Manifestation Of Constant Remembrance
When I first read "Truth Eternal" I was
chagrined or shocked to see how much Lalaji praised the state
of ignorance! But I have now understood what that ignorance
refers to, because very often I speak and I am ignorant of
what I have spoken. So it is not ignorance per se that they
praised but ignorance of what we do, what we say, what we
speak, even the work that we do. That is, it refers to a state
of consciousness in which we must be when we do all these
things. Having done them, we are not even aware of having
done them, having spoken we are not aware of what we have
said, having eaten, we are not aware of what we have eaten.
It refers, in my understanding, to a state of absorbency in
the Master's memory or remembrance. So it is really a state
of constant remembrance in which we know nothing - having
done everything we know nothing. And that is perhaps a
state in which the 'kartrutva' as they say, or the
doership disappears, because that of which I am not aware
of having done or said, I cannot be held responsible for it.
Responsibility attends on the concept of doership.
You have to depersonalize. In your consciousness, you must
be nothing. This can happen in two ways: you think of everybody
else except yourself, that means the self-centeredness gone;
or centre the self in your Self, which is constant remembrance.
So these two ways you find in society: people like Mother
Teresa, selfless service, not thinking of herself, but thinking
of the poor people of Calcutta, the refugees, the lepers,
helping them - in one way, achieving this depersonalization.
Whether it is spiritual or not you must decide. The other
is to centre the self in your Self.
In bringing the centre into yourself, you achieve the much
more magnificent possibility of now looking only inside,
and yet looking outside. Because as Babuji said, by loving
Him who loves all, you really love all, through Him. By
looking towards Him, strengthening His presence in myself,
becoming more and more conscious of His presence in me,
until I am so identified with Him that I am no more and
He is all, now I can help the universe through only this
centre in myself - not self-centredness but the centre in
me which has grown to such immense proportions that the
universe is embraced by it. This is the spiritual possibility
that is available to all of us without exception.
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