The Efficacy Of Constant Remembrance
The powers of the mind are to be harnessed in the
effort to achieve a state of permanent remembrance which is
called constant remembrance and then by remembering constantly
we find miraculous development springing in our hearts that
we begin to love Him whom we remember. Therefore constant
remembrance is a potent, very exact and a very miraculously
effective technique of creating in our hearts, love for Him
whom we must love, if you are to achieve the spiritual success,
the spiritual goal that we are endeavouring to achieve here.
So this is the importance that the technique of constant remembrance
plays in our spiritual life, in our spiritual sadhana.
Without the river-bed there is no river. So the river-bed
is nothing but a channel on which the water can flow. Similarly
we have the constant remembrance embedded within our minds
as a permanent stream of consciousness flowing from Him
to us or from us to Him, over which the rest of our consciousness
glides very smoothly, very unobtrusively, without friction,
thus ensuring a harmonious, peaceful existence between ourselves
and the rest of the universe. So it forms the foundation
of our existence. He becomes the goal. We are eventually
striving to become something like a sandwich, where I am
between my Master below me and my Master above me, totally
protected by Him as if a pearl is within the shell of the
oyster that is enclosing it.
Meditation is only a process. Constant remembrance is superior
to meditation. If one can be involved in constant remembrance,
then there is no need to meditate. Now, even constant remembrance
has a purpose - to create love for the Master. Once you
love Him so much that there is nothing else in the universe
you can possibly love, even constant remembrance becomes
unnecessary, because now love has taken its place. Then
we obey Him, His principles, His teachings - not because
it is some imposition of the Lord or some authority that
He has established Himself to be, but because we love Him.
We wish to please Him with everything that we do. We wish
to become what He is, or what He wants us to become. Therefore
surrender comes naturally. From meditation, to constant
remembrance, to love, to surrender - these are the four
stages of our evolution.
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