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Create Love, Progress Fast
When we don't obey, we delay our own progress and that is the punishment
we confer upon ourselves. When we obey, our progress is enormously fast.
It can be millions of times faster than what it is now. When we don't
obey but only love or we think we love, our progress becomes retarded.
So the need for loving obedience, obedient love. Both are again not
play upon words but two different things. Loving obedience, I must not
obey with an anger in my heart, who is this fellow to tell me? It must
be a loving obedience. Ok sir. And it must be an obedient love. When
the beloved says, "Stay there, I am having a headache," you
must go and stay there. We train our dogs to sit, to lie down, to stay
and they obey. Perfect obedience. Therefore Babuji Maharaj said, "I
like dogs because they obey." And when you change DOG dog into
GOD God, it is perfect.
The practice, the constant remembrance, all that is only meant to create
love for the Master. And a personal, living Master is necessary mostly
to provide for us one who is Divine in the essence, human in form, and
who we can love. No one can love an abstract god, yet without love for
God we cannot progress, we cannot even have an idea of what we have
to become, where we are to progress. It is for this reason, that the
Divine descends in human form again and again to present Himself as
one who can be the Beloved for us.
I once asked Master to reveal to me the secret of quick progress in
spirituality. Master said, "Create love in yourself, and then see
the progress. Really speaking, love can conquer all, and love alone
can do this. Everything else, every other force or power, creates a
reaction which is not favorable. If you are annoyed, you transmit anger
and the other person becomes angry in turn. If you use physical force,
that too creates resistance followed by a reaction on its own plane.
It is the same with everything else. But if you create love in your
heart, then the reaction is also of love and love alone and see, your
job is done! So create love. It is with love that our ancient rishis
were able to live in jungles with wild animals all around them. Love
conquers even the wild animals. I am telling you one thing. If there
is love in your heart for the Master, then the Master begins to love
you. If you can bring this about, then your work is almost done."
The important thing is to knock on the door of his heart so vigorously
that he is compelled to open it to you. Then what to say of progress,
everything is there for you. What is the abhyasi's real duty? In my
opinion he must do everything to make the Master turn towards him -
and once that is done, the abhyasi can sit back and let the Master work
for him. Who can resist love? As the abhyasi's love grows, so also the
Master's love grows. And the Master now begins to think what he can
do for the abhyasi. It is no longer necessary for the abhyasi to ask.
What is there to ask for when the giver is himself thinking about what
to give and when? Really speaking, a true Master is nothing but a mirror.
What the abhyasi places before it is reflected by it. You understand
this? In the Master himself there is nothing. You only take from him
what you yourself put into him. Now, I am telling you something. There
are people who accuse the guru of being partial to one or another of
the abhyasis. Do you see how wrong this idea is? And it is also dangerous,
for the idea of distrust and hatred may grow, and these also will be
reflected. So we must create love and then see its working. I say it
is the most potent power of Divinity."
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