What a nice philosophy is contained in the saying that everything appears as round. The reason is that when that Great Architect willed to create the universe and used the energy, the actions started in a round way in order to establish a circuit so that the energy could work. Now when this very energy got concentrated, it came to be called as solid, or matter, due to the force of the action. Now you have to remove this very solidity from the aspirant, so that he may become spirit from top to...
India Reflections
God did not create Himself for any one race or any one country or any one set of people. He created every thing and if He created everything, everything is His whether we like it or not. And in ourselves it is spirituality. We are only seeking to cease being our own and to become His. This is what Surrender implies. Surrender says, "My Lord, I am no longer my own, as I thought I was. I am now yours; do unto me as you will." This becomes possible when there is love, not when there is fear. When...
You will appreciate that every decision has to be appropriate to the time and circumstances, and if the time is not appropriate, the decision too will not be correct. So we have to pray that the right decision may come at the right time for us to work correctly.
Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I.", Chapter "Prayer - Touching the Heart of God", pg. 211, by Revered Chariji
Separation is a fact of life, and the only difference is that we feel separation from different people at different times. But all the time there is the separation from someone or the other. The increasing feeling of separation, perhaps anguish, reveals growth of love. This is a wonderful thing, though it causes great pain at the same time.
Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 1", Chapter "Association - Discipleship - Self-Mastery", pg. 261, by Revered Chariji
The easiest method for it would be to think everything one has to do as the order of God, and treat it as one's duty. We must remember that everything we have in this world has come down to us from God. Our fellow beings are also His creation. He is the Master of everything, and we are all His children, no matter if a few of them are specially entrusted to our charge. In this way we shall be relieved of the feelings of undue attachment. If this feeling becomes deep-rooted, one will be serving...
So, time-I have also found this in my own experience-the more you do, the more time you seem to have. Because time is utilisation. As one man used to tell me, an hour has sixty minutes, and it has three thousand six hundred seconds. And if you can do one thing in each second, you can do three thousand six hundred things in an hour. We have enough time. We have more time than we need. The secret is to apportion the time to what we have to do.
Taken from the book "Principles of Sahaj Marg,...
All of us have problems with our jobs, with our environment, etc., and we hope very ardently that change of our own character and attitudes will help us to fit better into the environment in a cosmically pleasing way. One cannot escape one's predetermined existential parameters, caused by our samskaras (impressions, grossness), by artificially changing our environment. Sahaj Marg (Natural Path) says very correctly that only by changing one's own self is a total change possible. Otherwise,...
When you realize that you need to change, it is possible to do so. You must learn to pause and think before you react in anger or out of emotion, for the spoken word is like a spent arrow; it cannot be retracted once it is out.
Taken from The Spider's Web, vol. 3, p.190 –Rev. Chariji
It is, therefore, essential to find out means for developing within every individual a state of peace and contentment. Thus, all that we have to do for the attainment of world peace is to mould the mental tendencies of the people individually. That means the proper regulation of mind so as to introduce into it a state of moderation.That is the only way for bringing peace into the world. It is therefore essential for all of us to develop peace of mind within our individual self. But that being...
The next thing most essential for spirituality is moderation. The word carries a vast sense. It does not pertain only to the mending of our external ways of living so as to make them agreeable to others, but it is something which covers the entire sphere of our mental and physical activities. Moderation really means that we have entered the sphere where our restless tendencies have subsided to a great extent.
Taken from the book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 2", Chapter "Message of My...