Atom of majesty

26 February 1968, Shivarathri, Prasanthi Nilayam

Professor Kasturi's English.

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Ideals of are unchangeable You must be thankful that here at least you can calmly consider your own inner nature and resolve upon ways and means by which you can mould your destiny along the lines of Love and Contentment. The ideals laid down by (Eternal Religion) for ensuring a happy peaceful life for man, individually and for society are valid even today; the disciplines marked out therein are as beneficial today as when they were first ordained in the . Their value is unchallengeable, unchangeable. Do not imagine yourselves as for the reason that you are born in . You are too entangled in the rules of caste, the ceremonial of rituals, and the coils of astrology to grasp your own inner reality. You do not realise the spark of divinity in you and try to raise it into a flaming fire of Divine Splendour, reducing your pretty 'I' into ashes. tells you about that spark and teaches you how to foster it and develop it. When you ignore this and allow science to entice you, you are bringing disrespect to your culture, and disowning your country. Seekers from overseas are trekking towards this country attracted by its ancient lessons, teaching the way to acquire inner calm and inner light. They are apprehensive of the calamity towards which their countries are heading. They have confirmed the validity of many practices which you have been led to discard as superstitions. They have opened your eyes to values which you had neglected, with an air of superiority born of little acquaintance with science. They have found that (sacred formulas) have potency to transform nature, that Vedhic recital can infuse harmony, that wrong pronunciation of has deleterious effects.

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God is the closest, the most reliable companion The Name of God, with all its halo of glory and majesty, can cleanse the mind of passion and emotion and make it placid and pure. When the Name is repeated without concentration and without reverence, it cannot cleanse the mind. The vice and wickedness will remain. The (demonic) heroes, , and others, performed (penance) and drew the Lord to their presence; but, though they got the desired boons from Him, they persisted in their vicious ways. We value cows for the yield of milk. We value men for their character, their friendly sympathetic attitude, their readiness and ability to serve, safeguard and save.

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The Truth that there is perfect identity between the individual and universal is proclaimed at every breath by the silent announcement your breath makes' (I am He). God is the closest, the fondest, the most reliable companion. But Man, in his blindness, ignores Him and seeks the company of others. God is present everywhere, at all times. He is the richest and the most powerful guardian. Yet you ignore Him. The Lord is here, near, loving, accessible and affectionate. But, many do not open their eyes to the great opportunity. The Name will bring Him nearer to you. Now, the Name is on the tongue, the world is in the mind and the owner of the Name is in the heart. The world and its attractions are distracting you, obliterating the answer the Lord gives to the call of the Name.

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Do not attempt to justify your own prejudices and preferences by specious arguments; that will lead to self-deception not self-knowledge. That will heighten egoism, not lower it. God resides in every one as , in the subtle Form. In the (body), there is (contact with the outer and inner world); in the , resides the (the moving, traversing, changing place) and as the basis of the , there is the . is a word of two syllables; Lin and ga, Lin means "that into which everything merges (),"ga means "that into which everything goes ()." The is a symbol of the universal into which all particulars merge, from which all particulars emerge. The is the (the real Form of the Reality). The (materialisation of ) is an announcement of the advent of the (Divine Incarnation), as the Guide and the Leader.

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Man is a treasure chest with the Divine Spark in it The way in which the has to be used for one's liberation and uplift is: watch His every step, observe His actions and activities, follow the guiding principle of which His life is an elaboration. Mark His love, His Compassion, His Wisdom, try to bring them into your own life. Man has become artificial, crooked, twisted out of his normal shape. He has left behind the simple natural ways and made his mind a lumber-room for ideas, worries, anxieties and terrors. He can live on very much less, with much greater joy for himself and others. If only he remembers that he is a treasure chest with Divine spark in it he will be more loving and more useful.

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God incarnates for the revival of (righteousness) which includes morality, truth, virtue, love and a host of other qualities that uphold the communities of man as well as the individual. The other purposes usually given, such as serving the devoted, destroying the wicked, reestablishing the sacred tradition - these are all secondary. For, he who is righteous will be guarded from harm by righteousness itself;, he who is unrighteous will fall into disaster through the evil that he perpetrates. The one task includes all else. I shall fulfil that task, whatever the comments that others may make. Comment is a natural corollary. I do not pay any attention to it; nor should you. The higher the hill, the deeper the valley. Praise or blame will not affect Me in the least. The unshakable foundation on which My work is proceeding is (Bliss). I cannot be moved away from it by any one, at any time. The knew best. That is why the , , was the heart of the FiVe Brothers. was the head, was the shoulders, was the stomach, and were the legs. That was the one living body that fought and won the battle of good versus evil, at (battle field of war).

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Do not yield to cunning and lose faith Dedicate your heart to God; God will be one with you, the heart of your heart. Do not exaggerate the creation and the manifestation of the ; it is only the manifestation of an atom of My majesty. In Me, who can create worlds, and fill the Universe, there are things more worthy of adoration; universal love, the teaching of (virtue), the revival of the , the fostering of the good, the benediction on (spiritual aspirants). Do not yield to cleverness, causistry and cunning and lose faith. A boy told his father, who asked him how many oranges there were, after he had given one to him and was holding one in his own hand. "There are three." Asked to explain, the boy impertinently said, touching the oranges with his finger, "One, two...one plus two is three." Well, said the father, "you eat the third orange; I will have these two." That put an end to the conceit of the young fellow. Be straight; follow the straight path; you will reach the goal.