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Accept the Master Totally
Master said, "Transmission is the utilization of the Divine energy
for the transformation of man." But how does it work? Because,
as Master Himself has said, there are cases where even the transmission
is reflected back from the man who comes to take the transmission. It
is as if it cannot penetrate. So, the important thing even prior to
receiving the transmission seems to be the need to accept the Master.
One who does not accept the Master does not seem capable of receiving
the very transmission which is designed to transform him. And when
does this acceptance of the Master begin? When we see Him, when we move
with Him, when we are associated with Him, we grow to love Him, to cherish
Him, to adore Him, and the desire comes, to be like Him.
When we were reading through the Gita, we found that in that situation
of the Mahabharat, there were several categories of people associated
with Lord Krishna. Some took Him only as a human being. Some took Him
purely as the Divine. Neither achieved the Ultimate. It was only Arjuna
who loved Krishna at the human level, and who revered Him in the Divine
level after He revealed Himself to him. He accepted Him in both levels,
he could love Him in all His levels of Existence - transcendence, Ultimacy
- he got.
Similarly in our Mission we find many people approach Master as a human
being, forgetting His Divinity; they remain stagnant. There are also
unfortunately abhyasis who have taken Him only as the Divine, forgetting
His human levels of existence. I don't think they have also proceeded
much beyond the others. And what is it that makes you accept one individual
both at the human and Divine level? It can only be love! If you love
Him as a human being, love leads to reverence. Whereas if you accept
Him only as Divinity, there may be fear associated with your acceptance;
an awe you see, the distance you create "He is God and I am man,
there is always going to be a separation between us!" But if I
treat Him only as a man and forget He is God, then I am going to have
the problem of proximity, familiarity breeding contempt - "After
all he is an old man, toothless, walking with a walking stick!"
So when we dissect Master into His two halves, of His material and
His Divine existence, we fall into this error. It is the happy few -
I don't know how many there are, perhaps there are many, I am not able
to say, but it is those brothers and sisters of our satsangh who have
been able to merge the Divinity of Master into His humanity or vice
versa, who have been able to go to some extent by His grace. And if
Master favours them, or apparently favours them, [because Master has
said in 'Voice Real' such a Personality has no friend or foe; for Him
there is no friend or foe; He cannot have partiality towards one and
not towards the other; there can be no selectivity in His approach;
He cannot say, "To him I will give, to her I will not give,"
- such an attitude cannot belong to our Master - it is in His own words!
Yet, apparently He has favoured] then in our human minds we think He
has favoured so and so, He has not favoured so and so. "It is precisely
because this man - he adores me at the human level, serves me at the
human level, he loves me as a human being, as a father - he also has
accepted and recognised my Divinity. I am the Purnathva." So one
who accepts Master as the purnathva, the Purnathva has to accept him
- I mean, the Ultimate has no choice!
Babuji used to say, "I cannot even breathe without Lalaji's permission.
That is the extent, or shall we say, the completeness of the totality
of the Master's all-embracing purpose in our existence. But unfortunately,
you know, till we come to a state of enlightenment perhaps, wisdom,
we think a Master is only for meditation, for cleaning and occasionally
to answer our phone calls when somebody is desperately ill. But that
is a very, I would not say it is wrong, but it is a limiting way of
looking at the Master, because He can only respond in the way in
which we accept Him. When we fragment Him, and accept Him partially,
He can only respond partially. When we accept him totally, His responsibility
for us becomes total. This is why surrender epitomizes the absolute
acceptance of the Master. Then, because we are totally His, He is totally
ours, He looks after us totally, every aspect of our existence becomes
His responsibility and we can live in that sublime innocence where we
are desire-free, where we are fear-free, where we are even need-free
because He is looking after us.
"Reality is what we have to accept."
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