November 13

Birth is the soulful creation of God's Vision. This very birth is nothing short of cremation when it is wanting in mounting aspiration as the years advance upon the individual soul.

Man is God's spontaneous revelation. Man is God's colossal pride. Man is the song of God's glowing fulfilment.

Spirituality is the breath of God and the life of man. Spirituality tells man what God truly is and what man can unmistakably be.

"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul." — Splendid is this mighty utterance of Thoreau. Now we have to know what the real necessities of the soul are. The soul's necessities are human aspiration and human liberation. The soul never can be nourished without human aspiration. The soul never can be fulfilled without human liberation.

Is spirituality man's birthright? The answer is in the loftiest affirmative. The modern world with its rank atheism, stark sophistication and wild snobbery tells us that a spiritual person is a monkey without a tail, a donkey that brays day in and day out. Indeed, a spiritual person is an object of merciless ridicule. He is a matchless fool. But once and for all, I wish the modern world to see eye to eye with Winston Churchill. This great man had undoubtedly a sound mind. He said: “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” Now the fool in me has something to offer to you present here, and the world at large.

True, spirituality is the birthright of each human being on earth. But if somebody consciously and deliberately criticises the message of spirituality, misuses the power of spirituality, abuses the capacity of spirituality and ignores the living reality of spirituality, to say the least, certainly he cannot dare to say that spirituality is his birthright.

Needless to say that a spiritual figure knows what the right thing is. He also knows the right time and the right people — disciples. To him, the only right thing in the spiritual life is constant aspiration, the only right time is NOW and not the beckoning hands of the far-distant future. And the right people are those who do not have an iota of blighted doubt that God can be seen, felt and realised and that each human being will eventually grow into God's transcendental Vision and His absolute Reality. What Lincoln says is most applicable to a genuine aspirant. He says: "I am not concerned whether God is on my side or not, but I am concerned whether I am on God's side."

Time is precious. Even a child of yesterday does not have time to eat a piece of candy when it is offered by his mother. Let us not waste time. Let us try to determine as fast as we can, what is right and then who is right? To be right, always right, is abundantly more difficult than to be the President of a nation. To be right, spiritually right, is infinitely more difficult than to be the sole Monarch of the entire world.

What is right? Self-discipline. What is right? Self-discovery. Who is right? A man of self-discipline. Who is right? A self-discoverer.

In the spiritual life an aspirant has to know that it makes a difference whether the inner world and the outer world run abreast or not. He sees that these two worlds are like the North pole and the South pole, infinitely apart. He has now to split the difference between these two worlds on the strength of his aspiration's oneness with the inner world and on the strength of his soulful concern for the outer world. To his widest surprise, he will soon discover that the outer world and the inner world are the obverse and the reverse of God, the Golden Truth.

Finally if he feeds his Aspiration-Tree with his implicit love, sterling devotion and unconditional surrender to God, the Supreme Pilot, God Himself will grow and preserve the Realisation-Tree in the aspirant's devoted life and liberated soul through Eternity.

Our body is limited; that is why the body has fear. Our vital is unconscious; that is why the vital has fear. Our mind is obscure; that is why the mind has fear. Our heart is not aspiring; that is why the heart has fear.

To free our body from fear, what we need is the glorious experience of our soul. To free our vital from fear, what we need is the dynamic and conscious expansion of our soul. To free our mind from fear, what we need is the transforming illumination of our soul. Finally, to free our heart from fear, what we need is the fulfilling perfection of our soul.

Man’s fear does not allow him to see the face of reality, the Ultimate Reality. Man’s fear does not allow him to reach the Golden Shores of the Beyond. Man’s fear does not allow him to fulfil God for God’s sake. But God, the Author of all good, has boundless Compassion, Concern, and Love for mankind.

God’s Compassion saves man.
God’s Concern liberates man.
God’s Love fulfils man.

When we unconsciously think of fear or cherish fear, fear smilingly shakes hands with us. When we consciously think of fear or cherish fear, fear triumphantly embraces us. But when we unconsciously think of our inner courage, God cries with His divine Cry, for He feels that here He has a chosen instrument of His.

Now, earth is afraid of Heaven’s Transcendental Light. Heaven is afraid of earth’s abysmal ignorance. God says to earth, “My son, do not act like a fool. Heaven’s Transcendental Light is not going to blind you. Heaven’s Light is not going to expose you. On the contrary, Heaven’s Light is going to illumine you. Heaven’s Light is going to transform you.”

God says to Heaven, “Do not be a fool. Earth’s abysmal ignorance cannot bind you. It cannot destroy you. On the contrary, earth’s ignorance will be offered to you. It is you who will transform the face of earth.”

God says, “I need both of you—Heaven and earth. Heaven! The message of realisation you will have to give to earth. Earth! The message of manifestation, My divine Manifestation, you will have to offer to Heaven.”

Fear comes from our deep-rooted ignorance. We do not see the light with our inner vision. We see the light with our outer, human, limited, earth-bound understanding.

Let me tell you a short story. An old man walking along the street one evening came across a rope. There was no light, and he thought the rope was actually a snake. He was all fear, and let out a scream, running as fast as he could. While running, he fell down and broke his leg. Some friends nearby heard him shouting and screaming, so they came with sticks. He was shouting all the time, thinking that there was a snake there. When his friends came, they too thought that it was a snake. In the dark they started striking the rope and, unfortunately, began hitting one another.

The shouting continued, and soon another party came with a light and discovered that it was just a piece of rope and not a snake.

Similarly, in our human life, when light enters into our physical consciousness, every kind of fear is bound to disappear. We are wanting in light. That is why fear, at every moment, consciously and deliberately looms large in our life of desire and in our life of aspiration.

But if we are sincere enough to go deep within and feel that inner courage belongs to us, inner courage can dawn at any moment. It is more than willing to come to the fore. Bringing this inner courage to the fore is the conscious awakening of our inner being. Everyone has this inner being. But, unfortunately, very few of us want to feed it. We feed our body in order to strengthen ourselves. We study books to feed our minds. We do many things to energise our outer being, but we do practically nothing to feed our inner being.

It is in our inner existence that we can grow into an adamantine will and, when we use our adamantine will, which we can easily have at our behest, we can conquer the very breath of fear. Here on earth our inner adamantine and indomitable will can and will reign supreme. Only one thing we need: a conscious awareness of the Divine Light which is ours. It is our birthright to realise and fulfil this inner Light.

There can be no fear, there cannot be even an iota of fear when we live in the effulgence of our soul. To live constantly in the divine effulgence of our soul only one thing is needed: a conscious inner cry. This inner cry is called aspiration, the mounting flame deep within us. When this flame rises up towards the highest, it illumines everything around it. Darkness is transformed into light, fear into strength, doubt into certainty, ignorance into wisdom, and death into Immortality.