Obedience Is Real Cooperation
There is only one way in which we can really cooperate. What is it
that obstructs His work when we are conscious of His work? Our wishes, our
desires, our ego. So the wishes and desires, that is what we say in the prayer,
you see, they are putting bar to our advancement. But when we realise that
our desires, wishes, also come from the ego, then we realise that we have
to surrender the ego itself to the Master, and the only way to begin this
process of surrendering is to obey.
In our old yogic literature, it is said that we should do what the Guru
says, and that is the beginning and end of spiritual practice. So if anything
will guarantee total success in spiritual life, it is obedience. Because
obedience means that we don't think of what He asks us to do, we do it.
So, only one who has more or less given up the egoistic attitude can obey
the Master. And all obedience is for the sake of the self. It is for your
sake that you are obedient. Therefore you practice for your development;
you have to develop obedience to make that practice effective for your own
development; that develops love for the Master to take you to the highest
state of development and one day, that will take you to the Master and make
you one with Him.
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