We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. It is preparing for the coming of the superman and because of this the old way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once tolerable, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to receive what is going to come.
The purpose and goal of life is not suffering and struggle but an all-powerful and happy realisation. All the rest is painful illusion.
Human beings could be classified under four principal categories according to the attitude they take in life:
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Those who live for themselves. They consider everything in relation to themselves and act accordingly. The vast majority of men are like this.
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Those who give their love to another human being and live for him. As for the result, everything naturally depends on the person one chooses to love.
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Those who consecrate their life to the service of humanity through some activity done not for personal satisfaction but truly to be useful to others without calculation and without expecting any personal gain from their work.
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Those who give themselves entirely to the Divine and live only for Him and through Him. This implies making the effort required to find the Divine, to be conscious of His Will and to work exclusively to serve Him.
Under the first three categories, human-beings are subjected to the ordinary law of suffering, disappointment and sorrow which progressively reduces and one becomes more and more joyful in tune with the expansion.
It is only in the last category—if one has chosen it in all sincerity and pursued it with an unfailing patience—that one finds the certitude of total fulfillment and a constant luminous peace.
Do not live only to be happy, live to serve the Divine, and the happiness you enjoy will exceed all expectation.
The first thing one learns on the way is that the joy of giving is far greater than the joy of taking.
Then gradually one learns that to forget oneself is the source of immutable peace. Later on, in this self-forgetfulness, one finds the Divine, and that is the source of an ever-increasing bliss.
For those who want always to progress, there are three major ways of progressing:
(1) To widen the field of one’s consciousness.
(2) To understand ever better and more completely what one knows.
(3) To find the Divine and surrender more and more to his Will.
In other words, this means:
(1) To constantly enrich the possibilities of our Inner Instrument [‘Antahkarana’, The conscious mentality] and outer instrument [ ‘Sthula Sarira’ ,or Body].
(2) To ceaselessly perfect the functioning of this instrument.
(3) To make this instrument increasingly receptive and obedient to the Divine.
☼ To learn to understand and do more and more things. To purify oneself of all that prevents one from arriving at Divine Consciousness.
☼ To make one’s consciousness more and more receptive to the Divine Influence. For this one has to widen oneself more and more, deepen oneself more and more, and accept the Supreme reality more and more completely.
☼ Also, Pray to The Divine :- “Teach us to be silent, and in that silence we may receive Your force and understand Your will”.
