The Pathless PathHis teaching

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  1. The Pathless Path
  2. The Goal of Human Life
  3. Turn to Reality
  4. The Change Must Be Within
  5. Religion is a Matter of Experience
  6. The Touch of Saints and Guru’s Grace
  7. The Divine Name as the Ladder
  8. Faith and Surrender
  9. Hints on Sadhana
  10. Meditation
  11. Samadhi
  12. After Reaching the Height
  13. The Attributes of Man Endowed with Cosmic Vision
  14. Inner Voice
  15. Jivanmukta
  16. Recapitulation
  17. The Path of God-Realisation
  18. One Universal God
  19. Conclusion of “Gita-Sandesh”

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Recapitulation

Question: Swamiji, we want you, who have seen God, to show us the way which leads to Him, so that, we too can see Him face to face.

Answer: Well, Ramdas shall try.

The first thing essential is keen aspiration. You must love God and long for His Darshan more than anything else; where your love is there your mind automatically runs. This leads to the second step, namely purification of the mind. When the mind turns instinctively and always to God, it will be cleansed of lust, greed and wrath. Cultivate simultaneously the purity of tongue and the body. Let your speech be free from slander, abuse, gossip and lying and your body from the three sins of theft, adultery and violence. As Ram slew the ten headed Ravana, so will Ram’s Name help us to slay this ten-headed monster.

The third step is to conquer the ego. Through generations of wrong thinking we have come to believe that it is “I” who have done this and done that. This “I” is an illusion which must be eliminated from our life and thought.

The Gita teaches the two-fold aspect of God, i.e., the Prakriti and the Purusha. The former is the outer manifestation of Purusha in various changeable and perishable forms, and the latter the Inner, Immutable and Eternal Truth or Spirit permeating all. Purushottama or God includes both and transcends them. He can only be realised through experience and being infinite, cannot be fully comprehended, much less described. While you do life’s duty, just place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God who does His own work in His own way, ever fulfilling His supreme purpose of promoting harmony in the world.

Surrender both the work and its fruits to Him and this will bring you to the stage where you will be able unreservedly to surrender all that you are and have to God. You will then see God in all, and all in God. This is the state of COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS in which is all Joy and Peace. Once a man is all joy, he has nothing to want for himself and from the plenitude of his joy and peace he just gives himself away to the selfless service of the Universe.

In the attainment of this stage, Satsang and Meditation are great aids as also the Guru’s Grace which removes the thick outer veil from the devotee’s mind. Always seek the company of good and great souls who will inspire you by their life and example no less than by their counsel and guidance. At a fixed time everyday while you are fresh and clean in body and open and alert in mind, practise meditation and go as a little child before the Divine Mother waiting for your arrival in the inmost shrine of your heart. Practise introspection and find out and seek to eliminate all that is of self from your mind, so that it may then reflect the pure, radiant light of Truth that is God. Above all, with sincerity and longing in your heart, chant His Holy Name; the Name is the way to the Goal that is God.

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