30th January, 1973.
The adhyatmic discipline for God-vision in home is a dedication to quest and devotion to dharmanishta. The success in quest depends upon your yearning, your steadfastness in disciplines, your faith in the words of Mother and your surrender to divine will. To think that external conditions are the guiding factors in sadhana, is an illusion. The progress on the path depends on the purity of your mind and the stability of your aspiration. In the noble order of home, you can create conditions convenient for sadhana and build the mansion of your spiritual development. The duties and responsibilities of home and social life must be turned into a phase of yoga. Therein is the technique of quest in grihasthashrama.
The only obstacle to God-experience is the mind of gunas, which is but the manifested power of ignorance. With faith in Mother's words and steadfastness in dharma, you must practice the disciplines prescribed by Mother. The mind must be disciplined, purified, silenced and transformed. Then only you experience the divinity of the Atman and the glory of the Supreme. With awareness of Mother's presiding presence and the devout practice of Her principles, you must convert home into in to a paradise of peace. Shraddha, whether it is in the sphere of duty, or in the field of spiritual sadhana, is the foundation of higher life. This devout faith in the Guruvakya leads eventually to God-vision.
Moral purity is essential for spiritual experience. A radiant character, distinguished by a host of sattwic virtues, should be your ornament. To become recipient of Guru's grace, your life must be governed by the precepts of dharma. In homes, you are engaged in a collective quest. Your aim should be to uplift of all members of the family wife, husband and children and others at home. The life of an ideal grihastha should be marked by sacrifice, self-abnegation and steadfast devotion to moral virtues. The responsibility for the integrity of home rests mainly with the women. In Indian tradition, motherhood is the ideal of adoration. As queen of home, a mother should shine with inspiring noble qualities.
By giving birth to children, one does not become a mother. She must be a paragon of virtues. It is such mothers, endowed with adhyatmic force, who shape the future destiny of the nation. You should rear up your children along with higher principles of dharma and faith in God. Transcending selfish interests and attachments, you should consider your children as belonging to God and present them to humanity as beacon lights to society. Then alone you have fulfilled your motherly duty.
With unity you should aspire and endeavour for God-experience, all the while meticulously discharging all your allotted duties and dharmas. Work for harmony within and without. Your life in home, mandaly and society, should reflect Vedanta in practice, love in its dynamic form, dharma in its highest splendour. Establishing your inward link with Mother, you should become channels of Her grace, Her love and Her dharmic radiance. Precious is the human life. Waste it not in frivolities. Infinitely precious is your contact with Divine Mother. This is a God-given opportunity. Holding discrimination as the guiding light, isolate the asuric vritties and keep your mind under all conditions in tranquility and equanimity. This is sadhaka vritti.
The principle of dharma is extremely subtle. When you are in tune with Mother and Her ideals, you will gain not only subtle insight, but also the power to abide in dharma. Dharma is the moral law. Dharma is righteous action. Dharma is the radiance of life in Truth-Consciousness. You, Mother's children, should shine as stars of dharmic effulgence. Your life must inspire thousands to tread the God-ward path. Cultivate detachment. Dwell in witness-like attitude during all your activities. Involvement in the mental vritties, attachment to gunas, identification with the body, agency in action; this is bondage. This will go only through grace. Be vigilant in self-awareness. Allow not anything to attract your mind away from your goal of pursuit. Between you and your God, no other interest must arise. This is the soul of communion and devotion.
God must be the sole subject of love. Seeing God in all, you will be able to love all without attachment to any. In true love, there is no place for attachment. Let your devotion increase from moment to moment. Your faith must become as firm as mount meru. Trials of prarabdha do come in life. The ignorant succumb to them; but you, the heroic children of Supreme Shakti, must face them with courage, and remain unshaken like a giant rock in the turbulent sea. All weaknesses arise from the lower mind. Developing the soul force, you should become embodiments of power. Everything is within you, but you must develop it. With dispassion and persistent practice, you should rise above the plane of sense-attraction. You must become masters of your own minds and servants of the Supreme Shakti.
Shaktinagar has come into being as a boon from the Almighty, as the 'para sankalpa' of the Divine. Here, you have a serene atmosphere, facilities for sadhana, timely and pure food and above all, the presence of Mother. Home cannot give you such an exaltation in spirit, such a solemnity of atmosphere. You must come here as an when you find time, and live here in sadhaka vritti, under Mother's direct guidance and in Her immediate presence. The darshan, the discourse and the proximity of Mother, will help you to evolve into spiritual heights.
Blessings to you all.
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