Thursday 13 February 2020

Man obeying divine laws happy




Mother has made man perfectly happy, provided he obeys Divine Laws and leads a good life, becomes happier and happier as he goes nearer Mother. Our obedience pleases Mother and She blesses us with greater and greater happiness as our reward. In course of time our experience shows us that pleasure does not satisfy us, we get craving more and more and we soon get tired. It makes us soft and weak and often our health also suffers. We come to the conclusion that we can get maximum happiness out of this life , only by doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. In due course  we get a conviction that there is no action as happiness bringing as doing good to others, with Love and Service.

We often find in this world , that due reward and punishment are not dealt out to all persons in this life , where we often find the good suffer and the wicked prosper. The answer to that is , there is a future life , and this life that we live is not simply to end with our death. If that were so, people would not have been suffering  for the sake of their virtues and principles, up to the last moment of their life, when again that state we have seen with people of highest brains and highest character. This life is therefore  partly giving us happiness here and here alone , and is partly as a probation period of a preparation for future life or lives.    This life is a serious and responsible thing, not to be trifled with, as our fancies drives us. The highest desire of a man should be , for a full knowledge of Truth and enjoyment of all innocent goodness.

People have often misunderstood God's or Mother's Grace. It does not invert justice nor give any exemption. It carries you most expeditiously with every protection and guidance , but surely, through the right channel, and teaching you to be fully obedient to the Divine Laws. If that were not so, every one would be breaking the law, shed few tears of right or wrong repentance , and the result would be , that the Divine Law would be the object of insignificance, ridicule and mockery. This extremely delusive notion, as result of greatest exaggeration, though not deliberate, and so very natural with them that have experienced Mother's Grace , must go. A safer thing would be , to get a direct answer from the Grace recipients on the point, and not to jump and run rampant, as you like,to form your own inferences and conclusions. Get your answer from your Grace recipients to the direct question," Is Mother's Mercy a licence? " Mother is not being to be trifled with.

688. We are bound to avoid all bad actions , words and thoughts. We can not always stop bad thoughts coming to us, but we can at least be displeased with them and try to banish them  and refuse to yield to them. Regarding what is good and bad , and right and wrong , in the preliminary stage, it is enough that one obeys the Inner Voice of Mother As Antaryaamini , which people, in general parlance, call "conscience". Conscience is ever alive and ever-awake reality within us, which notes and records everything of ours, issues warning from time to time , and bites us from painful stings  on our disobedience , during and after.

Not to speak of the rare cases of temptations, passions and provocations, the man who has practiced control over his six enemies enumerated before, is a much higher man, than one who has not known their working and has never practiced the strengthening of his will to be the  last succumbing to them. Not to use personification , we can call the six enemies to be our six vices  and one has to be extremely careful about his vices and virtues  and their doings in life. A certain virtue of a man is his strength of doing good actions  of a certain type , effortlessly, repeatedly and promptly. A certain vice is similarly an inclination towards bad actions , of certain nature which one drives one to the action, unless strongly controlled with a determined will and effort.

690. Elementarily, the spiritual aspirant may have the following notions , regarding the different terms while practising self-control.

Kama or Desire is the inner urge , which makes us indulge in thoughts and imaginations of a certain pleasure , usually denied.

Krodha or anger is the hot and strong feeling against somebody, who or which comes in the way of the fulfilment of our desires , which displeases us , and makes us attack, injure or destroy the disliked circumstances, objects or passions.

Lobha or avarice is a passionate desire of possession of things , which we can not possess in usual course , without going out of the righteous  and just way of things , which prompts us to be unfair , which disturbs our mind  with dis-content and makes us dead to the delicate feelings, in the matter of consideration for the happiness of others . The accelerated with the speed with which we desire  and strive for happiness and self-serving , more and more , and yet more , and with dis-content , is the broader variety of Lobha itself.

Mada or pried is an extremely over-exaggerated notion of ourselves, which results in our contempt and ill-treatment for and to others inferior to us, and a feeling of independence, easy provocation, and rebelliousness, against those that are superior to us.

Moha or infatuation is the climax condition of a certain desire, which makes you lose all your sense of judgement and action, and bodily and mental.

Matsar or jealousy , is the bitterness of heart experienced on seeing others happier , better off and possessed of certain qualities  or advantages more than you, which you do not possess, but are desirous of possessing.

Extract from the Mai-ism book edition 1952.





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