the Divine Personality to attain the main goal of human life God Realization. Such aspirants of Divinity, wherever they go, will move in the Divine atmosphere. Gurudom, Preceptordom will end removing the element of ego and spreading happiness everywhere. There is no need of  help of any APP on internet because Divine Personality will be helping all the time to the lovers of God. All will be only lovers of the Divine Personality who will remain the only Guru. This way, the originality can be maintained for ever. The Divine atmosphere will prevail everywhere.

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—————BABUJI MAHARAJ IS UNPARALLELED—————

——Divine Personalities and Incarnations have been descending from Centre for some special purpose and for a certain period of time. All removed the then prevalent evil so that the world may shine in true colours and move at a natural speed. To-day people, mostly drowned in materialism have not spared the world as a fit place to live. As a result of the prayer to the Centre (Bhooma/Ultimate Reality), from a realized soul Shri Ram Chandraji (Lalaji Maharaj) of Fatehgarh, a Special Divine Personality Shri Ram Chandraji (Babuji Maharaj) of Shahjahanpur (UP) descended on earth on 30-04-1899 who founded Shri Ram Chandra Mission on 21-07- 1945 under which He introduced a simple technique of Rajyoga in the name of Sahaj Marg Sadhna easily to help Realization Of God even in the Grahastha Ashram(Family Life). Babuji Maharaj had only one determination(Sankalpa) to ensure the return back of all to the Homeland(God). After execution of His determination to a great extent in the world, through the transmission of His Divine Grace, He left His physical form on 19-04-1983, but all the Divine Personalities here and in the brighter world are busy, under His guidance, in completion of His Determination(Sankalpa). This work will continue under the guidance of Babuji Maharaj till Mahapralaya.

Every Divine Personality has used the Divine Grace to complete the allotted work given by Centre. According to the need of the time every Divine Personality gets this Divine Power from Centre which is used by Him for the completion of the work during His time. The period of Babuji Maharaj is up to Mahapralaya and then up to the creation of a new universe. Hence all will be getting the help of the Divine Power through the transmission of His Divine Grace for the transformation of man and age (Yuga). Nature has made Him the store house of this Divine energy. Without keeping Him in Front, nobody can transmit this Divine energy. However, nature has given this transmission power to everyone but one can transmit only that much  what one possesses with chances that whatever that other person has good or bad may come back to the former. So nature has used a precaution that Divine energy can only be felt anywhere through the Divine Personality.

Some people think that only a living Guru can transmit Divine Power, but this is not correct. People say this so that all may pay better regard to him. Such persons, keeping the Divine Personality behind, want to come in front themselves. According to Babuji Maharaj only God can be a Guru. Despite being a Special Divine Personality, Babuji Maharaj, like His guru Lalaji Maharaj, treated Himself as a serf of humanity. But some persons have preferred to pose themselves as gurus which is an effect of materialism. Well, God ever takes birth or dies? Nay, in fact, He was, is and will always remain for ever. He is immortal. A Divine Personality is the only Guru during His period and rest all can be managers or organizers  but not Guru. Transmission of Divine Power is only from the Divine personality.

Saint Sister Kasturiji, during her talks at Vijayawada on 22-01 1987, has pointed out, “The Divine Master of the universe Shri Babuji Maharaj will have thousands of spiritual representatives until the fulfillment of His Sankalpa (Spiritual upliftment of mankind) in Shri Ram Chandra Mission, but none of them will be His substitute” as ,according to lalaji Maharaj spoken to Babuji Maharaj ,”You cannot make your substitute because you yourself are not aware of the limits of your power. Moreover, spirituality is also not a subject of inheritance like another material object“. Babuji Maharaj is the master of Divine Power and is the only Divine Personality to  take the aspirants of Divinity up to Ultimate Reality.

We can get a proof of this, “All brothers and sisters, while sitting for meditation, whether alone or in group, take the thought that Babuji Maharaj is sitting in front of them, then sit in meditation after prayer, gradually Divine Grace will be felt by everybody and when the thirst of the soul for the Divine grace, as per capacity, is quenched, meditation should be treated as over.” When we know about the Divine Personality, do we need to know Him every time through some medium? Not at all. In fact life is very short. Please understand the truth and our welfare lies in having a direct relation with the Divine Personality, if possible. Babuji Maharaj is unparalleled and cannot be compared with anybody. He is a Divine personality nearest to the Centre. None can go beyond Him. From the time of the creation of the universe, in the spiritual history of Yoga, Babuji Maharaj is first to present His research of Central Region as the last Region and as the real goal of mankind. All will have to merge in Him. At the time of Mahapralaya, everything will merge in Him then He will Himself merge in the Centre and from there He will ensure the creation of a new universe. This way the Centre will remain Infinite and a Nature’s mystery for ever.

” Why Heart only for Meditation “

The Heart, as the only point for meditation, has been selected by Babuji Maharaj to attain the goal of God realisation at the earliest in one life. In this world, everything has been produced by God on the same principle of birth, growth and decay. Every person has some stations (commonly known as Lotuses/Chakras) which are important to be known during the spiritual journey. The principle of birth, growth and decay applies to the physical body, while the stations in the body get enlightened and awakened on the way when one prepares oneself for one’s return journey back to Homeland (God). Before Babuji Maharaj, the main stations (Lotuses/Chakaras) discovered by sages were seven, e.g.

1. Muladhar Chakra
2. Swadhisthan Chakra
3. Manipura/Navel
4. Anahat Chakra (Heart region)
5. Vishudhi Chakra (Kanth)
6. Aagya Chakra (Trikuti)
7. Shastra Dal Kamal (Mind region).

Babuji Maharaj added the last station as Central Region which has got its position on the back side of a man’s skull, called occipital bone. The Central Region is an end of the spiritual journey. Babuji Maharaj has pointed out about Central Region, ” The last stage of super-consciousness, where every stage is gone, is found here. It is the super-finest state of super-consciousness which is reserved for Incarnation of Deity and sometimes bestowed upon some Special Personality too who, generally, comes for the change of the world.”

All these eight stations (Lotuses/Chakras) have so many small stations, sub-stations and points. Such is an arrangement of God so that the machinery in the living beings may run well systematically. There too is a depreciation in the machinery like other factories built by human beings. In living beings, the depreciation is observed in the form of some disease or unhealthy behaviour of the body requiring medical aid from doctors. However, all these stations in human beings also help them in ensuring their return journey back to Homeland (God).  Heart is the main controller of all stations so that the system may work smoothly, both in physical and spiritual way of life.

Before Babuji Maharaj, generally, people used to start their spiritual journey from Muladhar Chakra and so on, but most of them could not go beyond even Manipura Chakra because these centres are full of material powers to do any worldly work in a miraculous way which became an entanglement for them in the physical sphere. Only a few could travel beyond Heart region because most of them spent their earned powers in showing miracles to the people. Babuji Maharaj selected Heart as the only station for meditation through which one can complete one’s spiritual journey of all stations on the plea that Heart is a pumping organ of blood to ensure supply of pure blood to all organs of the body. So, with the increase of Divinization of Heart, all the Chakras will automatically be awakened and Divinized. Babuji Maharaj has written about Heart region in His book ‘Reality At Dawn ‘, ” It is really a vast circle covering everything inner and outer. The things after the first mind belong to the region of Heart. All the Lotuses or Chakras are set within its limits. In other words, they can well be called a part of this big region. It is the controlling agency in itself. The main artery of Almighty with the idea of creation is working through it. The pendulum-like movement in your Heart is nothing but the effect of invisible motion below the Centre. The Heart region is extended almost from head to foot.”

Let us have the opinion of well-known learned persons about the importance of Heart. Greek philosopher Aristotle identified Heart as the most important organ of the body because Heart is the origin of all nerves. Avicenna, a Persian polymath, in his book, ‘ Canon of Medicine ‘, integrated Aristotle’s ideas within his Galenic physiology by writing, ” The Heart is the root of all faculties and serves the faculties of nutrition, life, apprehension and movement of several other members. He believed that Heart produced breath. He identified the pulse as a movement in the Heart and the arteries which take the form of alternate expansion and contraction. Master Nicolaus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, had observed Heart as ‘ Spiritual Member‘ of the body. As such, it is a seat of emotions. From it alone rise anger or passion, fear, terror or sadness, shame, delight and joy. The brief expression is that Heart is the most vital organ or the chief administrator of all the organs of the body.

Saint Sister Kasturi also used to point out that Heart extends from top to bottom in spirituality. Some so-called spiritual heads have been noticed to prescribe meditation on Aagya Chakra or Shastra Dal Kamal directly which has not proved to be in the welfare of the persons aiming at the goal of God realisation. Although the power develops, yet it does not help in the spiritual journey because there should be awakening of the Chakras properly in time which requires the total control of the spiritual Master (Guide or Guru). Babuji Maharaj has always stressed on the role of the Master that the real Master helps the aspirant of Divinity in such a way that his spiritual journey may go on properly and for this, he takes precaution that the aspirant may not be conscious of the Divine powers which he gets while crossing stations or sub-stations. The aspirant experiences only that he is better than before. Master gives only that much knowledge which is necessary. Meditation on Heart continues till the destination is reached and the goal of God realisation attained. There is no chance for ego to develop because there is a Divine control which keeps the aspirant drowned in Divine Grace all the time.

Babuji Maharaj has treated Heart as the root of a tree and as such water and manure are to be given to the roots of a tree and not to the branches of the tree for its growth and development. Even in the physical understanding, a man remains alive, although his mind fails but he dies, the moment his Heart fails. Even in our normal life, we should not overburden our Hearts with unnecessary problems. Heart is the best seat only for God and it should not be converted into an inn where anybody may stay. Babuji Maharaj has also proved that this way, one life is enough to attain one’s goal of God realisation through the practice of Raj-Yoga as prescribed by Him. So, both physically and spiritually, Heart is the most important organ to be cared for.

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The word ‘Precept‘ means a certain rule of conduct or moral instruction and hence the word ‘Preceptor‘ means one who teaches, preaches or works on certain precept for the welfare of the people. In the field of spirituality, the system of making preceptors to impart spiritual training to the abhyasis can be traced in many institutions of different religions. These preceptors, generally propagate the essentials prescribed by the founder of the spiritual institutions mostly through delivering nice speeches and guiding the abhyasis to practice yogic exercises. As compared with the past and prevalent spiritual practices, the system introduced by Babuji Maharaj is exceptionally more effective in ensuring the spiritual progress of the abhyasi in attaining the main goal of human life-God Realization, because according to Babuji Maharaj, the responsibility of Guru is more than the abhyasi. He helps the abhyasis through the transmission of His Divine Grace either directly or through His preceptors.

Babuji Maharaj is such a great personality that He can ensure the transmission of Divine Grace through any medium, whatever He decides, to help the lovers of God. He made preceptors after raising them spiritually to a certain level so that they may help the abhyasis in their spiritual upliftment through the transmission of Divine Grace. Besides other instructions, the most important one stated by Babuji Maharaj for a preceptor is, “While transmitting to an abhyasi, he must think that it is the Master (in His form and person) and not he himself who is transmitting“. This way the Divine help of the Master reaches abhyasis directly. Saint Sister Kasturi also made preceptors in complete adherence of Babuji Maharaj. Once she pointed out one important fact in this reference, “If the preceptor works on the abhyasi, he should always keep in his mind that not he but the Master in his place is working. This is a more effective way both for the abhyasi and the preceptor because there is dominance of Master’s Divine Grace for all. The main source of Divine Grace is the Divine Personality and none else“.

Babuji Maharaj used to say, “My preceptor can do what I can do provided he has full confidence in Me“. The words ‘Full confidence‘ means that the preceptor must make efforts to discharge all the worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God. In other words, he should try to remain drowned in the Divine Grace of the Master so that the abhyasis may derive the same benefit as from the Master. However, Babuji Maharaj has also said, “ The beauty of our  system is that if an abhyasi with a condition ‘M’ approaches my preceptor with a condition ‘F’ for puja, my preceptor can send the abhyasi to condition ‘Z’ although he may remain at condition ‘F’“.  So one thing can be noted that the effectiveness is mainly of the Master/Divine Personality. According to Babuji Maharaj, a few other important things to be observed by a preceptor in his living are as under—-

1. Regularity in abhyas;
2. Keep free from internal and external shortcomings as far as possible;
3. He should himself give up things which he wants others to abstain;
4. He should possess noble qualities which he wants to be transmitted into others;
5. His inner and outer must at all times be the same specially in matters related with spirituality;
6. His heart must be free from all emotional excitement during satsang;
7. He should have no idea of self-importance or egoism. He should be as plain, simple and unassuming as possible to have a natural living.

St. Sister Kasturi has also written about a preceptor, “To treat oneself higher than others is not so wrong as it is to forget that we all are only abhyasis. The truth is that our Master is like a perfect dancer and we all are like Ghunghroos (metallic bells) tied in His ankles. When the Master desires, like a perfect dancer, gives sound to one of thousands of Ghunghroos and this way He makes one as a preceptor. Now if that one Ghoghroo (preceptor) starts thinking the sound given by the Master as his own and feels impressed by it, he becomes unable to understand that he is not in harmony with the Master’s tune and gone out of rhythm. Consequently he becomes so loose from the Master’s pious ankle that he starts even piercing His ankle. I have heard Master saying,’How long should I clean him’. In fact when we start treating Master’s gift as our own belonging, His blessings as our own earning, we become loose in our real living. We forget that  ‘It is impossible to be one with Him without His help“.

One can be spiritually helpful to the other provided one tries one’s best efforts to remain drowned in the Divine Grace all the time. So the preceptor can be more useful proportionate to the nearness of or oneness with the Master/Divine Personality. A few questions arise. When Babuji Maharaj is a Special Divine Personality then why a preceptor is necessary? Can Babuji Maharaj directly help the abhyasis or not? What is the role of a preceptor in the spiritual progress? What is an ideal condition for the welfare of the humanity?

When Babuji Maharaj started His work in south India He was asked by the people as to which mission or spiritual institution He belonged? He had to come back to Shahjahanpur for registration of an institution in the name Shri Ram Chandra Mission with head quarter at Shahjahanpur. Once with humbleness, I requested Babuji Maharaj to answer my one question, “Sir, when just by thinking about you, we start feeling a flow of Divine Grace coming from you then is there any necessity of registering an institution and making preceptors? He replied that you are right from your point of view, but the majority, instead of understanding Divine Grace, feels more attracted to the name of an institution and then after tries to understand the essentials of it. In this physical world, people can be approached easily through the rules laid down by them. Registration of the institution as SRCM expedited the spiritual work. On the same requirement, as I could not be present physically everywhere, I made preceptors to convince people about the efficacy of the system“. However, we all know that even preceptor, while conducting satsang, think that not he but Babuji Maharaj Himself is transmitting the Divine Grace and conducting satsang. So it is more beneficial if the abhyasis try to understand the truth that one can be in direct touch with the Divine Personality without the medium of a preceptor. His direct link will save the time of the abhyasis and open the doors of Reality at the earliest.

The answer to the question can Babuji Maharaj directly help the abhyasis or not, is that only He is helpful whether directly or through a preceptor. He is a Special Divine Personality and Divine Grace comes only from Him. He is the Supreme Lord in whom we all have to merge to attain our goal of God Realization. When at a place, there was no preceptor, Babuji Mahaaraj used to suggest, “If a new abhyasi wants to start spiritual practice, ask the person to sit in meditation for about thirty minutes separately for consecutive three days then that person can be asked to sit in group meditation“. The experience confirms that the new abhyasi always used to feel Divine Grace in such a situation. This supports and gives strength to the faith that whatever Divinity, Divine Grace or spiritual progress are concerned, all are from Babuji Maharaj. We all are to remain always attached with Him only.

About the role of a preceptor, it can be said that he fulfills the need of physical presence of the spiritual leader but gradually everyone comes to know that the Divine Grace or help comes from the Divine Personality only. The main duty of a preceptor is to keep the abhyasi nearer to the Divine Personality so that he may attain his real goal of human life as early as possible. We all are to merge in Him. This will develop an understanding in the abhyasis that the Divine Personality should be loved and worshiped without any medium of anybody. Spiritual progress or spiritual approaches are given by the Divine Personality and none else.

Now it is easy for us to analyse as to what is an ideal condition for a  spiritual living? The spiritual living aims at merger in the Divine Personality. It is in our welfare to understand this truth as early as possible whether by self-effort or through a preceptor. Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, Prophet Mohammad, Jesus Christ and other Divine personalities are still being loved and worshiped by the lovers of God without any medium of preceptor. Babuji Maharaj is a Special Divine Personality, hence it is better to love and worship Him directly as far as possible This will save time of our spiritual journey. Babuji Maharaj never posed Himself as Guru. He addressed everybody as brother or sister. He freed the world from the impact of Gurudom. So it is the duty of a preceptor to tell everybody that it does not matter whether a preceptor is available or not because Babuji Maharaj is always kind to help all of us at any time. None of us is superior or inferior to anybody. We all are only abhyasis with the same aim of God Realization. If there is a preceptor available for satsang, it is good, but if there is no preceptor it does not matter the least because our Lord Babuji Maharaj is always available. We should save the time of our spiritual journey by remaining in direct contact with our goal- Lord Babuji Maharaj.

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Worship is a natural instinct in the living beings. Worship is a feeling of love and regard coming out of the heart. Worship is an expression of love, thankfulness, surrender, adoration, devotion, reverence and so on for someone either as a life-guide or as a Divine Being. Everyone has this feeling. Life-guide may be parents, guru or someone who is helping in every walk of life but beyond and far above this is God whose shelter is sought when all worldly means fail to help in one’s pursuit. A simple thought or remembrance of God provides one relief in all the situations with increased confidence to begin a new effort. This indicates that God, the Creator of the universe, is the real Being to be worshiped.

A question arises that God is addressed as Infinity, Absolute Reality, Almighty, Supreme Power, then how can one worship Him? After creation of the universe, there was no such problem till people were in close contact with the Creator/God. The indulgence in materialism took people far away from the awareness of God which created a situation for most of the people to remember God only in cases of utter failure in worldly affairs in attaining a certain object. However, even during  this atmosphere there were a few persons who were trying their best efforts to maintain successfully their nearness with God. With the increase in the dominance of materialism in the atmosphere, God has been sending Divine Personalities or Incarnation from time to time with as much Divine power as was required for the repair and maintenance of the balance in Nature. They did their work whether being in human form or not but up to a certain period of time till the next Divine Personality took over the charge of the work ahead. Through them so many persons attained their goal of God Realization. This proves the fact that from the time of creation of the universe, God has been controlling the universe either directly or through Divine Personalities. One important fact can also be noticed that the current Divine Personality is in total command of the Divine power during His time decided by God, irrespective of being in human form or not. So the worship of these Divine Personalities, preferably the current one, should be done. However, there is a Divine etiquette that if a person is worshiping one of the previous Personality, that Personality hands over the devotee to the current Divine Personality. All previous Personalities cooperate in the work being done by the current Divine Personality. This way of worship will always keep us nearer to God.

When a Divine Personality leaves His human form and His representative is in Laya Avastha (merger) with the Divine Personality, the Divine work goes on as usual and the devotees always feel the presence of the Divine Personality. The problem arises when the representative is not Laya in the Divine Personality because in that case the representative, generally, deviates from the original principles of the Divine Personality. Often he adds to or alters the original method to establish himself as the Divine Personality on the theory of living Master to be worshiped by all the followers as Guru which is wrong because God was, is and will always remain the same. Every devotee must have an aim of merger in the Divine Personality because He is the Real Guru and rest all are only brothers and sisters who should have an aim of merger in the Divine Personality.

The problem of proper decision for worship gets much affected when we find that there are numerous or more than millions of Gods/Goddesses being worshiped in the world. Some of them are real and most of them have been created and marked as God/Goddess by the people. In the later category, all the elements of Nature like Fire, Rain, Sun, Moon, Rivers, many Stars  in the sky etc. are being worshiped. Such examples are so many and persons may be heard saying, “Worship this or that God/Goddess,you will reach the same goal“. But we should remember that only that door will be opened which is being knocked and not the other one. One more prevalent practice of the people is uttering, “Jai Mata di, Mata will do everything“. All addressed as  Gods/Goddesses have been created by the Supreme Power whom most of us are forgetting. In fact only one Divine Personality with maximum powers required at that time, whether in the knowledge of the world or not, in human form or not, controls the whole universe. Such Personality comes in front only when the time requires. Such Personality only should be worshiped because all other Personalities work under His guidance. He is nearest to the Centre (Absolute Reality) and hence has more Divine powers to accomplish a greater work than the previous personalities. In this reference once I had requested Babuji Maharaj to reply a question, “Will there be a greater Divine Personality than the present Special Personality in future?”. Babuji Maharaj replied very calmly, “This is the last Special Personality with maximum Divine powers and approach. His realm will remain till Mahapralaya. He is nearest to the Centre and entrusted with one work of ensuring the return back of all to the Homeland (Creator/God). Two or three Personalities may come in human form and after them the Incarnation will be sent to close down the chapter of the present universe with a plan for creation of a new universe under the control and guidance of the present Special Personality who is being cooperated by all the previous Personalities. At the time of Mahapralaya everything will merge in the Special Personality who will then merge in the Centre and after which a new creation will springforth. This way the mystery of the Centre will remain a mystery and Centre can only be denoted as Infinity, Almighty, Absolute Reality or Supreme Power”.

A question may arise as to when the current Divine Personality has not come in front of the people or people do not know about Him, then how  can one come in His contact for worship? One can know about Him simply by remaining in prayer with a heart full of love constantly for a few days without forming any of His form or figure, be sure that such person will come to know about the Divine Personality at the earliest. The prayer can be done as, ” ‘O’ the Supreme Lord please help us with your love to attain the main goal of human life–God Realization”. Such aspirants of Divinity will automatically be pulled by the Divine Personality for the attainment of the goal. So instead of worshiping every Tom, Dick and Harry as God/Goddess, it is always better to pray the Supreme Lord so that one may get connected with the Divine Personality. However remembrance of God in any form is useful because it is better to do something than nothing. Unconditional love for God definitely prepares the road to and opens the doors of Reality. Love for God should be such that the person performs all the worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God. This will make the person as user and God as the owner of everything. This will eliminate the feeling of ego and the person will move for attaining Laya Avastha in the Divine Personality. Now it is apparent as to who should be worshiped. We are very fortunate that we all are under the kind blessings of Babuji Maharaj who is a Special Divine Personality.

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—- When Spirituality Is Missing From Spiritual Institution —

Spirituality is a way which makes one concerned with human spirit or soul and embraces the idea of reaching the Ultimate. It enables a person to discover the essence of his or her being. Spirituality aims at God realization where self is realized. We are spiritual being when we are in tune with God, Nature, each other and ourselves. Spiritual institution is an organization to propagate the efficacy of the method for the attainment of the goal of God realization; to promote the noble cause for the welfare of the humanity;and to help the aspirants of Divinity through the correct guidance as desired and directed by the founder of the institution who is always a Divine Personality.

A spiritual institution runs well and flourish at every step provided the principles and method, laid down by the Divine Personality, are strictly followed without any addition and alteration. It has been experienced that so long as the Divine Personality is in human form, everything goes on well and it remains the same even after Him provided His representative follows the method of the Divine Personality totally and gives all credit of everything to the Divine Personality. The representative should not pose himself as superior to others rather he should treat himself not as Guru but a brother to all. This way, everybody will feel that the Divine Personality is still with them. This is possible only when the representative is in Laya Avastha with the Divine Personality. In such case the atmosphere will also be the same as has been in the time of the Divine Personality. If the representative lacks Laya Avastha, to that extent his ‘I-ness’ will remain in him which will affect his thoughts and actions. In such cases, the representative, instead of giving credit to the Divine Personality, starts attaching weight to himself to the extent proportionate to ‘I-ness’ in him. It has been observed that the presence of ‘I-ness’ affects too much the level of spirituality in the system.

True spirituality means dominance of Divine Grace which attracts the aspirants of Divinity or the lovers of God automatically. Such level of spirituality is found missing from a spiritual institution when the ‘I-ness’ in the representative becomes dominant which reduces the attraction in the people. In such situation, to keep on the people attracted towards the spiritual institution, the representative has been seen introducing the following services to the humanity—-

1. Free education to the children of the members sometimes including even professional and technical education;
2. Free medical facility to the members including families;
3. Free residential facility in some cases;
4. Help in securing jobs to the members and their children;
5. Frequent arrangement of cultural programs for the recreation of members;
6. Provision for Yoga classes for the physical fitness of the members;
7. Solemnization of marriages and so on.

All such facilities may be good social activities but have no relation with spirituality. When the popularity is gained through social activities, the essence of spirituality becomes secondary and goes in the background. We can very well imagine the situation of a spiritual institution where a chain of such representatives comes up. Such is a situation where spirituality starts missing gradually from a spiritual institution. The name of the institution may remain in the name of the Divine Personality but the level of spiritualism is replaced by religious activities of Bhajan and Kirtan where people try to find self-satisfaction and recreation in the good tunes of the singer and after which coming back to their material atmosphere.

Often people confuse and include Yogic exercises of physical fitness in spiritual practices but, in reality, both are different because the former ensures physical fitness while the latter strengthens the inner being helpful in achieving the goal of God realization. In fact, in spirituality, only a few undermentioned essentials are required—

1. One should make efforts to remain attached with the Divine Personality all the time;
2. One should do the regular abhyas as prescribed by the Divine Personality;
3. One should try to remain in constant remembrance of God while discharging all the worldly duties of life;  In pursuance of  all these ,one can attain one’s goal of God realization at the earliest.

We all know that spirituality should not be mixed up with other practices because otherwise people will prefer to adopt such exercises which may bring material gain to them. It is an universally accepted view that it is difficult to get rid of material or physical allurements. At every step there is a pulling and only real love for God saves one from such obstructions. This process becomes more easy when there is a help of a Divine Personality in the form of transmission of Divine Grace all the time to the aspirants of Divinity. Babuji Maharaj, a special Divine Personality, is helping all the lovers of God to attain their goal of God realization as early as possible. The spiritual institution will always be a spiritual institution provided all the followers including the representative have an aim of full merger or Laya Avastha in the Divine Personality. In all matters and situations, everyone must feel thankful attitude to the Divine personality. Respect to elders and affection to the youngsters  should be found in all the persons in the institution. If this attitude is maintained in all the times to come, the institution will remain a purely spiritual institution where merger in the Divine Personality will be a goal of all the followers. All will be only brothers and sisters to help one another, if required, but all will have the same aim of merger in the Divine Personality. In such spiritual institution, only the Divine Personality will be in dominance. All will feel the presence of the Divine Personality whether He is in physical form or not. Saint sister Kasturi is an example before us of being in complete Laya-Avastha in the Divine Personality of Babuji Maharaj and we all should follow her totally in pursuit of our goal of God Realization with full merger in the Divine Personality. The only Guru will be the Divine Personality and rest all will be managers, organizers, guide and so on. Such understanding will also be helpful in reducing the feeling of ego to the minimum. We will always witness an atmosphere of true spirituality in the spiritual institution.

” ‘O’ all lovers of God wake up for Reality,

Enough time already wasted carelessly,

Drown yourself in the ocean of Divinity,

The only way left to have taste of Infinity.”

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“Cleaning Of Sanskaras”

Normally the word ‘Clean’ means to remove the dirt or any harmful substance. In physical understanding, everybody likes cleanliness of self, living place and the atmosphere wherever one moves. This includes everything in order or system to suit the place and the situation. In spirituality, the cleaning means a removal of coverings, gross or subtle, around one’s soul so that the soul may glow in Divine colours which is her original state. An aspirant of Divinity, with a goal of God Realization, achieves the goal at the earliest with the help of such cleanliness. The coverings around the soul means one’s sanskaras which are either in snow form with lightness for movements in sub-conscious layer of mind or in ice form which are solid with no movement in unconscious layer of mind. The cleanliness can be done by self effort but it becomes very easy when there is a help of a Divine Personality through the transmission of Divine Grace.

Before understanding the clearance of sanskaras, let us understand how are they formed? All the five senses help in assessment of a subject or situation resulting in generation of thoughts about that. The generation of thought starts in the conscious layer of mind where thoughts about only one subject can remain at a time and on the entry of thought about another subject, the former thoughts either go out in the atmosphere or, if one likes, are pushed into the sub-conscious layer of mind where they fly and float like snow and get settled in the solid form like ice. When there is increasing pressure of successive thoughts on different subjects, solid thoughts, when find no room in sub-conscious layer of mind, are automatically, pushed into the unconscious layer of mind. This way, the thoughts in light or solid form become coverings, named as sanskaras around one’s soul. From the time of creation of the universe, this process is going on and we can, at least, imagine that our souls are wrapped up in numerous coverings which motivate our actions and reactions in life in the form of pleasure or pain, favourable or unfavourable results. No one except oneself, is responsible for punishment or reward for one’s good or bad deeds for which one’s past sanskaras motivate the present actions. The way we sow is the way we reap in the present or next life. The process of birth and death continues till one is free from the bondage of one’s sanskaras.

There have been different ways and means, suggested by the learned and sages, to acquire freedom from one’s sanskaras. Some say that “Real freedom can only be attained when you give up all desires“. Some advocate for ‘Total Renunciation‘, leading a solitary life in remote places. First of all, it is not an easy task to renounce everything, moreover, this process cannot free us from our sanskaras totally. If a man living at such a place where no worldly things or allurements are available, claims himself to be free from all desires, cannot be accepted as correct because such sort of freedom is on account of non-availability of desired things. We should always remember that so long as one is in physical body, one has natural requirement of so many things. Now if a man while leading a grahastha life, faces all the favourable or unfavourable conditions of the world and if still he does not take any impression of his actions, can be said to be free in the real sense. This is real detachment while living in attachments. Though it may look difficult at first glance, yet this life has been made possible by Babuji Maharaj who is helping the aspirant through the transmission of His Divine Grace all the time. He has proved that if a man starts discharging all his worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God, very soon he will find the dominance of Divine Grace in him because constant remembrance of God stops the formation of new sanskaras and continues the clearance of old past stock of sanskaras from all the levels of consciousness. A day comes that the whole system of the person gets divinized and this is the point where the main goal of human life God Realization is achieved. This is a state of Super or Divine consciousness in unconscious layer of mind. One becomes a mouth piece of God at this state.

Babuji Maharaj has prescribed morning meditation, cleaning in the evening, bed-time prayer and efforts to remain in the constant remembrance of God. Let us analyse how these help in cleaning of or freedom from sanskaras. Meditation is to be done in the morning and can also be done whenever one has time and feels sitting in meditation alone or in a group. During meditation, mind may get diverted to other good or bad thoughts but the moment one gets inner reminder that Puja or meditation is going on, one must again continue the meditation. Babuji Maharaj has pointed out that ,”One should not resist the thoughts coming during meditation and instead of feeling disturbed, think that these thoughts are from my side which will make you light. It is easy to clean the moving thoughts but if one tries to resist or stop the flow of thoughts, the moving thoughts start becoming dead which suffocate the following thoughts making their clearance difficult. In fact thoughts coming during meditation come from sub-conscious/unconscious layer of mind on account of a push of Divine Grace to go out through conscious layer of mind for ever“.

For cleaning in the evening,one has to sit with closed eyes for about thirty minutes presuming the presence of God before him thinking after prayer that a Grace is coming from Him which is clearing all obstructions from his system and going out from the back side in the form of smoke. This will purify the system and increase the capacity to receive more Divine Grace. One most important thing is to be kept in mind that one should ensure only clearance and not start meditating on the clearance because meditation adds to the subject being meditated upon. Once St. Sister Kasturi simplified the subject by saying,” Cleaning, as prescribed by Babuji Maharaj, is helping in early spiritual progress. The efforts to discharge all the worldly duties of life in the remembrance of God is helpful in not allowing any dirt from outside, rather the presence of Divine Grace in the human system melts down even the solid or gross sanskaras to flow out through the conscious layer of mind. This way, the new formation of sanskaras is stopped and the process of clearance of the accumulated stock of sanskaras continues. The increase in the remembrance of God makes the human system so wet with Divine Grace that, gradually, only Divine Grace remains there. The abhyasi then performs all the worldly duties from only conscious layer of mind which takes no back impression and when there is no work, remains totally absorbed in Divine Grace”.

Further bed-time prayer also helps in keeping the human system as pure as possible. The experience, as an abhyasi, points out that often very gross or heavy sanskaras are cleared by Babuji Maharaj during sleep which if cleared in consciousness, may disturb and shake up the whole system. This is an exceptional beauty, beyond imagination, of the spiritual help being rendered by Babuji Maharaj to all the aspirants of Divinity so that they may move smoothly on their spiritual journey and attain their goal of God Realization at the earliest.

Most of us are sure that Babuji Maharaj is helping all of us many more times than our efforts to be free from all obstructions on way of our spiritual journey. This way our human system, automatically, starts getting cleared as we start practicing the method prescribed by Babuji Maharaj. God is pure Zero while we are something. As much as we remain drowned in and wet with Divine Grace, the zero element starts clearing that something within us. Such gradual process of negation brings us to a full state of negation where Divine Grace can be felt both inside and outside the human system spreading the waves of Divine Grace or fragrance in the atmosphere. The presence of Divine Grace does not allow any other element to remain in the human system. This also points out one simple way helpful in our spiritual pursuit that only deep love for the Lord is required for which we can do only our best efforts to remain attached all the time and at every walk of life with Him who turns this attachment into pure Divine love which fills up, gradually, all the particles of human system with Divine Grace granting full freedom to such person.

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