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"One can regulate one's life so as to normalise
all functions of the human system, so that
the person develops into a perfect human being."
The average human being of today gives a great deal of thought, and applies a
great amount of energy, to attain high levels of material welfare. In this
endeavour the people of the industrially advanced nations have been
significantly successful. But notwithstanding this, there is yet much
unhappiness, discontent and misery pervading their lives. Why is this? My
Master says that it is the result of unbalanced application of effort. My
Master teaches that human existence consists of two planes of existence, the
material and the spiritual, and that both these are important and essential for
the harmonious well-being of the individual. Where one's efforts of thought and
action involve only one of these spheres of existence, discontent, unhappiness
etc., are inevitable consequences of such unbalanced living.
My Master says that as a bird needs two wings to fly with, so a human
being needs the two wings of existence, the spiritual and the material,
to lead a natural and harmonious life. If either is neglected for the
other, such a life becomes unnatural and the result cannot be what we
desire it to be. Totally denying the material existence to pursue a
spiritual path is therefore as unnatural, stultifying and goal-defying,
as total denial of the spiritual for the material life. Master teaches
that to achieve one's full potential, the individual must apply himself
equally and impartially to the material life and to the spiritual life.
One's efforts must be applied simultaneously in both the spheres.
Most spiritual systems have sought to bring about spiritual growth
by negating the material existence and denying its necessity. Sahaj
Marg corrects this distortion, by emphasising the need for a proper
and natural application of one's energies to both spheres of life. In
this lies its universality! The name of the system "Sahaj Marg"
translated into English means the Natural Way. This system offers, perhaps
for the first time, a spiritual system of simple practice which makes
possible the fulfilment of one's spiritual purpose in life while simultaneously
making it possible to attain similar fulfilment in one's material life.
All the faculties of a person are developed to perfection and the perfect
functioning of all one's faculties is what my Master calls Saintliness.
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