Page 361 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 4

PROPER MOTIVATION
form'. Keeping the Master in mind always enables us to know this 'form of emptiness' as the state of devotion to Master. This is the state we find when the awareness of our self and that of the Master is had and we are not able to distinguish between the two. Out of Supreme love they appear to swallow up each other; but feel separate again for the joy of being two. They are not completely the same but neither are they different.
Remembering the Master Pujya Babuji Maharaj while we are feeling void is a superior method of constant remembrance. This is what I called earlier as being aware of the Master in his presence. While offering prayer we naturally invoke the Master and if we do not dwell in the thoughts expressed in the Prayer and are unmindful of the words in the Prayer we do get into a state of torpor. Many aspirants have told me that they seem to get into the state of restfulness even as they were repeating the Prayer. If we make a routine ritualistic recitation we will get into a state of torpor and would commit the same mistake of doing japa or mantra recitation.
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