Attention Towards Our Goal

An abyasi's transformation can be seen in his/her etiquette, actions, character refining, way of life,... all this reflecting his spiritual advancement. The attitudinal changes or the behaviour pattern is in the right path,conductive to spiritual advancement.

I feel that it is upto the expectation, hence the need for the induvidual 's introspection, modification and moderation.I would therefore touch a few essential aspects of practice which require your immediate attention
For advancement in spirituality an abyasi should develop love towards divinity.
How does one develop it? Though it seems easy,practically it is difficult. 'Love' is not created, ti develops in a natural way.It begins naturally when the feeling of 'self' or 'ego' diminishes, in an individual.Here, i'am reminded of a few lines of Saint kabir's poem.

" kabira yeh ghar prem ka, khala ka ghar nahin,
Shih utare bhuin dhare,tab patha yeh mahen".

Implying, our inner is the real place of divine love and it is not one to be contented with acquisition of worldly wealth.
To acquire a way to love, and to get completely drowned in it, can be attained when you shed 'self' or 'Ego' from your mind and heart. When this is transcended, divine love will naturally develop in your inner, and babuji maharaj will reveal himself, then your living will be in 'the light of divinity' replacing the darkness of ego'.
Sri babuji said that abyasis requested him to remember them,to which he replied that he had descended to remember them,but they did not provide him and opportunity to fulfil his wish.He simply meant that they were deeply engrossed in other issues and they could not feel it though he remembered them.
Babuji said, 'if you aspire to realise me, live in me". He always emphasised that sahaj marg was a way of living,and not a mechanical system.

Dear sister's and brother's i can let you know certain hints in the form of do's and don'ts though the practise of which you can accelerate your spiritual progress and attain god.

1. Develop love towards Babuji maharaj, the divine personality.
I advise you to first devlop love towards the member's of your family.Treat elder's with affection humility, simplicity, tolerence,submission and affection instead of prejudice, anger, hatred,fear,discourtesy.
Your behaviour with abyasi brother's and sister's should be as expected by Babuji. Feeling of superiority or being a junior based on your being in sahaj marg should not arise. Every abyasi is assessed on the basis of his depth of devotion,sensitivity, aletness and the overall transformation of his/her personality and living.
Whenever you feel any spiritual experiance share it with others. Motivate them, and help them to progress.

2. Your behaviour with non-abyasis, genral public should be so moral,virtuous,simple, ostentious,impressive and conspicious like that of a true abyasi of Sri babuji maharaj.
Bringing about this change in self may look difficult ,to make it simple i advise you to get rid of the habt of finding fault in other's. Be it member's of the family,abyasis, preceptor's,non-abysis, who ever it might apply to.
If this habit is left unchecked, and is habituated, it leaves an impression in your inner and retards your spiritual progress.
Dr. K.C Varadachari once asked Babuji why, he was taking all of genral public into the mission, without any discrimination of being good or bad?.
To which master replied, if i'am to take all of them to be good and perfect why in the first place do they need to come to him?.
Moreover,babuji maharaj, has descended between us to take us to the Ultimate. All being his creation, he could not discriminate.He was not looking at the abyasis defects and weakness to take them. His system is to transform them to the best provided they are sincere and
cooperative.
We should learn to forgo the habit of finding fault with or criticising others.I have observed not only abyasis but also preceptor's making complaints to babuji, for instance, a preceptor complaing that an abyasi has not come to him for sittings. Babuji replied that instead of complaining, he should find the reasons for his attitude, what qualities of the other preceptor attracted the abyasi, and to try modify himself so they come to avail his duties as a preceptor too.

3. Do not waste your time. Utilise every moment for attaining your goal.Though Babuji has prescribed time for meditation, prayer and cleaning, he has also emphasised the need of Constant rememberance. It is very essential because the flow of divine power/transmission is constant.Through Constant rememberance, we can maintain a constant connection with him.It also acts as self regulatory awareness for all thoughts and actions which might cause drawbacks in your progress,all this is will be nullfied and it will not effect you.
During Bhandar's and Utsav celebrations,after genral meditations, preceptor's used to give sittings so as to furthur install the feeling of divinity in the abyasis,to drown them in divine grace, with the thoughts of the abysis towards divinity, they experience their spiritual benefits. In absence of which, abysis would indulge in worldy affairs depriving themselves of spiritual advancement.
Sri Babuji maharaj, also adviced the preceptor's to keep the abyasis busy in discussions of matters pertaining to divinity, in order to devolp devotion to divintiy inthem and to attain their goal.Through constant rememberance, alertness will be bestowed, by which they can feel spiritual experiences, being in constant divine flow.
Otherwise they maybe creating obstacles through worldy thoughts,losing spiritual benefits.

4. Instead of attempting to change externally, aspire to entertain right thoughts,involve yourself in the right actions,in order structure the mind to sustain the divine qualitites in daily life as expected by an abyasi of Sri Babuji.
Here i'am reminded of Sri Babuji's message in Ahmedabad." so far you have been doing as directed by your mind,now your mind should follow your directions.
Hence, dear brother's and sister's, i wish that for your speedy spiritual advancement and to bring about your quick transformation in personal and social life, you should devlop yourselves and let other's devlop spiritualy.Every induvidual abyasi's spiritual devlopment will be a contribution towards qualitative devlopment of Sri babuji's work.

Thought Power

Creation is only a distortion of the original thought, say the great sages, yes it is the truth.

As the idea "let be" was included in the Original thought, there is a direct flow of the divine energy into it.Vibrations are generated in the thought current after the concept of duality got into the thought force and the single current started breaking up into many, the one becoming two, three and so on, ultimately scattering into hundreds
The mistake we commit is that we drift away from the natural thought current and our ego makes us the "Originator" of every thought current that is generated from the main natural force, and we turn ourselves towards unnaturality and assume to be the Creator of every thought current generated.

It is for this reason that we stray afar while remaining separated from the natural force and and distortions get developed in our thought. Since we are far removed from the existence (Astitva) moving helplessly in diversity, we become powerless and despondent.We simply go on adding impurities to our thoughts.In this way, we are nourishing in our distortions and today the distortions alone are flourishing in us.

Distorted thought is a poison which after polluting the mind gradually spreads to the heart.By and by, it spreads to the whole system. As there was delay in getting the idea of "let be", the distorted thoughts began to solidify and it's evil effects affected the entire system.

Shri Babuji maharaj has reintroduced that Original thought, in our meditational practice. During our meditation, he continuously transmits , connecting us with the divine energy that is present in the heart .He fills our hearts with the remembrance of that prominent relationship, of Jiva(self) and the Ultimate with the essence of Absolute union.
Bowing the head slightly and feeling the presence of Master in his heart , the abyasi begins to taste the ambrosial bliss.By receiving the divine energy that is constantly flowing through Master, remaing in an absorbed state at meditation , all the self created and widely scattered complexities, ego gradually start melting away and the return from ' Diversity to Unity ' commences.
It is only by his grace that one day we enter the original current, which is shown in the Central portion of the emblem(mission's emblem).
Only when Sri Babuji purifies our thoughts, we realise the various forms of diversity assumed by us.

In our meditation, he helps us to move with the divine current and fills our thoughts with the desire to return to our homeland. As a result our thoughts which will be full of divine remembrance now converge into one and become dedicated to him alone.
We do not know why and how, but we find that our faith, love and surrender are simply dedicated to our Sri Babuji, who constantly bestowes on us the divine energy and it is natural we begin to feel our connection with him alone.
The mystery something of which I'm able to now understand is that we can attain the highest reaches of spiritual progress through him alone, only connecting ourselves with him , the Special personality who is presently working on this earth for the spiritual evolution of humanity.

Once the mergence in the Master is achieved , the materiality of the entire system starts melting away.

The speciality of our meditation,as i find, is that the divine connection spreads automatically to every particle in us with the divine energy flowing out.

As a result, our thoughts, actions, speech, living etc, get molded in a very natural way and assume a simple and balanced state.
What a yogic wonder is reveled to us. Melting the circle of ego one after the other, the divine power causes the (subtle) form of the Sat guru Sri babuji to descend and unfold itself in our hearts. The day dawns when by and by we experience the mergence of our Original form (Jiva) in the Atma (Ultimate).

Progressing further, the master himself gives the hint of the atma to remain absorbed (drowned) in meditation of the Ultimate.
While traveling in this sphere of the atma, a day comes when the condition unfolds and unknowingly we start merging the atma in the ultimate.
A question lingers, ‘where is the atma and with whom’? Until now, the atma was within us and now having crossed the boundary, we have merged in it. It is by the grace of Sri Babuji, that we become aware of the divine nature unfolding before us, and now having crossed the boundary we have merged in itself.
“The Atma perceiving the Ultimate, before it, from the Atma of the Ultimate, both involuntarily begin to merge in the Ultimate”.
Our expansion automatically becomes one with that of ’Macrocosm of the Ultimate‘ and the condition of forgetfulness crosses it’s boundary.
Then comes the centre from where we have drifted away from the Original thought current, that had settled below, allowing our Ego to ‘become the originator of diverse thought currents’The ego, it’s centre and everything connected to it now disappear.
In retrospect, Kabir had said, the occupant (Ego) is gone, the tent (center) looted.

What a divine empire is spread out before us? What a divine vision enabling the perception of the self merging into the one, omnipresent. What a divine Magic it is that we are not even aware as to who is merging in whom? Who can have such a divine vision? Who can show us except Sri Babuji, our divine master such total dissolution (Mahaparalaya) of the individual self.
Sri Babuji’s service and his divine capacity is available to the whole of mankind. His will being, to enable man to realize the ultimate.

When divine vibrations are generated in a man’s mind and body by his will power then to this extent, vibrations are produced in him, grossness and other impurities are surfaced up in the form of thoughts. These impurities cannot have their way back to the heart.
In this way all the impurities are cast away gradually and the entire system becomes resplendent with divine effulgence.

May the special personality who has now descended as ‘Sri Babuji Maharaj ‘continue to inspire us through ages and help man in his spiritual evolution .

Essence of laya awasta & Advancement

Sri babuji wrote to me that after laya awasta begins, the abyasi begins to live in the condition of ‘living dead’.It implies, that though physically he remains living, he is unconscious of his thoughts and actions because of his complete droning in him.
He further wrote until the laya awasta becomes complete, both the cause i.e,’ the rememberance’ of the aspirant by Sri babuji and the changing spiritual condition in the aspirant as a result of constant reflection of the divine power in him, go side by side.
When laya awasta is completed, then the aspirant is bestowed with the condition of ’Negation from Negation.It so happens because he then gets completely lost in that in which he was drowned and forgets in whom he was drowned.
Sri babuji has said, laya awasta opens the door of divinity for you. It is needless to mention here that in meditation there is no laya awasta.
Meditation is simply the first step on the path of spiritual journey.
Laya awasta of the aspirant in the divine being starts with the beginning of dissolution of the Self(ego), through our constant and humble offering of it to him.

I may also point out here the fine distinction which exists between ‘Laya awasta' and ‘Merging’.
Firstly, ’Merging’ is the result of ’Laya awasta’. Merging, is of the divine personality, in the aspirant of a very high calibre.
Secondly, ’Laya awasta’ is attained by the abyasi –in the divine personality(Sadguru).
Thirdly, while attainment of layaawasta by the abyasi is a spiritual condition in our sadhana-meant for all and an essential pre-requisite for the realization of the goal.
‘Merging’, on the other hand is not meant for all – a rare gift from nature.
It is bestowed only for a specific purpose and that too when its need as felt by nature.
Through the various dictates given to Sri Babuji Maharaj, by Swami vivekanand and Lord Krishna, we know that Sri Lalaji Maharaj had "merged" in Sri babuji with the "sole purpose of protecting his physical body to bear the force of Divine Power flowing from the source and to give expansion to that power according to the requirement for the work and the bearing capacity of his physical body".
This is the sole purpose of merging ever since creation started.
Always bear in mind that ‘merging’ is not for all.It happens at nature’s call and not as a rule of law or convention.
After bestowing the condition of laya awasta to me, Sri babuji wrote to me, “ On account of your laya awasta, your causal body, subtle body and soul all have dissolved in me and you have attained the stage of ‘Oneness with the Divine’. Now whatever remains in your inner is just ‘My Remembrance’ which will continue to take work through you ".
I may thus tell you here that ‘His Remembrance’ is ‘His Subtle Form’ which is now working for the ‘Upliftment of Humanity’.

Let me at this stage clarify to you all in clear words that the ‘Subtle Form’ here should not be understood to mean the ordinary subtle form which is in the inner core of every human being .The real meaning of subtle body of the divine may be understood only when with the grace of Sri babuji you are blessed with the feeling that you are omnipotent and omnipresent.
The dwelling place of this Subtle form of the divine personality is then, the inner core of such abyasis/preceptors who have attained laya awasta.i.e., ‘Oneness with him’. Hence Sri babuji has always emphasized the need for attaining laya awasta. He said, ‘ Only laya awasta paves the way for the realization of the Ultimate’, without attaining laya awasta, that stage is not possible.
It was probably int this context that after granting permission to me to work as a preceptor, he told me, “Work of high standard can be done only when your thought for the progress of the aspirant’s spiritual advancement will be the same intensity as it was for your advancement". In that case, your subtle body will automatically remain active in the inner of every abyasi and their progress will be specially speeded up.It will be consistent and constant.

We have proof of this also. Let me recall that Sri Lalaji’s dictates to Sri Babuji on (26/01/44) “ "During my lifetime my subtle body was present in everybody which ensured their security and brought their spiritual progress.With my spiritual veiling, subtle bodies also went with me and they became devoid of these blessings".
The subtle bodies went with the physical veiling of Sri lalaji sahib simply because as Sri babuji has reveled that except himself no other abyasi had laya awasta in him.
Of course, Sri lalaji sahib had vested them with all capabilities of a true seeker, except laya awasta.

Bout Sri Babuji, Sri Lalaji Shaeb had however clearly expressed, ‘When he came to me, he had complete laya awasta’.
As a proof of this to humanity, he had reveled, ’When Ram chander was only six days old ,I gave transmission from the Divine Source and he was able to absorb it completely’.

Hence it is quite obvious that without laya awasta no place can be found in the abyasis and preceptors wherein the subtle form of the Sadguru may stay in, although it’s presence is very essential for doing his work. The very touching of the ‘Subtle Form’ by the mind, in your inner starts the flow of his Divine transmission in such an effective way that neither the aspirants nor the preceptors ever become conscious of the feeling that the sadguru has taken Mahasamadhi and is not in existence. He never feels loneliness because no gap exists and his subtle form thereafter acts as the controlling agency. The divine work thus continues and shall continue forever.