Divine love became corruptedwhen human ego entered the scene and transformed divine love that sought nocompensation or return into its human version which gives itself only on thecondition that it is given back in equal measure.

The man's usual of functioning like trade in which give and take is equalwithout even a micro difference is reflected in his expectations to the Divinetoo . If we get the Nellikaai on Divine's will then it is God's Grace. Butif we voluntarily buy and eat thinking it will fetch God's grace then it isour own illusion. Every action of Divine can be immitated, re enacted to makeus believe that it is Grace. but can we atleast immitate the self giving forcesto offer ourselves to divine . Only when we come out of the Business likedevotion we will be able to get Her grace. For only when we are willing to shedsomething Divine will atleast enter the scene. Others are just our ownillusions and day dreams.

For the SOUL to flower all the other parts need total freedom and should have acquired the highest culture of themselves. Without risking one's all - body, vital and mind - the soul has no chance of outflowering.

- Man is lazy:

Thought takes effort whereas thoughtlessness does not. Rejecting thought requires greater effort before which thinking can be said to be lazy. Indifference and cruelty are easy whereas affection needs effort and responsibility.

To be attached is easier than being compassionate and detached.

- Man is cynical, mean, bad and all that Machiavelli says. If he is only all this there can be no progress for humanity.

It is possible for one to bring out the best from Man, the latent best or even create the better side in him and bring it out. Divine  consciousness is capable of creating that. It is common experience here that people who are otherwise stingy even in themselves are extraordinarily generous with Divine. This is an example of  bringing out the latent best from devotees, even to the surprise of the devotees themselves.

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If one agrees to make pranams (physical or psychological) when irritated against another, slowly he develops a culture of not getting irritated. In practice the custom is to apologize to another when he reacts or better still the other reacts.

- Outgoing VS. Ingoing movement:

For one who seeks the Truth, the only movement permissible is the ingoing movement. The outgoing movement has the only value of disillusioning one of human nature. To that extent it helps complete the stage of negative growth. All Truth is buried in oneself and is accessible only to the ingoing movement. The real value of MAN, buried in his soul, his good nature can be seen or reached only after one reaches and completes his own ingoing movement. The outgoing movement has another valuable purpose of discovering in the world the Truth one has seen in himself. In the measure one seeks to re-discover in the world his own inner Truth or establishing outside the Truth of his own soul, the outgoing movement is called for.

The principle carried to realities of life is also true. The farmer in the field, the breadwinner, etc. find the 'Truth' of realising his aim only when he goes in, i.e. relies on himself, his own hard work. The outgoing movement for him is to rely on persons and circumstances which prove to be infructuous. Self-reliance, hard work, exhausting his own possibilities without concern for what happens from outside are traits that make for success. Truly it is the ingoing movement of one in outward life.

The optimist sees in himself, feels that something is possible, whereas the pessimist understands only after the completion of the work. The first is one who has the inner grasp whereas the second always goes out to see, to understand. So also the planner sees ahead possibilities as he goes into his mind. The lay man awaits the success of the Plan. Only that the Yogi's ingoing is much wider and for a greater totality which calls for total ingoing life.

- Good Will and Ill Will

There is the good part of the man and the evil part. When the centre of intense feeling is from the good part the WILL is exercised from there. It is good will. So also when the emphasis shifts to the other side it is ill will. People are capable of both as there are the two sides in each. This shift of emphasis is known as attitude.

Less evolved people which most men are, are not capable of a defined WILL. What they are capable of is intense desire from either side of the nature. They take sides, identify themselves with people whom they like or fight against those whom they do not like. As there is no defined WILL which can selectively function alternately, they become their desires and in their behaviour lose themselves in a group. They become their desires. To have defined mental behaviour, it requires cultural development, self-knowledge and self-restraint.

- Will of Soul:

Man is mostly vital centred and occasionally mind centred. Soul- centredness does not normally arise. The vital man when he seeks the Divine moves by his prayers towards the soul centre but largely succeeds in moving to the MIND. The mind-centred man similarly by prayer or by other devices moves away from his mind to the soul.

The intense impulse of prayer unarticulated is generally from the vital. The clearly worded prayer is from the mind.

Each in its best result moves to the next layer, occasionally to the soul direct. Soul centred prayer is neither an impulse, nor a phrase, nor a feeling; It is an aspiration that fills the being, uplifts and elevates. To release the aspiration, all outgoing movements like thought, etc. must suddenly stop and go inward. Prayer is outgoing movement in form as it reaches a result but in essence an ingoing movement as the fulfillment of prayer results in closer communion.

Aspiration is the will of the soul in its beginnings.

- Fulfillment of desired things:

One knows one's desires but during periods of discipline comes to give them up consciously and all about it is forgotten. Later circumstances so arise that his earlier desires are fulfilled even though there is no conscious desire in him now for the same things and he is not able to enjoy them with half the relish as he would have done earlier. Such periods are the last phases of those desires working subconsciously their way out. This phenomenon is a confirmation of the principle that "when one is drawn to a desire, the rule is self-denial; but when one is mentally drawn away from the desire but the lower parts could not so pull themselves away from the desire as the mind, the desire itself has to be worked out by living it for the sake of getting rid of it. The process must be a weaning away, not enjoying. Often another person whom we have accepted presents himself as the circumstance that brings about this condition".

- Damage to Material things: From the highest spiritual point of view everything is an expression of Brahman, a manifestation of consciousness. In whatever measure one understands it or appreciates it that fact remains. When a certain thing is ordered to be made, the circumstances are again a thing and the thing made, apart from its own consciousness validity, is also the product of those circumstances.

If half a dozen of us happily order for a certain piece to be made the circumstances of making it are enveloped by the good will generated by each, viz. the positive consciousness of everyone. The resultant stress of the positive vibration gives a push to the speed of doing it, incidentally absorbing and dissolving any negative vibration created by the work spot and a host of other minor circumstances. The vibration created by the sponsors being stronger with respect to the product and the vibration created by the outsiders being weaker as they are less related to the product, the former dissolves the latter. The final product is a clear, strong, beautiful one. If negative vibrations are generated by the person for whom it is ordered, the person who makes it, the establishment that makes it, the thing never gets done or if done, is lost somewhere. As it can be seen the final shape of the product is the result of the vibrations impinging on it.

In all great work, the first token is a causality of the very nature of circumstances as something is created to break with the circumstances. Even the beneficiaries, if there are any, protest. If they do not protest, they heckle. It does not mean happy cooperation is meaningless. Happy cooperation of an establishment proves an ordinary situation. Negative behaviour, other things apart, proves a strong atmosphere. If you prevail and the negativism sheds, the strength of the atmosphere lends itself to be used. Of course one would prefer the strength of a positive atmosphere. That is a fresh chapter.

- Reversal of Consciousness at the level of behaviour:

ROC has its earlier versions at shallower levels, the topmost being the behaviour. A deep sense of surrender and a corresponding concentration brings in the Divine Force at the level of consciousness which results in ROC. That is one of the purposes of meditation. A studied austere effort from the surface which is a discipline helps bring about this reversal. Both are of equal importance. For each social behaviour of ours, mental behaviour, perverse behaviour, a corresponding reversal can be suggested.

Someone was reported to have read another's letter and when the receiver resented, he waited for the man to go and read the rest. It was suggested to him that this sadhak should locate in his mind the impulse to read other letters. Each time it is found, he must offer his own letters to all around to be read. Till such an impulse disappears he is to do this.

Another said he resents anyone giving suggestions to him about his work. He was asked to go to everyone asking for suggestions to be implemented seriously.

If one is jealous of someone getting something, he must work for the other man getting it successfully.

If you are in a hurry to get your food, not out of hunger but out of desire, do not eat it for an hour or two after it is served.

Nature adopts a similar procedure. When someone responsible for a work refuses to give what he should dutifully give, I used to say that they would end up giving more than due. Divine consciousness in its working through life circumstances follows the above procedure unconsciously. A sadhak must follow it consciously when he locates such traits in himself.

THE DISCIPLINE WE ACCEPT IS MAKING CONSCIOUS THE UNCONSCIOUS PROCESS IN NATURE.

- In affairs of yoga, it is better to shed the attitude of reward and punishment (which is aimed at creating ethical consciousness) and replace it by the theme of GROWTH. Life moves in such a way that the consciousness grows adding to its texture the needed strands. This process looked at from personal psychological point of view in the social context gains the colour of profit and loss, reward and punishment.

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- Give all that you have. That is the beginning.

Give all that you do. That is the way.

Give all that you are. That is surrender.

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Ways to increase Energy level and ways in whichenergy is lost

Energy   is the basis of accomplishment  is  afundamental law of Development Theory. If we have unlimited energy we need not worry if some energy is wastedsince there will be plenty left for doing work and accomplishing.  But actually except for people who areoperating with their Higher Self most people’s  physical and psychological energy level is quite limited . As such itwill be highly sensible for people to do those things that boost and conservetheir energy level and avoid those things that bring down one’s energylevel.  A column ofpoints  about attitudes and activitiesthat increase one’s  energy level andanother column that has the opposite effect of decreasing and wasting  one’s energy level.