Society Expects Transformation
Our children, our families, our parents, our society
has a definite right to expect to see the results of your
transformation. After all, when you cook a potato, you expect
it to be soft when you touch it. So, should not our society
and our families test us also by the progressive softness
that we are able to develop as a result of the cooking process
in the Sahaj Marg system? I don't think anybody can have a
quarrel with this expectation. It only shows that we have
not worked upon ourselves sufficiently, perhaps not at all,
imagining that because Sahaj Marg tradition gives spiritual
benefit inside, change inside, we need not change in our external
behaviour. This is a very faulty understanding of the system.
As long as you retain your overt personalities unchanged,
untransformed, to parallel or match the inner change, your
behaviour continues to be the same. Therefore, the traps
of temptation, divergence, deviation, they remain potentially
present before us, because we have not changed. We are susceptible
precisely because, the behaviour is the same, and it responds
to the environment in the same way. What happens is, that
you are reinforcing the samskaras, which are being cleaned
away by the Master in his immense humility, generosity,
kindness, love for us and His problem becomes not out of
choice but out of a senseless repetition of the same behaviour
because we have not bothered to change our personalities.
So, how to get rid of everything in our personality - good,
bad, indifferent? Throw the ego out, and this is what we
say in Sahaj Marg, surrender. So, if you want to change
your character, transform your personality, become a new
person outside, without which there is no success for Sahaj
Marg in the external world.
So you see, if there is one way of changing our character,
transforming ourselves - inside He does, that is His eternal
Grace and we should be eternally grateful to HIM for that
- but outside we have to change. God makes a potato but
we have to cook it.
So, obedience is a perfect discipline towards perfection
of ourselves. He who obeys is the perfect person. Obedience,
in the beginning is a very difficult thing because it means
subservience of our ego, subjugation of our ego, to a superior
person. Therefore the ego rebels. Disobedience always comes
by a rebellion of the ego. But people forget that when you
are obedient, you have no more responsibility for anything
to do or don't do, under His orders. It is the liberation
from the world. When I can live and exist and do and not
do, according to His wishes and be totally free of every
atom of responsibility, what more can you expect by way
of liberation? This is the liberation while I am alive.
And I am convinced in myself that this is 'Jivan Mukthi.'
"If transformation does not occur in us,
merger is an impossibility."
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