Page 676 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
Vairagaya. We grant the status of permanency/reality to transience and suffer the consequences. Be it our body, name/fame in the society, ranks in profession, bank accounts, relationships, expectancy of dependency and help from people in later stages of lives, this physical existence and many more. And as per their nature when these things exhibit their transience, in the absence of understanding of right relationship of things, we feel unhappy. It is only when we attach our identification with these things we suffer disillusionment. This is where Rev. Master advises us to rise above these things if we want to live a happy and peaceful life. He says it should be duty of every abhyasi to make himself rise above the mire of thoughts and emotions and methods of our system bring out such results if practice with interest. He quotes the example of wisdom of a weaver displayed through the movement of his hands which I have understood as taking help from higher centers. As Master puts it “Under the system of Natural Path the dormant energies of the Centre and sub-centres are awakened so as to enable them to function properly. When the higher centres are awakened they begin to shed their effect upon the lower centres, and when they come into contact with the Divine, the lower ones get merged in them. The higher centres thus take over charge of the lower ones. The lower centres too are cleaned so as to relieve them of the grosser effects settled on them. That alone is the proper, and the most natural course, which can bring about the highest results.” So long as we let the higher centers guide us, it is sure sign of moving in the right direction.
Next thing which Rev. Master has pointed out is Goal of life. Without its clarity life either appears to be monotonous, an endless drudgery or means to live through petty entertainment and pleasures and both are the sources of unhappiness. The importance of 676