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Let anger become conscious. Step back, be a witness to anger and its mechanism, to what is appropriate and inappropriate in the situation.
The show of appropriate anger in daily life may be inevitable.
Rather, they should remain a vehicle of appropriate and
conscious expression of anger. In this way, anger cannot possess them or damage their mind or body.
For example, a yogi is one who puts forth all his efforts toward waking from the slumber of ignorance and unconsciousness.
Baba always attached great importance to shraddha (trust) in the disciplined path of yoga. Baba said, “Right action, listening to the words of the Holy Ones, and performance of those actions in society which are dear to the Guru is the true Guru seva or service to the Master.”
On Karma Yoga As you go through the day, cultivate mindfulness in the moment of doing. Consciously offer all you do to God. Make the smallest activity an oblation into the highest Divine purposes for creation.
Work hard for God. Expend more energy and courage, go beyond what you would normally do or say, to make each effort the most beautiful gift you can lay on the altar. Find joy in the offering itself, releasing all outcomes to God.
Ask yourself at the end of the day: How much room do I make in my life and heart to serve God’s work of uplifting the needy children of the divine? How could expand that dimension of my spiritual life? Ask fo...
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Non-action is giving up action. In this state of mind the work happens through the yogi. He, however, remains a witness, just as we observe others working and do not become identified.]
Baba: This world is full of sorrows and miseries: 1) the shot of insulting word; 2) the shot of the loss of wealth; and 3) the shot of losing the most near and dear. These are the three cause of sorrow. One who can bear with patience these three shots can even conquer death. Jamini: Do you consider remaining active in the midst of these sorrows and unhappiness as the right attitude? Baba: Yes, I do consider it to be right, for action is better than inaction.
[Note: This reference is to Indian
mythology: the Ramayana-Purana. Baba points to the truth that in the fire of agony the soul is processed and liberated. The devotee never perishes. Misery opens the gate to the realm of Divine Realization.]
Jamini: How is it that you are always free of any anxieties or any efforts? Baba: I am wise and you are ignorant. I know that I do not offer food to anybody. The one whose food is here, he gets it on his own accord. The one whose food is not here does not get it. I do not feel otherwise. Y...
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society. I have no s...
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Jamini: If we contemplate on the higher qualities what will be the benefit? Baba: Just as darkness disappears with the rising of the sun, just as the thief runs away when the householder wakes up, in the same manner if you contemplate the higher qualities, the lower instincts will run away from you and your body will be transformed into a temple of the Divine.
Later, when the power of Brahman awakens in
Baba: By renouncing all desires, when one reaches a state of desirelessness, immortality is attained. The destruction or annihilation of the pot (body) is death. But the one who does not identify with the body does not die. How can there be the phenomenon of death to one who has no ego? In this state, all actions of day-today life are performed without the sense of doing. In the absence of desire the Jiva (Individual) moves about in this world like the living dead. The moment an individual reaches a state of desirelessness, ‘Jivatava,’ that is, worldly identification
ceases and the state of ‘Shivatva,’ Godhood, is attained. ‘Jivabhav,’ the tendencies of worldliness are transformed and merge into the Existential Being of Brahman. In that state the Potential Divine Energy, Brahmashakti, takes possession of the living dead. And through the body of the living dead, She performs Her actions of Creation, Preservation and Annihilation. Thus endowed with Divine qualities, the Jiva or individual soul comes to be known as Shiva, God in human form.
Baba: Yes, the spiritual discipline of a Jnani is Satsanga (the company of the holy Ones or study of scriptures), Dana (giving), Vichara (discrimination between the eternal and the transient) and Santosh (contentment). The discipline of Yoga is to unite the Jivatman (individual soul) with the Pramatman (the Supreme Godhead) or to awaken the Kundalini and allow it to merge with the Pranam Shiva, the Supreme Godhead or to unite Radha with Krishna. The discipline of Bhakti is to worship the Divine and serve Him as one would do to one’s own self. The discipline of Karma is Dana (giving), Yajna
(sacrificial fire), the performance of all worldly activities in a spirit of dispassion and detachment. Though I have spoken about the four types of disciplines of yoga, all spiritual seekers —regardless of the path followed — have to perform all actions with awareness and discrimination, thereby reaching the state of desirelessness, to become liberated.
Jamini: What is the way to inculcate the sense of contentment? Baba: To try constantly to keep the mind in a state happiness by being God-conscious
under all circumstances. While attending to all one’s mundane day-to-day activities.
He advised that the worship of Shiva, Krishna, and Kali are highly beneficial to the soul in the search of the Divine.
In the fire of agony, the soul is processed and liberated.” Recall
any unhealed wounds of your life, past or present, and the pain they cause you. Vividly imagine that pain as a purifying fire— one which burns away all that keeps you from the Divine and from where God is leading you. Then surrender yourself and the pain into the white heat of those flames. Allow all that you have known yourself to be burned away, to be reduced to purified molten light which is ready to be recast in the hands and heart of the Divine. Trust that even your pain is God’s love for you, showing you where you need to go, guiding you home to the Divine. (Whenever you are in pain,
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“Oh! My children! When are you going to believe that I alone am the Doer? Trust and rely upon me. Give up your unreal sense of doership. Perform your duties with sincerity and dedication. Leave everything to me. You will surely attain peace.
“Whoever will seek my presence and grace at times of distress and danger will feel my healing
grace instantly. “I have left t...
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to protect my devotees from any danger I am always with them. You do not recognize me because you...
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“The more you will have faith and trust in me the more you will have the fulfillments of your wishes in life. Nobody leaves me empty handed. Those who surrender to me will attain to their coveted goals. Don’t be engrossed with the world’s mundane demands and forget the Self. Realize...
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burden of my devotees on my own shoulders. All your responsibilities are mine. Just give me ...
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“I am a beggar for your love. My mercy spreads all over the world. Ask for it with tr...
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“He who gives their whole heart and mind to me alone, I become theirs. I am eternally indebted to them. In you, I live as the timeless Truth. I am ever awake. I feel happy when you are happy, unhappy when you...
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am.” Sarve bhavantu sukhinah Sarve santu niramayah Sarve bhadrani pasyantu Ma kaschit dukkha bhag bhavet. Om Shanti Om Shanti Om Shanti May all be happy, may all enjoy sound physical and mental health, may all see good in others and in everything, may none in thi...
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Read and reread the promises and assurances of Baba above. Let their truth and light and energy pour into your heart. Let them flood your being. Absorb the power and love which the Divine sends out to you through them. In prayer and meditation, direct the magnitude of that love toward all that holds you back in life, sweeping it away. Let Baba, and the sweet roaring force of the Divine Love in these promises, carry you, today and everyday, to the heights of light for which you are meant.
