 How
to live life wisely?’ asked the student.
"Do things that you have to do with total commitment and joy. The
choice is yours either to rise or fall. You can fill your inner room with
gloom or with the light of joy. This choice is open to you. To choose
wisely and live by your decision is wise living," advised the master.
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‘Can
you talk to us about illusion?’ asked the student.
‘Illusion is seeing what is not and not seeing what is. It is like
a poor man sitting under lot of treasure and still failing to see it.
It is a journey without a distance. It is a travelling from where you
are to where you have always been. It is ignoring your wisdom,’
said the master.
‘Then what is awakening?’ asked the student.
‘It is becoming who you are. It is the journey from ignorance to
recognition,’ replied the master.
He continued further, ‘It is being awake to the sunrise and the
sunset. It is realizing that you can’t harm another without harming
yourself. You can’t love another without loving yourself.’
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was I born,’ a student cried.
‘How many of us are lucky to get what we want? Learn to love what
you have. How many of you have that type of luck, to love what you have?
Then birth is a divine song,’ replied the master.
Getting always what we have prayed for does not give us real contentment.
Be grateful to what is and a great joy opens up. Often God withholds the
things we pray for. And surprisingly we will find better things come our
way.
This trust is the way of enlightened living.
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A
student asked the master, ‘What is the message of the East to the
West?’
The master answered, ‘it is silence; it is inner peace; learning
to calm the noisy mind; learning to be happy without much dependence on
the world of objects and achievements.’
Silence is not the absence of thoughts but a state of being which witnesses
the traffic of thoughts. That space is transcendental, in and through
thoughts and is the essence of the self. To hear and understand words
is simple but to be in touch with the master’s presence which is
silence is the real task. If you can feel the silence in the gaps between
thoughts then you can feel the master’s presence.
Silence is the master key to life. A noisy mind creates differences and
these differences create conflict.
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A
student asked, ‘O Master, can you advice us about the right way?’
‘No one can teach you the right way so long as you are asleep. To
wake oneself up is the right way. A right action born out of a sleeping
being is wrong action. A master can advice you not with words but by his
loving presence, by his wakeful consciousness. True advice is to look
within. God, through his silence, speaks with wordless wisdom,’
advised the master.
‘You have to be alone to listen to God’s wordless wisdom.
Even a master cannot be there with you. He can only show you the way,’
added the master.
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Advice
us about transformation,’ asked a student.
‘Transformation is profiting from what is and not expecting what
should be. It is exchanging your being of growth with the growth of the
other. Your exchange should be in love, resulting in oneness. One’s
pain exists in differences.
Differences are like a shell that hides the experience of oneness and
joy. To break the shell and allow this spirit to flow is transformation.’
‘Can you add further,’ asked the student.
‘The greed to know the truth and not live it is the greatest obstacle
for transformation.’
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Advise
us about death,’ requested a student.
‘Why worry about death when you have no time for life. Learn the
secrets of living life wisely. Death comes dancing to a wise man. Life
and death are the two sides of the same coin. The river joins the ocean.
Don’t miss seeing water in both of them. Only when you drink the
nectar of silence can you see the oneness of life and death. Life is an
experience and so is death. Death is never the end of life but one of
its turnings,’ replied the master.
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A
student asked, ‘Advise us about sorrow.’
The Master replied, ‘Your sorrow is joy covered with ingratitude.
Your ingratitude sheds tears, not your sad incidents in life. When you
are grateful and look deeply you have more joy than you expect. The lack
of realising this truth has given you more sorrow. Some feel happiness
is greater than sorrow. But gratitude is greater than sorrow and joy.’
Our lives are torn between expectation and reality.
Let us fill our lives with gratitude. Then neither expectation nor reality
hurts us.
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