Page 374 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

To my mind other systems put the cart before the horse. They talk of vices. How am I to be saved from them? I am unfit. That is what the other systems make man say. They make us vice-and-misery conscious. But about the abhyasi God knows. It is for Him to judge. You shall not be the measure of your own adhikara. We want to appear to be what we are not. The sinner wears his sin to prevent God from coming to him. So also a worldly man. He wears his possessions and worldliness to prevent God from coming to him. We say, let me see if I can increase our wealth.
My Master has been able to pick his men from all strata of society. I say 'pick' even though it seems to us that we walk in. When we contact him then a direct relationship, after a preliminary cleaning, with the Divine is effected. Thereafter you are taken care of fully. Your co-operation is needed only to permit your transformation. You see, conscious obstruction is easy to handle, but the real difficulty is with unconscious opposition. It is possible to have unconscious opposition even though there is conscious acceptance.
But once Transmission is given by Master, sooner or later it will penetrate and disperse the ignorance and tamas of the abhyasi. I say this in the presence of the Master. It is Sahaja because it is simple. It is Sahaja because it is natural, Divinely natural in the human existence.
Divine man appears to be unnatural, and so we have martyred some of our greatest masters. Psychologists will say that such great people are monstrous mutants, and so they were destroyed.
But to know the Supreme is to be the most natural.
Svami Vivekananda said "Indian Religion is distinguished from Western Religions by the emphasis on liberation from lower functions of nature". Westerners have never been anxious for liberation. They know only one way, the way of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the great slogan of the French Revolution. But we find that this is irreconcilable in the modern concept of practical democracy. In such a democracy Liberty is impossible. Equality has produced more inequality. Inequality was there always, but in Varnashrama there was organized inequality. In the modern context there is only chaos. Liberty is in a precarious suicidal state. Everybody wants