We are not responding to this instant if we are
judging any aspect of it.
The ego looks for what to criticize.
This always involves comparing with the past.
But love looks upon the world peacefully and
accepts.
The ego searches for shortcomings and
weaknesses.
Love watches for any sign of strength.
It sees how far each one has come and not how
far he has to go.
How simple it is to love, and exhausting it is
to always find fault, for every time we see a
fault we think something needs to be done about
it.
Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more
love. It is what we do with our hearts that
affects others most deeply.
It is not the movements of our body or the
words within our minds that transmits love.
We love from heart to heart. Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi
In this path of the Divine as it is the case in
any other path of
knowledge, the importance of the Master is the
greatest. If you get a good
Master, it takes you quickly, if not - keep on
going slowly, slowly and
there is no end to it. The finding of a proper
Master is all that an
aspirant on the path of truth has to do - just
a proper Master, not only
on the path of truth, even on the path of
engineering or doctory (medicine)
or psychology - any of that - the coming across
a right Master, a right
guide and almost the whole thing is done.
Because, the finding of a Master
means someone who tells you like that - for the
Divine is omnipresent.
Omnipresent Divine, its nature blissful, so the
bliss being omnipresent. How
long a mind should take to get to it? Should
not take long, but if you do
not strike against the right Master, you keep
on going round and round and
round and you do not find anything. In this
field, when we leave here and
find a proper Master, we just surrender to him,
all body and mind,
one-pointed in consciousness remains the
individuality of the Master. No
looking here or there, just at his feet
obedience and obeisance. I know what
a surrender to a Master is, because I have been
through that. Once the
surrender is done the work of spiritual quest
is done. It does not need
anything more to be done.
JAI GURU DEV
Swami Muktananda
was a renowned teacher in the tradition of one
great holy saint of India, Sami Nityananda. In
the late 1970's during Swami Muktananda's visit
to Australia, a group of Governors and Sidhas in
Melbourne were requested by Maharishi to go and
pay their respect to Muktananda and give him
Maharishi's regards. Muktananda showed them
great respect as a group and received the
delegation at a private meeting.
During this private meeting, Muktananda told
Maharishi's group, "Maharishi is here for the
world. You may never see Maharishi yourself, but
what Maharishi has given you is a technique to
clean your own self. My disciples have to be
physically with me (in my presence). Maharishi
has given you a technique to cleanse and purify
yourselves and it is not just for yourselves,
it is a technique to cleanse the whole world.
I am full of admiration for anyone on your
path. It is a path of great responsibility. I
have full admiration for Maharishi and for each
of you. "Maharishi's path is unique. You only
need to do what he has asked you to practice.
It is glorious but it is not easy to be self
sufficient. Devotion must be in the heart
rather than physically sitting at the foot of
the Master. Devotion must be in your heart.
This is because Maharishi is here for the whole
world."
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