The Process Of Transformation
It is easy to mistake. For a cowherd to mistake the
cows for his own. It is very easy for a mali to think
that the garden is his because he is tending them and watering
them and cutting them and planting them. The garden belongs
to the Master, not to the gardener. The cattle belong to the
owner, not to the cowherd. The children belong to God, not
to the parents.
When we are able to realise all this with our heart and
accept this with our heart, the beginning of humility will
come, "I own nothing. I possess nothing. It is all
His. Being His, I must look after it as if I am an honest,
sincere trustee." Not the modern-day trustee, who only
pander to their own, you know, pride and arrogance and ego.
"Being a trustee, I must administer this trust faithfully.
I must cultivate this garden to perfection. I must look
after His children to perfection. Not my perfection, but
their perfection. With Love." Then we will see a society,
a world which is transformed, because right down the line,
from God to the lowermost inhabitant of the nether world,
there will be this love pervading through the saptalokas
- the seven worlds of creation - and there will be an instant
of transformation. In one instant, the whole thing will
be transformed.
Spirituality says, "Become men first." Unfortunately
today all negative characters of human beings are described
as animal tendencies. We should remove from our minds that
we have animal tendencies. We have tendencies which are
not to be expected of a human being. They should be removed.
In spirituality, we call it 'cleaning' - removing the lower
tendencies, making a human being into a human being first,
cleaning of all his negative tendencies and then putting
in that which we must put in, to Divinise him. When all
these tendencies are removed from him, the body is still
the same old body, there is no change, biological changes
don't occur like that - and you put the divine spirit into
him, it is as simple as a woman cleaning a kerosene bottle
with detergent, making it pure and then using it to buy
milk with. A kerosene bottle has been transformed into a
milk bottle.
"Upanishad" means - to sit at the feet
of the Master. "Just sit at my feet, everything else
I do for you." And sit at the feet does not mean physically,
but it is an act of surrender - "Master, I am eternally
with you. Though physically we are to be separated - we
have been separated too." If that closeness to the
Master we feel with every core of our being, every moment
of our existence, then we find this miraculous transformation,
that the pain-filled existence, even in this mortal world,
becomes an existence of bliss. Failure becomes a success,
misery becomes a transcendental glory and joy, and that
which we are seeking and never finding, already exists with
us because we are existing with Him, the Giver of all the
beneficence.
The ultimate verity of spirituality is, not to do and to achieve and to
get and to barter and to give but be with Him. This is the message of the
Master. It has always been the message, and we have to only try to put it
in practice, not by physical jumping around and by gymnastics, but in our
consciousness, we are never separated from the Master. I am always with
Him wherever He may be or wherever I may be. And that oneness produces the
oneness of being which is His.
If a human being wants to transform himself or herself,
he or she has to work upon himself or herself. Therefore
we become, number one, the experimenter. We become the person
operating the experiment. We are the object of the experiment
ourselves. And when we change, we again see ourselves as
the changed person that we have become.
What transmission really does? Master said, "It
is the utilization of the Divine energy for the transformation
of man." The important thing even prior to receiving
the transmission seems to be the need to accept the Master.
One who does not accept the Master does not seem capable
of receiving the very transmission which is designed to
transform him. And when does this acceptance of the Master
begin? When we see Him, when we move with Him, when we are
associated with Him, we grow to love Him, to cherish Him,
to adore Him, and the desire comes to be like Him. "In
every aspect of His existence I want to be like Him."
- this sort of attitude. There seems to be a progressively
increasing ability in the transmission of Master to transform
us as we go further and further ahead on our spiritual path.
In the beginning, it is difficult; In the later stages very
easy; at the final stages, as Master said, it is like taking
something from here and putting it there; it is so easy.
So it is the duty of every abhyasi of the Mission to create
an example, by his actions, by his thoughts, by his deeds,
by the way he behaves in society, in his house. So the first
need of all of us who are abhyasis of the Mission, is to
become living examples of the Master's teachings, even before
this transformation can take place; by acquiring this craving;
by creating in ourselves this craving to be like Him; because
that is the first step in becoming like Him.
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