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“The understanding comes when the seed at the bottom is fried up”
At the beginning we feel that the meditational practices are just a couple of more things on our to-do list. Therefore initially we are insincere and slothful in doing the meditational practices. The Master is kind enough to tolerate our insincerity and He waits till proper understanding comes for each of us abhyasis. That means our sincerity is supposed to pick up and our sloth is supposed to become less and less as we move along the path. We all get inputs on how to better ourselves and mould ourselves so that we can be what He wants us to be. There are some of us who assiduously follow the Master. So they are very prompt in moulding themselves according to the suggestions received during the sittings and satsangs. However there are some of us who try to ignore these suggestions because our baggage is dearer to us. It is those of us who take their time to mould.
Our baggage mainly comprises of our attachments to our people, attachments to a particular way of living and fear of changing a lot more than one wanted to.
To reduce this baggage, Rev. Master has given further hints in the same message on how to lead the life as Nature wants us to live.
He says that the hidden dictum of Nature is that every soul must live a happy and restful life. We are spoiling His (God’s) world if we do otherwise. We being family people, we must be moderate in all our dealings. He gives the example of the coots and ducks in water. The coots and ducks have a fine layer of oil on their feathers which prevents them from getting wet in the water. He says we should be like those coots and ducks meaning that we have to live a grihastha life but not get attached to it. So we should love all those who are in our care but not get attached to them. Treading the fine line between loving our family members and not getting attached is learned the hard way. He therefore says that life in a
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