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Don't Think, Just Obey
When I went to my Master, the first thing I learned was that if you
think about what the Master says, you are already on the road to destruction.
You are not to think, because if you think, you are setting your thinking
process against His. Babuji never thought for Himself, His thinking
was suspended when He had been to His Master. He has written about it
clearly. He said, "when I went to my Master for the first time,
I never looked at anybody else." Not for me to think. Then what?
Not for me to think, but only to obey.
I have been thinking over the importance of the second
line of our Prayer: Our wishes are putting bar to our advancement.
I have come to the conclusion that what we should really
do when we go to the Master is to stop our wishes and make
His wishes ours. So, I offer to you a new definition of
obedience. Substitute for your wishes His wishes, and then
this problem of putting bar to our advancement cannot happen,
because His wishes are for us. Everything that He can give
is Divine, Ultimate; our wishes for ourselves are petty
things, you see -- momentary things, transitory things,
now an ice cream, now a lollipop.
Where there is no obedience, there can never be any faith.
And in accepting my Master's wishes as my wishes, or rather
substituting for my wishes His wishes, everything becomes
possible, obedience becomes possible. The very fact that
I can obey anything that my Master says gives me every capacity
in this universe that is possible for a human being to have.
Capacities don't come out of strength. Capacities are not
developed through knowledge. Capacities are developed solely
by having the benefit of the Master confer upon you the
capacity. When you obey, the Master says, "He can obey,
he will have the strength to do it." I find increasingly
abhyasis concerned with their own independence of thought,
independence of belief. Beware of such freedoms, for, they
are illusory. Beware of any freedom, because freedom is
an illusory concept. It does not exist. There is only one
freedom and that is freedom to obey the Master.
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