Contemplation on the Divine

Devote your time to the service of the world with faith in the Lord, regardless of its fruits. Then you become blessed. Otherwise though the body may be inactive, the mind will be very busy, committing acts on its own. People with such minds fall prey to karma (consequences) in spite of their not doing anything! When a person has the mind fixed on contemplation of God and the pursuit of truth, though the body and senses do acts that are of service to the world, they won't be affected by them; though they do actions they are still non-doers of action. This is the lesson from Bhagavad Gita. The heart of the person who doesn't strive to cultivate the mind with holy thoughts is certain to be the paradise of evil and wickedness. Everyone who hopes to rise to greatness, who seeks one-pointedness and aspires for salvation must bear this in mind.

What should we do, we should take the attitude of being engaged in the service of the Lord in our activities, no matter what job, we should see it as service to society our mother land or the world. It has lots of advantages if we see it as service and not just as a job or when it is just about making money. It is a different way of seeing it and the mind is not busy in comparing ourselves with others constantly either seeing ourselves as more important or not good enough, whatever, it is just a service to the Lord and it is in that sense more important that we do our best in our present job than to compare it with others. It is as well a very different way to handle problems or conflicts, we have a more humble attitude and take it as it comes, instead of putting it constantly in question. It is a way of life and looking at it, and it is bright and more intelligent, as it is easier to be happy with whatever we get than to reach out for the impossible. But nevertheless, it is as well a realm of all possibilities, it builds character if we focus and doing the right thing and not how much we earn or don't earn in doing our job. It is as well a way to be happy with and self-content and to finding faults with everything. It is the way of self-realization, it is compared to a house, the floor is self-confidence, the walls are self-contentment, the roof is self-sacrifice and the living in the house is self-realization. If we serve in our job the world as a service to the Lord, whatever we have to do, it can be of benefit for us and our spiritual path, what matters it to do it in a spirit of service. 

He is explaining why it is like that. If we serve the world with our faith in the Lord, we do or best, but we don't expect a result, the result belongs to him when we serve him, he is the doer, he is the giver and therefore, we make the best out of it and the mind settles down similarly like when we mediate. Otherwise, the mind can be very busy finding faults or reasons to change things always again, it means the mind is busy even if the body may be inactive, the mind gets busy committing acts on its own. 

The attitude of service is like with meditation purifying and silencing the mind and contemplation and thinking over his words, develops the feeling for his message, we get confirmed in it or we recognize it in our own life and we get a feeling for it, the questions get answered with his words. 

If the mind is committing acts of its own, we will fall prey to karma the consequences of our actions in spite of not doing anything. We should be aware of it. Doing nothing in the body doesn't mean we don't have any karma, the mind is anyhow going on committing acts on it own, the mind doesn't stop, when the body is inactive. 

If we have the mind fixed on contemplation of God and we are looking for truth, even when our body and senses act in the world, we are still non-doers of action. 

That is the message, if we do it for the divine or with a higher purpose, we will not be affected by the action, we are like none-doers of action and even if we act, we are none-doers of action. That is a great message really and we should understand it right. The aim is liberation. 

The Bhagavad Gita is mentioned and its lesson. If we don't try to cultivate the mind with holy thoughts we will be in the paradise of evil and wickedness, what is called hell with other words. 

If we strive for greatness and we look for one-pointed focus and salvation we have to keep that in mind. 

Keeping the mind busy thinking over his words and his message helps us to understand our own role in life, it is about truth, the pursuit of truth. I always called it truth, always knowing that God is part of it, but in the West it is easier talking about truth than about God. With Baba I got used to it, but I went on calling it truth only. 

Devote your time to the service of the world with faith in the Lord, regardless of its fruits. Then you become blessed. 

In the first sentence he talks about faith in the Lord, regardless of its fruits. It is faith for an ideal, a higher purpose and we don't worry about the fruits and we will be blessed. We have to make the experience to get a feeling of it or we have to think it over and see it in our own life to even be able to experience it, usually we are always working for some kind of result, we don't know how to do without thinking of the fruits. 

It happened once when I mentioned truth it was all at the beginning when I began to watch with the aim to just get aware of truth or whatever that was the watcher, I didn't know how to call it, I just knew it had changed that much that it was impossible to get back to hit and what had been present as feeling of self-realization was no more to be found and the question was why. What had changed that much in the parent's house to make it impossible to get back to it? Therefore, it had to do with the parent's house and my mother always said, what do you have, there is nothing, but if there would have been nothing, it would still have been as before and it was not. 
In that time someone asked me what I wanted from life and I said, I am looking for truth and I thought it would make sense and he asked, 'what's that?' 
For my feeling it should have been clear and I idealized it even as understood without words when I realized that it was not the case and there was a big difference between what I understood and what he thought. At that time it was kind of a surprising that it was not clear. What is truth? What is illusion?
And how should we talk about it so that it does make sense. And Swami said in the dream, 'use my words' and when using his words it does make sense. 

After my father's death he was in my dream and he said, he had to show me something. The dream was that he was on a very dark place, he was in the river bed and there was a bridge, but he was in the river bed and it was too steep he couldn't get out of it when the water came and the light was far a way like a small star. 

The first thing that came in my mind was, why he wanted to tell me and I talked about the dream with the family hoping to get an answer. And that is how I realized that it was not just answered like that, but a process began and I had to get aware of it? The teaching behind is what Swami said, father is truth. And that is how the truth came up, but not as we hoped it would be. 

And I told the dream to the family members and there had been some kind of reaction to it and a certain feeling or the absence of it, only with mother I didn't get any reaction at all. After years of always mentioning it again I wrote it down and asked her for some kind of feedback, I would have liked to know what she thought about it. 
But she avoided it and that is how I got aware of it, before I still thought she didn't hear it, but she did hear it, but she avoided it and I got aware of it when the younger brother answered on her place and that was not my intention. I first had to note that she rally had talked with him about it, after all it was a dream. She talked and not to me about my dream and she felt kind of endangered by the dream or the information she thought I would get in the dream. And for me it means later in the dream stage it said, that my brother does the worst he can do and it took some time to realize that it had to do with the mother and she had created the troubles in that sense. He didn't see it as a dream at all, he talked about a lawyer and I was kind of taken aback and asked him about the problem and it had been just a dream. 
So the problem with the youngest brother was actually created by the mother. 
I wondered what was not okay and it was kind of a shock to get such a response on the side of the brother as it was just about a dream. So the mother went to him and complained about it instead of just talking with me about it. 
The death of the father brought up lots of questions and how he had died and she didn't feel comfortable about it and just answered my question as she should have or as I expected her to do it as it was just about a dream, she did something totally different. I even got scared and I thought he was in troubles and I got worried about him and I even had asked him what he did that he did the worst he could do? 

Only later when the thing came up again he reaction was such that it turned into abuse and by telling him that it was not okay, his answer was threatening. 
That was the answer to the dream of the father and the truth in it. 

The question was not just answered in that dream, but it was a process that started it was about avoiding it and looking at it with others instead of getting it to the point, it was kind of impossible to get to the point, as she was not answering directly and that is how I had to face the situation after I had written it down and I had sent it to her asking her as nicely as I could if she would give me a feedback, just something, i would like to get aware what he wanted to tell me. The conflict had expanded and came back as an echo from the younger brother, but he did the worst he could do. 
If the situation would have been okay, there wouldn't have been any need to do the worst he could do. I have never felt that bad really when I realized how it came back and I asked him if he had lost his mind, she was my mother as well. It was kind of difficult of getting along with that. 

On the spiritual level the dream said that he was in the mind, the light is far a way like a small star is the future, in the moment of death there is no more future, but only the present and that is as well why we should live in the present and when it is about truth, it is about the moment, it is about the present and direct experience only, it is the now and not the tomorrow or the past, and when we consider that in the moment of death, we understand it. In the moment of death there is no tomorrow and we live in illusion if we work for the future it is gone, if our life is constantly thinking about the future, it is gone. The mind is past, present and future, if we are in the mind, we are in the future and therefore, the moment of death is dark and the light was just a small star That was the mind reality and the message of the dream and he was not on the spiritual path, but there was a bridge, but he was in the river bed. 

It is a spiritual background and father is truth, therefore, the dream had to do with truth and on the spiritual level it reflects the mind reality. 

When Baba left the body the message was all different. Before he left the body we went down a deep well and there was only a little water left and we went up again on the way up he dropped the body and it fell into dust and we went up until we were on the top and there was Lord Krishna and his brother. 

It was not dark, it was light and beautiful, Krishna skin was of a dark blue hue and he was dressed in yellow silk and his brother was normal skin color and he was dressed up in dark blue silk. He was carrying a bow. 

It was a very beautiful picture and it made a big difference to me after I had seen that picture in the dream. It helped with the concept of oneness. Therefore, contemplation of his words keeps us in the present, it makes us alert to his message and the truth in it and it keeps the mind busy on contemplating the divine or truth and the mind cannot commit acts on it own we take care of it that it purified every day. 

He is telling us here why contemplation and why we go on thinking it over, but over time it has progressed and deepened. As we have a lot to do with people who are not on the spiritual path, we always get aware of the difference, when the mind is committing acts on its own. If we pursuit truth, we get out of the illusion. But it is not an ashram life or the life of a recluse, it is our life in the world, if we offer it to the divine and we serve the world, no matter what, every action should be as a service to the divine, and it will rise to greatness. One-pointedness we find in the focus on truth or the watcher or the divine.  

That is why we keep the mind busy in spiritual focus and spiritual practice, we avoid that the mind is taking over and is committing acts on it own. 

Regular meditation is essential, as it keeps the mind pure and keeps our focus in that right direction, it doesn't mean the mind doesn't take over after all we have to live in that world and the mind is sometimes committing acts on its own, but when we meditate regularly we always purify the mind again and by contemplating his words, we get aware of it and that after all is the main issue, we should feel his words in our own life, we should feel it and live with it and make it part of our life and realize that the divine reality is bliss. We cannot experience bliss as long as the mind takes always over again,  as Swami said, 'where bliss is there is God.' 

When thinking over his words and getting aware what he is telling us here, we should consider what it means mind, the senses go down in the mind and that the mind is the reason for the consequences, we fall prey to karma and we wonder how someone could say in the study circle, 'that mind is as well God'. We can understand why she said it and that she tried to see it as God is everywhere, but we wonder what is going on in her mind and why she said it, it is a contradiction to what Swami tells us and the result of not thinking it over properly and not being aware of it as well it seems there is no awareness that we have to get to a right conclusion. It is like everything he is telling us here is based on the difference between mind and being aware of the mind committing acts on its own and therefore, we should be in contemplation to keep our mind busy. 
It is all based on knowing that we have to keep the mind busy with good thoughts, with contemplation, with pursuit of truth and the message of the Gita, if we keep it on the a divine purpose, we will be non-doers of action, we will not be affected by it. It is a way to stay in the world to act and to be non-doers of action, that is the lesson from the Bhagavad Gita. 

When we have in the study circle someone who is telling us, 'the mind is as well God', how can that person understand his message? If someone is listening to his words in that quote of Swami, like now we are thinking it over. How can we get to such a conclusion? It seems to be the result of not listening. 
With nearly every word there is a difference between truth, divine being, contemplation on the divine and the mind is the result of body and senses, but they shouldn't act on their own for sense-gratification, that is the mind, so how can we say, 'mind is as well God' and it is not totally wrong? 
We can tell the pure mind is as well God, pure love is God, but then we have to talk about purity as mind is the result of the senses and the body and it tells us as well that she doesn't know the concept mind. 
She probably has no understanding of the mind and what the mind is and that is again the result of not listening to his words. 

In his words is not only truth and it reflects the truth. 
It was also reflected in the dream of my father after his death, father is truth, therefore, what we had to look at is the truth coming up in the family, even if it was on the spiritual level information about his death and the mind reality on the time of his death, what came up in the family had to do with truth and it was not great really. 
It is the mind living for the future only and not in the present, therefore, the  real value of it what the father wanted to show me after his death is truth. As Swami is telling us, 'father is truth'. 
But when we confuse it and tell, 'the mind is as well God', we really get in troubles, because we think everything is answered, everything is God, we even think it is right and true and in reality when we look at that dream and see the light far away and the dark of night in the moment of death, the mind is not at all God, it is the absence of the divine light. 
We know that the divine is light, if there is nothing but darkness around, there is no light, the light was far away like a small star, so how anyone can tell that something like that is as well God. It is just a generalized statement like he is the he universe, therefore, he is as well the dark, but for us he is the light, he is love, it is not the body and not the mind, he is the eternal light, in the dark is fear, in the light is love, God is love.  

Otherwise though the body may be inactive, the mind will be very busy, committing acts on its own. People with such minds fall prey to karma (consequences) in spite of their not doing anything! When a person has the mind fixed on contemplation of God and the pursuit of truth, though the body and senses do acts that are of service to the world, they won't be affected by them; though they do actions they are still non-doers of action. This is the lesson from Bhagavad Gita. The heart of the person who doesn't strive to cultivate the mind with holy thoughts is certain to be the paradise of evil and wickedness. Everyone who hopes to rise to greatness, who seeks one-pointedness and aspires for salvation must bear this in mind.