Blossom Goodchild - November 1, 2014

Here we are again then! Hello chaps! A few questions on the ‘Board game’, if I may? These are common questions from readers, well actually, if I'm to be honest … two!

Good heart and cheer to you also, Blossom. We are ready to commence.

Thank you. So … what happens when we reach the end of the board game? Does our energy integrate once again with the Oneness?

This is … as are most … a question that one would consider aborting before beginning … as it is a very complex one. Yet, we shall do our best to satisfy these queries.

Thank you.

The Game in which you are involved ‘belongs’ to that of the Earthly density. When not within that density … ‘life’ FEELS very different. One … we might say … is released from the shackles that bind One to the board.

So, are we only in The Game whilst we are ‘alive’ on Earth?

Yes.

When we pass on … what ‘on Earth’ makes us want to come back?

The free will choices that One does not experience in the same manner elsewhere. Earth is the MASTER SCHOOL for a soul’s individual growth. This is why so many are keen to be part of The Game. Yet, the ‘lack of memory’ on returning to Earth … time after time … portrays The Game to be far more complicated than it actually is.

Elaborate … if you would?

Being of ‘self-support’ upon/within your density … allows such expansion of the soul. As an individual aspect of the Higher part of you.

Is the Higher part of me … the Higher part of ME? Or, is it the Higher part of all of us … The Oneness?

We would have to answer ‘both’. Because there are stepping stones to the HIGHEST OF ALL … and a section of these stepping stones is a Higher part of the individual self.

So, when we pass over from here … do we not automatically blend in and become part of the Oneness?

That would depend on the level of Love the soul aspired to. One of very High standing would indeed KNOW how to access that … yet, it would depend also on One’s format for Ascending. Different choices allow different pathways to serve the soul. Some desire the bumpier road, for it benefits their growth. Although, they have no recollection of the ‘why’s and wherefores’ at the time of these learnings.

So, as individuals … is it simply that we desire to enhance the ONE by learning all these things for the betterment of ourselves? Is it, that by becoming the Highest vibration of our individual selves … we then, when merging back into The Whole, have made The Whole a better ONE? Oh poop! It’s going to be one of those days!

THE ONE is ALL LOVE.

YOU … ARE ALL LOVE.

You were created as individuals to experience AS LOVE/ AS GOD … what everything can be. Black or white, light or dark … happy or sad etc. As you know … you could not KNOW what one thing is, if there was not the opposite to distinguish one from the other.

So if everything … The ONE … is ALL LOVE already … how do we, as individuals, enhance it?

Everything has room for expansion.

IT IS ALL ENDLESS.

NOTHING CAN STAND STILL.

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY.

ENERGY CANNOT BE STILL.

IT IS ALWAYS MOVING.

Onwards?

There is no onwards … There is simply movement.

Ok, I am going to try and keep on track. So … when we pass over, you say, we are no longer in The Game. When we reincarnate … do we have to start at the beginning again?

No. Depending on One’s position of soul and … depending on the soul’s purpose, the next time on the board … they would be positioned at a juncture that is most beneficial for One to continue.

Does one leave The Game before completing it?

Oh yes … many, many times.

So, are you saying we get plonked back in the place where we left off?

For some. It depends on their needs. What we would like to assist with here … is that you are contemplating this game as if there are set understandings. Do you remember we said … ‘There are no instructions?’

YOU devise The Game as you go along … with all its twists and turns. As you experience new thoughts … The Game expands.

You are IN The Game …

Yet, you are OF The Game …

YOU ARE THE GAME.

Is it not that in your world … ‘games’ are played, as children, for fun?

These questions and thoughts many of you are having are taking ‘what is’ into a ‘what is not’ state.

LIGHTEN UP.

You chose to be here … to BE OF LOVE … To see what fun you can have.

YOU CHOOSE to have fun … or, YOU CHOOSE to be miserable.

No matter what one’s circumstances?

Yes. As an observer ... One may say … ‘Now, if I choose to make this move and then I choose to make that one … it shall take me to this place. Yet, if I choose to do this instead of that … it shall take me to there.’ A strategy is in place when one CHOOSES to be on top of One’s game.

Yet, it is the FEELINGS involved that make it different from just a game. I know you say to be detached … yet, the FEELINGS are crucial to our everyday living.

Of course. How grateful you are to have these FEELINGS … when not deeply involved in them. When not of Earth … you can understand why the FEELINGS are necessary. They are one of your most useful assets in moving up the board. They are your guiding Light. Without these FEELINGS … there would be no way of knowing whether you were travelling up or down.

Your FEELINGS are your most treasured asset.

Yet, even your heaviest FEELINGS, perhaps could be carried more Lightly.

To understand that you are within an illusion ... is not an easy concept.

No sugar Sherlock!! Especially when you’re in it! YOU can see things so differently … because you’re not.

And this is why we choose to come to assist you in seeing things from our vantage point. To assist you in ‘easing up’ … in showing you ‘pointers’.

When One KNOWS how to play The Game … when One understands the bigger picture and the reason behind it … then, how much more quickly One can move up the board.

Yet, how can you know how to play it … if WE are making it up as we go along?

Because that is HOW you play it.

Ok … so what IS the bigger picture AND indeed, the reason behind it?

The bigger picture is the OVERALL view of EVERYTHING.

The bigger picture is the vastness of ALL that is. It is an ever changing Tapestry of Truths.

Whoa! I have to stop you there … because I know you would like me to write a book called exactly that … Tapestry of Truths. I haven’t started it yet … because I have no idea what it’s about! Perhaps it’s about the bigger picture! Interesting that you say those very words … sorry to interrupt. Do continue ... And the reasoning behind it?

For LOVE to discover itself … WITH/IN … AS/IN EVERYTHING.

EVERYTHING YOU DO … EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE … YOU DO FOR LOVE.

Sounds like a queue for a song!

You make your decisions … you FEEL your FEELINGS … you play your part upon this stage …

IN THE NAME OF LOVE.

That’s struck a chord … ‘EVERYTHING YOU DO … YOU DO IT FOR LOVE’ … It’s the ‘FOR’ bit that interests me.

So, in a sense … Everything you do … you are doing it ... FOR YOURSELF … Because YOU ARE LOVE.

Yet, in the same way … in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY … you are doing it ... FOR EVERYONE … EVERYTHING … FOR EVERYTHING IS LOVE.

Something’s missing … I can sense there’s something missing ... to do with ‘doing it FOR LOVE’.

If you are not doing it FOR LOVE … then something is indeed missing. What you are aware of … is that we have not said … (because words will not ‘push the button’) … that you DO/BE all that you DO and BE … FOR … 'THE SAKE' … of LOVE.

I get this in my heart … yet, you are correct. We cannot put it into words. For me, it is a sort of FEELING of BEING HERE and DOING WHATEVER I DO … FOR … Arggh!! … How frustrating! It is FOR LOVE … Yet, maybe I should say … ‘on behalf of’ LOVE. That’s not right either. I AM ME, PLAYING THE GAME AS BEST I CAN … BECAUSE I LOVE LOVE so very much … and want to do it FOR … HER/HIM/THEM/IT/ALL/EVERYTHING!

We KNOW of your meaning.

Not sure anyone else will.

Yet, they shall … many shall. For it means so much in FEELING … beyond the words.

Right now … in this life time … Each One of you has chosen to be here for that very reason …

TO PLAY YOUR PART … IN LOVE.

TO BE OF SERVICE … TO LOVE.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO.

BECAUSE YOU LOVE LOVE SO MUCH.

Which also means … YOU LOVE ‘YOU’ SO MUCH … and when you undermine yourselves or FEEL yourselves to be unworthy … YOU ARE NOT BEING OF SERVICE TO LOVE …

AND YOU CHOSE TO BE IN THIS GAME IN ORDER TO BE OF SERVICE.

TO ‘GET’ WHO YOU ARE.

When you ‘Get’ who you are … The Game is such fun … It is a ‘doddle’, as you would say.

BE LOVE … FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE.

Yet, of course … it doesn’t matter!

Doh! And we were swimming downstream so nicely.

When not of this Earthly mortal coil … when having exceeded all expectations of yourself … by accomplishing The Game … you will ‘Get that’.

I had quite a few questions to ask … yet, as always … we get side tracked. That is simply the way it goes. Loving every minute … Thanking you … Thanking me … Thanking LOVE.

THANKING ALL THAT IS … FOR ALL THAT IT IS.

* The Federation Of Light speak of LOVE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsCqVjqSss.

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Meeting of Masters by the Ascended Masters

Meeting of Masters by the Ascended Masters

Channelled through Natalie Glasson – 31^st October 2014- www.omna.org

This is an extract from the Meeting of the Masters Gathering on the inner planes.

Djwhal Khul: It is with great joy we gather together as Ascended Masters in the ashram and office of the Mahachohan Saint Germain. As usual we are brought together to share that which we have received from the Creator with each other creating a focus of seeding our gathered consciousness into the Earth and consciousness of humanity. This process allows us to share energies collected and received from the Creator simultaneously with all souls experiencing the Earthly journey we have all partaken in. We are here to support spiritual and love evolution, ascension and expansion for all. Each of you are welcome here today, I honour and greet with humble and expansive love, Mahachohan Saint Germain, Lady Portia, Master Kuthumi, Lord Melchizedek, Master El Morya, Master Serapis Bey, Lady Nada, Lady Quan Yin, Master Jesus, Master Hilarion, Master Paul, Master Joshua, Lady Pallas Athena, Lady Andromeda, Master Lanto and Lord Buddha. We call upon the Creator to flood our souls and sacred space bringing enhanced inspiration and magnification as our purpose is to heal and more fully awaken the consciousness of humanity. Blessings be to all.

I wish to begin our gathering by bringing forth an illuminated energy and idea transferred to me and channelled through my being from the Creator. Energy has come to me dawning with great power; I recognise its parallel within my own being and my own mastery upon the Earth. As we have experienced our ascension often in isolated positions upon the Earth now humanity is consenting to ascend as the energy of unity. While each soul will experience their ascension and mastery as personal and unique, each are reflecting, energising and witnessing the magnificent united ascension of all. In my own spiritual ascension on the Earth there came a time of recognising the energy which can only be described with the word simultaneous. It is a word and energy which breaks down the barriers of belief in separation and awakens further the belief in unity. On the Earth I realised the Creator manifests simultaneously into life, the Creator is everywhere and everything. This energy and feeling of unity of the Creator recognised by me as the simultaneous nature of the Creator I feel needs to be magnified and channelled into the Earth and humanity to bring greater awareness and experience to all. Let all recognise the Creator to be everywhere, manifestation to occur instantaneously and appropriately merged as one. Let all experience the Creator in all aspects of their being, creating simultaneous activations and awakening of light, love, consciousness and remembrance within. I am being guided by the Creator that this energy is now prevalent and essential to create a powerful surge of awakening within all, especially enhancing and accelerating the process of growth and remembrance of those already embracing the light as they can share and inspire with greater depth and gentleness the same awakening within others.

I feel guided to share the simultaneous nature with humanity and those ready to receive in order to build a greater recognition of the Creator within all areas of existence and manifestation.

Saint Germain: We are agreed in this powerful seeding of truth and so it is granted, from every aspect of our being we activate the simultaneous nature of the Creator, pouring this energy deep into the Earth and humanity, for their deeper activation. May all realise the Creator more fully through the energy of unity manifesting and experiencing the simultaneous nature of the Creator. May this manifest with divine timing dissolving beliefs of separation and lack. The Creator is simultaneous and so many aspects of the Creator can be experienced when you allow yourself to open up to unity and your connection to all aspects of the Creator. We invite humanity, the Earth and Mother Earth to receive as we send our energy forth now.

Lord Melchizedek: Through communion with the Creator the vibration and idea which has dawned within my being speaks of a fire activation within the soul of Mother Earth. I feel guided to place an aqua marine blue flame of light from the Universal and Multi- Universal levels of the Creator into the soul of Mother Earth, this sacred flame will move like a cleansing fire from Mother Earth’s soul into her chakras especially at an emotional body level and a physical body level purifying all impurities and unneeded energies especially focusing upon the ties of manipulation and control placed within Mother Earth’s emotional and physical bodies to hinder her continued ascension. These etheric ties are designed to concentrate her energies into lower dimensions and act as beacons from past programming to express the vibration of control and manipulation to humanity.

Humanity is moving beyond the belief of the past and even beliefs of darkness so all that has been created by a belief in darkness can be healed and transformed into light. As Mother Earth is purified so will humanity experience a purification which will also coincide with their full moon cycle and experience, thus magnetising the experience of purification.

Master Kuthumi: We are all in agreement with your guidance. We invite you, Melchizedek, to draw the needed energies from the Universal and Multi- Universal levels as we support and lend our energy and consciousness to aid the anchoring and seeding of the aqua marine blue flame of light from the Universal and Multi- Universal levels of the Creator into the soul of Mother Earth. May this sacred energy bring forth a deep cleansing and purification to support Mother Earth’s soul, emotional body, mental body and chakra system. May all upon the Earth consciously or unconsciously support our purpose and healing at this time. And so it is done.

Pallas Athena: It is with the Christ Consciousness I merge my energies with gaining inspirational guidance of service to humanity and the Earth and our gathering here today. I wish speak directly to the souls of humanity who are listening to our gathering, if I may?

Lady Nada: Please continue beloved one.

Pallas Athena: I invite you to call upon the Christ Consciousness of the Creator as a golden source to manifest before you. Feel yourself breathing in the Christ Consciousness light of a golden colour until you feel one, united, and as Master Djwhal Khul expressed, you feel your energies vibrating simultaneously. Then simply ask the Christ Consciousness light as you are integrating, ‘What gift can I give to aid the ascension of all?’ what you are asking is what energy, light, inspiration or service does the Christ Consciousness wish to express to all upon the Earth through your being in this present moment. This is a gift of working in unison with the Christ consciousness bringing fulfilment to all. Thank you.

Master Serapis Bey: Your words have been heard by all consciously and unconsciously, that which you speak of has already manifested, as is the way of the Creator.

Master Lanto: Through divine communion with the Creator I bring a reminder to all especially those upon the Earth. I bring remembrance of the Celestial White Lions, they have the ability to dissolve boundaries, limitations and allow all seemingly stuck energy to begin its cycle and flow once more. I encourage us all to call upon the Celestial White Lions to all our ascension pathways at this time.

Master Jesus: Your words as always Lanto are humble and deeply profound; we will call upon the Celestial White Lions to be available to all, ready to work with those who call. I, myself, call upon the Celestial White Lions to dissolve boundaries, limitations to and of love within all of us, whether on the Earth or the inner planes so we may recognise the truth of love with greater clarity and fullness.

Master El Morya: I have a message for humanity, movement is deeply important in this time of ascension, galactic energies are anchoring from now until the beginning of the time process of 2015. In order to allow the physical body to process new energies being anchored, my message is to find creative ways to gently move your body with the intention of allowing and supporting the physical body in its process of integrating new vibrations of light.

Lady Andromeda: Such simple wisdom always flows from the will of the Creator and yet such a powerful impact simplicity gifts.

This is an extract from our gathering on the inner planes known to us as the Meeting of the Masters, we wished for you to experience an extract of our communication together so you may know and understand how much we are supporting your ascension and journey on the Earth. We are here to continuously inspire, awakening, support and love you unconditionally. We are always present to offer assistance. We also wished for you to see that in the same way you receive guidance from the Creator through your intuition which impacts your reality when put into action; we receive guidance from the Creator which impacts the entire Earth and all of humanity. We are all the same, all one, working in the same ways simply on different scales. Know that which you practice now will support your continued existence on the inner planes.

The Ascended Masters

Master Djwhal Khul, Mahachohan Saint Germain, Lady Portia, Master Kuthumi, Lord Melchizedek, Master El Morya, Master Serapis Bey, Lady Nada, Lady Quan Yin, Master Jesus, Master Hilarion, Master Paul, Master Joshua, Lady Pallas Athena, Lady Andromeda, Master Lanto and Lord Buddha.

Sivananda Daily Reading

2 November
Posted: 01 Nov 2014 06:56 AM PDT
Satchidananda
Brahman is satchidananda. Sat is truth - that which exists in the past, the present and the future - which has no beginning, middle or end which is self-existent, self-created which never changes. In truth the world abides, from the truth the world comes forth and in truth the world dissolves. Truth is the only substance that underlies and pervades this world of beings. Truth is, and gives immortality and fearlessness.
Chit is self-knowledge. There are no indriyas (senses) in chit. It is self-luminous and imparts light to the mind, intellect, senses and the skin of the body, the sun, moon, stars, fire, lightning and all objects.
Ananda is bliss itself. There is no enjoyer in ananda. It is enjoyment itself.
When you are in the company of women, say: "There is satchidananda Atman in all these names and forms. Names and forms are false. They have no independent existence. Their support is the one satchidananda Atman." Lust will vanish; sex ideas will disappear. Practise, feel and realise this truth. One grain of practice is better than a ton of theory. Practice is better than precept.
The snake in the rope vanishes when you bring a lamp. So also the illusion of the body and the world disappears with the advent of the sun of wisdom. All fears, miseries, and troubles melt away. You have regained your original pristine glory.
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Pure consciousness is Brahman or the Absolute - it is always the witnessing subject. It can never become the object of perception it is always the knower. Mind can only know the external objects. How can mind, effect, know the cause, Brahman? How can the finite know the infinite? How can mind know the knower? You cannot jump on your shoulders. Fire cannot burn itself. If Atman becomes the object of perception, it will become a finite object. The denier of the pure consciousness does always exist (sat) he is just like the man who denies or doubts his tongue when he is talking. This proves Brahman always exists. Existence is pure consciousness (chit). Pure consciousness is also immortal bliss (ananda).
Satsang Bhavan Lectures, Message 14
Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Satsang Bhavan Lectures of Swami Sivananda
30. Girhasta Ashrama / 31. Advice to Householders / 32. Divorce - Not Fit for Indian People

30. GRIHASTHA ASHRAMA OR MARRIED LIFE
There are four stages in life. All these stages are necessary for man's evolution and attainment of the final goal of self-realisation.
The first stage is brahmacharya. A brahmachari studies religious books. He conserves energy. He undergoes discipline sitting at the feet of guru.
Then he enters the second stage of life, the life of a grihastha or householder. It is a stage where he cultivates various kinds of virtues—compassion, tolerance, charity, generosity—which are aids for the attainment of God-realisation. The second stage is the best stage. Herein he can help the brahmachari, he can help the vanaprasthi and he can help the sanyasin. All religious institutions are maintained by the kindness and generosity of the householders. This institution, the Divine Life Society, is helped by householders only by their generous donation and loving kindness.
After finishing the grihasthashrama, man enters vanaprasthashrama. Really there are no vanaprasthas now, and there are really no ideal sanyasins also. We cannot find ideal sanyasins now who observe the disciplines mentioned in the Narada Parivrajaka Upanishad. There are sanyasins enjoying comforts, which are necessary in this iron age.
If a man is endowed with religious samskaras, and if due to some obstacles he was not able to realise the summum bonum of life, he is again born in this world with good samskaras and in good environments with God's and Guru's grace, and without entering the order of grihastha, he can enter into sanyas. There have been many such instances, and even now there are such instances. Only when there are vasanas, one has to enter into grishasthashrama. If he has discrimination, dispassion, shad sampat and mumukshatwa, he will never enter the householder's life, but he will have double-promotion. He will at once take a sanyas even while he is a brahmachari.
Grihasthashrama is also good, it helps all other ashramas. If one leads a well regulated grihastha life, there is no need for sanyasashrama. Most sanyasins are failures in their grihastha life, and therefore, they had to take to sanyas. A disciplined householder is better than a sanyasin. Living in this world with all responsibilities, he lives a religious life, like our Malaviyaji and various other men.
So, remaining as a householder, one should help the sanyasins, help the poor, nurse the sick. These are the virtues that householders should practise. One-tenth of income should be set apart for helping the poor. Thus you can grow in spirituality and attain God-realisation in your own house.
Eknath and Guru Nanak were householders. Lord Rama and Lord Krishna were householders. Therefore, marriage is no hindrance to spirituality. Marriage is no hindrance to God-realisation. You must live a life of detachment, a life of prayerfulness, worshipfulness, meditation, realisation, aspiration and renunciation. You should not think that when you retire, you come to Hardwar and do sadhana. But you must start your quest for God-realisation even now. When you are young, the mind is very pliable. Samskaras can be easily formed. A little meditation, a little japa, a little pranayama, a little asans—all these will help you to attain God-realisation.
May all householders lead an exemplary life, entertaining the sanyasins, helping the poor and nursing the sick. May they all keep before them the ideals of Sita and Rama, Radha and Krishna and Uma and Sankar. May the abode of every householder become a powerful, spiritual centre! May all householders be endowed with dispassion and discrimination and shine as beacon lights in this very life! May they all attain God-realisation in their own houses in this very birth.

31. ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS
Swamiji's speech on the occasion of the marriage of Lt. N.V. Deshpande and Sri Padma, on 26th December, 1956.
Today is a most glorious day, because two pious souls are united for attaining God-realisation. By practising purity, generosity, self-restraint, by serving the sadhus, brahmacharins and vanaprasthis, they can easily attain God-realisation.
The marriage has been performed in a pure land, Uttarakhand, where rishis, saints and savants lived. Once Suka Deva started from Uttarakhand for Delhi. When he was moving in Uttarakhand, he never washed even his teeth. On reaching Delhi he asked for tooth stick, or whatever material was used in those days for cleansing the teeth. His disciples asked, "Maharaj, you never washed your teeth in Uttarakhand and Rishikesh, but how are you now asking for tooth-stick and neem stick?" He said, "Uttarakhand is a land of purity. One need not take bath also." It is in such a pure land that the marriage has taken place.
Padma is lotus, Padma is Lakshmi. Deshpande is one who is devoted to the service of the country. He is Vishnu. So Vishnu and Lakshmi are united together. Deshpande is a lieutenant. Military people have the spirit of sacrifice. At any moment they may be called for any place. They possess abhayam, fearlessness. This is the most important virtue. In Gita fearlessness comes first. This, an aspirant has to cultivate and develop in order to attain God-realisation. Virtues like abhayam, humility, compassion make a man divine. Do not argue whether God exists or not. Develop virtues. Then you yourself become divine. Angerlessness, desirelessness—these are the virtues that make one divine. He has got these virtues. He has equipped himself with these virtues, so necessary for God-realisation. Padma sings like Radha.
Householder's life is very suitable for God-realisation. They can develop all the virtues. If one leads the householder's life virtuously and performs his duties righteously, according to Dharma Sastras, according to Manusmriti, practising dasalakshana, such as self-restraint, truthfulness, he can attain self-realisation easily. Those who have become sanyasins, have not lived their house-holders' life properly. So Padma and Deshpande will lead a virtuous life doing their duties well, and practising nama-smaran. In kali yuga it is very easy to attain God-realisation, because you need not do siras asan for six months at a stretch. It is more easy to awaken kundalini by practising worship, namasmaran and kirtan. Everybody likes to be born in kali yuga, because it is easy to attain God-realisation in this yuga through nama-smaran and kirtan.
Yoga is not something that will fall from heaven but namasmaran, either with bhav or without bhav. Even if you do not have bhav, does not matter. Repeat the name with or without bhav. Nam has got infinite potency to burn all the samskaras and purify the heart and make you realise God in this birth. So let them lead a life of purity, generosity and a little namasmaran. They will attain God-realisation. Let us pray to God to give them health, long life, peace, prosperity.
Those who remaining in the world tread the spiritual path are real heroes. By shutting yourself in a cave, you cannot develop qualities like tolerance, compassion, selflessness. By remaining in seclusion you become a victim to inertia. He is an adhyatmic hero, who remains in the world facing the difficulties and adversities of life. Life in the world develops will power, fills the heart with virtues. The world is a vast university. The world is the best teacher. Nature is the best teacher. Therefore, remaining in the world, try to advance on the spiritual path. I request Omji to remain in Madras and do more work. He is thinking of sanyas. The world is the best field for evolution. You can have chorus songs and bhajans. Eknath, a Maharastra saint, was a householder. Eknath did wonderful work. Even devas used to take food from him. Guru Nanak had two sons. Therefore, do not take to nivritti marga. It is very difficult. You have to get licence from the government! The best is to have mental sanyas. Remain in the world, cultivating virtues. It is better to be mental sanyasins, developing virtues. Give gerua to your heart. Sanyasa is not wearing gerua cloth. People wear gerua cloth so that people will welcome them saying, "Aiye, Maharaj" and give them respect. God only knows who is a real sanyasin. According to Gita, detachment, dispassion is sanyasa. Sanyasa is a mental state, not merely showing the colour of the cloth. Develop dispassion and viveka. The world is a straw for a man of dispassion. Vairagya is the greatest wealth.
Kaupeenavantah khalu bhagyavantah. Money in the bank cannot make you fearless. It is vairagya that makes you absolutely fearless. Vairagya is the most inexhaustible spiritual wealth. vairagya and abhyasa are the most important sadhana. The enjoyment of the fourteen worlds becomes like a straw to a man of vairagya. Vairagya does not mean that one should put on only a kowpeen and eat neem leaves. He who wears only a kowpeen and eats neem leaves, may yet fight for kowpeen few annas. Vairagya, renunciation, detachment is a mental state. Find out the effects of sensual life. The world appears attractive, but there is cancer, there is tuberculosis, there is paralysis. People become hopeless and helpless. Therefore, vairagya is a state of absolute fearlessness. You should have vivekapurvaka vairagya, vairagya born of discrimination, wisdom. That only will help you, but not the vairagya that comes on account of difficulties. Therefore develop vivekapurvaka vairgayad and virtues like kshama, serenity, titiksha, little by little. You may fail a thousand times, but again you will rise up, if you have God's grace, if you are eternally vigilant. Whatever may be your duties, keep Gita in your pocket and mala around your neck. They will goad you to think of God. Mukh mem ram, hat mem kam, Give the hands to work and the mind to God. Tasmat sarveshu kaleshu mamanusmara yudhya cha—"Remember Me and fight." 'Fight' means 'Do your duty'. Always remember the important Gita slokas:
     vihayakaman yah sarvan pumanscharati nisprihah
     nirmamo nirahamkarah sa santimadhigachchati
          (Bhagavad Gita, II.71)
He who is free from all desires, free from mineness and egoism, he will attain peace.
     shraddhavan labhate jnanam, tat parah samyatendriyah,
     jnanam labdhwa param santim achirena adhigachchati.
          (Bhagavad Gita, IV.39)
He who has faith attains knowledge. He who is devoted to the self, he who has controlled his indriyas attains knowledge. Attaining knowledge, he enjoys supreme peace.
These two slokas you will have to remember, whenever the world tempts you. Maya is so powerful, but it will not affect you if you are regular in sadhana, if you become desireless, if you attend satsang regularly, if you have understood the magnitude of human suffering.
Is this physical body the 'I'? No. The body is perishable, ever changing. The self is immortal, unchanging. You should do a little bit of enquiry, reflection and meditation. Then only you will be utilising this life profitably. Whatever situation you may be placed in, God's grace will come. You should have a little study, a little satsang. Every day should be utilised. Every second should be utilised. You should not postpone sadhana till retirement. When you are free even in office, do a little nama-smaran, 'Ram, Ram'. Ram is full of potency. It means omnipotence, omniscience. Ram means Atma. You will have to develop namaruchi. That is our wealth. You should be desireless, angerless, mineless. You should make an attempt. He who does this, while remaining in the world, is the hero, but not he who fights in the battlefield. The real battlefield is within. To destroy vasanas, to become desireless, I-less, to have no attraction for the world is real heroism.
Desh Pande! You are a soldier. Look not back. March forward. Have the ideal before you—God-realisation. You can have eternal happiness in the chambers of your heart. Jyoishamapi tat jyotih—'He is the Light of lights'. This you should never forget. You should feel this again and again. The momentum of samskaras thus created is your real bank balance. Do namasmaran, sing kirtan. Remember that the world is God. Share what you have with others. When you find a sick man on the road-side, give him a tumbler of milk. To a sadhu in winter give a blanket. Then only the heart will expand. You will become one with the whole world. Cosmic consciousness will come. You will have compassion, feeling of oneness. You put yourself in the position of others. You share with others and thus expand. If you accumulate wealth for you alone your heart gets constricted. Share what you have. The secret of abundance is 'give, give, give'. The more you give, the more will flow to you.
May you attain union with the supreme soul. That is the real marriage, the soul-marriage. Marriage is a contract. It is holy sacrament. There is no divorce in India. Though the divorce bill has come, it will die. The rishis' strength is there. Once you are united, both should march forward. You are ardhanareeswara. You should share with each other. Your talents are shared. The wife prepares food and tea for the husband when he comes from meditation. He also serves. They mutually share their talents and abilities. The husband reads Ramayana, the wife sings. Both should march forward.
Real marriage is the marriage of the souls. The individual soul merges with the supreme soul. That is the real meaning and significance of marriage. The individual soul merges with the supreme soul, by practising sensible asceticism, by cultivating virtues, by doing bhajan, kirtan, convert your house into a vaikuntah. Vaikuntah is here only. So let these two souls be merged in the supreme Parabrahman, in jivanmukti, and let them serve humanity. Whatever things are blessed with by God, share with all and march forward in this battlefield of this world and become jivanmuktas like Meera, Chudalai. Chudalai sang the cradle song 'Suddhosi, Buddhosi Niranjanosi' and converted all her children into Brahma jnanis. Remember Anusooya who is noted for her chastity, and march forward.
The first marriage celebrated here was that of Savitri, M. A., and Jasendranath M. A. The second marriage is between Padma and Deshpande. She likes this place. Instead of going to towns for celebrating marriage, she has come to the banks of Ganga Maharani and the Himavan and Lord Viswanath, the universal father. She has got good samskaras. We have performed several Upanayanam ceremonies also, and mundane ceremony, ear-boring ceremony. All ceremonies I like to have done here, so that all people will have the opportunity of coming here, where there are sanyasins wearing the gerua cloth, and enjoy tremendous bless, strength and purity. This is the place where rishis lived, where Vedavyasa divided the Vedas. We have got Vasishta Guha, and Tapovan. The vibrations created by the rishis will never die. Akasic records will never die.
So, May Lord bless Padma, Deshpande and the whole family and the entire world at large with health, long life, peace, bliss, prosperity and immortality.

32. DIVORCE NOT FIT FOR INDIAN PEOPLE
India is a land of dharma. India abounds with sages, seers and rishis. India is always the religious teacher for the whole world. India alone can give peace and solace to the West and other countries. India abounds with pativratas. India is the land where Nalayani and Savitri lived. Savitri brought back her husband, Satyavan, to life. India is the land of Sita, Radha and various other pativrata devis. In such a land a sad thing has crept in. It is divorce.
Divorce court and divorce cases have already crept in. Two divorces have been recorded in Madras. India is now aping the West. In India marriage is a sacrament, is a sacred act, where the husband and wife make a solemn promise before the fire, "I will be dutiful to you and I will serve you to the last moment of my life." It is not a simple contract as in the West. It is an unbreakable tie. In such a land this has come. It cannot give peace. Divorce is not for Indian people.
Divorce comes on account of lack of adaptability, lack of psychological unity. There is no real unity in heart. Therefore, divorce cases occur. A young boy is attracted by the physical beauty, by the nose and the skin. A girl may be a beautiful girl at heart, full of divine virtues, she will be a very useful companion, but the boy is carried away by his own fancies. A home will be happy only when husband and wife are really united at heart. There are only very few happy homes. They are not properly united at heart, therefore quarrels, occur in the house, there is no peace despite all good possessions. A man is wealthy; he has got a car, a bungalow and children. Yet, he is not happy. Girls and women complain "My husband is not loving me now." So there are quarrels in the house. The wife gets a nervous breakdown. She imagines or feels that her husband is ill treating her. So, there should be proper, real union. They should love each other. Then only there will be happiness at home.
Marriage is sometimes a luxury. There is no real necessity for marriage, if there are subha vasanas, real good spiritual samskaras as in Sri Ramana Maharshi, Swami Dayananda, Swami Vivekananda. They led a life of brahmacharya, because there were no asubha vasanas in them. Marriage is meant only for those who have got asubha vasanas. Otherwise a brahmachari can take sanyasa. Yadaiva virajet, tadaiva parivrajet. Whenever Vairagya comes, one should renounce. When there are no evil vasanas, when there are good samskaras, viveka and vairagya, he is fit for nivritti. Dayananda, Vivekananda, and there are many examples even now. There is Mr. Srinivasan and there are ladies also who are leading a life of brahmacharya—Pushpanand, Ananda Mohini, Brij Mohini, Doctor Kutty, Dr. Vasanta. They are determined to lead the life of brahmacharya. They are not attracted by marriages.
Marriage is only for those who have no discrimination. They get entangled by marriage and begin to quarrel and begin to divorce. Why? Be careful, be vigilant in the beginning itself. The world is an alluring tinsel, a glamour, for one of discrimination. It tempts, and man or woman is attracted, and later on they begin to repent. A life of single blessedness is more happy. He who is endowed with children cannot do selfless service to the world. A single man, he who leads a single blessed life, can do service. He has no dependants, no attachment. If his life is free for service, he can dedicate himself to the service of humanity and attain realisation quickly. But there are some really happy homes also. But they are rare.
The divorce bill must vanish from the land.
A bill must be introduced only with the help and aid of spiritual swamis and yogis who will be able to guide the law ministers from their intuition, insight. From their revelation they can guide these people properly and then laws can be introduced which will be useful for humanity.
It is a sad thing for us that divorce has been introduced. Let us now pray for one soul who is not feeling happy, who is not having a blessed happy home, who has got a little nervous breakdown. A good remedy for hysteria is the husband must be more kind to the wife. More kindness is the best remedy. It is more potent than any nervine tonic. Then only the home will be happy. They should adapt themselves to each other. There is no adaptability, so there is rub and friction at home. The husband thinks that the wife should obey him cent percent; she should carry out all his wishes. The wife thinks that the husband should be obedient to her. She thinks, "Whatever I say he must carry out." That is not possible. They should adapt. Then only it will be a happy home. Adaptability is a fundamental virtue. One should bend when the time comes. Then only there will be happiness at home. On account of lack of adaptability there is quarrel.
A man marries a girl. After six or seven years he thinks, "My wife is not beautiful." Why? You cannot have always an unfailing beauty in a face. Wrinkles come. Teeth lose their brilliance and lustre. The same scarlet you cannot find. The front hairs become grey. You will have to expect these. "She is S.S.L.C. She is not B.A. She does not know music." These are the qualifications you expect. So one must be careful, and remain as a brahmachari. Who asked you to marry, and later on resort to fighting and shoe-beating? She also must be careful. Nobody has been profited by marriage. Ask a man of fifty years. Nobody has been really profited by maya. Study some religious books. Have satsang, and control the evil vrittis. There is no necessity for marriage. Ramana Maharshi did not like to marry. Vivekananda did not like to marry. Have a little satsang, a little discrimination, dispassion, a little thinking whether all the people are benefited by marriage. You may say that the world may come to extinction if people do not marry. The Lord is there to create more worlds, or mental creation will come. Through mental sankalpa children will be born. There will be no need for husband-wife relationship. God is so great. The world will not come to an end if people begin not to marry. So young boys and girls should be careful. Why marry for the sake of a little pleasure? Can marriage give you lasting satisfaction? Can it give you wisdom and peace? No. Then there is no necessity for marriage institution. It is a social thing for people whose minds are filled with lower impulses. It is not for people who are endowed with discrimination and right thinking. Why do you entangle and worry later?
So let us pray for her who has got a little nervous breakdown, because of false or unreal imagination that the husband is ill-treating her.


				*11-1-14 Blossom et al*