Watch Your Step

Whoever subdues egoism, conquers selfish desires, destroy one’s bestial feelings and impulses, and gives up the natural tendency to regard the body as the Self, is surely on the path of Dharma; they know that the goal of Dharma is the merging of the wave in the sea! In all worldly activities, you should be careful not to offend propriety, or the canons of good nature; you should not play false to the promptings of the Inner Voice, you should be prepared at all times to respect the appropriate dictates of conscience; you should watch your steps to see whether you are in someone else's way; you must be ever vigilant to discover the Truth behind all this scintillating variety. This is your duty, your Dharma. The blazing fire of Jnana, which convinces you that all this is Brahman (Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma) will consume into ashes all traces of your egoism, and worldly attachment.

That is actually a very strong message in that thought for the day.

I had to send the study circle away and finally I did it just mentioning that it is the same we had before and we hope we are back from the summer vacation and I send the thought for the day and that is how I had to translate it. 

First I mentioned only the last sentence, but then I noticed how powerful it was and as I had already twice a comment about Baba’s words actually, I translated it finally. 

It is about a principle and a principle can never be changed no matter how much we try to interpret it, we have to see it in our own life and we have to go on no matter what obstacles are there. 

They send me the text of the pope to send it around but nobody is listening to Swami's words, I got that upset. 

Whoever subdues egoism, conquers selfish desires, destroy one’s bestial feelings and impulses, and gives up the natural tendency to regard the body as the Self, is surely on the path of Dharma; they know that the goal of Dharma is the merging of the wave in the sea!

If we know we are not the body, we go automatically for oneness and we are all the same and the wave and the sea merge and why?

Because the higher self can only be one and the same, there are no limitations and no differences, so how can it be different? But the following words of Swami are that powerful. 

We should not offend our feeling for decency, propriety what is proper or improper and not the canons or the law of order and good nature, it was even difficult to translate it right and finally I wrote the law of order in nature what also means good nature. It is not that easy to translate it right. 

In all worldly activities, you should be careful not to offend propriety, or the canons of good nature;

We should not play false to the promptings of the inner voice that is really something because it tells us how and why we had met people and the Baba’s dreams are played false and we have more than ample prove of it as we suffered it on and on since we met there and I have met people telling that Swami gives and he does this and that and it was all false play.

you should not play false to the promptings of the Inner Voice, you should be prepared at all times to respect the appropriate dictates of conscience;

It sounds like the ten commandments, we should be always prepared at all times to respect the appropriate and that is telling us not the inappropriate dictates of our conscience and we know those who accept the inappropriate dictates not of conscience but of the mind actually and they listen to that and think it is Swami, and how sick seems that to be and how upsetting and how ignorant and without questioning it and it goes on like that. What is the most important sentence for me that we should watch to not step into someone else’s way, because that is telling me what happened and not only the neighbor but also that guy I met in his presence he also stepped into my way and it tells me also why it was finally present as ‘harm set, harm get’, if we step in the way of someone else we hinder everything and there was no more feeling of self-realization because of that reason and we wouldn't believe it if it would not have been there, the path to self-realization was hindered and we take in one way or another advantage of it. 

We use the other for our own petty mind gratification and that is what Swami said, the high devotional quality and precious divine reality get cheaper than rotten food. 

That is happening when we step in the way of someone else and it is going on like that, we should always look for truth and if we don't look for truth, how can we be aware when we step in the way of someone else? And it is for all those thinking they know truth without even thinking it over, he is telling us that we have to discover it behind the dazzling variety, that truth is about oneness and we cannot see it we have to find and discover it and we all know that we cannot just see it the oneness of the divine.  Our mind cannot know truth and truth is not there just in silence, it is about merging the wave with the ocean that is about truth.

you should watch your steps to see whether you are in someone else's way; you must be ever vigilant to discover the Truth behind all this scintillating variety.

And he goes on very powerful in telling us this is our duty. 

What is our duty? Looking for truth is our duty and to not stand in the way of someone else is our duty and to understand the insights and dreams right and not go for false play of the mind, that is our duty and not just taking advantage of it. 

He calls it even our Dharma and at the end he summarizes it as the blazing fire of Jnana, wisdom, the shining, bright fire of knowledge and not love is convincing us that all this is Brahman and it will consume all traces of ego and of worldly attachment and it is with self-enquiry only and why it is not love, because if we live that, we live truth and if we live truth, there will be pure love.

As Swami said, we have to understand peace first and we have to accept right action and we have to accept truth and only if we have those three things, truth, right action and peace, we are able to experience pure love.

This is your duty, your Dharma. The blazing fire of Jnana, which convinces you that all this is Brahman (Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma) will consume into ashes all traces of your egoism, and worldly attachment.

The love we think love is, that is no love, that is our mind and attachment and our blind perception and as he calls it looking for the higher self in the body. 

It is the blazing fire of Jnana, wisdom and knowledge and what we think about love is ignorance only and the mind if we didn’t make the experience of that ‘pure love’.

It is only that wisdom, it is only that knowledge that can convince us that we are Brahman and it can consume into ashes all traces of ego and worldly attachment.

It is only through wisdom and knowledge and listening to his words and contemplation and self-enquiry that we get closer to that love he is talking about. 

We think we know love and we are poorly trying to feel that love and it is nothing but ridiculous, because we don’t listen to him, there is no such thing as feeling that love in such a manner in imagining love to be there where only the mind is playing its fool game with us.

If that love is not based on truth and right action and false play, there is no love possible, because there is no wisdom about peace and the overall level of good for all being, there is only imagination and the mind developing that imaginative faculty of the mind.  

That is not love and only if there is truth, Sathya, right action, Dharma and peace, Shanti and only if those three human values are there we can get the experience of pure love, Prema.

And nobody who is involved in a false play of the mind claiming it to be love when he has no idea about that pure love, should tell us what to do and what to think and how to go on, because there is no fire and no power and nothing but the deluding mind and the imaginative faculty of the mind and the ego thinking that it is special taking advantage of the delusion the natural tendency of the characteristics of the universe to veil and it is nothing but illusion, the mind is occupied in self-elevation manking itself feel good.

And it is nothing but a huge ego thinking that we are great and we have done something special and we need to be adored and we are even God, when it is nothing but ego and the mind giving itself a bath of self-elevation, look how good and great I am ...!