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CHALAR SAATHI

(Comapnion on the Way)

SRI SRI THAKUR ANUKULCHANDRA

CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way),(as translated by Kerry Brace)

E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)


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CHALAR SAATHI

(Companion on the Way)

SRI SRI THAKUR ANUKULCHANDRA

SATSANG PUBLISHING HOUSE

SATSANG, DEOGHAR, BIHAR




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THE REVEALED

I

The booming commotion

of Existencethat rolls

in the bosom of the Beyond,

evolves into a

thrilling rhyme

and upheaves

into a shooting Becoming

of the Being with echoes

that float

with an embodiment of Energy-

that is Logos, the Word

the Beginning !

II

He, the Word-the Source of Creation

manifests Himself

with all His properties

into all that hath manifested,

but the Beyond

comprehended Him not

though He shineth in the bosom

of the Beyond !

III

It is Energy

which lies

in the embodiment

of Word that remains

as He is

though manifesting Himself

into all that was created

That is God,

That is Word,

That is Divine !

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The thrill of Existence which occurs

due to Apathy and Sympathy

for What lies Beyond,

is a stream of Will

that tends to make the Wordto become conscious

in manifesting Himself into many

like Him albeit unlike

by their mutual impulses,

moving

spiro-elliptically

one round the other !

V

Beyond is what intervenesto make

the manifestations

unlike, different and discrete,

though the Affinity

that lies under,

tends always to make

all to be One !

VI

The inter-action ofmanifestations of Word

in the Beyond

makes the unlike, different

and discrete,

instinct with life

from fine to gross ;

thus the Divine creates Himself

into life

surrounded with blood and flesh

which are enlivened too !

VII

In such a way,




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different, discrete

finer and grosser

blood and flesh are manifested ;

blood and flesh

are embodied with lifeas beings, as creatures

from which Man comes forth

by degrees ;

discrete individuals with

other phenomena

become the environment

of every individual,

and make it awaken,

in life and consciousnesswith the thrust of impulses

from mutual affinity :

while on the other hand

He, the Word

became Supreme Being,

the Father to the manifested

and The Individual

who comes forth

ever-enchantedwith sympathy and love

for the Supreme Being,

at the crying call

of panic-stricken sufferers,

becomes the Beloved God in flesh

the Divine,

the Ideal,

The Way to rescue !

VIII

Only then recedes the Beyond

when, sympathy invokes love

to make one attached to Him

by Whom

Being and Becoming




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is accelerated ;

and then

knowledge appears

with an

illuminating zeal !IX

And knowledge shines

and

redeems theBeing to accelerate

fulfilling in a concord

the Ideal, individual

and environment,

towards Becoming

towards a superior Becomingwith a gradually unfolding

memory

of the Father

by service and surrender

unto the Beloved !

X

And when rappings on

the thrilling tension

of attachment to the Belovedoccur

due to the thrust of environment

and complexes

directly and collectively,

the impressions rebound

and set in the individual

according to sympathy and apathy,

with a tremor of sensation

into resultants,

and are adjusted

with a solution

tending towards his interest ;

thus knowledge grows

with a gradual generalization




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of experiences

into a subtler and subtler harmony

of the individual,

the Ideal and wisdom ;

In this wayas varieties of rapping

diminish gradually,

the individual

plunges into the Beloved

through a grand generalization of

wisdom !

XI

The sympathetic affinity

that induces her opposite-equalto dwell in herself,

and breeds to beget him

measured in different shapes,

is Female ;

whereas the entity that inclines

towards female

to fulfill her

is Male ;

apathy always resists the oneto become the other :

Female is the shelter

that nourishes, absorbs

and reproduces one into many ;

and the inclination of the Male

towards female

without something to

uplift existence,

dwindles them

to decease !




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CHALAR SAATHI(Comapnion on the Way )

Roll onlike a flood

over the sorrow, sufferings

and calamities of the World,

with love, sympathy and service

and with the message

of Beloved the Lord,

with a knowledge and activity

that illuminates

the way of the dull,and deteriorating depressed;

flow on

extremely unresting and undisturbed;

if female wants

let her run after you,

proclaiming admiration and worship,

establishing the kingdom

of peace and happiness

with a wistful soothing gaze

after her beloved;

but wish not

for that

at all ! 1

CONTINUITY BRINGS SUCCESS

Whether you understand or do not understand,whether you can do or cannot do,

let the continuity of your effortremain unbroken and unobstructed;

seek out the way to attainment (siddhi),you will be successful,

accomplishment will come,and your establishment will surely

establish your Ideal,know it for sure! 2




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SERVICE ACHIEVES RENOWN

Remain ever serviceable to peoplein such a way that through your service

in fulfilling the needs of your environmentas far as possible

they can embrace life, glory and growth,and by so doing

spread out into everyones heart,and let these things become your character,

you will see,renown, with constant victory songs.

will make your glorious,no doubt ! 3

NATURES ABHORRENCE

Nature abhors those

who insult and colourthe perceptible

which are before their senses,

on the testimony of

indirect knowledge ! 4

THOUGHTS OF SADNESSDo not stay troubled by thoughts of sadness;

the feeling of sadness cannot gladden anyone!Rather, think

how you can make people happy,

what kind of behavior makes people happy,how that can be done, and the like,

and set yourself to work,

you will be happyand able to make others happy too! 5

WISDOM THROUGH LOVE

From mental equilibrium and lovecomes the advent

of wisdom and the vision that sees good;but from conflict, lack of faith, and dissatisfaction

ignorance and pessimism are created! 6

PAIN AT OTHERS FORTUNE

If you want to lose your way and fall into troubleby making yourself unfortunate

then never in the least renouncethe feeling of pain at others fortune. 7




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WILLINGNESS TO WORK THROUGH LOVE

From loveconstancy, joyfulness and willingness to work arise;

and from aversion comedepression, inactivity, sadness

and lack of peace! 8

OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST

It is the optimist who finds a golden opportunity

for progress and delight

within trouble, danger, obstruction, and sorrow!

But the pessimist

at once finds within all good

inability and impossibility

ineradicable suffering of misfortune! 9

FAULT-FINDINGOBSTACLE TO UPLIFTMENT

If you want to become elevated,

bid farewell to fault-finding forever;

whatever good quality you see in a person,

think of that, speak of that,

and discuss it;

if you can, be careful

that no ones fait

does any kind of damage in you! 10

FAULT-FINDINGIf fault is to be found,

it has to be contemplated;

it has to be brought out by thinking it over;

and with that, one is to keep awake

a sense of irritation or hostility,

and in doing this,

just such feelings will be stored in the brain;

you will find how after some days

you are acting out those faults;

so be careful

of fault-finding,of contemplating faults,

and of irritation and hostility! 11




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EMPTYING-OUT THE FAULT

And if you have at all found fault with anyone,

and it remains stored in your head,

enquiring into its cause and circumstances,

properly understanding how it became possible,

with a feeling of sympathy

empty out from your head what is stored there

in such a manner that it becomes abnormal to you

for this kind of thing to happen again! 12

HYPOCRISY

Hypocrisy by goadingneighbours to an illusion

blurs the door of prosperity ! 13

DISCERNING OF CHARACTER

Talk, thought, dealings and activitiesdeclare, redeem and indicates

what he really is

and, what he can get ! 14

GAINING ATTAINMENT (SIDDHI)

Doing, adherence, observation and following,

these few establish

perception, knowledge, skill,

and attainment (siddhi) !15

THE ROYAL SIGN OF SUCCESSRegarding one whose vision of good fortune and opportunity

blooms in times of difficulties

with faithfulness, gratitude and skill in work,

you can say with utmost certainty,

whatever he may be, it is absolutely sure

that his head will be graced

with the crown of success! 16

EFFICIENCY AND DEXTERITY IN LOVE

Love alone can discover how its beloved

can be elevated in life, glory, love and growth,and thus overflow into his environment;

so, love alone,

gathers normal wisdom in one,

establishes the beloved practically

with efficiency and dexterity!17




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LUXURY OF THOUGHT

Whenever you find that any thought or movement of yours

does not invoke activity,

or does not stick to activity,

understand

that is only a luxury

of your thought or imagination! 18

THE TOUCHSTONE OF PURE DESIRE

For the sake of some desire you have

you cannot ignore the complexes antagonistic to it,

this is the means of knowing

that your desire is not pure ! 19

FOPPISH* WISH

Your go, character, words, behavior,

and continuity or adherencedo not go near,

or find it difficult to go near

the way of doing or the way of being

by which the object of your desire

can be had,

definitely understand

your desire is not at all pure;

it is rather mere foppishness of desire. 20

*foppishcapricious, whimsical.

VISION COLORED BY CONCEPTIONIn whatever way your thought and conduct

has shaped your nature,

wherever you go, whatever you see,

your nature will conceive the environment

in just that way

and see it in just that way! 21

VICTORY THROUGH FULFILLING NEEDS

If you want to conquer,

not by overwhelming through the application

of external force,stand up and be enthusiastic and practical

in fulfilling ones needs! 22

YES CAN

There is as much difference

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as there is between yes and no;

one who does not invite the not into the being able,

who has no question about being able,

yet depends on doing,

who is not stopped in the joy of doing by anything,

he can! 23

NO CANNOT

And, one who wants to haggle with the thought of

being able

by inviting no in

to whom no is so trustworthy!

for whom there isnt any feeling, any thought

or any activity

without no,

however much he may equip himself

with the paraphernalia for being able or doing,

everything of his,

embracing that no,

falls into the numbness of sleep! 24

THE WAY TO PERFECTION

To think I cannot do

or to have doubts about being able

actually creates the not-being-able;

banish the no and the doubt from being able

stick to it, try,

perfection is before you! 25

NO AS A RELATIVE

If one whose wife is no

and whose brother-in-law is it cant be

is given a warm reception,

the throne of adversity will remain unshaken,

no doubt! 26

INSPIRATION FOR EFFICIENT WORK

As easy and swift the inspiration anywhere,

so natural and indomitableis the efficiency in work there! 27

HAPPINESS

Enlivening, elevating, and delighting

your being,

and disseminating it into the environment,




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it makes everyone elated,

if anything is to be called happiness,

it is this! 28

POVERTY THROUGH IDLENESS

Idleness, I cannot, It cannot be,It cant be done,

be careful and alert

about all such thoughts and conduct,

for they easily infect the progeny,

and the environment is contaminated by them;

as a result, family, society and country

are stupefied, prostrated and depressed,

and thus finished off in terrible poverty! 29

FULFILLING NECESSITIES

Do not give indulgence to idleness;be intent on service;

felicitate people by receiving them respectfully,

to the best of your ability;

in whatever way you can,

help in the fulfillment of others necessities;

remaining pleased and satisfied yourself,

please and satisfy others;

you will see,

even if you dont want them,

fortune and resources

will freely remain with you;

poverty, staying far away,

will bow down to you! 30

CHEATING

If you want to keep

the love of cheating unbroken,

then why should you take any trouble

in efforts to nourish the one

by whose provision you are being nourished? 31

FRIENDS OF POVERTY

With idleness, distrust, self-concern and ingratitude

as friends,

you will not have to search for poverty,

or even with one of them;

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that it cannot get along

if any are missing;

if this kind of wealth has settled in your heart

you will not have to bear

the distress of lacking sorrow! 32

SPOILING WORK THROUGH PROCRASTINATION

Procrastination is the friend of idleness

the guide to the spoilage of work!

do bid farewell to procrastination

by doing what is to be done

immediately;

efficiency and success

will be your servants! 33

GREED

Excessive eager desire

which goes beyond appropriate needs

may be called greed;

be wary of this transgression,

because by leading you into depression,

it may end up in your death! 34

DISTRESS THROUGH ANGER

One maddened by anger

obstructs others,

there being no control over his selfish blindness;distress, all-conquering,

follows him with loud laughter! 35

SELF-INTEREST

To fulfill him from whom one gets,to make him exuberant,

and to remove anything that restricts acquisition for himis the meaning of self-interest;

where receiving has become prominentwithout fulfilling the source from whom one gets,

self-interest, swallowed up by error,withers and falls senseless certainly! 36

RESULTS OF STEALINGSteal not,

intelligence chafed with desire,without giving anyone a loftier recoupment,seeks an unjust and secret satisfaction,




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that is stealing;in stealing

the intelligence,by going on harming others day by day,

disappears into deterioration;

through doingin the way by which desire is fulfilled

perception and knowledge are awakened

and thus the object of desire is achieved;but in stealing

this process is wounded and depressed,and one embraces what is contrary to Dharma;

for these reasons stealing is so hateful,so sinful, so mean;

therefore I say,do not bring destruction upon yourself

and your environmentby giving indulgence to this thieving mentality,

be careful! 37

CONQUERING THE PASSIONS

Do not become disturbedin the effort to conquer the enemies

lust, anger, and the like;that feeling of disturbance actually establishes them;

instead, make the passions desistby engaging in some subject or feeling

which is so attractive

that the matter of passion hardly comes up for you;see

how easy it is to master a passion! 38

SAVINGS AND SERVICE

Accumulate savings,but for service!

if your savings do not offer worship to service,

know for surethey are for something that hurts becoming! 39

ATTENDANCE WITHOUT SERVICE

Service means that which makes a personfit, at ease, elevated and delighted;

when it does not do so,

yet attendance is provided,that service invites only denial! 40




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FOOLISH SERVICE

Where service cannot bring well-being, delightand upliftment,

moreover, the exertion, anxiety and restlessnessall end up in futility.

know for surethat service is foolish service! 41

ADJUSTMENT OF DEVILISH EGO

Whenever your ego wants to establish itselfby slighting or denying another,

then know it to be the devilish ego;

engage your ego in such a mannerthat by directing it

you can invite the life, glory and growthof your environment! 42

DEMAND OF THE UNSERVICEABLEWithout doing at least something of service to a person

through which he gets comfort, peace and delight

when the time comes to get something from someone,dont try to get it by demanding from him,

saying that he is your own man;you wont get anything that way;

rather, humiliation and neglectwith a deadly unexpected blow

will make you sorry! 43

DEATH AND IMMORTALITYAs much as you become attached to the many

to each according to its kind

without aiming at one,

then each of those particular attachments

separately and in various ways,

with the creation of scattered complexes

goes to tear you to pieces,

and thus clears the path to ignorance and death;

and whenever you embrace the many,

having taken your stay in devotion to one,

then those many thingsand the complexes created out of them,

achieving a state of restraint

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will invite immortality

with the enkindling of perception and wisdom! 44

EVIDENCE OF IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS

As much as you become dedicated to the interest of the Ideal,

so much will skill in service, efficiency in work,sweetness in words and behavior,

sympathy and expansiveness

anoint your character

and become reflected in your environment;

the urge

which has made you dedicated to the interest of the Ideal

which has made his establishment your supreme interest,

compelling you, though without your knowing it,

will shape you in this way;

and this very thing is the evidence

of your Ideal-centeredness! 45

CONSCIOUSNESS AND DHARMA THROUGH IMPACT

You are conscious just then

when your environment makes an impact on you;

and this consciousness is the infallible evidence

that you are alive!

so, as is the kind of impact your environment makes on you,

such will be the way

your feeling, perception and passion

come together;

if this is so,then Dharma is the doing

by which you along with your environment

can grow in continuous expansion

of life, glory and growth;

speak, practice and perform

whatever makes you and your environment

become of this nature,

you will see how greatly you are relieved

from misfortune, evil and fear ! 46

THE IDEAL AND DEVOTION TO HIMService to him, keeping his company,

and pursuing him with devotion

make a person gradually uplifted in life, glory and growth;

when single-minded attachment or devotion is fixed

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and when it stays unbrokenly adhered

the environment and world being unable

to produce any kind of scattering,

so that those scatted impulses (from the environment)

are related and adjusted

and achieve meaningfulness,

then that devotion,

prospering in feeling, knowledge and perception,

embraces immortality,

he alone is the Ideal, or the Guide,

the Beloved;

that is why single-minded devotion

to Ideal, Beloved or Guide

is so essential in human life;

if you want to carry on your life keeping Dharma unbroken,

then Ideal, Beloved or Guide is of primary necessity!placing your attachment, devotion or love

in him

and considering him the supreme interest,

follow him;

you will be successful! 47

WHAT LOVE WANTS

Prema (supreme love) or love wants to establish

its beloved in life, glory and growth

by squeezing out all that it has;

the beloved is its supreme interest;it searches through its world,

and whatever it finds that is beneficial

to life, glory and growth,

it brings to equip its beloved,

and in this it feels itself to be meaningful,

and its nourishment, satisfaction and liberation

lie only in this;

it doesnt want to be independent excluding him;

submission to the beloved

and service to the beloved

comprise its Dharma, wealth, desire and liberation;*while making its beloved abundant

in perception, knowledge, work, life, and resources

in this way,

prema imperceptibly becomes established

in abundance itself;




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hence prema is so sinless

and so very great ! 48

*Dharma, artha, kama and moksha are the four goals

of life in traditional Hindu thinking.

WHAT LUST WANTSLust want to get the one it lusts after

as a present,

and in the way it wishes;

it is completely unwilling to bear the difficulty

of making the one it lusts after

prosper

if no breach of any kind takes place in its enjoyment

because of that unwillingness;

thus lust makes a person foolish,

steals from his world,

and, to whatever extent greed for enjoyment

somehow keeps him enkindled,

wants to keep him confined in its boundaries;

and the termination of that

is the termination of everything!

this is why it has no expansiveness;

life and glory are in a state of contraction;

its stay is in the death-puzzle

of the bottomless pit of darkness,

that is sin;

so it is weak, depressed and unknowing.Considerwhat do you want ? 49

SUBDOING LUST THROUGH LOVE

One who goes to subdue lust

without depending on love

is generally destroyed by lust

in an horrendous upheaval ! 50

IMPARTATION OF THE BELOVED

Spontaneous extolment of the Beloved

and a natural tendency to impart him to others

comprise one characteristic signof attraction or love;

from this it can be understood

that one is well-content and radiant

in acceptance of the Beloved! 51




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LOVE IN CONTRARY CONFLICTS

If feeling, devotion and love

do not become indomitable

in conflicts that are contrary to them,

then it is of course doubtful

whether they were there in the first place! 52

SATANS SORCERY

If, tempted by something,

you pas over your Ideal,

thought that neither has him as objective

nor establishes him,

do understand

by Satans sorcery

you have become entranced and enticed;

even now if you turn away from it,

you can take hold of deliverance ! 53

CONSCIENCE

The response of the environment

which is in the brain as memory and knowledge,

to reflect on that is conscience;

and one who determines what is to be done

by that kind of reflection

is conscientious ! 54

TRUE LOVE

Making ones heart overflowing,and extending into the environment,

love establishes the beloved

through service and Jaajan;*

and where this is absent,

be doubtful about the love;

try to understand! 55

MENTAL POVERTY THROUGH APATHY TO JAAJAN

When you see that your inclination to Jaajan

is becoming poor, or has ceased,

know for sureyour minds perceptiveness and enjoyment

day by day have become weakened

and are becoming more so! 56




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DEVELOPMENT THROUGH JAAJAN

Jaajan, making anew the one who receives it,

gives him enjoyment in various ways;

that is why jaajan regarding wisdom or supreme love

is an easy stairway of progress! 57

ENJOYING THE BELOVED THROUGH JAAJAN

When love or wisdom makes life elated,

then only does the inclination to Jaajan

become ardent in searching for new persons

in various ways;

it wants to speak in various ways

and in various fashions

about what is dear to it,

and by doing so

wants to enjoy in various ways;

whenever you see that this searching and finding

is beginning to stop,

the perception and expansion

of the beloved within you

is becoming inert! 58

MANY-GUISED LUST

Where not getting makes you sorry,

where someones prospering makes you depressed

and someones appreciation of others perturbs you,

yet attachment and attraction

are making you extremely greedy,do understand that love is not there;

what is there is many-guised lust! 59

SHELTER AND ATTACHMENT IN DEPENDENCE

Much better than depending on someone

for the sake of getting shelter

is depending on someone on account of attachment;

in the former case ones character may not be colored;

in the second case though

it definitely must be

but this depends on the person! 60

DOUBT

The doubter,

always doubting the tendency to progress,

by suppressing activity

calls in his own ruin! 61




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ON GETTING

To get

pursue doing;

mere consideration

often paralyzes the getting! 62

SORROW

If sorrow, by invoking regret,

narrows the path to downfall,

then it is befitting;

otherwise it is best to neglect it! 63

TO DOUBT ATTACHMENT

To deny or doubt or analyze

ones own feelings, devotion, and love for someone

and to dump the Elixir of Life

into the dustbinare one and the same thing! 64

JAAJANEGOISTIC AND LOVING

When Jaajan is a matter of ones own egotism,

though done in the name of the Beloved,

if it is assailed

it falls into depression;

by this sign you can determine

whose Jaajan you are doing;

if Jaajan is born out of love,

and is for the Beloved,then in opposition or unexpected injury

it becomes so indomitable, victorious,

and enjoyable for both

that is comprehensible only

to the one who has enjoyed it! 65

EGOISTIC JAAJAN UNDER A MASK OF LOVE

Whenever you have become ardent to establish

your indispensability, importance and supremacy

before your Beloved

by speaking about the success, glory and enjoyablenessof your Jaajan,

and the least lapse in that establishment,

making you impatient,

is arousing pain and opposing feelings

in regard to the Beloved and his environment,

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this Jaajan is not out of love for your Beloved,

but merely out of love for ego! 66

WRETCHEDNESS IN DISREGARD OF IDEAL

If a man does not pursue glory

for the sake of establishing his Ideal,and is devoted to sex-enjoyment and money

for establishing his self-interest,

and hence gathers contempt and fruitlessness,

it is better not to call him a man,

but rather, a wretch! 67

GROWTH AND DOWNFALL IN PREACHING

Whatever you preach about will grow,

so watch out

not to direct your tendency to preach

toward that which brings the downfall of life and growth,do not die, nor cause death! 68

OBSTACLES TO NORMAL WISDOM

One who sees or perceives

each and everyone of the world

by putting on the eyeglasses of hearsay

or of ideas fabricated by his own mind,

is never at all troubled

by normal wisdom! 69

FEELING IN CHARACTER AND CONDUCT

As is the feeling residing in youin a certain way at a certain time,

so, in general, will be your thought, conduct

and speech;

and however elevated it becomes

and thus remains thoroughly absorbing to you,

such will be the elevation

of your thought, conduct and speech! 70

TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD

That which has existence and expansion,

and that which, keeping the being unharmed,leads it in progress,

and moreover does not bring discord or cessation

to any other being

is truth;

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and scatters anothers being

or causes it to deteriorate

is falsehood! 71

SADHANA AND SUCCESS

The harmonious repeated effortto comprehend the means for mastering something

is called sadhana;

and when as a result of knowing and doing it

the character flourishes

then success (siddhi) embraces it! 72

FATE AND RESULTS OF ACTION

Your continuous effort in activity

affects the environment,

and the results of your actions issue out from it

and become transformed into various forms throughthe transmission;

as a result of this, what is waiting for you

outside the limits of your knowledge

is your fate! 73

PROVIDENCE AND PERSONALITY

Inherent instincts born of spontaneous distinctiveness

with which one is born

and the way the environment accepts one

as a result of them,

that is Providence;and personality is

that power laid within distinctiveness

which, making one real,

guides one within nature and the environment! 74

SPIRITUALISM

The feeling

which weaves through and through existence

and by this is inspired and adjusted,

and thus is reflected in thought, conduct and activity

is spiritualism in substance! 75SPIRITUALISM AND ACTIVITY

Wherever there is no spiritualism,

that is, where being is not made the basis,

yet there is vitality in action,

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meaningful;

and in the same way,

where there is spiritualism

but no impulse to activity,

that does not make anyone blessed or delighted! 76

THE VISION OF BRAHMA*If you have not been able to know

by bringing into your own perceptionthe individual and the whole,then your vision of Brahma

is nothing more than a derangement of the brain! 77

*That which being developed and becoming everything, yet remains the same is Brahma.

Sri Sri Thakur: Satyanusaran, p. 97

YOGA

To be yoked or attached to somethingis called the yoga of that;

so the condition and results of the yoga

depend on the consequences inherent in its object! 78

YOGA AND ASCETICISM

When all of ones determinationhas been placed in something or someone,

that is, when all of his determination,

regulating his activity,makes the life and growth of something or someone

exuberant,he is a yogi, his is an ascetic! 79

THE SEER

One who, going through the passions,that is, knowing the passions,integrating and solving them

and making them meaningful in One,

has achieved the salvation of his mind,is a Seer;

hence it is written:The Seer is the seer of the mantra!** 80

**The literal meaning of mantra is that which rescues the mind.

REALITYTHE LIMITLESS WITHIN THE LIMITED

Whether you are a worshipper of God-with-formor a believer in the Formless,

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in knowledge and vision,that is, if the limited does not bloom in your vision

in a practical wayas the unlimited and boundless,

then meaningless grimacing imagination

will not release you at all! 81

GOD IN REALITY

Do not try to shape your Godin the imagination that he is unknowable

do not lay a path to eternal depression in futility!Where all or most of your passions become meaningful,

there engage your need, love, devotion and prema,your God will become real

in your perception thereand thus be manifested

as Arjuna found his God in Sri Krishna!

Fear not,delusion will not be able to lead you astray! 82

MEANINGFULNESS OF PREVIOUS PROPHETSExperience, vision, science and truth

become established in expansivenessin making the previous Prophets meaningful;

moreover, they do not insultmans accumulated knowledge,

bringing in meaninglessness and deteriorationby putting our the light

of those previous Ones! 83

DISREGARD AND INGRATITUDE TO PREVIOUS PROPHETSOne who wants to establish his own view or philosophy

by denying or slightingthe previous Seers, Prophets or Ideals,

who does not accept them with humilityor respectfully correct the deterioration

brought by ignorance into their utterancesin the passage of time,

who furthermore doe not make that correction a basisfor trying to let those sayings be easily understood,

uplifted and lucidby fulfilling and nurturing them

in a way that befits the time,who disparages them and makes them naught,

who thus is determined to make them utterly futile,do doubt such a one,

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is based on the incontrovertible utterancesof the previous Ones;

so he who cuts himself offbecause of disregard and ingratitude to the previous Ones,

and is diligent for self-establishment,

by infusing that ingratitude and separationinto the followers of the present Prophet,

will bring degeneration into the nation and the culture

there is no doubt about it;that is why I say

do not waver in being cautious about this! 84

THE PREVIOUS PROPHET IN THE PRESENT PROPHETWhere the present Prophet,

establishing the previous Prophet,is inspired by his exaltation,

know surely

it was by that same inspirationthat the organization based on the previous one

came to be! 85

DHARMA AND ANTI-DHARMA

Dharma means that which lets life and growthembrace immortality

by binding them in unison and upholding themwith the inclination to life, glory and upliftment;

and that which harms life and growthand takes one on the path of contraction,

depression and downfall

and makes one touch deathmay be called anti-Dharma! 86

DHARMA WHICH IS DEVOID OF SERVICEYou are practicing Dharma,

yet it has not come to be your interestto serve your own life and growth

and the life and growth of your environment;rather, an attitude toward them

of mean-mindedness, neglect, hatred and the likehas come in and made you narrower;

know for sure,you have not at all invoked Dharma;

you have been worshipping narrowness, ego and hatred,and in return you are getting the same! 87




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JAAJAN* NORMAL IN ADHERENCE TO THE IDEAL

You have adhered to the Ideal,yet the emotion of that adherence

which is flowing within youis not nourishing the environment with the Ideal

and making it pleased with him,not is it issuing out into the environment

or flooding itin its urge and maddening zeal

to impart and establish him;know that your adherence to your Ideal

is only a show, nothing more! 88

*Jaajan: infusing the Ideal into the environment

ALL PASSIONS ENGAGED FOR ESTABLISHING THE IDEALIdeal is your father,

Ideal is your maintainer,Ideal is your creator,Ideal is your guide,

Ideal is your most beloved!

Oh you, the wise! Be for the Ideal in all respects,and let your sole and steady effort be

to establish him in all respects in your worldand to become aglow with meaningfulness

so that you can embrace immortality;however many good and bad passions you may have,

let your Ideal thoroughly pervade all of them;let not immortality, upliftment and life

be insulted in injuryby turning yourself away from him,

becoming mad for lust and wealth,and surrendering yourself to them,

stay alert! 89

THE TRAP OF SYMPATHYDo not become loveless toward your Ideal

or void of diligence for himunder the sway of anyones service and sympathy;

a person ascends to success repeatedlyby surmounting the difficulties and troubles

that are created in the awakening of lovefor the Ideal

and in the effort to fulfill his desires;and uncalled-for service, cordiality and sympathy

infatuate a person and make him tremble with greed,knock him away from the Ideal,




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and thus throw him from success into annihilation;always stay away from this kind of ignorance

the greedy eyes of depressionwill not paralyze you! 90

ACTIVITY UNDESIRABLE TO THE IDEAL

If one does deeds tainted by meanness,undesired by the Superior, Lord or Ideal,

the courage to come into his contact is weakened;but if there is normal and sincere attachment

then such pain and repentance surge upbecause of the obstruction to communion

that one dismisses all weakness in a momentin anxious effort bathed in sorrow;

in intense attractionone cannot remain without embracing him;

but be careful

ingratitude and greed for lustgradually humiliate and distress that sensationand thus carry one into stupefying darkness;

if this kind of thing happens, turn back at onceeven though there is trouble,

you can find the path! 91

SUCCESS (SIDDHI) THROUGH ALL-ENCOMPASSING INTEREST

IN FOLLOWING THE IDEALYou may perform thousands of acts of worship,

practice the repetition of the Holy Namethousands of times,

and meditate thousands of times,but as long as you cannot become attached to your

Desired One or Idealin such a way that he comes to be your interest

in all respects,that worship, repetition of Name and meditation

cannot be installed in your life, glory and growthso as to completely fulfill your necessities

and direct your character in actuality. 92

SUCCESS (SIDDHI) FROM JAPA (REPETITION OF THE HOLY NAME)He out of whom your Japa is produced

is the objective of your Japa;and if this objective is ignored,

then the mental exercisewhich is to create an enkindlement in you

instead calls in deterioration,not becoming coherent through centering on some objective;

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achieves coherence with the one who is your objectiveand is set in him,

then, by illuminating nature with normal perception,feeling and wisdom,

it makes the character overflowing

and thus expansive;that is why

success comes from japa, success comes from japa,

success comes from japa;and there is no doubt about it! 93

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JAPA

The significance of repetition of the Holy Namelies in mentally churning over the subject of repetition

and whatever concerns thatand awakening perception with thought and pursuit;

so if you have not adjusted your repetition of the Holy Name

in this way,how much can it do anything for you? 94

MEDITATIONMeditation is nothing else than

the way in which a person, by thinking of his Beloved,becomes awakened and ecstatic,

that is, to feel the one who is the object of meditation,to think about him and talk things over in the mind about him,

as he is seen,with whatever there is in him,

and whatever constitutes him,

and with his doings and speaking, moods and gestures,and thus arrive at perception, meaningfulness,

and the means of accomplishment,

and to be awakened, overflowing, and whole-heartedlydedicated to him,

and thus to become extremely eager and indomitablein making him successful!

Again, uninterrupted ness in this kind of feeling, thinkingand doing

for anyonemakes Him beloved to the one who so thinks of Him,

and when by doing in this waythe object of meditation or the Belovedbecomes the one and only within youor eternally emancipated within you,

then you also, becoming solely in Himor eternally emancipated in Him

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and this condition of absorptionwill invite Samadhi*;

again, through thisnormal perception will flourish in the brain

and normal feeling will flourish in the mind! 95

*Samadhi: complete absorption of the mind in conceiving something thoroughly.

LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THROUGH NEGLIGENCE

Negligence shoves asidethe understandings load of understanding! 96

ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE AND GROWTH IN DHARMAYou are righteous (Dharmik)!

You are always worshipping the Lord,and occupied with offering, meditation at twilight,

and daily prayers;yet service, wealth, resources, life, glory, growth,

satisfaction, nourishment and the likeare not offering you ovations,

nor is your environment becoming prosperousby getting these things from you;

do understand,in your ostentation of Dharma

you have not invited existence and growth;so both you and your environment

are being deprived of Dharma! 97

SUCCESSFUL LIVING

Do try to keep your existence normal and unfluctuatingin such a way that you can make your living unobstructed

by taking from nature and the environment

only the ingredients that are for existence;but if anyone, vanquished in the anxiety of life,

comes to you asking for help,then as far as possible make him healthy and strong,

giving him more than he needs,so that you come to be the means to

what is desirable and what is goodfor his life and his needs;

see,

how your life mounts in success so very greatly,and sends illumination to the horizon

in the expression of its resounding glory! 98




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MATINS*, VESPERS** AND PRAYERS

Do not leave off doing matins, vespers and prayers;and the more you can perform them

with sweetness of feeling, with understanding,and with eager urge,

the more they will brighten and purify your mind,and thus uplift your health and your character;

as a result,service, resources, behavior and skill in work

will be fertilizedand thus make you joyous,

there is no doubt! 99

*Matins: morning prayer (both words originate from the monastic Catholic tradition)**Vespers: evening prayer

WEALTH, ENJOYMENT AND LIBERATION FOLLOW DHARMAWhenever you embrace Dharma practically

with service,life, wealth, enjoyment and liberation

will definitely serve you;and whenever you become attracted to their service

and thus incline toward them,know for certain that they will flee away,

dashing you down sothat it will be extremely hard labor for you

to invite the strength to rise again;take these things and engage them

in the service of the environment,

you will achieve good! 100

PERSONAL PROSPERITY IN THE ENVIRONMENTS PROSPERITY

The chief indication of life is consciousness,and this consciousness comes into being

from the impact of environing life;and out of that comes the upward movement

of the mind of integrated passions;again, this mind,

by considering the favorable and the adverse,directs a person;

so if you really desire to benefit

your progress, your mind and your life,then through your service make your environment such

that those who compose it

become healthy and strongand thus abundant in life and delight! 101




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THE ENVIRONMENT A DAILY OBSERVANCE

As a daily observancesee to your environment, individual and collective,

each and every day,with thought, talk and conversation;

and every day do as much as you are ableto fulfill their necessities,

seethe goddess of prosperitywill stand firm with you! 102

MEANINGFUL SERVICE

Know for surea person is more benefited if one fulfils his requirements

by serving and caring for his afflicted mindthrough remedy, encouragement, help,

sympathy and the like,than by attending to his physical needs,

disregarding his mind;when you go to serve someone,

first observe his mental conditionto discover his requirements,

and expanding yourself according to the formof those needs,

make arrangements for them,so that he can become healthy and prosperous,

and thus engage your feelings, words, behavior, resourcesand capability

in service as far as possible;

seeyour service will exult in fruitfulnessand be crowned with success! 103

SADHUTHE ACCOMPLISHED ONE

One who implants the clues to success in his characterand is regulating his life according to that

may be called a Sadhu (accomplished one)in the true sense! 104

JAPA TO AWAKEN PERCEPTION AND WISDOM

AND MAKE THEM BENEFICIAL

You are practicing Japa* and offering worship,yet your normal perception and wisdom

have not been enkindled,nor has their tendency to be of benefit,

know for sureyou are little engaged in the thought of him

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and he whom you are worshippinghas not at all become your interest!

That is why you have not been made anxiousby the concern or necessity to render beneficial

your own and your environments life, glory,

nourishment, pleasure and expansionas well as his

by nurturing and satisfying his welfare

and your environment with him in it;this being the case,

what can this form of Japa and worshipdo for you? 105

*Japa: repetition of Gods Name, the Holy Name

CHARACTER AND YOGIC ENDOWMENTS IN SADHANA

(SPIRITUAL EFFORT)In the practice of spiritual endeavor

the yogic endowmentslike sound, light, divine messages and so on

which arise through continuous effortand profound attention,

indicate the transformationof the state of your brain;

they may not touch your real being and character;but what happens through unbroken attachment

of devotion and love for the Ideal,or yogic practices which include this devotion and love,

attracts the being and character

and so directs the person upward in progress,this is definitely certain! 106

THE END OF WEAKNESSWhen your devotion, incessantly bearing

the urge to be meaningful in your Idealin all respects,

is converted into proficiency in activity,from then is the beginning

of the end of your weakness! 107

THIS LIFE DETERMINES THE LIFE IN THE OTHER WORLD

The proof that your Dharmawill bring heaven for you in the other worldis that you, along with your environment,

are being elevated in life, glory and growthin this world;

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it is what is happening herethat will determine your life in the other world! 108

WHEN RELIANCE WILL GREET YOU

When your everything becomes whole-heartedly engagedin the maddening zeal to become meaningful

in your Lord, Ideal or Guide,then and there reliance will greet you! 109

PEACE IN IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS

When everything you haveis based on your Ideal,

then and there peace will become unshakeableand will uphold and preserve you! 110

YOUR OWN IDEAL AND ANOTHERS IDEAL

Do not seek to establish your own Idealby slighting anothers Ideal;

but rather acknowledge himand respectfully demonstrate the agreement

of your own Ideal,you will find that all are becoming yours! 111

JAAJAN, THE TEST OF DOUBT AND DEVOTION

If your prema*, devotion or lovegrowing profuse in its feeling for the Beloved

does not become resonant in Jaajan,consider where and in what corner

doubt is hiding and peering out like a thief;be careful

seek it out and become void of doubt,your environment will surely be flooded

in the flood of your devotion! 112

*Prema: The supreme form of love for the Divine.**Jaajan: Exalting and uplifting the environment with pious worship of the Ideal.

GENUINE LOVE

Another characteristic sign of genuine love is thisthe beloveds offense

can never cause a deficiency in the attraction

by bringing on ill-will, distress

or vexation! 113

FIRMNESS IN CONFLICTS ADVERSE TO LOVE

If feeling, devotion and love are not indomitablein conflicts adverse to them,

then it is dubiouswhether they were there in the first place! 114




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COURAGE ESTABLISHING WELL-BEING AND PROGRESS

If couragewith steady perception

spurns, resists and destroyswhat is opposed to life and growth,

and thus is naturally efficientin establishing progress along with well-being

for self, environment and the world,it may be called true courage! 115

HESITATION IN DOUBT

Where doubt is smiling,hesitation is normal! 116

VALOR IN IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS

As much as your life becomes whole-heartedly dedicatedto the Ideal,

so much will strength, courage and valoroffer you ovation! 117

THE HERO

One for whom enthusiastic uphill effort is normal,through whose courage, skill and efficiency

chaos and error are convertedinto order and rightness,

who diminishes and destroys that which witherslife, glory and growth,

and thus establishes becoming,he alone is a hero! 118

SELF-ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH ESTABLISHING OTHERS

Rememberto establish others life, glory and growth

is the only way of achievingyour own life, glory, growth and establishment,

but actually doing that,not only thinking about it, talking about it,

and wanting it!If there is an error in this,

all your efforts, all your wishes, all your workswill end in error! 119

? WHY THE ENVIRONMENT SEEMS UNSUITABLE

Whenever one thinks that his environmentis not suitable for him,

it is sure that his service and resourcesare not so great, or not so well-adjusted,

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exuberantand thus render it beneficial! 120

STRONG WEAKNESS

As for the strong one who can make the weak weakerthe greater his weakness of strength,

the more he makes weakness strong! 121

GENUINE AND FOOLISH HUMILITY

Foolish humility makes man base;genuine humility exists

where, keeping ones nature and honor unharmed,

it establishes truth;and the meaning of truth is

that which makes mans life and growthexuberant in well-being! 122

THE FLY-LIKE MAN

Be careful of the fly-like man!However good the things you do may be,however good the things you say may be,

discarding every bit of it,

and taking just what is necessaryto make the bad thrive,

he spoils others in the environment;the remedy for this

if such a thing has happenedis to be cautious and confront him,or to tactfully persuade him! 123

THE BEE-LIKE MANAnother kind of man is the bee-like man;

there is no great excess of them in the world;their nature is such that however ugly anything may be,

they rightly understand how much of it,or what portion of it,

is sweet like honey,and in collecting that they are second to none;

even if you get stung, seek them out;if you find any,

you will get such nourishment from them

as to fill your life and mindwith honey-sweetness;

if you desire it, be on the lookout! 124




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POVERTY IMPOVERISHED

No harm if you are poor;but dont be deprived of the wealth of your character

be not at all forsaken by service, sympathy, fulfillment of needs,skillfulness, efficiency, protectiveness,

true expansiveness and the like;you will see how impoverished poverty becomes

and how it flees away to parts unknown! 125

UNMANLINESS IN MANS OFFERING HIMSELF TO WOMAN

Whenever unmanliness becomes the boon companion

of a man,only then can a man implore a woman

or offer himself to a woman;on the other hand,

it is for woman to offer herself to a man,

and this is the distinctive characteristicof woman! 126

BROTHERHOOD THAT DISREGARDS THE SUPERIORBe careful of the feeling of brotherhood

which does not know how to look up to the superior,and moreover, neglecting the superior,

itself wants to be looked up to,it is the progenitor of baseness! 127

THE MESSENGER OF DEATH

One who asks for morewithout suitably nourishing that from which

he derives nourishmentis the messenger of death!

Be careful of him on both accounts! 128

EGOISTIC SLIGHTING MAKES ONE KING FOR A DAYWhenever your capability, efficiency or skillfulness

want to establish themselvesby humiliating, denying and slighting

anothers capability, efficiencyor skillfulness,

that is when you are being boastful and egoistic;

and the more you act in this manner,the more your ability will make youking for a day,

and have you ride around the streetson a donkey!*

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THE EMPEROR OF MANS LIFE

When the small or lowly come to you,let them not feel at all that they are small or lowly;

rather, through your association and helplet them see before them the wide royal road

which leads a person easily to greatness and wisdomif he takes to it and travels on it,

and let this be natural to you!You will find that you turn out to be

an emperor in peoples lives! 130

THE AROUSING OF SYMPATHYIf the hunger to stay alive and achieve growth

did not make man restlessly eager,then it is doubtful whether anyone

would be helpful to anyone at the time of need;if someone comes to you,

do not depress his living and growingby talking of sorrows;

rather, do and say what will inspire and uplift him;you will find that constant talk of sorrows

will not arouse anyones sympathy;mans spontaneous sympathy will greet you;

people will be unwilling to bear that you should haveeven a little sorrow,

and become whole-heartedly eager to allay it! 131

HUMILIATING THE WRONG-DOERDo spurn sin or wrong-doing,

but do not hate the sinner or wrong-doer;if you do so, you will see

as you have hated,as you have humiliated the wrong-doer,the hating and humiliating will take form,

and expose and catch hold of you in the same way,

and insult, ridicule, and oppress youand make you hated;

be especially careful about your thoughtsand behavior! 132

THE STEALER OF FAULT-FINDING EYEGLASSES

One who knows how to see people as bad,seldom comes in contact with

the thief who stealsthe eyeglasses used for fault-finding! 133




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INJURY BY HATRED

If ever out of hatred for someoneyou have caused some kind of injury,

at once free him from itthrough service, sympathy and attention,

and thus establish him in well-being;otherwise that causing of injury because of hatred

will so injure you and your worldthat though you cry shame on fate hundreds of times,

you will not find the pathyou will see! 134

CLEANSING FAULTS WITH FAULTS

If one wants to clean up faultsby collecting faults,

and scrubbing faults with faults,no need to worry

his fault will be polished up very well;the misfortune of being deprived of fault

will not have to bear his company. 135

IN SUFFERING OR IN PEACEWhen suffering or peace

do not relieve or uplift peoples minds,then they attack the environment

like disease-bearing fliesand engender evil activities! 136

GREATNESS THROUGH PURSUIT OF DHARMA

Do understandwhoever has become great in any area

has pursued the Dharma of becoming soin that area,

and that is why he is great;and one who has not done so

has become greatonly in the expansion of remorse! 137

EVER-SICKLY GLORY

If ones sense of dignity is brittle,his glory is ever-sickly. 138

PROGRESS PURSUES ONE WHO ESTABLISHES THE IDEAL

Whatever you dofor the establishment of your Ideal,

in a way that no injury of any kindcomes upon another,

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eager to offer congratulations,will surely pursue you

in order to offer itself to youknow it for certain! 139

TRUE HEROISMIN SUBDOING DIFFICULTIES

When you see that obstacles can no longerintimidate you,

rather you are able to straighten out obstacles in such a waythat they help you develop,

then only are you strong;when your understanding adorns your character in this way,

then only will nature give youa real heros reception! 140

INDOOR HEROISM

When ones heroism and ability

are vigorously expressed before womenfolk,when it comes to the field of practicalityin the outdoor world,

it is sure to fade away and languishin the hot rays of the sun! 141

INJURING THE IDEAL IN A POSE OF HUMILITY

If you neglect efficiency,and with a pretense of humility

entertain the feeling of being a servant,devotee or son,

the Ideal or Guide is actually established in lowness;

what truer means than this is therefor injuring him? 142

GRACETo receive Grace means that

the opportunity for doing or servingis unrestricted;

and if one gets that,the path to achievement

spontaneously becomes unrestricted! 143

HUSBAND AND WIFE ONLY FOR SEX

Mere lust can never make anyonea true husband or wife,and never could! 144

HARMFUL LUST AND ANGER

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of your Ideal,and when they depress and injure

the life and growth of your environment! 145

THE WITCHY CALL OF LUSTFUL YEARNINGWhenever you find that you are falling away

from the company of the Superior, the Lord,or the Ideal,

and if you do go near themyou dont feel well,

and in spite of your intention,the pull of their association

does not attract you,know for sure

the witchy call of lustor vain imagining

is entrancing you like a fool

and arousing your passionate crave,enveloping the path of progressin the darkness of distraction,

and filling it with senseless cracked-brainemotion

through the futile arroganceof bewildering thought;

thus it is throttling your progresswith its filthy hands;

understand this for sure, be careful,and if you can,

be off from it! 146TO THINK OF MOTHER WHEN PULLED BY LUST

Look not in the least with lustful eyes,

nor be the least bit possessed by lustful feeling;even if you are not given to such evil deeds

in actuality,by going on in this way

this continuous lustfulness of yourswill weaken your go, character, conduct, behavior,

and attachment,because thoughts of lust can so master a persons being

that no other thought can drive them awayand incline your being toward itself;

so despite there being many possibilities and resourcesfor your progress,

you will not at all be able to catch holdof success or fruitfulness;

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to remain at a distanceand to color and delight your feeling and sight

with thoughts of mother;be awareif this sort of thing is happening to you,

be careful at once! 147

THE WITCHCRAFT OF LUST

Whenever you see that scatterednesssuddenly comes into the path

of progress or upward go

and has obstructed continuityor is obstructing it,

generally you can understand without a doubtthat the reason it has happened or is happening

is the lustful inclination to women;generally it happens this way to men,

and the more of it there is,

the more imperious is the downward drag;but in the case of women,

it generally happens in the same form also,

as long as they are not in direct contactwith any superior,

and so are weighed down in the moatof imagination

with emotional effusiveness of thoughts;but when there is voluntary direct contact

(with a superior)an expansion of progress or gradual upward go

takes place,resembling that

of the one with whom there is contact;move on, understanding yourself well! 148

DEBASEMENT OF LINEAGE THROUGH LASCIVIOUSNESS

If you are not Ideal-centricbut lustfully centered on woman as sex-object,

you will find that your offspring very soonis deprived of your heredity

and reduced to brutishness;and the more given to base feelings you are,

the more this is so,because it is this sexual desire

which bends your existence downto make it sow the seeds of life;

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THE WEAK-NERVED AND LUSTFUL ARE DISREGARDFUL

One characteristic signof the weakness of nerves and lustful craving,

which go along with the stale feelingsof those who are born out of meanness,

is that they cannot bow in reverence;and where there is no reverence,

wisdom there is heedless. 150

FOOLISHNESS IN GREED FOR ENJOYMENTGreed for enjoyment,

making one foolish in activity,deprives one of real enjoyment;

if you wantbe elevated, unfettered and dedicated to activity;

greeted by enjoyment, you will findthat you are ever delighted! 151

CHARACTERISTICS OF MAN AND WOMAN

Man is man because of his manly characteristics,and woman is woman because of her womanly characteristics;

when a man becomes infatuated with a womanand wholly given to a woman,

and wants to adorn himself with everything womanly,then the death of manliness in man

starts advancing gradually;maintaining unrestrained wild hopes and expectations,

tossing and turningin dense foolishness and darkness,

obliterating himself,the man is melted away in a slippery go;

again, when the woman does not foster the growth of man,when she neglects her own distinctive characteristics,

picks up the manner and gestures of man,and wants to make herself into a man,

then womanliness, converted to ghoulishness,reaches out its weak, lean, depressed,

intemperate armand becomes hideous in futility;

giggling in flaunt and hatred

with uncontrollable laughter,it ends up in endless misery! 152

DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN EDUCATIONThe kind of education

through which the distinctive characteristics of a personare augmented, elevated and nourished,

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so the system of education should be suchthat a person develops continuously in distinctive characteristics

and thus becomes progressive and unobstructed;that education, by fostering the growth of life and society,

can make one a traveler to immortality! 153

EDUCATION IGNORING DISTINCTIVENESS

To propose an educationwhich oversteps distinctive characteristics

and to castrate life

are the same thing! 154

DEVOTION TO IDEAL IN EDUCATIONThe first ingredient of education is the Ideal;

realization is there in the Ideal;and by regard, association, inquiry, service, behavior

and worship,

to take the light of the Ideals realizationfrom him,to realize it and reflect it in ones character

is real education! 155

EDUCATION WITHOUT PERCEPTIONThe very purpose of education

is to realize the knowledge or vision of anotherby bringing it into ones own perception;

and however excellent and immediate the realization is,the knowledge will be likewise;

if education does not enter into your perception,

then what are youbut an ox burdened with things remembered? 156

COLORING CHARACTER THROUGH IDEAL-CENTRIC EDUCATIONEducation that is inspired by envy, spite or inferiority

can touch life and character very little,although it may reign over

a disorderly and unruly assemblage of resources;but the education that begins

from an exuberance of devotion and lovefor the Lord, the Ideal, or the Beloved,

actually affects life and character

and thus colors ones very heredity! 157

PRACTICAL EDUCATION

If you want to be really educated,depend on practical doing,

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you will find that you need not be foolishin your knowledge. 158

DEVOTION IN THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE

And knowledge can be acquiredin various conditions and in various ways,

depending on place, time, person and temperament;but in all conditionsand within everyone

devotion must be there! 159

THE WAY TO MAKE OTHERS UNDERSTAND

Do not try to make one understandthrough what he doesnt know;

rather, making a way through what he knows,try to take him to what he doesnt know;

and in so doing

your success may touch even his character! 160INVENTION

Observe well the surroundings of the placewhere you are staying;

think and try to find outwhat things in it can fulfill the needs of people,

and how so;you will find that shortly

your minds inventive power or discovering powerwill be awakened! 161

BRIGHT RECOLLECTION

When two urges or necessitiesattack your mind jointly,

then both of them or one of themis drowned in the water of confusion;

then even by searching, it cannot be found;so if you want to keep your recollection bright,

allow urges or necessities to enter your mindone after another;if health is good,

recollection will remain bright! 162

EDUCATION IN THE HOUSEHOLDAs I think,to lead the society or race in the way of progress,

there is a necessity for a form of educationin which there can function easily and unobstructedly

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and a garden that can producethe vegetables needed daily;

and this education is for everyone,male or female,

in every family! 163

THE TEACHER

If there is anything responsiblefor peoples condition in life,it is the work of a teacher;

the character of the teacherthrough the students regard

affects him without his knowing itin such a way that his later life goes on

so directed by itthat he cant do anything about it;

if the teacher is not eagerly inclined to the Ideal,

if his character is not exuberantly active,adorned with feelings for the Ideal,

and if it does not open the door of the students wishes,

touch his heart,and thus make him free to progress,

that teaching is the great refuge of anti-Dharma;there isnt an iota of doubt about it;

if you want to teach,do carefully adjust yourself;

otherwise misery, with a crooked smile,will devour your life and your race,

no doubt. 164SCIENTIST AND RESEARCH

If you are not pursuing the Ideal,

research for you is nothing but an itch for conjuring;your incoherent knowledge can never come into order

with what comes before and what follows,and thus cannot arrive at any significance;

and repeated observation,taking you on an overgrown path in thinking and doing,

suddenly revealing the glow of a glowwormand making you lose your way,

can do nothing except to make you more foolish and vagrantas a scientist;

observe, and test thoroughly;so if research is really the aim of your life,

then pursue the kind of science that pursues meaningfulness,since throughout its sequence

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seeyou will be blessed and delighted,no doubt! 165

BRAHMACHARYYACONTINENCE

To move in the wayby which a human being becomes established in growth

and thus becomes radiant,to think, say and do

that by which one becomes animatedin vitality, expansion and growth,

and thus can become virile and strong,this may be called true Brahmacharyya*

or continence;and without doing this,

by only being concerned to control the semen**with extreme effort in thinking and doing,

one cannot become continent or self-restrained;

moreover, he will have to become hated and blamedon account of ugly frowning nervous debility;

but such questions cannot even arise

in the mind of one who is truly endowedwith Brahmacharyya

who is engaged in the thought and workof the Vast;

and as a result, it is easy and naturalfor him to be continent. 166

*Brahmacharyya: literally, conduct which is within Brahma. Brahmais defined by Sri Sri Thakur as That which being developed and becoming

everything, yet remains the same. (Satyanusaran, P. 97)**Semen: considered as a source of psychic energy.

THE CULTURING (SADHANA) OF LOVE

If you want to love anything or anyone,then love him, think of him only,

and engage yourself in activitythat accords with so doing;

furthermore, give no indulgence whatsoeverto whatever things are against it;

from this form of thought and conductyou will see

how your love rolls on like a flood,swift and overflowing with activity;

you will be satisfiedno doubt. 167




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AROUSING THE WILL

If you want to keep your will-powerfit, strong and awakened,

do dedicate it daily to some activityfor accomplishing good for others;

see how quick, dexterous and life-enhancingyour will-power becomes! 168

AWAKENING OF WILL-POWER

Whenever the urge to do something goodcomes into your heart,

without obstructing it,do at once start to materialize it through activity;

you will find that by this practiceyour will-power will become lively

within a short time. 169

CONTROLLING BAD HABITSIf you want to give up at allany bad habit of yours,

or lust, anger or the like,

which tends to weaken and distress you,at the very moment when the urge for it

is about to engage you in activity,be off from it,

or at that moment, as you are being off from it,try to engage that urge

in thought and action that will bring youwell-being;

and continue to do soas long as that bad habit, lust, anger,

or whatever it isdoes not come under your complete control;

you will find,if your practice this for some time,

you can so control habits or passionsthat they will kneel down before you

like servantsand be charmed to obey you;

without doing this,

with the mere thought of giving them up,you will not at all be able to give them up;

rather you will become more obsessed by them! 170




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WHERE TO PLACE RELIANCE AND FAITH

He in whom you have placed everything of your whole lifefor as long as you live,

whom you know as the bearerof your life, expansion and growth,

who is absolute knowledge as known,only that or he is the place for your whole-hearted faith;

not being colored by any thing or any person,apart from him,

and remaining neutral,as you understand the situation as it stands

before you,by observing it

with circumspection in your perceptionand consideration,

shape your reliance and your behaviorin that situation

accordingly,little will you be deceived in the world! 171

LITERATURE

That,in the attainment, association or discussion

of whicha human being can be established or uplifted

in well-being,can be called literature. 172

NORMAL BEAUTY THROUGH SINGING AND DANCING

There is seldom found a breath-exercise (Pranayama)as easy and pleasurable

as singing;and so delightful an exercise as dancing

is rare;so dancing and singing

which stimulate good feelingmake life for both woman and man

normal and beautiful. 173

CONTROLLING EVILIf you can, so control evil

companion on the way

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