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Impediments to Progress (Cont'd)
(a) Past samskaras: I was told the spiritual case
history of an abhyasi under Master who had been practicing Sahaj Marg
meditation for nearly 15 years. However the person had stagnated at
one point, and all progress had stopped there. Master had made several
attempts to initiate further progress but had not been successful. At
this stage Master decided to examine the abhyasi's past life and see
whether there was some cause there preventing progress in the present
life. Master examined the past life during a special meditation sitting.
He found that in the previous life this abhyasi had been a woman, married
and with several children. She was a lady of deep devotion and sincerely
desired to pursue the ancient goal of obtaining mukti, a limited
form of liberation under which there is no physical rebirth. She had
felt irked at having to lead the life of a housewife. Being desirous
of adopting sanyasa, she one day stole away from her home with
her children, took them into the jungle, and abandoned them on the bank
of a river there. Then she ran away. The frightened children set up
a wailing which followed her as she ran away. Unable to hear their lament,
she closed her ears with the palms of her hands and ran on and on. Master
found that the wailing of the abandoned children had created a very
strong and profound impression on the mind, leading to the formation
of deep samskaras. This had prevented spiritual progress of the abhyasi
in the present life.
Master said, "Look here! She thought she had done a virtuous thing
which would earn her mukti, but really it was a cruel and heartless
act. So Nature punished her in this life by denying spiritual progress,
the very thing for which she renounced her family life!" Then he
added, "Since the abhyasi is very sincere and has real craving
for progress, I cut that impression. Do you know what happened? The
person immediately moved up three points! I call this spirituality.
It is Lalaji's Grace that this is possible. Where can one find a Master
like Him! But for Lalaji's Grace I do not know how many more lives that
poor woman would have had to take before she could move forward. We
must not go against Nature. See how much evil has been spread
by people who know nothing. I tell you, unless these wrong ways of approach
are given up, spirituality is impossible."
A great secret which Master teaches for our quick progress to our goal
is that we should destroy our own small creation, which keeps us so
tied down to it and to this world. "Destroy your own creation,
and God comes! For everything there is a base. If you destroy this base,
then the Divine comes."
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