Until we make a decision to lead a blissful life, even if the Master comes to us in person, he cannot help us in any manner.
If we have decided wholeheartedly to lead a blissful life, even if we don't go in search of him, Master will come in search of us. The surprising thing in this is, if we make a decision wholeheartedly, we cannot just sit and relax and waste our time, even for a minute.
Our decision will change the end of our life altogether. Take the decision. The solution, God Himself will look after!
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Don't Believe the Enlightened Masters!
- ❖ If you believe, believe 100%, fully. If you can't believe, don't believe 100% the teachings of the Masters.
- ☆ All the wise teachings about wisdom are all applicable to all times without any change.
- ❖ If you believe only some of the truths of the enlightened Masters:
- 1. When we take only such things which suit our pride and ego, we are only feeding our pride and ego nicely.
- 2. Reason: Whatever truths a Master may say, we will understand them only depending on our mental attitudes and views and accept them only as some ideas of the mind.
- 3. When we believe the truths given by a Master only partially, deficiencies of our mind will begin to appear as efficiencies of our mind. Ego will become alive.
- 4. Only if we believe the words of the Master in totality, truths will reach us as truths. Otherwise, truth will enter in us as mere idea and opinion.
- 5. Enlightened Masters are not needed just to get some mental ideas and nourish our ego. Some low quality book available on the streets are enough. The speeches of some low-grade speakers are sufficient.
- 6. If we believe the truths fully and totally only, it can effect useful and nice changes within us.
Do you know about Sufis? Like our Siddhas, they go to various places, like vagabonds, in search of wisdom. They spread the wisdom they have to others.
There lived in a city called Pistan, a Suff saint named Bayasid. He was the most famous amongst the Suff saints.
One day, the king of that country wanted to become a disciple of Bayasid. The king himself came personally and asked for permission. When the king himself is asking, who can refuse it?
The Sufi saint knew the fact that the king had absolutely no fitness or qualification of any kind to become a disciple. But how could he say that to the king?
That Sufi saint decided, instead of directly conveying the king's unsuitability, he could make him understand through some incident.
'Oh King! There is no dearth of saints in this country. When so many are loitering everywhere with locks of hair and beards, why did you come in search of me? I am a very ordinary person,' said the Sufi saint.
'Oh saint! I have heard that you are a very nice person. That is why I came in search of you,' said the king.
'Observe me keenly. Then come to a conclusion,' said the Sufi saint.
After some days, the king went to the forest for hunting. There he saw Bayasid sitting on the banks of a small lake.
It was all right if Bayasid was sitting alone. But there was another girl with him. She was also pouring some thing in a tumbler and giving it to him. What was it?
The king got confused. 'Aha! I was thinking about him as a very big, enlightened man! He is enjoying beside the lake with a girl! It is good, that now at least I am about him by seeing personally myself! After this, I should not become his disciple,' the king decided.
But what happened really? The girl who was with the saint was his own sister. What she poured into the tumbler and gave him was merely water!
After having come near the saint, and after understanding the king begged him, 'Oh Master, in a haste I have misunderstood you. You kindly accept me as a disciple.'
The saint sent him away saying, 'You have absolutely no fitness to become a disciple.'
Why this story? It is only to show that where we have to act with total belief we should not be going on doing some research wrongly.
To raise questions like 'why' and 'what for' is no doubt a basic thing for knowledge. For that purpose, if we are going on raising questions for any thing and everything, the belief in us will get exhausted and we will become like a desert.
Are you asking, 'Mere belief, will it not push us into ignorance? If you do not ask questions, then how do we know the facts? What information you know about this universe, is what you have seen through your physical (mental) eyes.
Beyond our normal physical eyes, begin to see with our being). We will wonder, seeing the vastness of the universe. The universe itself will appear to be a puzzle.
The same way, as this universe is full of puzzles, so are our minds, lockers full of puzzles. Start traveling in your mind.
Only the truths we know about our mind are permanent. All others are temporary in nature. He is a fool who loses the permanent ones to obtain temporary ones.
Believe! Believe!! Believe!!! Belief only is life! Belief only is everything!
Otherwise, don't believe.
Believing partially, understanding partially, 'That Master will talk like this. Of all the statements he made, only this is right and I like it. He is a wise man, all right. But for that reason, can we accept what all he says? What that Master is trying to tell us through that is?' In this way, if you speak some useless philosophy and if somebody listens to you, and thinks, 'Oh, it is because of that Master this man has begun talking like a lunatic,' in this way we should not be instrumental for others to lose a real enlightened Master.
If we believe, we must believe 100%, totally. We will not be talking uselessly. We will begin to stride towards success.
❖ To talk proudly about loving the world is very easy. But loving only one person truly and wholly is equivalent to trekking to reach the summit of the Himalayas.
- ❖ How we move with others, will reveal how we are with ourselves.
- ❖ A person who respects his own body, mind and life force, can only respect others wholly.
- ❖ A person who respects his own body, mind and life force half-heartedly, will respect others only in the same manner.
- ❖ It is a horrible pity that behaving normally with others has become an extraordinary matter.
- ❖ It is difficult to think about happiness even in imagination as long as we live in a narrow circle of 'Me, me, mine, mine.'
- Dharma: All actions that give happiness to oneself as well as others is Dharma.
- Adharma: All actions that give troubles to ourselves as well as others is Adharma.
- ❖ There is no need to be born as man if one remains confined to himself and his own affairs. Already animals remain in that state.
Human relationships are very wonderful. Joy-giving ones.
Those who behave in a very pleasant and congenial manner with the surrounding persons, turn out to be great successful persons.
For those who are ever ready to quarrel for anything and everything, for example, problems with the neighbor, fighting with the co-passenger on the bus, fighting with the other department people in the same office, etc.; what remains at the end is only defeat and restlessness.
There is always a special value for an introduction. You buy a new flat and start living in it. The person already residing there looks upon you as an enemy. If you also behave in a similar fashion, a good relationship, will not flourish. Only quarrels will remain.
After occupying the house, a few days later, on a holiday, go with your family and say, 'My name is Ramaseshan; I have come newly to this flat. She is my wife. She is my daughter. You come to our flat one day.' In this manner, you invite them. Then you watch how the flat owners behave toward you with love and affection.
We may wonder as to how to introduce ourselves to strangers. If we begin by giving importance to some questions, no work will be done properly. Moreover, we can introduce ourselves only to the strangers and there will be no need to get introduced to those already known to us.
Once, George Bernard Shaw was out walking. He came upon a person who had just occupied his newly built house and was watering his plants in his garden.
George Bernard Shaw asked him, 'How are you?'
The man, who was watering his plants, got angry. 'Who are you? I have not seen you before at all.' So saying, he angrily went away.
Next day also the same man was watering the plants in his garden. George Bernard Shaw did not hesitate. When he asked 'Hello, how are you? Yesterday we got introduced to each other. Do you remember?' that man, who had come to the new house, had no choice but to extended his hand in friendship to Mr. Shaw, to greet him.
If we learn to move with people pleasantly, we can pacify even those persons of a shouting nature.
We should not take human relationships lightly. We should behave in such a manner that if somebody comes to our house, our presence is felt.
This is not a matter of pride. It is a wrong thing which hides our greatness.
Mingle with people with truth and sincerity without any expectations such as: 'What benefit will I get by moving cordially with my neighbour? What help he will do to me if I just enquire about the welfare of the people in the opposite house?'
Our pleasant approach will shower joy for others and gentleness to us.
By our joyful dealings, let us shower happiness profusely on others and experience peace within ourselves.