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IMPERIENCE BECKONS - notes on "SRI RAMCHANDRA'S TEN COMMANDMENTS"
There are mainly three types of seekers of spiritual life: those who wish to gain a greater mastery of life, those while pursuing the common goals of life also seek self-mastery and those for whom spiritual progress is the only concern. It is a truth of spiritual experience that spiritual progress is not dependant on outer conditions so much as in the way we react to them from within.
The main difference between an animal and the human being is that the animal cannot get away from its origins and become a free and greater being, whereas the human has the potential ability to go beyond and even transform the basic instinctive nature that he shares with the animal. The essential difference between the animal consciousness and the human consciousness is that the former is reactive while the latter is reflective. Further human consciousness can detach itself and observe not only the outside environment but also its own internal thoughts and feelings which the animal consciousness cannot.
The assertion of several Masters that humanity is in a process of evolution leading to transformation of the human nature is not new. Many great thinkers and saints have expressed the need for such transformation so that Peace reigns in the world. Some claimed that they were transformed. However humanity in general remain the same animal with an added dimension of rationality.
The most revered Sri. Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, U.P. India in his Autobiography claimed that the Supreme Personality expressed itself around 1945. The Supreme Personality he said is given the task of transformation of man. Now that we hear that transformation of man is happening, the idea is nothing new. Many great thinkers and saints have expressed the need. Revered Babuji comes forward with an assurance that the Divinity is prepared to enter into every one of our hearts and then transform us individually, and when individually we transform ourselves we will be much more relevant to speak about the Greatness of the Great Being or Divinity in transforming ourselves.