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harshness wither away. You do not as yet understand my quality of perfect poverty. As such, very often, you remain confused. This thing is as follows. I used to remain in attendance as a slave (servant) to His (Master’s) presence, in such a way as to treat myself as insignificant. I had no concern with outward glamour. I considered all belongings, including my home, to be His alone, and was happy under any circumstances, whatever. You too consider whatever God has bestowed on you, to be His alone (or mine alone) and remain ever-grateful. The example of Shivaji is there. His Master (Samartha Guru Ram Dass) asked for alms, in response to which he (Shivaji) surrendered everything he had-wealth and riches, throne and crown etc. – to him; and started treating all of it, thereafter, as belonging to him alone. This example is worth appreciation; and expresses my meaning very exactly. By saying this, I do not mean that, like N1, you go about screaming (to proclaim) that all this is of Lalaji alone. There should be this sentiment, and a real spirit of renunciation in temperament. This is the superior-most form of Vairagya(renunciation). You do not feel perturbed: your condition shall be just this; and this sentiment is already present in you. Its height is not visible due to thorny-bushy growth all around. This thing, I have told you today, is the sum and substance of the entire training; and is very superior. Somebody may just try to follow it in the real sense: he is sure to enjoy the finest, that spirituality may have to offer. The best way to it consists in attaching everything good to God, and abstaining from evil conduct. I have referred to this in my response to your diary. Just this practice will be sufficient: do not take it as something ordinary. Make a note of those sentences from your diary: it is better to copy the entire letter (here).”
[05-09-1944: pg. 208-210 (A.BII - I)]
Owning Up Of Conditions
“A meditational practice, one is to lie on a cot or something else, on his back, and remain lying there for some time with full awareness, but without any movement. Then he is to have the firm supposition that all the spiritual points brought to awakening by his guide up to that time, are fully flourishing and his guide’s power is penetrating all (those points and spots). Doing this practice, when the state of balance is developed, One is to get stationed in that (same) thought and remain lying, just the same. This will prove to be very beneficial.”
[28-11-1944: pg. 104 (A.B.II - II)]