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‘sarve jana sukhino bhavantu’ in which we are saying only ‘may all people be happy’. Here in our prayer at 9 p.m we are willing that all are brothers and sisters are developing faith, love and devotion to the Master. This process can be made still more efficacious by maintaining the thought at the ‘A’ point as the Master has said that whatever suggestion we make at that point becomes true. The Master wants us not only to live as manavas but also grow to be maneeshis desirous and capable of conferring benefits on others.
The system is not for those who merely seek favours for themselves but who are willing to participate meaningfully in the process of spiritual transformation of mankind as a whole, which is the Divine intention now and the Master is the Supreme Personality in charge of the same. He in His magnanimity is giving all the aspirants the great opportunity in selfless service of the fellow beings which also becomes a way of spiritual growth for them as well simultaneously. It is also to be kept in mind that whatever growth an aspirant may have been blessed with is not for his own sake but for engaging in the spiritual betterment of his brethren and thus cooperating with the Master. While one prays at bed time one should be able to feel the lapses of every other person as his own. If the world has failed each one of us has failed, such will be the attitude of the person who lives at the level of universal consciousness and prays for all from that level.
Constant Remembrance
Constant remembrance of God as the Beloved and the most desirable goal of human life has been very much extolled in our scriptures and especially in that celebrated devotional text Bhagavata, the title itself suggesting that it is about the great devotees of God and the ways in which they practiced and expressed that devotion for the supreme Lord. It is regarded as one of the nine modes or forms of bhakti-devotion, namely, hearing, singing the praises, remembering, service, worshipping, prostrating, servitude, loving intimacy and self-offering. It may be regarded as a practice or process and at the same time a state of consciousness arrived at as a result of constant and devoted practice. The aim and the culmination of all devotional practices is in a way to develop a capacity for maintaining an undercurrent of smarana or remembrance even as the person is engaged in his various worldly pursuits. Such an accomplishment is considered to be the very pinnacle of devotional life. Of course this is possible only for those in whom an uncontrollable thirst and earnest craving for God and inseparable union with Him have been created by virtue of their sadhana under the guidance of a capable Master and the blessings of the Lord Himself, for it is only those who are chosen can indeed have such a craving and the blissful consummation of the union. A few references will give us some idea about the exalted status in which smarana