In English
Spiritual endeavour is an inescapable task for all
You must learn the significance not only of My name but even of yours. You are all given names redolent with divine fragrance, and you should draw inspiration and strength from them. said this evening at the meeting that he would prefer to be called “” and that he had written to Me about that desire a fortnight ago. But his name teaches that he should not posit any distinction between him and Me. It must be an (non-distinct) relationship. He has to practise unity, non-distinction. This is what I wrote to him; “Learn the lesson your present name teaches, that is enough.” So too, accept your names not as labels or means of identification or distinction but as guides for conduct, as focuses for spiritual endeavour. Endeavour. That is the main thing, that is the inescapable task for all mortals. Even those who deny God to day will have one day to tread the pilgrim road, melting their hearts out in tears of travail. If you make the slightest effort to progress along the path of liberation, the Lord will help you a hundred-fold. conveys that hope to you. The moon, which is the presiding deity of the mind, wanes, until on the fourteenth day after full moon, it is just a tiny curve of glimmering glow. The mind too must be starved into that condition, so that the person becomes free. Spend all the days with and the conquest of the mind is easy. Spend the fourteenth day of the waning moon with , reaching the climax of spiritual effort on that final day, and success is yours. That is why all the (fourteenth days of the dark half of every month) are called (’s nights); that is why the Chaturdasi of the month is called . This is a day of special dedication to , and since so many of you here and elsewhere pray to , the is emanating from Me for you all to receive the grace and the bliss of the great moment of (Emergence of the ).