The Tempo of Spiritual Life
Whether you are a spiritual teacher or a devotee working for your Master, you must maintain the tempo of your spiritual life by observing the following instructions.
You must be loving but not too familiar with your family, and particularly with those who do not wish to be spiritually oriented, although you should discharge your duties towards them.
Your Lord is above all influences and lives on universal love and consciousness. He does not allow anybody to eclipse that divine love under any circumstances or invite any suggestions from other mortal selves. He always moves according to the dictation from within to remain as master of the situation. So must you be above the influence of wrong guidance, black magic, hypnotic forces, fascination with false prophets, prejudices about other spiritual dogmas and rituals, or any other illusion of the world of maya.
You must be above the weakness of offering undeserved sympathy for the pleas and crocodile tears of others.
You must be beyond the power of others wishing to fish you with their egoistic humility, exaggerated devotion, sex-tickling attitudes, unwanted service, or offerings of allurements of name, fame, wealth and position or any other pose of love-making.
You must not allow others to make any unnecessary contact with you or argue with you if they come to you with a lack of respect or want of faith in you. You will not go to those who have no respect for your ideal or for your life. Otherwise, their disrespectful attitude towards you will reflect on your self-confidence and create contraction of your being, which will make you feel that there is a wall between you and your God.
You must guard against your own weaknesses, such as the desire for self-aggrandizement, feelings of self-satisfied vanity over your elevation, an inflated ego due to a superiority complex, a compromising attitude towards the evils or weaknesses of others manifesting as flattery, and unruly attachment to any worldly thing.
You must be beyond both compromise and conflict.
You must be free from hypocrisy and remain always true, both inwardly and outwardly.
You must not hamper another's love and faith for their higher ideal by your wrong statements or foolish discussions.
As much as you will nurture another’s faith in their ideal, so much will your love and faith for your ideal be charged.
You must not allow your friends or followers to find fault in others. Rather encourage them to pick up good from others for their own lives.
You must move with a dynamic urge to fish others to the kingdom of heaven and help them to reorient their lives and elevate themselves towards the real life.
You must always be serviceable to all, materially, morally and spiritually, so that those who are served will be capable of serving others in the same way. Otherwise, any kind of service you offer will make them dependent on others. Unless they are incapable, to live on others or the state without any work or service to humanity is pauperism and a great sin. Devotees or missionaries should always earn their living and contribute to the livelihood of other holy souls.
Your service to humanity for all aspects of its good should automatically serve you. Nature or God saves those who save themselves. Never secure any service without rendering service. At the same time, your love and service for others must be without any expectation or intention.
You must be beyond all fears, worries, anxieties and tensions by virtue of your discriminating understanding and dynamic activity to overcome all hindrances to your life and mission.
You must be beyond all feelings of want and must be satisfied with any auto-initiative offerings from your fellow men and women.
Your Master within must guide your way of life, words, behaviour and action and command respect from everyone, without demanding any undeserved notice with the pose of your superiority.
You must have knowledge of science, religion, politics and the life and love of all humanity.
You must be capable of exercising your will-power for the good of others, your efficiency in delivering divine messages to others, your good oratory power to inspire the Holy Spirit in others, your efficiency in writing profound truths and your power of controlling others by tactful manipulation of their passions and emotions.
You must have tremendous self-discipline in any field of life as an example to others.
You must know that religion is one and universal – the being and becoming of all humanity.
You must be a fulfiller of the wishes of all past Prophets because they are the same messenger of the one God.
You must make others aware of false prophets and wrong guidance, but encourage true peacemakers and respect all faiths and true devotees of God, without comparing who is greater or lower, since they are all beams of the same light.
You must be able to judge others rightly, placing yourself in their positions through your feelings of oneness with them to know what category they are. Know their instincts, inclinations, hopes and feelings. Know their problems and the corresponding solutions, the causes of their weaknesses, the circumstances in which they live and the pictures of their relationships with relatives and others so that you can correctly guide them for their love, unity and peace.
Try to find the wish of God in every event and occurrence of your life. Be ready for any eventuality and be ever satisfied with the outcome of everything. This is surrender.
To give proof of your spiritual attainment and balanced state of being, you have to undergo tests, when false allegations, criticisms, life and death questions and all sorts of disadvantageous situations of life confront you. You win when you trust that the spirit of God is always with you as the Saviour.
You should know how much patience and forbearance, tolerance and forgiveness, love and kindness, sacrifice and service, alertness and attention you have really achieved in order to pass your test in the eyes of God.
You must be loving but not too familiar with your family, and particularly with those who do not wish to be spiritually oriented, although you should discharge your duties towards them.
Your Lord is above all influences and lives on universal love and consciousness. He does not allow anybody to eclipse that divine love under any circumstances or invite any suggestions from other mortal selves. He always moves according to the dictation from within to remain as master of the situation. So must you be above the influence of wrong guidance, black magic, hypnotic forces, fascination with false prophets, prejudices about other spiritual dogmas and rituals, or any other illusion of the world of maya.
You must be above the weakness of offering undeserved sympathy for the pleas and crocodile tears of others.
You must be beyond the power of others wishing to fish you with their egoistic humility, exaggerated devotion, sex-tickling attitudes, unwanted service, or offerings of allurements of name, fame, wealth and position or any other pose of love-making.
You must not allow others to make any unnecessary contact with you or argue with you if they come to you with a lack of respect or want of faith in you. You will not go to those who have no respect for your ideal or for your life. Otherwise, their disrespectful attitude towards you will reflect on your self-confidence and create contraction of your being, which will make you feel that there is a wall between you and your God.
You must guard against your own weaknesses, such as the desire for self-aggrandizement, feelings of self-satisfied vanity over your elevation, an inflated ego due to a superiority complex, a compromising attitude towards the evils or weaknesses of others manifesting as flattery, and unruly attachment to any worldly thing.
You must be beyond both compromise and conflict.
You must be free from hypocrisy and remain always true, both inwardly and outwardly.
You must not hamper another's love and faith for their higher ideal by your wrong statements or foolish discussions.
As much as you will nurture another’s faith in their ideal, so much will your love and faith for your ideal be charged.
You must not allow your friends or followers to find fault in others. Rather encourage them to pick up good from others for their own lives.
You must move with a dynamic urge to fish others to the kingdom of heaven and help them to reorient their lives and elevate themselves towards the real life.
You must always be serviceable to all, materially, morally and spiritually, so that those who are served will be capable of serving others in the same way. Otherwise, any kind of service you offer will make them dependent on others. Unless they are incapable, to live on others or the state without any work or service to humanity is pauperism and a great sin. Devotees or missionaries should always earn their living and contribute to the livelihood of other holy souls.
Your service to humanity for all aspects of its good should automatically serve you. Nature or God saves those who save themselves. Never secure any service without rendering service. At the same time, your love and service for others must be without any expectation or intention.
You must be beyond all fears, worries, anxieties and tensions by virtue of your discriminating understanding and dynamic activity to overcome all hindrances to your life and mission.
You must be beyond all feelings of want and must be satisfied with any auto-initiative offerings from your fellow men and women.
Your Master within must guide your way of life, words, behaviour and action and command respect from everyone, without demanding any undeserved notice with the pose of your superiority.
You must have knowledge of science, religion, politics and the life and love of all humanity.
You must be capable of exercising your will-power for the good of others, your efficiency in delivering divine messages to others, your good oratory power to inspire the Holy Spirit in others, your efficiency in writing profound truths and your power of controlling others by tactful manipulation of their passions and emotions.
You must have tremendous self-discipline in any field of life as an example to others.
You must know that religion is one and universal – the being and becoming of all humanity.
You must be a fulfiller of the wishes of all past Prophets because they are the same messenger of the one God.
You must make others aware of false prophets and wrong guidance, but encourage true peacemakers and respect all faiths and true devotees of God, without comparing who is greater or lower, since they are all beams of the same light.
You must be able to judge others rightly, placing yourself in their positions through your feelings of oneness with them to know what category they are. Know their instincts, inclinations, hopes and feelings. Know their problems and the corresponding solutions, the causes of their weaknesses, the circumstances in which they live and the pictures of their relationships with relatives and others so that you can correctly guide them for their love, unity and peace.
Try to find the wish of God in every event and occurrence of your life. Be ready for any eventuality and be ever satisfied with the outcome of everything. This is surrender.
To give proof of your spiritual attainment and balanced state of being, you have to undergo tests, when false allegations, criticisms, life and death questions and all sorts of disadvantageous situations of life confront you. You win when you trust that the spirit of God is always with you as the Saviour.
You should know how much patience and forbearance, tolerance and forgiveness, love and kindness, sacrifice and service, alertness and attention you have really achieved in order to pass your test in the eyes of God.