The Golden Rule, Patience and Dynamism

You cannot say, "I am going to have a quick meditation! I have no time!" Not possible.

So this path, the middle path, the golden path, wherein you are enthusiastic, you are in a hurry, at the same time, you are patient. You are patient, at the same time you are not lethargic. You are not postponing things. You know, often when people have to do something good, for their personal development, they say, "If God is willing, I will do it. If God is willing, it will come to me".

They leave it to God, when it comes to one's practices and development.

When we have to do something in the world, they do not say, "God willing I will build a house or if God is willing, I will make a relationship".

You do not do that! You look for a relationship, you look for a house, look for a job, look for money.

For all this you put your hundred percent, but, if you have to do something for others, you say, if God is willing it will happen.

Many people do that, at least in India. I think it is the same everywhere. If God wills, then it will happen. It should be the other way round. So, patience and dynamism. That is the golden rule.

 

link Artofliving Patanjali-Yogasutras

 

This is the clinch, isn't it? We get that inside reflection in dreams and it wakes us up. Okay, that is great.

We know it is not possible to go for a quick meditation, we meditate and if there is no time, we can shorten it, if we do it always the same length of time like twenty minutes.

We have to learn that golden path, we are both, in a hurry and patient.

I have met that feeling once during the time with my ex, he made me feel lethargic and it scared me. I couldn't get out, I could go nowhere, there was no solution, there was no way out and at the same time it didn't work.

The Baba Lila seemed for nothing, not one dream he understood or inquired about it, only that I had to go and make peace with Baba, that was clear because it was an action and he could blame me for it, that means it happened, it changed.

Practice is the real Thing

Practice is the real thing that matters in spirituality.

Scholarship is a burden, many times a handicap even.

So long as God is believed to be far away, in temples and holy places, one will feel religion a burden and a hurdle. But install Him in your heart and you feel light, burdenless and even strong. It is like the food basket – when carried on a shoulder, it feels heavy. You are too weak, even to carry it.

But sit near a stream and eat your food from the basket– though the food weight has not decreased, you feel stronger and joyful. That is the consequence of taking the food in.

Do likewise, with the idea of God. Do not carry it on the shoulder, take it 'in'! The scriptures teach, "God is verily the Life-breath, of every soul." So practise to live in His Glory, in His Memory, in His contemplation, every single moment of your life.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

Practice is Abhyasa. It cannot be technique, because it has to be the way as described before.
Baba talks on the level of all religions and therefore, he doesn't comment the Patanjali Sutras, but it is still the same message.
If we are in touch with divinity inside we do it spontaneously right. If we know the observer, we have that dedication.

The main thing is to install him in our heart and for that is practice needed.

Day Dream or Night Dream

There are only two states of consciousness. One is deep sleep or dreaming: day dream or night dream. Throughout the day one dreams, "Oh, what will happen to me?

Or I will do this, I will do that." Building castles in the air.

However, once you know that you are day dreaming, that very moment a gush of energy overtakes you; you become alert and that alertness wakes you up to the reality. You are awakened.

That awakening is prajna, samadhi. That moment alone you are fully alive and awakened to the truth of what is. Rest of the time, it is all sleep. 

Patanjali Yogasutra

 

The discrimination is about day dream or night dream.

That is why in looking at our dreams we actually wake up.

All that inner seeing in the dream state has to do with reflection.

In the dream state the mind is not functioning and therefore, it is not telling, but that is not possible, therefore, the dream is a reflection and if there is a higher reality we learn from it. 

Baba called it super conscious state and samadhi.

But as I got used to it, he began also to be in the waking state and said, 'I am hungry and you'?

My Life is my Message

Three fishes lived in a pond. One told the other two that the water was drying up and they should leave before it was too late. 

The first fish decided to leave the pond immediately, the second said it could save itself when the contingency arose and the third fish ignored it. In due course, the second and third fish were caught by a fisherman. 

The second fish managed to break through the net and escape, the third one resigned its fate to destiny. 

God of Death, Yama is the fisherman; unless early notice is taken of the process of drying to which the tank of one's lifespan is subject, one gets caught. 

Migrate into the sea of Grace, which will not dry; or learn the art of breaking through the net of death. 

Discard sloth and slumber, denounce fanaticism and make yourself a dedicated servant of the Lord. 

Then all strength, joy and Grace will be showered on you.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

It was about turning it into light and God. It was like that in the reflection in the dream. 

Atman reacts, reflects and resounds.

Highest first - Wisdom first

Divinity expresses itself infinitely as the five elements – the sky, the wind, the fire, the water and the earth. All creation is but a combination of two or more of these in varying proportions.

The characteristic nature of these elements are sound, touch, form, taste and smell, cognized by the ear, the skin, the eye, the tongue and the nose.

All the elements are abundant in Nature and are precious and potent with Divinity. So use them in moderation, reverentially, with humility and gratefulness. 
Excessive or inappropriate usage will injure your well-being just as drinking more or less water than needed is a torture. Inhaling more air is suffocating. Fire in moderation can warm or serve to heat and melt, but beyond a certain limit, it is a holocaust. Even excessive use of sound will distract people and drive them crazy.

Hence, learn to use the natural resources intelligently, in moderation, with the idea of loving service to all in the community.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

This is exactly what happens to me when I read the thought for the day and it reflects the issue which was there a day before. Divinity expresses itself in the elements, sound, touch, form, taste and smell, cognized by our senses.

Helpless and Hopeless

When the seven colours of the spectrum come together, the effect is 'no colour'; when they stand apart, the seven colours can be separately identified. The betel nut is brown, betel leaf is green and the chunnam (slaked lime) is white, but when you chew these three together, your tongue becomes red.

When the three blades of a ceiling fan revolve fast enough and no blade is separately noticeable, they give cool comfort. So too only when the different qualities of Sathwa, Rajas and Tamas are unrecognisably integrated, one can be happy.

When the three gunas are equated in sadhana (spiritual practice), the result is peace. The lamp is the sathwa guna, the wick is the tamo guna and the oil is the rajo guna. When all the three are integrated, they give the light of wisdom, which illumines.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

Seeing those colors is kind of a different awareness. Who wants to see the color if he feels as I do in the moment?