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Remembrance of everything should merge into the Remembrance of One – the Ultimate
the gift of remembrance just like that. This remembrance is slowly but surely transforms into Love for the Master. Addressing the issue of remembrance and Love, Master has said very graciously that if you love somebody you will remember him and he says apply the inverse, practice remembrance to develop the Love. Love is the cardinal principle in spiritual life and therefore one should ensure to practice the methods and the commandments for the development of this Love. Transcending the borders of personality, Babuji Maharaj defines Love as the inner awakening to the Reality. Love for the Master in our system has a very broad and deeper meaning and has to be understood very carefully lest one may find oneself
short of the mark.
Love in practical sense means living a life for the person who is loved. When we talk about the Love for the Master, here we are not confining the Master to a certain name and form. He is the consciousness, a force or power that responds even as stated in the third line of the prayer “Thou art the only God and Power to bring us upto that stage”. If we can understand the consciousness as a principle then Love can easily translate itself into a meaningful action in this life by adhering to that principle. We all understand our Master as Sri Ramchandra Consciousness, a principle that is striving to uplift the humanity to its destined levels. In this direction only we have been given the practices, the Natural Path of Ten Commandments and the support through Pranahuti. When we fix up the Goal which we find it , as we start practicing that, is something very natural to ourselves i.e our consciousness, before that we also pass through states of tension , internal contractions leading to strife, restlessness, irritation etc due to the demand and attention from the wishes and desires. Here we should carefully separate out the drives like hunger, thirst, procreative
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