The Goal is Within, But Infinite
What you aspire for and what you achieve must be the same thing, otherwise shun it. Because aspiration will not change. It is always for the highest that we can think of at that moment. As we evolve, our aspiration evolves with us. And that is good because it shows the goal is an ever receding one. Now when you put it in very Sahaj Margian terms and say the goal is ever receding, people get frustrated. But when you say it is your own goal which changes as you advance, then they are able to understand it. So it is nature's way, you see, that yes, you are advancing and the goal is advancing. It is not that there is a goal which is advancing as a physical goal. It is the concept of the goal that you have here.
The first need - whether we are abhyasis or preceptors, each one of us has to grow. And you know, in Sahaj Marg the goal is infinite. Towards infinity is the way. The goal is ever beyond. Ever in sight but ever beyond. So, the need for not fixing ourselves at one position, or in one condition, or in one state of being, and saying, "Today I have reached my destination in Sahaj Marg," such a statement would be impossible. Even by the Master of Masters. Sahaj Marg knows no static condition. Sahaj Marg has no fixed situation. It is an ever-moving, ever-growing, ever-expanding, not only concept, but also a possibility and an actuality, as proved for us in the lives of our two great Masters, Lalaji Maharaj and Babuji Maharaj. The goal is ever beyond, because it cannot be a fixed goal that we can say, "Now I have achieved." It is a goal that is ever going on. That is why my Master called it, 'Towards Infinity.' God is not situated on a point in a space or at a particular moment in time. He is spaceless, timeless, unspace-bound, untime-bound.
So there is no room, ever, for satisfaction. Babuji always said, "If you are satisfied, there stops your progress." And I do not see why this concept of an ever-expanding, ever-receding goal should prove either difficult to understand, or frustrating in our experience, because science teaches us that the universe itself is ever expanding. We are not in a static universe. And if the physical universe, which we are so much in love with, which appears so glamorous to us, in conquering which so many billions and billions and billions of dollars and other currencies are spent, if that can be so attractive and so impressive, and so proven in our consciousness, I do not see the difficulty in understanding a similar - why only similar - and expanding concept of expansion itself in a spiritual environment, in the spiritual world because the physical universe only expands as we see it. The spiritual universe, may be there are multi-universes, who can ever say, where it is expanding, how far it can expand, where this expansion gets stopped? It cannot stop!
Therefore abhyasis should remember, and we are all abhyasis, we should first remember and convince ourselves, not mentally and intellectually, but in our hearts, that this is a road which goes on forever and ever. It never stops; it is a journey which will never end. In one sense, if you look upon it in a physical analogical way of a way, which must have an end and a destination, "Yes," Babuji said, "there is the goal; There is the destination." But he also said, "It is ever there. And at the Centre, there is only the Ultimate. We are ever approaching nearer and nearer."
So this is the first thing about the method of Sahaj Marg, which our Master has bestowed on us: that the goal is a very specific goal, it is a very definite goal, it exists. Where? Can you give it a location in space and time? Absolutely not. Where then does it reside? As my Master said, "Within yourself." So this is the logic for our meditation, that we do not adopt external symbols or objects of meditation, however exalted they may have been in the past or may be in the future, but we position it, we locate it, we identify it, inside the heart. So there is no use of saying, "Babuji said because Lalaji said." All right, why did Lalaji say it? There is a reason why they said it. And the reason is this: that in the heart is the goal of human existence. Not outside, but within! "Seek within and you shall find."
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