For acquiring selfless love, the quality of kshama or forbearance is a vital necessity. (kshama is a word rich in meaning. Besides forbearance, it also implies extreme patience and an enormous capacity to forget as also forgive). Every individual must cultivate this noble quality. Kshama is not achieved by reading books or learnt from an instructor. Nor can it be received as a gift from someone else. This prime virtue of kshama can be acquired solely by self-effort, by facing squarely diverse problems and difficulties of various sorts, by going through anxieties and suffering as well as sorrow. In the absence of kshama, man becomes susceptible to all kinds of evil tendencies. Hatred and jealousy easily take root in a person lacking this virtue. Divinity is merely the combined manifestation of prema (love) and kshama.
We should always listen, think it over and absorb, we never should only read divine words. Someone said he is afraid to interpret Swami's words and there was just a thought for the day and Baba is telling us that we should actually interpret it as much as we can to see it in our time, our environment and our culture, in our tradition and our life, he always said we should hold on to our traditions, it means we should see it in our own life as our tradition and that is not done if we are scared of interpreting something we cannot interpret, he is a divine principle it cannot be changed. But Westerners think they know their tradition and they hold on to what is old fashioned and it is all wrong understood, it is nothing else but the mind and in the mind.
The Vedic tradition it is different, hopefully it will not be projected in the outside tradition as it was always part of their culture.
That is why in the insight they seemed old-fashioned and traditional, they are scared to do something wrong, they think they have to be good and that is on the mind level and wrong understood.
Do good, be good, see good is not about interpreting his words, it is about the principle, it is uplifting always and therefore, it has to be good and it cannot be uplifting if it is not good and a principle is beyond change.
We should see his words in our life and our culture and integrate it in our traditions, but even if we mentioned it some time later we were again back to the same question and the same issue. He didn't listen, but when I mentioned that we should listen, think it over and absorb, he was the one asking what is there to listen about? He is the one who doesn't hear it and he sees everything on the gross, relative and material worldly level.
For acquiring selfless love, the quality of kshama or forbearance is a vital necessity. (kshama is a word rich in meaning. Besides forbearance, it also implies extreme patience and an enormous capacity to forget as also forgive). Every individual must cultivate this noble quality.
How can we think it over and not forget it?
We also have to accept that some and often those we notice the most as they are outspoken and they tell what they think and they mean troubles, but the others which are silent and don't say much, when they tells something we notice that there is thinking going on and they don't only express just the mind. It is a chance to get a good experience and to get closer and nearer to the divine oneness.
Kshama is not achieved by reading books or learnt from an instructor. Nor can it be received as a gift from someone else. This prime virtue of kshama can be acquired solely by self-effort, by facing squarely diverse problems and difficulties of various sorts, by going through anxieties and suffering as well as sorrow.
What Swami is telling us is actually that forbearance helps us to accept what we cannot accept. It is not a gift and he tells us that it is not a gift and it cannot be a gift.
Why is that important, because not everything is a gift, we cannot generalize it that it is a gift, if forbearance is not a gift and the most important virtue to develop, we have to get there by self-effort.
We have to accept it and by accepting it we actually develop Kshama, forbearance, it is forgiving what we usually have problems to accept, what we don't like and would like it to be different and what is difficult to accept and that what doesn't make sense, what we would like to avoid and we don't like to see it in our self-constructed fairy tale of life which as a gift of the divine and we have to be grateful for it, forbearance is not a gift and it also cannot be taught by a master or a teacher, it is gained by self-effort and Baba calls it the most important virtue and the ability to forgive and to forget.
If we follow the shadow and the shadow is illusion, however much time is needed, when we get aware of the illusion, it falls flat. It is not part of the game, the game is about reality and in the end only what is real exists and the other is just the shadow and illusion and it falls away.
What is there enjoyable about knowing it?
It is uplifting to our life, it makes us feel good, because our higher self is our life and that is real, it makes us feel good because it is real, that is cleansing the ideal and therefore, it is uplifting.
We are God, but in the moment when the shadow takes over nobody feels godly, we feel bad because it is the shadow and we would prefer to not meet the shadow.
If it is the shadow, it will fall away, but we cannot think it over and absorb it alone, it is different if we do it in the circle, there is a circle and we share thoughts and our experience with the ideal and we listen and we don't interrupt and we are surprised to see how different the experiences really are, but one thing is the same, we have to think it over in the study circle and it is about finding the truth looking at it from all sides it is always right and always the same and that is in Swami's words, therefore, if we listen to his words and we use his words, we cannot go wrong.
What is the problem about it?
We cannot do it alone, we do it in the circle and we listen to others and that is after all the divine level we are sharing the ideal.
In his words we find the truth, it is from all sides the same and right answer, as it is truth and it is in Swami's words and therefore, if we use his words we cannot go wrong. Even if we don't know what we are doing, we cannot be wrong and if we don't remember it, we just don't know, but he is always right, it is always true.
We cannot go wrong if we use Swami's words, he is the doer, he is the knower, he gives the right answers.
In the absence of kshama, man becomes susceptible to all kinds of evil tendencies. Hatred and jealousy easily take root in a person lacking this virtue. Divinity is merely the combined manifestation of prema(love) and kshama.
What is uplifting?
It is telling us that Kshama or forbearance is the most important virtue. Love is not something we do, it is present if we do the right thing, it is present if there are three things, truth, right action and peace, there can be the experience of pure love. We all want love and love is everything there is, but we cannot feel love and think it is pure love, it is not love, but the mind, if we try to feel it, but we can develop forbearance and if there is forbearance there will be also love.
Divinity is merely the combined manifestation of prema(love) and kshama.
Baba doesn't talk about it as a gift.
Kshama is not achieved by reading books or learnt from an instructor. Nor can it be received as a gift from someone else. This prime virtue of kshama can be acquired solely by self-effort, by facing squarely diverse problems and difficulties of various sorts, by going through anxieties and suffering as well as sorrow.
We cannot get it from books and not by a teacher, we cannot receive it as gift from someone it means also not from divinity, Kshama is that what makes our good character, if we have it we will develop good qualities in accepting the bad and if we don't have it we will not develop good qualities and stay arrogant and in the ego.
This prime virtue of kshama can be acquired solely by self-effort, by facing squarely diverse problems and difficulties of various sorts, by going through anxieties and suffering as well as sorrow.
What is good about thinking it over?
It is cleansing the ideal. Swami tells us that we are not wrong if we feel bad, but that it is normal that we feel bad and we have to develop forbearance and he even is telling us that divinity is a combined manifestation of love and forbearance.
In the absence of kshama, man becomes susceptible to all kinds of evil tendencies. Hatred and jealousy easily take root in a person lacking this virtue. Divinity is merely the combined manifestation of prema(love) and kshama.
We went to him and expected that we feel always as we did in his presence and we got used to it and now we are as he said hungry for that love and how do we find it? if we don't listen to him, we don't know how the ideal and the emotions are cleansed and why our life feels uplifted and if we don't listen to his words, we cannot know only if we listen he is telling us why it is done and why we felt the way we felt.
Only when we listen to his words it will be cleansing to the ideal and by cleansing the ideal, our emotions get purified and his words are uplifting to our life and that is the experience and sight of truth and that is a Darshan, if Baba is present in the body or not, he is present in the truth of his words and that is the experience of a Darshan.
We experience his omnipresence, he comes in dreams and is there to awake us and after such a Darshan with the truth of his words all are happy.
He is in the dream or we feel him and there is that silence in the air we have experienced in his presence waiting after Darshan for the Bhajans to begin and it feels good, it is like a miracle, because it is uplifting to our life and that was always present when he was there. He is in the truth and people look only for truth and Baba's presence and therefore, if we listen to his words and think it over to absorb, we are the same and not different that is how we are one with him and if we use his words, we cannot go wrong.
If we use his words, he is the doer and things fall in place and it feels like magic, that is his love and he said that from all miracles he performed his love is the biggest miracle.
In the absence of kshama, man becomes susceptible to all kinds of evil tendencies. Hatred and jealousy easily take root in a person lacking this virtue. Divinity is merely the combined manifestation of prema(love) and kshama.
Swami said that a real friend is someone who is always uplifting to our life and only God can be that really and that he is cleansing the ideal and the emotions and if we listen, we get aware what we experienced during a Darshan and if we listen and hear it, it is uplifting to our life and it is cleansing the ideal and the emotions, we have to listen and think it over to be able to absorb.
That is important, it is telling us what happened in his presence, he is the 'I am that', an eternal, non-changing ideal, it cannot be put in question, it is what cannot be transcended, after everything conceptual is transcended, only that is left, it is beyond the mind and on three levels, the I is the subjective level, the being or 'am' is the relationship and 'that' is the objective level.
If we don't understand it, we don't need to understand, we just need to experience it, we have to transcend, but not as we are used to with a mantra by getting lost in a routine. We have to transcend on three levels, what we are familiar with is only one level and the pure being, only 'being', not even the 'I am', only being and pure transcendental awareness, it is also not the object, we don't know it, we get lost in it.
We have to transcend in a way that we know what we are doing, that is the difference, we have to be aware of it and we have two more levels, the 'I am I' the divine, the only one and the quality which cannot be transcended, the level of the subject and 'that' and pure love, the mantra is Soham and the meaning is 'I am that' and it is true always, because it cannot be transcended.
If we just transcend we get into pure being, we know how to transcend the conceptual relative, material gross worldly level and how to go beyond the mind, but we have to get aware of it and we should not be lost in the routine, it is not good to get lost, but as it seemed that easy and comfortable, we hold on to it and it was said that all problems are solved and that is what we hold on to and all questions answered, that makes it that easy and we just believed it, because it was just easy, only it was not true, we don't find our self in it, we get lost.
If we listen to divine words, always true, it cannot be wrong, it is like Darshan and uplifting our life and cleansing the ideal and the emotions.
if we use his words, it is never wrong, it is always true and therefore, uplifting and cleansing the ideal and emotions, even if we don't know and it is not yet realized it, be listening to his words and thinking it over we get aware of it.
We experience the cleansing of the ideal in the circle and not alone, we are the same, 'I am that'. Alone is the wrong level and the individual level is barren land, if there are two it is possible and it will be uplifting and cleansing to the ideal and to the emotions and it is in the effect like Darshan, we find his divine presence only now it is omnipresence and the divine love and that is a gift, but Kshama or forbearance is a necessity and not a gift.
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