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Master, The Pace Maker
We do our morning meditation and do the evening cleaning, night prayer-meditation
- I mean, those who do these things very sincerely, very devotedly,
as they consider and yet it was found by Babuji that many people had
been meditating for twenty years like this without any progress. Sometimes,
they used to meditate five to six times a day too, one hour at a time,
"But even the yatra had not started," as Babuji used to say.
Yatra means spiritual journey of the heart region, from the first point
to the second and so on. Now this was always a confusing thing as to
why those who were practicing with devotion, dedication, were not progressing,
whereas there were many persons who were obviously irregular, they were
not practicing so regularly or so systematically, yet they were going
in leaps and bounds. So we used to discuss with Babuji - he was always
a little reluctant to reveal many things. He would like us to find it
out for ourselves, not to have everything open, you see. Then this idea
came that instead of being dedicated and devoted to the Master, they
were merely dedicated and devoted to the method.
Now this is a very great problem you see: Should the Master have number
one place in your heart or the method or the Mission? We are told, "Make
all three yours;" that we have only three things which we call
our own - the Master, the Mission and the Method. I suppose it is in
that order you see, as, by practical experience, I have found that those
who are devoted to the Master, irrespective of their practice, have
grown very fast, have developed very fast, and when they are only devoted
to the practice, their progress has not been there at all or at a snail's
pace. So it is the Master who is the primary thing in our approach to
spirituality you see. Obviously! Otherwise the books were enough; we
could just read them, practice the method and progress. Apart from the
need for transmission, if the practice alone was enough, all that we
needed was for the Master to write some books! Then we could just read
them like so many do-it-yourself-books you know - Do Cookery Yourself,
Do Your Own Radio Repairs, Do Your Own TV, Do Your Own Spiritual Practice
and Progress!
It is terribly important, vitally important for our spiritual progress
that we have only one each of these three things, one Master, one Mission,
and one Method. And eventually, it is all one, because after we meditate
for some years, we find that the Master is the method, the Master is
the Mission, and He is the goal too, for us. So the three become one.
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