How Does Change Manifest?
Growth involves change. Can there ever be progress
without change? Can a baby become an adult without changing?
Can a seed become a tree and yield fruit without change? Change
is thus perceived to be an integral part of the growth process.
In fact it is change which brings about the desired result,
and what we really work for, is to bring about such change.
My Master has stated categorically that there can be no progress
without change. When things cease to change, a stage sets
in which can be justifiably called death, looked at, in this
way, death can be said to be a cessation of the process of
change. That is, death is the cessation of growth.
Spiritual progress, Spiritual growth involves change. Progress,
after all, is nothing but a change for the better in our
condition. The Sadhana is the process created by my Master
to bring about continuing change for our spiritual betterment,
from moment to moment. If we ponder over it, we shall see
that a resistance to change is a resistance to our own growth
and progress. Can we stop change? Is there any one capable
of arresting change? No! Change is inevitable. It is a law
of Nature that things must change, must evolve. Change is
thus seen to be inescapable. My Master has said that the
only permanent thing in the universe is change. We must
be grateful for this because if it were not so, progress,
all growth would cease.
When we accept change, we accept the Master's will. When
we accept it totally and unreservedly, with the faith that
it is essential for all progress, the stage of surrender
sets in. Surrender, looked at in this way is a humble submission
to the process of change that my Master 'Initiates' in us,
for our growth to the highest levels of spirituality available
to mankind.
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