Hari OM
There is no easier path than japa of the Lord’s name and the steady growth through meditation.
No Guru can give a quick shot of some ‘Ātm-omycelene’ in the arm by touch or word. No Master can give anything more than encouragement and some guidance from time to time.
When the time comes for intense austerity, you need not go into solitude; but you
will find yourself in solitude. This is the divine law. When a child is fully grown-up, it need not struggle to come out of the womb, but the very walls of the womb that were so long protecting it will push it out.
Just as the child has only to wait for its day of full maturity, so too every seeker has
only to wait patiently for his day, and the rules of waiting are the rules of divine Life.
Like culture or education, it is the product of patient activity in the right direction
and is to be gained step by step, a progressive rise in altitude and attitude of the growing inner man. Therefore, patience is unavoidable. We must wait for our opportunity; we must wait for our own experience.
At the doors of the Lord, we have no right to demand admission. We can only, with a
confidence born out of love, knock in reverence and wait outside until the Lord feels pity and opens the doors and gives us a warm, welcoming darśana of His beatitude.
Thus, though there are various rungs in the ladder of progress, all of them are held intact between the two parallel beams constituted of waiting and faith. The spiritual programme must necessarily be well oiled with patience, consisting of waiting, watching and praying.
No Guru can give a quick shot of some ‘Ātm-omycelene’ in the arm by touch or word. No Master can give anything more than encouragement and some guidance from time to time.
When the time comes for intense austerity, you need not go into solitude; but you
will find yourself in solitude. This is the divine law. When a child is fully grown-up, it need not struggle to come out of the womb, but the very walls of the womb that were so long protecting it will push it out.
Just as the child has only to wait for its day of full maturity, so too every seeker has
only to wait patiently for his day, and the rules of waiting are the rules of divine Life.
Like culture or education, it is the product of patient activity in the right direction
and is to be gained step by step, a progressive rise in altitude and attitude of the growing inner man. Therefore, patience is unavoidable. We must wait for our opportunity; we must wait for our own experience.
At the doors of the Lord, we have no right to demand admission. We can only, with a
confidence born out of love, knock in reverence and wait outside until the Lord feels pity and opens the doors and gives us a warm, welcoming darśana of His beatitude.
Thus, though there are various rungs in the ladder of progress, all of them are held intact between the two parallel beams constituted of waiting and faith. The spiritual programme must necessarily be well oiled with patience, consisting of waiting, watching and praying.
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