Page 479 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
their power forgetting that the power they found in themselves was in fact the Master’s infused in them by Him for the express purpose of advancing the cause of spiritual welfare of the abhyasis entrusted to their care. They just learned the word ‘power’ but did not, nor did they make any effort to understand what Power is and how it should be used to help others. They became so immersed in their condition of entanglement (in the ego) that any effort to free them from it would have been akin to making pulse grains out of steel. They thus strayed from the path of duty which simply consists in total and unconditional cooperation with the Master in His cause of transformation of Man in a true spirit of surrender letting themselves to be only instruments in His hands to be used by Him as He deems fit. The Master further underlines the fact that it is almost impossible even for Him to bring such persons who have strayed from the path of dharma back to the path. The Master states unequivocally that all the centers of spiritual training belong to the Great Master and not any particular person’s and all are working according to His instructions. This supreme truth should be borne by the trainers in their minds all the time so that possessive and selfish ideas do not find a place in them and vitiate the cooperative spirit which should be maintained as duty bound towards the Great Master in discharging the spiritual duties in His cause. We see and are truly overwhelmed by the great qualities of unconditional love, mercy, sympathy and divine forgiveness shown by Him towards His erring associates when He states. ‘If even now these persons do not change themselves and do not extend their cooperation despite my concerted efforts to help them, it will have to be said of them that by the grace of the Master they did get the
Ocean, but by their ignorance they lost the Ocean.’
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