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Nishkama superiority and Sakama inferiority is a wasteful debate. None can raise above what he actually is by the stroke of a sound on the ear tympanum. We have every right to demand help and consolation from Mai, commensurate with our capacities and circumstances. Our requirement is to be true to Guru and God, with a determined living of " We shall develop in ourselves the Love Service Devotion and Surrender to our God and Guru and Mother's children, as far as we can." Have the cleanest notion, you have to go on reducing your desires and developing your higher joys." The Guru has to catch your hand and take you gradually over a mountain without minding your going astray on seeing tempting things. The Guru must just laugh at your weakness, but not spurn or scold. The Guru may fret but he has not to forsake, unless the disciple leaves him.

If the Guru becomes Mother to you in mutual relationship, and if you have every love for your Guru, it does not matter, you may be cunning, wicked, impure, degenerate and of perverted reasoning; everything will be made straight in due course, provided you stick up, love, serve devote and surrender.

The day you have decided, you will love and serve your Guru and God,, the day you have decided, you will put all your cards before your Guru, the day you have decided, you will try your best, as far as you can to carry out his instructions and wishes, the day you make resolution," Come what may, I shall not leave my God and Guru ", your name stands embossed in gold as in the winner of the race, some day.

We meet with some cases of people where, after nine successes, the tenth result, a failure, makes the whole undertaking a failure. The reason is that people think as if Mother's Grace were simply the wages of certain mechanical exercises. They don't bring in into calculations, their general behavior to others, their sanctity and purity. Mother wants to make your way easier, only if you are turning your steps towards Her and true religiosity. On the other hand the response of the Grace-seekers is not sincere and honest; they are waiting for the last item of a certain undertaking to be successful, for turning truant to God and Guru.

One would be surprised and shocked to find a marvelous change in them before and after, the success, in their dealings with all.The real underline fact in such cases is that the approach which seemed to be so very full of humility and sincerity and goodness was only a played part, with great artificiality and cleverness. They become temporarily religious as long as they are in the clutches of a calamity. Calamity gone, religiosity gone and remembrance and gratitude gone. In such cases, the Divine Grace and Help is later withdrawn. People trifle with God and God's help, and fail miserably. Their outlook may also be called extremely poor because they do not realize that they will be needing God's Grace, all their life throughout.

Please note the subtle most difference. You may demand and get much more than any other man, but your approach counts, how you look upon Almighty and what relations you have. Demanding and donating, is the most trivial part of the whole relationship.

The Founder is not explaining some intricate point. Intellectually knowing a certain truth is only a preliminary step. First you have to create faith in the truthfulness of the truth. The truthfulness must be constantly before your eyes. Whenever the corresponding allied situations of action arise, you have to exert, you have to pass through a continued practice of rising, falling, re-rising, ad infinitum, till you achieve mastery.

People hate things because they are new, as they disturb them from their inertia of their deep stupor. People refuse to stir up, because their is nothing new to break the centuries old monotony already known to them. People forget the highest truth namely, that there can be nothing new in it's absolute fundamental nature in the realm of Religiosity under the Sun, because true religiosity was born with the Universe.

There is no hopelessness for even over fondled children. Where is, in all realty, love to God and Guru, as of a child to its mother? A child finds itself uneasy without the mother. Do you feel that? You disown your God and Guru in no time. Some one asks you," I learn you believe in God as Mother." You immediately get funky and said," All deities are same. They are only different names of One Final - most Thing. " You shrink. You disown Mother. You have not even the ordinary moral courage which a seven years child has, that says, " There, that standing in the green garment is my mother." The same thing regarding your Guru. Have you ever thought deeply? You want your God and Guru to come in when you want and to disappear when you don't want them. Where is even the most elementary fitness? The natural fitness of even a child to its mother?

Millions of things have been stated and will be stated in the name of religion. If you like you may strike out the Guru. The only path of salvation is Love, Service, Devotion and Surrender to your God and that teaching is Mai-ism.

To return to the working, the process is the single minded prayer, meditation and appeal. The brain and the body must be doing only irreducible minimum things mechanically. Every thing must evaporate from the mind. The mind must become one with the all - comprehensive conception you have about Mother. The prayer has to reach a certain intensity. Your mind must reach the melting point and your heart, the boiling point. Grace - demanding is an actual work to be done to reach the boiling and melting points. It is only one syllable of your prayer or only one name repetition that secures the whole Grace-showering work. The main - most point is, that name or syllable should be from the mind that has already melted and the heart that has already been boiled.

The Founder is for sweating and earning the bread with hard labor with patience and perseverance. There is no ' Choo-Mantar '. For hammering this truth on persons who believe ceremonious performance to be complete thing for worldly success, it is necessary to state here, that many Mantra Shastris have endearingly told the Founder that there is no greater power than God 's or Mother's Love, which the Founder is preaching all his life.

Guru-Shishya relationship is the very basic body and the soul of religious progress. At a higher stage, it also happens that your Ideal and Deity becomes your Guru, but anyway, you do need a Guru. There are stages in life and moments of weakness when only the Guru can help you.

You ask someone," Is not serving God's children a great act of religion? " No devil will deny. But in front of your house, a man falls from the scaffolding of a building under construction. Some one asks your motor to carry him to the hospital. You have to choose between sparring the motor to carry the man, on one hand, and for your wife to go for her daily routine of prostration to the deity, on the other hand. There the difference comes. The Founder says, " You do not know serving God's children is also religion. ". People would say, " Do we not know such a simple thing? What new thing are you telling us? "

That service to God's children, has not been recognized as religious in actual living is a truth. In one of the Navaratra holidays, a relative of the Founder went out with a small daughter (8 years) and lost her in the Bhadrakali Temple. The girl did not know the address of her house. She was sitting on the otta weeping hard and people in hundreds were doing their " Jay Jay Bhadrakali Mata ki Jay " in loudest shouts. Not a single man took pity on her. One however proved to be an exception. There was the greatest sorrow in the house due to the girl being lost. The philanthropic man brought her home. He was greatly thanked by the Founder's sister who explained to him the ideal of Mai-ism. The man, excusing himself while leaving, said, " I have lost the camel while going to save the goat. On this last ninth day, I have broken my vow of having the daily Bhadrakali Darshan. " Just then, the Founder returned after searching for the girl. Founder's sister told the whole story, as also man's regret. The Founder said, " You have absolutely no idea of Mother's Mercy. If you could not go to Mother, because you were engaged in serving a helpless child of Mother, Mother will come to you to give Darshan in the dream. " The next day the man ran down on the Founder to express his bliss as he had the dream in which Bhadrakali blessed him.

The first requirement for the attainment of Grace, is " SERVICE WITH LOVE ". The service may be physical, mental or financial. Service by a disciple means a physical or mental activity, labor, exertion and worry with the mentality and humility of a house hold servant to his life - long master. Physical serving of the disciple is that action, which he would not have done in the usual walk of life, neither for any other person nor even for himself, and which few others would do. Your service must be solid, unique and emergent. It must have 'thrusts' to your Guru and like the head thrust of the calf must make the cow to milk. Your Guru must be pained to watch the degree of your humility, selflessness and painstakingness. Your Guru should feel indebted and should be waiting, how he should make the return when you make the demand.

The Founder says, " I assure you, the very idea of the service rendered to any suffering person having a direct bearing with the pleasing of God is not there. Service does not stand religionised.Mother's ideal is religionisation of service. "

Returning to the matter of achieving religious progress, without the actual exertion of passing through an achievement, without not only devoting certain time money and energy but also temporarily considering the achievement to be only your only goal for the time being, and without a determination and discrimination, you can't progress even an inch.

Your relations with the world should be those of love, service, devotion and surrender, of course to the extent possible for you. Anyway the consciousness about the powerful influences of these factors must be there. Your desires should not be much beyond your worth, nor immoral, irreligious and harmful.

Your relations with your Guru should be that of love and service. devotion and surrender. As a matter of fact, you have to practice on a miniature scale the very same thing as you are later require to do with God. With full knowledge about your insincerity and exaggeration, the Guru loves you for all that, as you are on the line and are sure to reach your destination.

We are talking about Mother's religion. Tolerable insincerity even a little falsehood free from wickedness won't be useful in the Fatherly disciplinary school unless Father acts as Mother. Father in few cases does act as Mother, Mother has sometimes to act as Father. God as Father or God as Mother, means God that deals with us in a fatherly manner or a motherly manner.

Coming to Mother Herself, She wants Love, Service, Devotion and Surrender of a much higher order. Service as stated, is bodily, mental and monetary. Mother expect you to be worshipping Her and helping Her cause by money dedications in proportionate to your status or what benefits you derive through Her Grace.

A certain family in Ahmedabad [ matter of February 1950 ] doing business was in rack and ruin. Its trading agency was ordered to be stopped from March 1950 which would mean a winding up of a business giving a net profit of Rs. 25,000 a year. The head of the family approached the Founder and explained the whole situation. Said the Founder, " You prove your bonafides by offering Rs. 125 to Mother, before which I can't do anything because I have the worst experience of the world, after their work is done." A cheque was immediately passed. Said the man, " To be saved from my present situation, I want a loan of three lakhs and an extension of my agency and the cancelling of the order of its termination by the end of March1950."

Said the Founder," You pray like this, installing Mother." They prayed strongly all in one, the whole family, because, unless Mother helped, the family was going to be entirely ruined. None would advance even Rs. 50,000. All the property would be attached. In a less than a week, the German firm cancelled the order and extended the period to three months. Today's death was shifted. There were letters of joyfulness and thankfulness and thanksgiving with a heart of devotion to Mother. The whole family took to the devotion and Mai Japa " Jay Mai Jay Markand Mai " (daily one hour programme for the whole family at night). The agency was renewed still further up to December 1950.

Further, before the usual nine Fridays' time limit expired, the world was as I were overturned and a rich man of Bombay came forward to advance a loan of four lakhs.

Can we imagine greater mercifulness? Mother has helped families out of calamities, beyond imagination, only on a mere appearance of self-surrender to Her.

The merchant came down to Bombay, saw the Founder with his daughter, and a nice Mother-worship which pleased the Founder most.

If anyone approaches the Founder and tears, true or feigned, trickle from his eyes - finished.; Founder starts a new clean slate with the man. Even with a person, who had run away with his cloths and fifty rupees in his college days, there was noting in the judgment of the Founder, in re-entertaining him as a guest, because he expressed sorrow. Has any Mother discarded her son because he is stingy, or loses his head frequently, or goes a bit immoral? No. Her work is to improve him and not gnash Her teeth, provided he has obediently, lovingly and servingly surrendered himself to Her. He is to be chastened and not forsaken. That is Mother's Love. He is to be punished, scolded, guided, but protected so long as he is Mother's and continues to be Mother's.

Once during college days, Founder was travelling in a train from Bombay [ Mumbai ] to Petlad. There was a co-passenger who had a basket of sweets, to be handed over to someone in Petlad. At Anand, a junction, the luggage inspector checked the luggage.; the excess was only due to sweet-meat package. The passenger lost his patience and decided to eat the sweets. The Founder intervened and said to the Railway inspector," You are punishing him for his greediness. He will ceased to be good. He does not take notice of you or me. Let him eat away, but should he not give something to me? I had given him corner to sleep. First decide my complaint. " All laughed. The inspector left. And the Founder made a note," This life of ours is a gift or a trust given to us by Merciful Mother like this sweet packet."

Mother can set things in no time with a supreme command. But then where is the playfulness or joy? Mother wants to enjoy the pleasure of seeing how people try to cheat Her, ignore Her. She tolerates our weakness but not our wickedness.

There are two issues: one, the abuse of Mother's Grace and to make Mother carry your burdens. An abuse of Mother's Grace results in most painful reaction. An educated man had wonderful experience of what can be achieved by repeating " Jay Mai Jay Markand Mai " attaching thereto a Sanskrit expression of desire. Several months later, the Founder had a letter from the man stating he had great bowels' troubles, viz., constipation. He can not leave the place without pain. Many medicines were tried but the trouble became a great handicap. One night while praying, The Founder got a singular idea," He must have troubled many while passing their motion." The Founder wrote to him inquiring if it was his play to disturb people during their natural calls. The man admitted he was often trying on people who would be going in and get his faith regarding the Mantra efficacy increased ", on their immediately getting out confused. The Founder took him right and left, stating that a similar experience might have led Gurus in the past to be reluctant about giving Mantra Vidya. The only course open to you is to be repeating the Mantra with an expression of repentance and apologizing, when any people are in ". He had to do that and was cured.

Any pendulum has the same amplitude on both sides. If Mai Mantra is much more efficacious than other Mantras, it is also equally much more punitive for its abuse.

The above instance of a childish experiment-making mind of one of that class of proud men who usually consider other people as inferior. " Others are not human beings " is the disease of the rich educated world.

The other instance was that of his own cook in Dharwar. The cook heard Founder saying to his disciples," Mother will do anything for you; She will cook for you ", was alone for two days when Founder had gone to Hubli. He kneaded the floor, turned it into dough and closed the doors of the kitchen saying," Mother I am tired. you prepare breads." He went out locking the door and returned after two hours. He found everything as he had left. He began to abuse Mother, as he heard Founder was sometimes doing in his ecstasy. In the night, he had a dream, " Don't be a fool. If you repeat the folly again, you will suffer heavily." Partly with obstinacy and partly with a desire to finish the experiment, he persisted. After all, the Founder was there to save him. He repeated the same thing second night. He saw a terrible form and heard the words " Have you this cheek after I had warned you? " He fell senseless and had high fever. He lay unconscious when Founder returned from Hubli. He got his senses after being treated and had fever for four or five days even after founder had prayed.

Saints advise transferring your burden to your deity in this sense: " Consigning all worries, dedicating them, dispossessing yourself about them, leaving them to the deity, not to be further thought about. ". There can be even a remote idea of coercion for immature people," I am so much for Thee, canst Thou not do even so much for me? Then, what art Thou far? " That is coercion. This view is not impossible. Ask your conscience.

The idea is that of renunciation and surrender and not that of compelling the deity or expecting the deity to do your work or transferring the management of your worries to God or Mother.

Has any man achieved anything without labor? yet how foolishly does he consider spiritual progress to be the work of a magic wand? This delusion is due to people seeing saints being worshiped, remaining all the while in the dark about how much they have suffered. Founder is therefor insistent up on having each saint's laid down in black and white. Let at least Mai-ists wipe out all notions about Choo-Mantar mentality.

Your burden you have to lift and carry. Mother will only refresh you. The portion of work to be attributed to Mother has to be just by way of Her blessing your exertions with success. I have read imitation of Christ for times without number. When the above view was foremost in my mind, I came to a sentence, " Come to me all Ye that labour and are burdened and I will refresh you." Mother may do much more, but you are not justified in expecting anything more than being refreshed.

Regarding the resulting benefit, spiritual as also worldly, we sometimes hear complaints from beginners about no progress in spite of continued devotion. On analysis some reasons are these: