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Surrender and perfect dependence on His will (and pleasure) is held to be the final state: No doubt, however, that its beginning and end happen to be just nothing (nowhere): it may come up just anywhere (and whenever)! It has been observed that elders very often started just here from (with this state of surrender and perfect dependence on His will and pleasure; and this too has occurred that this thing came up (to pass) during the course of (spiritual) journey. Very often this fell to one’s fortune after traversing some spiritual stages (of evolution) : it all remains subject to one’s courage and moreover His will (and pleasure) to bestow this (superb) state on to a devotee! (Pause) The sign (indication) of the quality of perfect poverty (Improvisation) happen to be humility, softness, inclination (orientation) etc.”
[24-10-1946: pg.164-165 (A.B.II - III)]
Clarifications of commonly used terms in Spirituality:-
Revered Master defined and explained certain technical terms, commonly used in the context of spiritual theory and practice :
1. Peace (Shanti) : Perfect peace requires that taunts and rebukes, fouling up and fisticuffs, received from others, flow down like water from the smooth surface of an inverted jar without causing any effect on it. Tolerance under compulsion does not fall under this definition. In the initial stages, compulsion is needed for habit-formation.
2. Conjugation (Wasl): It is there, when all longing and quarreling (outburst) is over: neither intense desire for togetherness nor pangs of separation should remain. How-ever, if somebody adopts this in the beginning, it will be wholly wrong and misleading. The passion should be only for the union : that is the aspirant devotee’s job; and that remains God’s Grace, viz. to rid the devotee of longing and quarrel (outburst). Spirituality is the name of lightness: that is to put it briefly in a single word, or else I have given its perfect definition in my (dictated) notes (already) somewhere.
3. Passion/longing (Jazb): “It is of two kinds: lower and higher. In case of the lower level of passion, there is continual aggravation of the mental tendency: this is more beneficial in the initial stage. The higher form of passion is that whose one illustration has been cited yesterday by Swami Vivekananda Ji, viz. ‘Your love is like a secret fire in the wood.’ That is to say, inward smoldering in