You are all familiar with Babuji's messages, Whispers from the Brighter World. We have had two volumes. It is essential that we understand the seriousness of this spiritual pursuit. It is not just a way of filling up time. It is not just a way of satisfying ourselves that we are doing something, nor is it like saving money for the future to leave for the family, because none of those things affect your life after this.
So you see, Sahaj Marg is a very serious thing of course, but apart from our own individual spiritual evolution, there is this large universal question of a new world order, of a new level of humanity, of higher levels of consciousness and, what Babuji keeps repeating, subtler and subtler vibrational forces. As those of you who have some knowledge of science know, there is only vibration in the universe, nothing else. We are all vibrating without our knowledge. Atoms vibrate, molecules vibrate, matter vibrates. Sunlight is a vibration. Even as I speak, the sound is a vibration.
So our individual evolution is for the purpose of the cosmic evolution, a universal evolution, and if I cannot contribute to my own evolution, I am not going to contribute to anything else. So please bear in mind that this is not just an exercise to make you happier, healthier, more prosperous, trouble-free existence, pain-free existence — not at all. It is to make you worthy, to participate in the higher purpose which the Divine has, and which purpose is being worked out through what Babuji calls the hierarchy of the Masters of the Sahaj Marg system.
So it is a very vital part of the world order that is to come up, and we are not mere abhyasis or prefects or whatever we are. We are vital parts of this, shall we say, divine machinery that is at work, which does not give you any position of respect or honour, but does give you enormous responsibility in seeing that this work goes on.