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What Does Brotherhood Mean?
I think sometimes that in spiritual brotherhoods also we fail because
we are still thinking of that brotherhood - the blood brothers, where
we are always quarrelling, fighting with each other, claiming the property
of the parents. This is a different type of brotherhood, where I see
my Self in you. And you must similarly learn to see your Self in me.
Therefore it is the Self that you love when you look at somebody else.
And this Self eventually becomes not your self or my self, but THE SELF
- the reflection of the Ultimate in our heart. So this is the extraordinarily
moving and ennobling adventure of the spiritual life.
The human brotherhood does not mean an abstract brotherhood where we
are all isolated in different jungles and we are all brothers and sisters.
It cannot be. Brotherhood means ability to mix - to sit together,
to talk together, to eat together, all loving each other, all confident
of each other, each one seeing himself reflected in a resplendently
new fashion, therefore everything beautiful. You are fresh inside, and
everything outside is fresh. Clean the inside, everything outside is
clean. Beautify the interior, everything outside is beautiful.
See, this is the simplest idea of Sahaj Marg that we are all men and
women, and we are brothers and sisters. Because we love and adore Him
who is common to all of us. We are not bound by individual love of each
other. We are bound because we love Him, from whom we are all suspended
like puppets on a string. And that is the beauty of Master's message:
"Love Him who loves all." This brotherhood can come only when
you love the Master so much that everybody you see, appears as the Master,
and therefore there can be no loss of virtue, no loss of anything, everybody
is perfect in themselves; not because they are perfect, but because
your eyes see nothing but the perfection.
Try to understand what brotherhood really means, and how it can be
achieved - only by loving Him who loves all. There is no other way.
It is impossible for us to go around loving; I am sure here itself,
the abhyasis cannot love each other in that perfect way. Because it
is a lifetime's task to love one person; and if that one person happens
to be the Master, you have achieved what you have to do. If I adore
Him; if I obey Him; if I am faithful to Him; I have achieved the goal
in every respect that Master wants us to achieve. I have achieved brotherhood;
I have achieved mastery; I have achieved, most of all, His love.
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