We must not rest even for a while till we have gained the real object, the eternal peace and calmness. Intense longing for an object naturally creates restlessness for it and we have no peace till we achieve the desired object. It is, therefore, a very essential thing and must be cultivated by whatever means possible. Thus for gaining the eternal peace we cultivate within us restlessness and impatience at the preliminary stage. It may look strange at the very face of it when I ask you to cultivate the very thing we want to do away with but it is the only way to achieve sure and speedy success.

The restlessness thus created is temporary and different in character from the ordinary restless condition of the mind. It is finer and more pleasant. It creates an inlet in our heart for the divine current to flow in and smoothens our passage to the kingdom of God. If you thrust a man down into the water you find that he makes desperate efforts to free himself from your grip. It is only because his impatience to get out of water at once increases his force of effort and he does not rest till he is out of water. Similarly such desperate efforts caused by extreme impatience to reach the goal at once, will quicken our steps on the path of realization and ensure easy success in the least possible time. That is the easiest and the most efficient means of speedy success.

Satisfaction is bar to progress. So Babuji said, we must always be restless, never satisfied that, "yes, I have achieved." So this going beyond and beyond and beyond, it needs this restlessness, inner restlessness, which Babuji called craving. But it is not there. We want to rest. "Yes, today I have achieved. I have seen Babuji Maharaj, He is in my house." No rest. You understand?

I remember Master's usual way of defining "Restlessness" - very humorous, very penetrating, profound in its meaning. He said, "Restlessness se less-ness nikaal do, tho rest hai' (Remove 'less-ness' from "restlessness", what remains is 'rest')! How is it applicable in my practical life? We are always feeling "lessness": I don't have enough of this, I don't have enough of that; I don't know enough, I have not enough wealth." Who is it that feels? It is "I"! That means, all of us. When we feel lacking we become restless.

Now, how to overcome this feeling of lack? Of course there are the traditional ways, saying, "Be content with what you have, take it as God's gift." That is all O.K. But when we start getting this transmission, which removes our samskaras first, and puts the power of the Almighty in us through the Master's Grace, in some mysterious intangible manner it progressively removes this 'Lessness' from us, and brings us to a peace, to a state of balance. It is not so much a state of peace as a state of balance; because restlessness is really an imbalanced state.

The man's or the human being's restlessness is in some way a reflection of the soul's restlessness. It wants to keep moving and we parallel that longing and ourselves seek peace and satisfaction in continuing motion. Therefore, even children want to go in a car and sit down and ride, move things around, bicycle like mad. Why can't their play be at rest? It is not possible. So the human physical restlessness is only a reflection of the inner soul's restlessness. And when that achieves the stability of its ultimate achievement and peace, this also achieves its ultimate stability of peace. Then the man no longer seeks motion, no longer seeks change, is happy where he is eternally happy.

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