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Written by Sant Kirpal Singh, from the book "Morning Talks" 1967-12-06, Delhi, Sawan Ashram Talk available as mp3 at audio.sant-kirpal-singh.org Zoroaster was once asked what is wanted to know God. He said, "Righteousness". He was then asked, "What is Righteousness?" He replied, "Good thoughts, good words and good deeds." The whole thing depends upon your attention, or surat as it is called, which is the outward expression of your soul. Wherever you keep it engaged or attached, those very thoughts will always be reverberating within you. We have to make the best use of things of course, but we are not to become attached to them. If we can only attach our soul to something higher within us, we would be all right. But if our attention is diverted through the outgoing faculties, so much so that it becomes identified with the outer things, what is the result? You cannot withdraw your attention from them. It is a question of the attention or surat, whether you keep it engaged to the outside things or invert and attach it to your Overself. So for that, you must see where you are driven away through the outgoing faculties of seeing, hearing, smelling, taste and touch. These are the five outgoing faculties working through the five physical outlets. Unless these are withdrawn from outside, you will not be able to have some awareness of your own self or be able to contact the Higher Self or God within you, which is Light and Sound principle. So what is Righteousness? It is not to attach yourselves to outside. You are not to leave the world of course, but you are to make the best use of the outward things. If you go to a garden, you enjoy the flowers and various plants. You may enjoy them the whole day and nobody will question you. But the very moment you cut the flowers, the gardener in charge will take you to task and report you to the police. So we are here to make the best use of all outward things, but not to be attached to them. We should make them a stepping stone to reach the Higher Self. If you are addicted to or become identified with any enjoyments outside, so much so that you cannot even withdraw from them, then how can you invert and have that contact within you with God, which is given at the time of Initiation? So these outer faculties should be under our control. Whenever we like, we should make the best use of them, but they should not drag us out. If you obey the Master literally, then He will make you the master of your own home. These outer faculties should serve as your servants, not as your masters. Now they drag you away, whether you wish it or not. Whatever you do, whether for one day, two days, ten days, a month or two, naturally becomes a habit. Habit is strengthened into nature. If you want to go to one place and you are attached somewhere else, your mind will go one way while your feet will go the other way. You know now what is needed? God is within you, but unless you withdraw from outside, how can you contact Him? If you are attached to outside things, you cannot withdraw from outside. If you leave this building, you are the same. When you leave this body, you are not changed. You are what you are now. After leaving the body you cannot become a learned man. If you are attached here while living in the world, your attention will still be in the world even after leaving the body. Where will you go? Where you are attached. Where should we attach ourself? The soul is a conscious entity, it should be attached to the Overself, which is all Consciousness, even in life. Then while remaining in the world, you won’t be attached to the world. You will be in the world and yet out of it. When you leave the body, you will go to the feet of the Lord. So we must have control over all our outgoing faculties. We should be able to use them when we require, not be dragged outside. It is for this reason that the diaries are intended. You must know where you are attached. You are given some contact within by the grace of God. You see the Light of God within you, you hear the Sound Principle. When you turn your whole attention to the Sound Current, it will, like a touchstone, drag you up. Even those who are given a contact with the Lord within will lose it if they do not keep their self restraint. Only if you have some control over yourself, can you direct your attention wherever you like. So the first thing is that truth is above all, but true living is still above truth. An ethical life is a stepping stone to Spirituality. Remain where you are now. You must judge for yourself where you were before and where you are now. You will find that some initiates who have made progress but do not keep their diaries for self introspection, leave off their practices and become attached to outside things. Their progress is stopped, but in the eyes of others they are very saintly. They are not true to their own self nor to the God within them. What is the result? A man like this will weep inside, but in the eyes of others, he is a very good man. But the God within us sees what he is. Our life should be of self restraint and good character. We should love God and for the sake of the love of God, love all others. If you forget the Lord, then you are attached. You will go where you are attached. Now you see how important it is to maintain self restraint. Make use of something when you want it. Now you are dragged irresistably to outside things. You have to live in the world quite detached. When you want to use one faculty, use it. When you want to leave it, leave it. It is not so with you now. For that purpose, you are given a contact with the Light and Sound Principle within you. When you get more bliss there, your outward attachments will be cut off. Apparently, you may be living in the world, but you won’t be attached to the world. You will only be making the best use of it, just like a man who goes to a garden, he enjoys and returns when he wants to, at any time. Similarly, it is most important to have such a heart which is attached to God, not to the world. If you take poison, it will create trouble within you. So you should stop eating any more poison, so that the other may be cleared. It is no use crying and still continuing to take more poison. What is the use? This poison comes through the outgoing faculties. We receive impressions from outside through the eyes, ears, the tongue, by smelling and by touch. So we must have self restraint. Such a man only can progress from day to day, by regularity and also by self-introspection. This is most important. Your very soul, the outer expression of which is called attention or surat, if engaged outside, makes it impossible for you to see within. At the present time, I cannot see what is going on behind me. If I were attached to looking at the Master in front, I would not dare or even care to look behind me. Unless I turn my face from this side to look at the other side, I cannot see what is going on there. If we invert our attention within, only then can we see. He is already there waiting for us. Those who are initiated are given some capital to start with. By regular practice, self-introspection and self-restraint, they have to develop it more and more from day to day. You will get more bliss while still remaining in the world, but you will not be attached. So we should see where we stand and where we stood before, two years ago, a year ago. Generally, we see that we were better off before than now. Why? We should progress. So one must be true to one’s own self. God is within you. The Guru or the Master Power is within you. He is waiting for you, but you are attached outside. It does not mean that you should leave the world and go to the Himalayas. We have to learn swimming in water, not on dry land, and not only through intellectual wrestling. It is a training in which you are given something to start on within you. It is like a needle of a compass, which always points to the North. It is to be done while you are doing your work in the world. A true Master does not advise you to leave the world, but remain in it and yet be not of it. A boat remains in the water and you may be rowing in the boat, but be careful that the water does not enter the boat, otherwise you will be drowned. If the outward impressions are overflowing within you, you will be drowned in the water of the world and will have to come back again and again. So for that very reason, an initiate is given something to start with within him. If you will be regular in devoting time, you will be attached there. You will be in the world yet out of it. For that, you have to be true to your own self. This is the main thing to be learned. If you will go on in that way, you will progress from day to day. If not, even if you have got something, that will be taken away from you, I would say. Our Master used to give one example of a father who gave his children something to enjoy, just to make the best use of what he had given them. He gave twenty rupees to one of the children, to another he gave ten rupees and to a third he gave five rupees. The child to whom he gave twenty rupees made forty from it, the second child to whom he gave ten rupees made twenty, while the third child to whom he gave five rupees just kept it and did not use it. it. So to the one who earns twenty more than what was given to him, the Master gives something extra. Those who have been given something but just keep it are left with whatever they have been given by the Master, but it is not increased. So generally, what do we do? We get something to start with and fritter it away by being attached to outside. The father will be pleased with the child who has made the best use of what has been given to him. If he becomes an honest man to be relied on, he will be given more and more. We find people who say, "We were very well off before, but not now." But why not now? We have made beggars out of our own selves. So we have to be careful. Self-introspection is most necessary. Those who do not keep it, their capital will be dwindled away.
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Zaratustru su jednom upitali što je potrebno da bismo spoznali Boga. On je rekao: “Ispravnost.” Zatim su ga pitali: “Što je ispravnost?” On je odgovorio: “Dobre misli, dobre riječi i dobra djela.” Sve ovisi o vašoj pažnji ili surat, koja je vanjski izražaj vaše duše. Gdje god da je usmjerite ili vežete, misli na to stalno će odzvanjati u vama. Naravno da stvari trebamo iskoristiti na najbolji mogući način, no ne smijemo se za njih vezati. Kada bismo samo mogli našu dušu vezati za ono više u nama, s nama bi svebilo u redu. No ako je naša pažnja kroz vanjska osjetila u toj mjeri raspršena prema van da se poistovjetila sa vanjskim stvarima, koji će biti rezultat? Vašu pažnju ne možete povući od njih. Sve je stvar pažnje ili surat ida li je držite zaokupljenu vanjskim stvarima ili usmjerite prema unutra i vežete za vaše Nad-ja. Zbog toga morate vidjeti kamo vas odvlačevanjska osjetila vida, sluha, njuha, okusa i dodira. To su pet vanjskih osjetila koja djeluju kroz pet otvora u tijelu. Ako se ta osjetila ne povuku od vanjskog, nećete biti u stanju imati svijest o samom sebi ili doći u kontakt s višim ja ili Bogom u vama, koji je princip Svjetla i Tona. Dakle, što je ispravnost? To znači ne se vezati za vanjsko. Vinaravno ne morate napustiti svijet, već se na najbolji način poslužiti vanjskim stvarima. Ako idete u vrt, uživate u cvijeću i različitim biljkama. Možete cijeli dan uživati u njima i nitko vas ništa neće pitati. No u trenutku kada odrežete cvijeće, vrtlar zadužen za vrt pozvati će vas na red i prijaviti policiji. Dakle, ovdje smo da se na najbolji način poslužimo vanjskim stvarima, ali da se za njih ne vežemo. One bi za nas trebale postati odskočnastepenica na putu prema dostizanju višeg ja. Ako ste ovisni ili poistovjećeni sa vanjskim uživanjima u toj mjeri da se čak ne možete ni povući od njih, kako da se onda okrenete (prema unutra) i imate onaj kontakt sa Bogom u vama koji vam je darovan pri Inicijaciji? Zato ta vanjska osjetila trebaju biti pod našom kontrolom. Kada god želimo, trebali bismo ih iskoristiti na najbolji mogući način, ali nas ona ne bi smjela odvući van. Ako doslovno provodite riječi Učitelja, tada će vas On učiniti gospodarem vašeg doma. Ta bi vanjska osjetila trebala biti vaše sluge, a ne vaši gospodari. Sada vas ona odvlače sa sobom, htjeli vi to ili ne. Što god da radite, bilo to jedan, dva, deset dana, mjesec ili dva, prirodno će postati navika. Navika se pretvara u prirodu. Ako želite otićina jedno mjesto, a vezani ste negdje drugdje, vaš će um otići u jednom smjeru, a vaša stopala u drugom. Znate li sada što je potrebno? Bog je u vama, no ako se ne povučete iz vanjskog, kako možete doći u kontakt s Njim? Ako ste vezani za vanjske stvari, ne možete se povući iz vanjskog. Ako izađete iz ove zgrade, isti ste. Kada napustite ovo tijelo, niste se promijenili. Isti ste kao što ste i sada. Nakon što ste napustili tijelo ne možete postati učeni čovjek. Ako ste sada, dok živite ovdje na svijetu, vezani za njega, vaša će pažnja i dalje biti u svijetu čak i nakon što ste otišli iz tijela. Gdje ćete otići? Tamo gdje ste vezani. Za što se trebamo vezati? Duša je svjesno biće, trebala bi se već za vrijeme života vezati za Naddušu, koja je Svesvijest. Tada, boraveći na svijetu, nećete biti vezani za njega. Biti ćete na svijetu, a ipak izvan njega. Kada napustite tijelo, otići ćete k Gospodinovim stopalima. Zato trebamo imati kontrolu nad svim našim vanjskim osjetilima. Moramo biti u stanju koristiti ih kada su nam potrebna, a ne da nas odvlače prema van. U tu svrhu je zamišljen spiritualni dnevnik.Trebate znati gdje ste vezani. Božjom milošću darovan vam je unutarnji kontakt. Vidite Božje Svjetlo u vama, slušate Princip Tona. Kad cijelu vašu pažnju usmjerite na Struju Tona, ona će vas poput magneta povući prema gore. No i oni, kojima je darovan unutarnji kontakt sa Gospodinom, izgubit će ga ako ne prakticiraju samosavladavanje. Samo ako imate određenu kontrolu nad sobom, možete vašu pažnju usmjeriti gdje god želite. Dakle, prva stvar je da je istina iznad svega,no istinski način života je iznad istine. Etičan život je odskočna stepenica prema spiritualnosti. Ostanite tamo gdje ste sada. Prosudite sami gdje ste bili prije, a gdje ste sada. Vidjet ćete da su neki inicirani učenici, koji su bili napredovali, ali ne vode svoj dnevnik za samoanalizu, zanemarilisvoju meditaciju i postali vezani za vanjske stvari. Njihov je napredak stao, no drugima se čine vrlo sveti. Oni nisu iskreni niti prema sebi, niti prema Bogu u njima. Koji je rezultat? Takav čovjek će u sebi plakati, no u očima drugih on je vrlo dobar čovjek. Međutim, Bog u nama vidi što je on. Naš život treba biti život samokontrole i dobrog karaktera. Trebamo voljeti Boga i radi ljubavi prema Bogu voljeti sve druge. Ako zaboravite Gospodina, onda ste vezani. Otići ćete tamo gdje ste vezani. Sada vidite kako je važno održavati samokontrolu. Koristite nešto kada vi to želite. Sada ste neodoljivo odvučeni prema vanjskim stvarima. Na svijetu biste trebali živjeti posve nevezani. Kada želite upotrijebiti jedno osjetilo, upotrijebite ga. Kada ga želite ostaviti, ostavite ga. Sada to nije tako. Iz tog razloga dobili ste kontakt sa Principom Svjetla i Tona u vama. Kada tamo doživite više sreće, vaše će vanjske vezanosti biti presječene. Naizgled ćete živjeti na svijetu, no nećete biti vezani za svijet. Samo ćete ga na najbolji način koristiti, poput čovjeka koji ide u vrt, uživa u njemu i vraća se kada to poželi, u svako doba. Slično tome, vrlo je važno imati takvo srce koje je vezano za Boga, a ne za svijet. Ako popijete otrov, u vama će prouzročiti probleme. Zato biste trebali prestati uzimati još otrova, kako biste se mogli očistiti od onog prvotnogotrova. Nema smisla plakati i dalje piti još više otrova. Koji je smisao toga? Taj otrov dolazi kroz vanjska osjetila. Kroz oči, uši, jezik, njuh i dodir mi primamo vanjske utiske. Zato moramo imati samokontrolu. Jedino takav čovjek može napredovati iz dana u dan, redovitošću i samoanalizom. To je najvažnije. Ako je vaša duša, čiji se vanjski izražaj zove pažnja ili surat, zaokupljena vanjskim svijetom, ne možete vidjeti iznutra. Ja u ovom trenutku ne vidim što se događa iza mene. Kad bih bio zaokupljen gledanjem u Učitelja ispred mene, ne bih se usudio niti želio pogledati iza mene. Ako ne okrenem lice s ove strane i pogledam na drugu stranu, ne mogu vidjeti što se tamo događa. Ako preusmjerimo našu pažnju prema unutra, jedino tada možemo vidjeti. On je već tamo i čeka na nas. Oni koji su inicirani dobili su jedan početni kapital. Redovitom meditacijom, samoanalizom i samokontrolom morali bismo to iz dana u dan sve više razvijati. Vi ćete osjetiti više sreće dok ste u svijetu, ali nećete biti vezani za njega. Dakle, trebamo vidjeti gdje stojimo i gdje smo stajali prije dvije godine ili godinu dana. Uglavnom ćemo ustanoviti da smo prije bili bolji nego sada. Zašto? Jer smo trebali napredovati. Moramo biti iskreni prema sebi. Bog je u vama. Guru ili Snaga Učitelja je u vama. On vas čeka, ali vi ste vezani vani. To ne znači da trebate ostaviti svijet i otići na Himalaju. Trebamo naučiti plivati u vodi, a ne na suhome, i ne samo krozintelektualno naprezanje. To je jedan trening u kojem ste dobili nešto s čime možete započeti. To je kao igla kompasa koja uvijek pokazuje na sjever. To trebate učiniti dok obavljate vaš posao u svijetu. Istinski Učitelj vas ne savjetuje da napustite svijet, već da ostanete u njemu, a opet da ne budete dio njega. Čamac ostaje u vodi i vi možete veslati u njemu, no pazite da voda ne uđe u njega, jer ćete se utopiti. Ako vas vanjski utisci iznutra preplave, utopit ćete se u vodi svijeta i morati ćete se uvijek ponovno vraćati natrag. Iz tog razloga iniciranom učeniku je dano nešto s čime može započeti u sebi. Ako budete redoviti u vašim meditacijama, tamo ćete biti vezani. Biti ćete u svijetu, a ipak izvan njega. Zbog toga trebate biti iskreni prema sebi. To je najvažnija stvar koju moramo naučiti. Ako tako nastavite, iz dana u dan ćete napredovati. U protivnom, i ako ste već nešto dobili, to će vam biti oduzeto. Naš je Učitelj obično davao primjer oca koji je svojoj djeci dao nešto novca da ih razveseli, kako bi ga na najbolji način iskoristili. Jednom djetetu je dao dvadeset rupija, drugom deset rupija, a trećem pet rupija. Dijete kojem je dao dvadeset rupija, iz njih je učinilo četrdeset; drugo dijete je iz deset rupija učinilo dvadeset, dok je treće dijete koje je dobilo pet rupija samo zadržalo taj novac i nije ga upotrijebilo. Tako onaj koji zaradi (dvadeset rupija) više od onoga što mu je dano, dobiva od Učitelja još nešto dodatno. Onima kojima je nešto dano, ali to samo zadrže, ostaje to što su dobili, ali se i ne povećava. Dakle, što mi radimo? Dobijemo neki početni kapital i onda ga protratimo kroz vezanost za vanjski svijet. Otac će biti zadovoljan sa djetetom koje je najbolje iskoristilo to što mu je poklonjeno. Ako postane pošten čovjek na kojeg se može osloniti, biti će mu dano sve više i više. Neki ljudi kažu: “Prije nam je bilo tako dobro, ali sada ne.” Ali zašto ne sada? Od nas samih smo učinili prosjake. Zato trebamo biti oprezni. Samoanaliza je neophodno potrebna. Oni koji je ne prakticiraju, njihov će kapital postepeno nestajati.