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EZ Print Version of all 15 [Part Thirteen] DIARY Please make every effort to overcome the many failures as stated by you under all the failure columns on the diaries. Man making precedes spirituality. Unless and until you became the master of all the five senses, appreciable inner progress cannot be made. * * * The recurring failures in various columns of the diary shows that you remain too much engrossed in worldly affairs, which should be reduced by keeping yourself immersed in the divine grace. Silence, solitude and serenity should be cultivated by living a life full of spiritual discipline as enjoined by the Master. You can cut short unnecessary engagements and wild pursuits by keeping your spiritual goal in the forefront. A well regulated life earns rich dividends. * * * As to the points raised by you about the diary; vanity and lack of gratitude breeds contempt and can be classed under heading Non-Violence. Indulgence go under chastity of thought word and deed. * * * Unfortunately, few, if any, have any idea of what keeping the diary really means. As time passes, their entries become a mere matter of form, and the whole purpose behind keeping the diary is lost. We are asked to maintain the diary in thought, word and deed. How many of us really do so? The majority just react in thought, word, and deed to the stimulus of the moment, in other words, instinctively. The truth of the matter is that we must become consciously aware of every thought that passes through the mind; we must weigh our words before we speak and not speak idle words as a mere reaction to the situation that confronts us. If we are able to make some progress in this regard, then we will be far on the way to controlling our self. This is essence, is the practice of Raja Yoga. Only when we have advanced far in the practice of living the life demanded of us (as implied in the keeping of the diary), will we become fit enough to reap the fruits of the practices of the Surat Shabd Yoga. * * * DIET I have noted about your difficulties for not abiding to the dietary regulations for health reasons. You may please refer to the Cook Book available from local Satsang wherein you will find some very useful food combinations in the vegetarian menu. The observance of dietary regulations is very much essential for taking up the holy Path. You may please be rest assured my love and blessings are always with you. * * * You should avoid excessive or unnecessary eating. Always leave the table feeling as though you could eat more rather than feeling overfull. It is also best to meditate on a light stomach, which will help you to stay more awake and alert to keep your attention focused within at the eye level. * * * I am glad for your following fruitarian diet which is all the wore beneficial spiritually. The more rarified is diet, the more of inner receptivity will grow. The disciplined Yogis have preferred to grow gradually from vegetarian, to fruitarian. You may follow it as best as you possibly can, keeping in view the maintenance of physical strength of your body. Such a schedule may be useful for the recluse doing no worldly work, but the dear ones who work hard on their daily routines of hard labours manually or physically, should not undergo such austerities. However, the rare benefit of having better meditations and improving chastity and inner purity is appreciated. You may refer to the books on nutrition food written by Mrs. Dona Kelley, 1305 Palm Ave., Beaumont, California, which will give very useful information on the subject. * * * You should be careful for your health as it is equally important to be fit and healthy for meeting with your mundane and spiritual obligations. Physical body must not be denied adequate nourishment. * * * The observance of strict dietary regulations of eliminating all meat, fish, fowl, eggs both fertile or unfertile and all alcoholic intoxicants is one of the essential pre-requisites. You should request your dear husband to cooperate with you for feeding your son with vegetarian diet in the larger interests of his spiritual progress. There are same very useful food combinations in vegetarian menu which provide enough nutrition. * * * Eating habits can be corrected by careful living. You can improve by gradual adaptation and moderation. Physical body must not be denied rational nourishment. * * * A slender and smart physique is an asset. You can have light physical exercises for improving your physique. Howsoever, the snag of self appreciation by others should be discarded carefully. * * * The use of tea or coffee is not good if you consider harmful to your health. It should be dispensed with. You can maintain your physical body in a perfectly healthy and sober condition on the simplest food combinations chosen out of fruit and vegetarian menu. Providence has manufactured this physical body in such a noble pattern that it can be adapted to any sort of conditions by careful planning. You are not the body itself but the indweller of the house - the temple of God. Keep it safe, strong, and in sound condition to serve the gracious Master Power within by meditations on Naam. Besides, too much discussion with others is not helpful. Mind your own business and let other dear ones seek their own redemption. Self reformation pays great dividends. * * * Your sacred aspirations to follow simple dietary regulations in the vegetarian menu and remaining in constant loving remembrance of the Master are appreciated. Such like impulses fall to the, share of fortunate few who should benefit by more of diligent and honest effort to accelerate their progress. * * * The viewpoints offered by you about salt, milk and raw food versus cooked food; should better be reconciled through some dietetic, preferably Mrs. Dona Kelley, 1305 Palm Avenue, Beaumont, California. She is a representative of the Master and can advise you better on food combinations. She has written a book called: Cook Book, which might be available from Mr. Russell Perkins at the Sant Bani Ashram. However, please note that milk is not forbidden but if it is flavoured with rennet or anything prohibited, it should be avoided. * * * I have not discouraged those initiates who have written to me saying that they find the macrobiotic diet congenial to them. However, I never advocate extremes, the use of the macrobiotic diet appears to be extreme in its nature. Nectar of one man way be a poison to the other. It depends on various temperaments. One should not impose his ideas on other people. * * * MIND The wanderings of mind shall subside when you develop the habit of doing one thing at a time. This is the key note to arrest the wandering mind to enchain it with one thing at a time. The sooner you attain it better it would be. However, inner absorption in divine light and sound current shall accelerate your efforts for early release from its tactics. * * * Mind, like fire, is a very good servant but a bad master. It has got one of the best attributes which can be harnessed for spiritual benefit. It relishes to run into its grooves of habit, and if you will do some acts regularly at the fixed hour every day for some days continuously, you will find that a habit is formed and it finds pleasure in doing the same thing automatically. So when the mind is diverted towards spiritual practices, by undertaking meditations at the appointed hours for some time regularly, you will find that the same mind which resents inversion will relish it, with the grace of the Master. The divine manifestations granted by the Master are superbly charming to entrap it, when it will leave aside its viscious attributes. * * * Mind usually resents inner stillness and silence, yet it is to be enchained by loving persuasion and listening to the holy sound current. When the inner divine bliss is tasted, it relishes to stay within without any difficulty. * * * Holy Naam is the tried panacea for overcoming the troubles caused by mind. * * * WORK All dedicated work is worship. You should accept any sort of work which suits your talents and tastes. It will bless you with wore of peace and harmony. * * * I have noted about your mundane affairs for which you should please act carefully. You should try to stick to your job and work diligently over it. "Work is worship" and as such all honest work should be accepted and undertaken in all earnestness. You may continue to remain over there especially when the Satsang centre is established and you can help the sincere seekers struggling for spiritual progress. Just do everything as a selfless dedication to the gracious Master Power. My love and blessings are always with you. * * * All dedicated work is worship. Great is man and Providence has blessed everyone with untold energy and strength which if properly harnessed can bring in desired results. Just learn to do one thing at a time and that is too with singleminded attention and devotion. Ordinarily the sun rays do not burn but when the same are passed through a convex lens, these become so powerful that they burn anything placed in their range. Similarly is the case with concentrated concentration which will enable you to progress in every sphere of your life including meditation. Please be rest assured my love and blessings are always with you in all noble undertakings and enterprises. * * * You must work earnestly for your livelihood. Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. Work is worship and as such, all honest work should be honored and undertaken in a spirit of dedication. * * * You should accept any job which comes your way and work on it diligently. "Work is Worship" and it is equally important to earn your livelihood by the sweat of your brow which shall accelerate your spiritual progress. My love and blessings are with you. * * * DRUGS Re. hippies: I appreciate your compassionate attitude for those dear ones who are struggling hard under some mysterious delusion with the hope that they shall be blessed with divine illumination. Strange are the divine ways of dispensation, when after much of toil and turmoil one happens to be guided to the Living Master. You can well imagine the lot of those poor souls who cannot fathom the gracious protection of the Master Power. Surely, the fortunate few out of them shall have their way to the Master in due course. * * * Drugs, opiates and intoxicants should not be partaken as these will not only affect your health adversely but shall be detrimental for your spiritual progress. You should please leave off all such drugs and learn to live without their use. Smoking is equally harmful and you should consult same homeopath in this behalf to prescribe some useful medicine for overcoming this filthy habit. You need not undergo migraine headaches, which may be cured by living a normal life full of relaxation without the aid of any stimulants. It is the result of _______ which has resulted in this set back when you are to suffer from serious pains. Be natural, sober, serene and cheerfully receptive to the ever present Master Power working overhead. * * * It appears to be the offset of LSD when you happened to notice shining blue light on your friends profile changing into different faces when you see differently being under the spell of narcotics. You should avoid all such things to have a refined state of mind, so very much necessary for spiritual progress within. EZ Print Version of all 15 |