Change your Habits now

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Only he can achieve your aim; do not wander – be rid of your pride.

What is our work in this world? To meet God – and for that we must first have the right understanding.

Our True Friend is he who removes wrong understanding.

We have not come hear to be property owners, socialites, or to have lofty ideas about ourselves, or to breed animosity, among each other – we have come to imbibe the correct understanding about life. But sadly, we daily sow more seats, and only we will reap the harvest thereof. And each type of seed will bear its own fruit. If you have sown enmity they try to smooth it out – do your best to wash it away with Love, that it may not grow with time and take deep roots.

You came to the world to receive, and you got God’s name in the Master’s home; now give up your pride and control your mind.

We say that we are very important people, we are very intellectual, we give excellent lectures, we have great influence over others, etc., but we should leave this and take up the practice of Truth alone. Then only True Happiness and Joy well up from within us. We have come here to realise God, and only God can help us to do so – who else is capable? Do your work and do not entangle yourself in other affairs. Think deeply, and if you find anything undesirable in you weed it out and with Love help others to overcome their short coming also.

Masters have spoken thus through the ages.

Christ advised,

Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

A butcher may think that to kill is good, but what is outcome of his action? Can it be happiness? So when we act, we must weigh the outcome. While we cling to our habits we will never succeed, without exception. True Happiness will be ours when we join back to God, through the Radiant Company of the Master and through obedience to His words. He Himself has taken this practical Path, which is the shortest route to salvation.

This time is precious; do not fritter it away; greater than He you will never meet.

If you lose this golden opportunity, you have no idea when you will be given another. Give up pride, cunning, and other worldly habits, and cease wandering in vain from one attraction to another. You will never get another like the Guru you have got. Whoever you meet will attempt to separate you from the Lord rather than rejoin you back to Him.

Know a Satguru as One Who comes to reunite.

He wishes to bring all children of God together and sit among them. Such Personages are rare, and if you have found One, then obey Him – do whatever He says. If you refuse to obey, how will you hope to progress? The Master has no selfish motives; He is merely following the orders from above.This has nothing to do with any team or intrigue, not is it a matter of creating policies. As everything is straightforward and above board, the question of policy does not arises; there is nothing underhanded or hidden, there are no ulterior motives behind the teachings. It is very simple fact that only he whose soul has rejoined the Lord enjoys complete happiness. Human being do have many weaknesses – you will find animosity and unrest amid people all over the world, and this is because each man is obeying his mind. If they were to obey Someone Who is above habits and failings, what an abundance of joy would there be throughout the nations.

If you leave your Guru now, you will wander the four regions of illusion.

If, having got the double blessing of the human form and the Satguru, you throw away the chance by disobeying Him, what will happen? Those who live on another’s earning go under the law of give and take or illusion; if you offend or harm anyone, you reap the reaction of that and under the same law you will be born there where the offended person is born, that the account may be accurately balanced.

Wherever your attention is, there will you reside.

Who knows when you will again get the human form? Fire consumes even green wood as well as the dry, and everyone must go sometime. If you spend your days losing everything but saving the invaluable treasure given to you, then your work here will be successful. True Masters do Their work quietly, without a fuss and show. They lead a quiet life – not life the bulls in the ring, tossing their horns about.

Your earthly sojourn’s purpose was distinguished; that was Amrit (Water of Life), given by the Guru.

Jad Bharat was a king after whose name India was called Bharat. He was in search of God, and so he left his kingdom and went to live in the jungles, in order to realise Him. However, there he grew very found of a certain deer which became tame and friendly – so what happened? After death, he was again reborn, but into the form of a deer. You should remember that what I am saying is for your own benefit. A Guru wishes to see the whole world have joy in life, and when He sees faults and mistakes He tries to wash them away and ensures that they are not repeated.

Never will you get a Guru like Him; acknowledge, oh acknowledge this at last.

It is easily understood why gurudom has such a poor reputation nowadays, for the gurus are mostly political at heart, with self-centred motives for holding power over people and making money, etc. Instead of sincere sympathy for the plight of mankind, lies and cheating are used to gain the confidence of the followers. And sadly, people are more easily pleased and satisfied with suchlike performance than with what a Genuine Master has to offer. Truth is Truth – a lie is a lie. Black cannot be white, no matter how much is washed. The True Master is met through great destiny behind the disciple.

Without great good fortune, you cannot meet a Satguru.

If you have been fortunate to meet a Satguru, just obey Him and you will succeed. What is worth more than having our soul reaching the Lord’s lap, never to be separated from Him? Now that so many years have passed, give up your old habits at last.