Part II / I – IV

Social Conduct and Ethical Life

You may put in regular hours for your business and consider it as a sacred duty to the Master. All gracious help and guidance will be forthcoming from above. Satsang is a sacred arena where spiritual stalwarts are built. Here overwhelming loving life-impulses are radiated by the gracious Master-Power for the spiritual benefit of all those attending these holy congregations.

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While we are walking on the path of righteousness, we discover that we are far from being Perfect. Perfection comes slowly and requires the hand of time. It does not matter to what faith one belongs, so long as we love God and our fellow-men, for our passport to the Kingdom of God is the love we have in our hearts. If we are students of psychology or metaphysics and are well versed in the laws of mind, and lack love and compassion for our fellow-men, we are outside the Kingdom of God. It is what we are that opens the door of our soul to God and makes us His channel of blessing to help others.

Some people hope for a heaven in far distant skies, but heaven is a state of consciousness in this life. If we aspire to live and love divinely, we are already citizens of the heaven to come in the here-after. For the Kingdom of God is a state of consciousness wherein we worship God with all our heart, and with all our mind and with all our strength and love our neighbour as ourselves.

Religion is, therefore, a matter between soul and God, and all other forms of worship and religious observations are in vain unless we enthrone divine love in our hearts. It is the temple of the heart in which we always keep the Light of Truth and Love burning.

Ever since the world began, there has been eternal warfare between the forces of evil and the forces of righteousness.

We have been put on the Way to God because of our love for God.

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I am happy to know your dear children are growing in love and wisdom with the Grace of the Master. The gracious Master-Power extends equal loving Grace and protection for the blood and near relatives of the initiates.

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Satsang is a great helping factor. There you imbibe the sacred teachings in their right perspective and gain inner devotion for a higher spiritual life. It is during these serene moments of bliss and harmony that you are near the fountain-head of Divinity and can assimilate the loving life-impulses radiated by the gracious Master-Power for His children.

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I am happy to know that the Satsang is growing. This is all with the Grace of the Master. Please continue working selflessly, and as you do, more divine inspiration and grace will be forthcoming from above.

Karmas rightly performed in a spirit of service to the Divine can lead to Spiritual Emancipation. They should be performed without fear of punishment or hope of reward. It should be spontaneous. You can direct your own destiny. In brief, selfless devotion to duty is the key-note to success on the path of action.

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Man has not to exert himself, except in moulding himself ethically and morally to that climax of love, sincerity and humility, which will produce the necessary state of receptivity in him. Everything else is in the hands of the Master.

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Love knows selfless service, sacrifice and self-surrender. Let no one interested in spiritual advancement perform service for the sake of appreciation. Selfless service is a great reward in itself.

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I am glad the Satsang is growing and the recorded talks played on the tape-recorder are being heard with such pleasure.

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It is indeed heartening to find that the sincere yearners are flocking to the Holy Fold, and your selfless efforts are appreciated.

Your loving testimony for the gracious Master-Power in the holy congregations is notable. It is the work of the Lord and the faithful initiates find it possible to enjoy His Grace in increasing measure. Your efforts will invoke His Grace in increasing measure and many dear ones awaiting their turn will come to share the Divine Grace.

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Your loving efforts in Satsang will enable many world-weary and forlorn children to find their way back to the True Home of their Father under the guided protection of the Living Master. It is a service of the highest order and fortunate are the chosen few who are made instrumental in the Divine Set-up. You will be able to liberate many aspiring souls from the Wheel.

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I am glad to find that you had a beautiful and harmonious Satsang meeting, where the whole atmosphere was charged with the overwhelming love and Grace of the Master-Power.

The Father is always pleased to see the loving children putting their heads together for the holy cause, and he radiates his loving Life Impulses for the spiritual benefit of the dear ones.

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Your deep gratitude for the manifold blessings from the gracious Master-Power are notable. It is the first step towards Divine Grace which is extended in ever increasing abundance to the child disciple.

Those awake to this sublime truth enrich their lives and become a source of inspiration to others.

I am glad to find that you welcome the dear ones who meet together at your home for holy meditations. It is a reward in itself. The very place becomes sanctified where dear initiates sit in holy meditation. It is the climax of Divine Grace when the loving children put their heads together for the holy cause, which in turn reflects on the organization as a whole.

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Keeping a daily record or diary is the best method to become conscious of one’s shortcomings and errors. Eradicate and uproot them and plan future progress.

Without such Self-analysis and Self-criticism, no real advancement is possible.

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It is true that without an ethical background, there can be no spiritual headway. Whosoever keeps to these principles has a possibility of spiritual growth, no matter whether he is rich or poor. The rich people, however, derive such benefits in a much lesser degree than the others.

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Yes, you are correct, all efforts made by the disciple to efface the personal ‘I’ are in the right direction, because elimination of the ego is the only means of liberation from the unending cycle of births and deaths.

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It is good that the Satsang meetings are so harmonious and lovely, though not too large in attendance.

Please stress to the dear ones the importance of regular attendance at Satsang and of the holy meditations which carry a deep significance.

Increasing contacts within and the peace-giving strains of holy Music and Divine Light are the only effective remedies for the horrible dangers and anxieties of greatly advanced weapons of destruction.

Fortunate are the selected few who have been blessed with the sacred boon of holy initiation into the mysteries of the Beyond.

It is now up to them to make hay while the sun shines. It is in their own best interest to continue on lovingly and to make progress from day to day.

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My advice is from this day on to make love and self-surrender the corner-stones of your life. If you do this, you will find your life becoming daily a blessing.

You must endeavour to cultivate a large capacity for self-surrender to and love for the Master if you wish to make substantial progress in the spiritual field. I have said many times, the Path is not easy. You must crucify your ego and lay your selfhood at the altar of love for your Master.

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I am glad you love the Master. God is Love and Master is Love Personified. He emits rays of love to be attuned to by those on the way as well as to others who are struggling to find God. Happy and fortunate are those whose vessel is cleansed and are ready to receive the sweet Nectar of Master’s Grace.

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There is only one remedy for all discord and disharmony and that is Love. He who has not mastered its secret, can never hope to be received in the court of the Lord.

It is the beginning and the end of Spirituality. He who understands Love and its true nature and who lives and moves by its light, shall, as two added to two make four, attain the Lord.

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Yes, it is good to help others and do the best for them, but do not be concerned with the fruits of what you do. That is something that you must leave to the Master. Make your love for Him so complete that, beholding His hand in everything, you rise above all feelings of enmity, rivalry and resentment.

See Him present in all and remember that He is always with you, ready to assist whenever you turn your thoughts to Him. And above all, do not forget that He is to be won, not by words but by deeds.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you can do this; if you can conquer the self and surrender it at the Feet of the Master; if you can learn to see Him working through all things; if you can accept the fact of your own limited vision; if you can undertake a ceaseless and zealous watch over your thoughts and deeds, weeding out all evils and imperfections, you shall not only win Salvation yourself but enable others to do likewise.

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I am glad to find that you are serving the holy cause by conveying the Gospel of Love and Truth to the hungry child humanity. A compassionate attitude for the sufferings of humanity cleanses the inner dross of the mind, and one becomes more receptive to the incessant Grace flowing from the gracious Master-Power.

It always pays to radiate love, compassion, mercy and forbearance. By love serve one another so that other may know and see for themselves that you belong to the Living Master who has opened the Divine Gates of Divinity within for proceeding back to your True Home.

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Spirituality is not an expression of any particular faith. It is of no consequence as to what faith you profess. Let us all join the army of God, and the qualification for joining is righteousness, which consists of kind thoughts, kind words and kind deeds.

I wish everyone to live a clean and pure life and rise above in the higher planes and enjoy the security and calmness, both inner and outer, during the sojourn here and to eventually reach one’s True Eternal Home.

To expect that after initiation the affairs of the world would so change that bitter things will never come your way, is a mistaken idea. Ups and downs do come here as a result of the reactions of one’s own doings. They have to be faced and squared up. If we were to run away from them, the debts will remain unliquidated.

When something is to be given, it is always better to give it and be free. The way that the Master has given, works both ways. It gives progress within, which strengthens one’s powers of tolerance and humility to face trials and tribulations with equanimity, while severity and duration of such hardships are toned down considerably.

One should, therefore, lead a life that the Master wants him to live and be regular in his meditations with loving faith and devotion. If one is to be influenced by anything, let the good in others influence him, for nothing else should.