Mother is prepared for any compromise, but we are hopelessly out and out bankrupt in every way. Not even the mental expression of gratitude .That is most despicable

Founder says, " This ' neither here nor there ' class of half baked shards of earthen pots is most tiresome, troublesome to deal with; and that the average modern Hindu is; he is neither a Westerner nor an Easterner.He is neither an theist nor a theist. He is neither fully fledged Gyani nor an all-renouncing devotee. He is neither worldly nor an world-renounced. He is what he likes to be, as suit him best to serve his own self. He is crude obnoxious mixture of everything He has a love for material enjoyments as a Westerner. When the question of exerting therefore comes up, he is an Easterner and says, " We shall eat less but let us earn with ease and live God-dedication living ".

I so anxiously wish, readers may understand my heart. It is not that I am feeling joy in belittling the present age. Just the reverse of it. I feel for the average modern men. They are ten percent what they make themselves to be. I am not faddist of religion. Religion is for man, more than that men are for religion. The ultimate aim of religion is to make man better and happier. Nor am I worrying about getting a world of flatterers and courtiers around my MOTHER. I am all the while raising clarion call to all of them, whom mother has gifted powers to do their little best to take up the necessary measures to unable this world of ours, being reinstalled, on lines that lead it to be better and happier.

People do want religious institutes and preachers and advisers. Only thing is, someone else should have the idea of supporting them. They are to be merely receivers of benefits. That is in a way most natural with the original Hindu ideals. Religiosity or sacred learning gets poisoned as soon as the idea of money-getting or money-losing poison touches it.

Founder says, "When in the highest fervor of devotion, any saint hands over his books to a devotee (and truly devotional is mostly poor one), how can he wipe out every work done, with the poison of demand of its price? On the other hand, a rich man that goes to him as a religious friend, to quote an actual instance, on being treated according to his status with a lunch costing rupees three, come forth to pay a two -anna piece, the normal price of a pamphlet, which he presents him with.His face is glowing with the idea," I would not take a pamphlet copy free as others do. I will straight way pay it off ", A rich man would be expecting praises for having paid off his two annas for the copy, although possessing lacs. What was expected of him was," Send your printer's bill to me for your next pamphlet ", or a cheque of a substantial amount for other publications.

There are several points of wrong mentalities, which the Founder had come across and which have shocked him on being smitten with the contrast between the talked - over and the actual religiosity.

A demand of some return for some great relief received from Mother, on the Founder's exerting hard and the consequent removing of some unbearable hardship, to be used only for the furtherance of an institute, or for assisting a religious person in his religious work, is called begging.

The logic underlying the mentality has been explained above: " Religious help is to be always free. " Because religious work is invaluable just like saving of a drowning man, therefore is expected to be rendered and valued as valueless. What is invaluable soon gets depreciated to be valueless, if the feeling gratitude dies.

Founder says: You save a rich man's son from being sentenced, you see that a discarded daughter is received in her husband's home, you avert a danger of any disappointed person prepared to commit suicide by your constant day and night praying to Mother for maintaining his equilibrium. do anything, even helping a rich man to get over an incurable disease, or speaking in terms of money itself, to get thousands. Die for them, but a word about contributing to the sacred cause of religious furtherance is called BEGGARY. This modern mentality must change.The religious belief, once so very genuine and the mentality of " the saints oblige us be accepting " has erelong disappeared.

Please don't think this to be an outflow of a personal injustice. I am striving hard for a change in the mentality of the whole modern religious world. Don't be dazzled by richness of few counted saints. Study the problem deeply. A question from one of the worshipped saint's life will open eyes, " People came to see me in crowds and asked for instruction. People came and made me talk for three days and nights, without giving me moment's rest. They did not even ask me whether I had eaten ".

It must be said, this is quite an honest mentality which some few and not simply an excuse for not giving. Surely there are some that give with an honest understanding, viz., that the saints need nothing but that they must support them for their own " Punyam " and future welfare.

I am only explaining the embarrassing situation in matter of finance, for the new entrant in the realm of religion, as a reformer. In India, the agreeability of circumstances for any religious reform is this belief. Those who are Gadipatis and like Maharajas of the Vaishnava sect, never think of the advancing times. It is no part of their duty to help the world to being more religious. At best, their duty is to continuously play the same part, to them from the times of their forefathers.

There is another class, which is for dittoing the past and playing the same old gramophone records, blankly refusing to see look at the changed conditions and burning questions of the day. They live in the ideal world of the Vedas, Gitas and Puranas and refuse to descend even one step to study the actual step of facts and try to solve the perplexing questions of the modern life. this class is fairly rich, but it prefers idealisms.

There is still another class of high religious souls, who believe in fearful awe-inspiring distance, silence and unapproachability. To have a darshan would be more than enough to make a man perfect - the breath-blowing class.

Inferior values we are not referring to. There is a class, which consists of some living on the superstitions and fears of human nature, some of the avariciousness, some on religious ignorance of the rich educated class that has left all contact with religious routine, some on the blind faith of the illiterates etc.

It has been often put forth as an argument that India is poor.This argument is simple nonsense. If we judge the charitableness on the basis of percentage, where is the question of poverty? Do westernized Hindu not know that in America religious lectures are actually paid for? Formerly, people and public loved to serve religion. There was an innocent pride of greatness in helping religion, there was a belief, charity would bring more money, peace and happiness. So, there, a change is required to be brought about.

Is the world going to stop its working, even if there is not a single man on earth who believe in God? Don't worry on that score. Mother's Message of Mai-ism says on the very first page, " Mai-ism is one's own personal religion to be adopted after the age of discretion and not one's ancestral religion by birth. " [ PAGE 143 TO 145 ]

Late Bro. A.S. Mundkur who has translated " Founder's Psalms " had become a Mai-ist in an extremely interestingly way. The Founder and Mr. Mundkur were together for only an official duty, for five days.The Founder had gone to scrutinize his 'award' of acquired lands. They stayed in adjoining blocks the Nipani Travellers' bungalow. One Friday night Mr. M entered F's room and expressed his greatest surprise on finding him sitting before Mai's picture in worship. " What do I see! Do you believe in Religion after so much learning and free thinking and contact with up-to-date things.? I hate religion.The greatest humbug that has worked horrors on the world." F was equally staggered at such a contempt.Both were pulled into a serious discussion. M let loose his contempt in never stopping mail trains about weakness and abuse points of Hinduism.He won't stop to hear a counter reply. After he had finished, Founder cool-mindedly told him," You are right in whatever imputations you have made but let me have my say. Is there any God or not? " "Yes, but not.... ". " Do you think for smooth running of the world, there must be some law? " " Surely but not such a foolish.... " " Suppose you are the legislator, what would you have laid down?"" Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing, only live without hurting others, with Love. Help others as best as you can with Service. Remember your Creator, who has created such a happy, beautiful and man-serving world and live always cheerfully, taking life as it comes ".

The F asked," If the religion means this? " M got wrathfully wild: " Don't try to pull me. I am not a child. I am fifty-two my friend. I have studied all religions and have had long discussions with Swamis, Moulvis and Reverends ". F smiled to bring M's wrathfulness down. But supposing some religion means what you say ". " I know there is none ". " Suppose such new religion comes forth! " In a respectful but convinced manner, he began to leave the room saying with the highest emphasis, ' Impossible '. F told him he had to go that night to Belgaum to conduct a worship. M was too generous and offered his car for a distance over 30 miles and back. He smiled and taunted F with a pleasant vengeance. " Please excuse me. I am impersonally telling you. That is my religion, to save your immense travelling trouble by giving you my car. ". He could not contain and repeated " That is my religion ". Not going to temple but sparing one's car for carrying a cooly fallen from scaffold in front of you to the hospital. " F smiled, " If you don't mind, will you please have a glance at this book of mine. " He accepted it and the Founder thanked him.

The F returned the next morning. As he entered the compound, forgetting his position as a collector, he came running and shouting, " JAY MAI JAY MARKAND MAI " and opened the motor-door like a brother. Founder was surprised. " What has happened to you? " Said Mr. M, " Conversion in a night ' Universal '!!No bitterness of individual religions!!Religion itself to mean Love and Service!! What what what do you so boldly say!! Even if a man does not believe in the very existence of God, you call such a man Religious if he lives the life of Love and Service!! Has any religion said so in such a explicit bold terms? " Founder said with highest joy, " It is not this humble creature who can dare say that.It is Jay Mai that has shown condescension to the suffering world, out of Her mercifulness for Her children, i n this new age. "

Founder says," Let the patient in his last days eat whatever he likes. If he take these six Mother pills he will be saved." Founder in the most deplorable condition of religion and religiosity takes the attitude of an examiner, who asks, " Which chapter do you know best? Which questions can you best answer? You give me the questions I may examine you with, and answer them with your very text books before you. I don't want to lock up my University and Colleges. Tomorrow most brilliant scholars will come forth, if these survive ".

There should be no startling consternation, at a large number of sub - religions. India with so many sub-religions, each one strictly followed by its followers, would be many times much superior to India with an idealistic, hazy, indefinite, chaotic, one Major Religion in Name, neither in belief, nor in action, nor in life.

I do appreciate the practical hardship and difficulty. A man may think one way today and his view may change tommorow. The wisest foresight is to define your religion as broadly as you can.Don't be retreating step after step with the world's slaps. It is not merely a defeat but a source and cause of contempt and of mutual hatred between the blinder and the bound.

Mai-ism brings down six thousand six hundred and sixty six things to six things only. Six things are also reduced to three trios' (1) Humanity, Love and Service (2) Mother, Devotion and Self-surrender and (3) God, Guru and Disciple. Take up any trio and fire on. Mother speed you. No handicaps of what to dine, when to bath, whom not to touch, which temple, which river, which pilgrimage place, whom to marry, which priest, etc., etc.

Founder says, " For all matters, ask your Mother yourself, when in fully serious and devotional mood. Consult your Guru if have any and chalk out your line of action, in which you don't infringe your selected principles, with Love and Service, Devotion and Self-surrender; I have nothing else to lay down as a compulsory measure. "

I come back to the oldest of old truths. Your benefit is to be measured in terms of your oneness with your Guru, the intensity of your oneness, the intensity of your self-surrender, love, service and devotion to your Guru. The period of your contact; the repetition of your Sadhana and time given for settlement and maturity. What Guru gives that much alone the Shishya gets. As many Rupees annas and pies the Shishya get. The rest is all delusion and consolation; the crucial-most truth for the modern world that hates the very idea of Guru.

My hearts throbs to declare. " All my labours on them that were not impregnated with the candid and ardent spirit and felling of a Shishya towards Guru are lost."

A mother asked her son to fetch water from a pipe. The boy goes with a vessel and shouts, " Mother I don't get water. " Mother looks. He has held vessel above the pipe. Mother shouts," You can't get even a drop unless you hold your vessel below the pipe. The son holds the vessel below the pipe. Again he shouts, " Mother I don't get water. " Mother looks. He has not held it exactly below the spray. Mother shouts, " You can't get it unless you are holding your vessel in the very same straight line." The son holds it in a straight line. Says he," Mother, I don't get water." Mother shouts," don't hold your vessel inverted."

The Founder says, " Don't expect a single drop, unless in the first place, you have a conviction, you are lower than the Guru. Your juggleries of sweet words, little small nominal services, your cheating with two oranges and three plantains, won't do."

Secondly you be in his straight line. Don't expect pipe to shift its mouth to be line with your vessel. Thirdly if you are already full of perversion, all teachings turn poisonous like the milk to a serpent. If you turn perverted later, one variety of which is treacherousness to the Guru himself, even then you can't continue to carry a single drop.

Every one can't be perfect from the first day. One has however a way out., " I will be wicked to the whole world but not to my Guru."I will be thinking and practising all impurities, but not during the moments I am in presence of my Guru. " This much accepted and observed, put the whims-hurt machine into vigorous action, till the smallest atom of a charge become tremendously huge charge.

Guru-Droha, treachery to the Guru, is the highest religious crime. The Guru teaches his disciples and allows him to learn everything and then the fellow turns to break and becomes a different man altogether, as if he had never has met his Guru. Their perverted mentality is this. They think they have an as good right to God or deity, and Guru is only an intermediary nuisance, just like a peon of an officer. He is simply to be kelp pleased with four-anna-piece. " Once we are admitted in, we know how to kick the Guru. " Such people think themselves within their minds to be much greater than the Guru. Such people have no idea of the Divine working. They rely too much on their intellect, and think they have the last card in their sleeve, of shedding two tears before God and Guru with a few word of repentance.

Persons believe that, once they have agreed to do a little something of a prayer or worship, not a single misery should befall them, as if Mother has enslaved Herself to them for a few crumbs of prayers. They rush on their Guru, get wrathful. Abandon all relations with God and Guru forgetting all life long benefits. When they again gets kicks and slaps they return to God and Guru.

Only few days back, one person came to the Founder, after a long disconnection.He most seriously said," I was determined not to come to Mother and to you but I finally decided. Let Mother be a Kumata (wicked mother), but I should not be a Kuputra (wicked son).Of course he was seriously hurt in financial prospects and had a painful setback. But he would never bring in his former huge uplifts through Mother's Grace, or his unfitness, unfavorable circumstances, worldly enmity or Prarabdha etc.This is highest height of a perversion which the Founder had never dreamt during his whole life. Just the reverse of what we have learnt from centuries, taught by Shri Sankaracharya." So many sons have become wicked but no mother has yet ever become wicked. "Please note, I am not talking of some villagers or uneducated or penniless people. My experience has been drawn from the society of the highest middle-class and highest education.

My labours are amply rewarded if I am leaving one lesson after me viz., the indispensability of a Guru (be he whomever you select and change him whenever you decide), and the strict disciplinary observance of the Guru-Shishya relationship. If you can't be true, good, just and faithful to one person out of millions around you, whom you select, where is there even a phantom of hopefulness for the results of a solid Sadhana? By Sadhana, I mean the smallest effort for the achievement of the smallest thing about one's religious progress.

For spiritual progress, a time does arrive when you have to say goodbye to the world. We may or may not leave homes. One Mai-istic formula is Bhagjana, Bhulajana, Milajana and Mitjana (run away, forget, live with Guru, wipe out individuality).

Create maximum leisure by reducing your outer wants and activities. Minimize your responsibilities and conserve your energies. Keep yourself in a company of a superman, for as many moments of your every day as you can. See that your desire do not pull you out from your hidden obscure corner shelter. Try to control yourself as much as you can. When you can't silently suffer, but don't seek remedy which would in turn bring up a forest of more formidable evils. Utilize the first opportunity of running away from the temptation again to your safe corner. Set all worldly considerations aside making their value a cipher, if thereby you escape a pitfall of your slipping in to the mouth of devilishness. Be prepared to be called a coward, a rough man, a rustic, an idiot or even a mad or a bad man, a vicious man, a faithless man or even an ungrateful man. People's good opinion or applause about you is nothing in contrast to your own moral degradation.

In life there are there are many calamities and trying situations. When one has to weigh the worldly benefits and considerations against one's spiritual elevation, or debasement, one must invariably decide in favor of spiritual elevation, foregoing all the worldly calculations and future prospects.

Come what may. Don't leave Mother's Lotus Feet. You have a right to the Mother's Feet and Lap. It is enough that you have tried your best not to be pulled out, and that you have again returned. You area again welcome to the safe corner of purity and rest and peace. Run back at the earliest opportunity. Your right living become so interwoven in your life, that whenever you make a departure, you are filled with unique uneasiness and confusion. You must be so guile-lessness-stamped in your face that even the dullest man of the world would detect you out and force you to be driven back to your corner with a little suffering. Develop your mind to be so sensitive that you yourself can't remain composed, till you have vomited out your wrong actions, intentions, sins, faults and follies.

I assure you from my personal experience. If you are a devotee, Mother saves you with only a slight reproach and a warning and a little loss. She changes the minds of people. How rarest thing it is to meet a man who make confessions with repentance and resolution not to repeat the folly? Mother helps you in such cases most miraculously.It is the Divine arrangement that saints are harassed by the world, even on false accusations to make them more and more unattached to the world, and to be pulled toward the God.

Nip in the bud, a vicious thought, wish or action. Let the improvement of others be now, only a side activity of your life. Let that infatuation of duty go. A general high sense of duty must be uniform and of the same intensity and not restricted to wife and children only. Every man has his duty towards God, himself, Universe, parents, brothers and sisters and neighbors and posterity as well. Wife and children themselves, although fully mature and discrete, never think about the indispensability by your care and protection, as much as you are dancing about under the name of duty. You have to play your inevitable part alone, with the least attachment.

Every man who has worked hard and gone out of righteousness has a feeling of disgust at the end when he finds and discovers the real mentalities of them whom he looks upon as helpless dependents and dying without him and as ready for very sacrifice for him, when he sees things incompatible with his lifelong exertions and expectations.

Your living as a householder or a relinquisher of the family life is a matter of much less importance than the reality about how you live every moment of your life. You have to pay off your debts. As soon as you are nearing the mark automatically, all the circumstances of life will change, to create a position suited to your new requirements.

JAY MAI JAY MAI JAY MAI

END OF SECOND PART OF ABRIDGED MAI-ISM

THIRD PART

ABRIDGED MAI-ISM

CHAPTER X

MAI INSIST ON RATIONALISATION OF RELIGION AND RELIGIONISATION OF RATIONALISM ON CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS

Religion has to be as constitutionally tackled as any modern movement, and with no haphazard ways of financing and defraying expenses and no extremities of recklessness on either side. The first thing I would like to introduce is a licence to preach religion with a view to stop all underhand mischief and exploitation. Let there be a religious congregation with all the well-known saints therein who are interested in raising the general public trend of morality and religiosity by constitutional methods.Let there be a Divine College as well, where all religions are taught and examinations held. So much mischief in the name of religion, through playing upon superstitions and mysticism will disappear. Such rumors as that a certain saint rises five feet above ground in air or that a serpent spreads its hood when another saint goes to sleep, or that a necklace in the neck of a saint being given as a present by Lord Shiva constantly revolves, will be one and all dealt with, and each saint concerned with the rumor will be respectfully asked, how much in the rumor is truth. If they deny, such denials will be broadcasted to remove people's superstitious follies or tricks of exploitation, or they will be put to tests by such congregations, as will be blow up, if found to be humbugs.

Let there be also a religious family heads' assembly and a commoner's council, all consisting of truly religious people interested in spreading morality, religiosity and a better relationship of man to man. The whole essence of all my exertions in religious life and preaching, has at the end, brought me to a conclusion that religious preachers in the modern age have simply waisted their life to fill up a certain site with waters to form a beautiful lake, whereas others have desired to have a dry rocky foundation for a massive building for a pleasure house, on the very site. After all exertions are over, we have found that very fundamental beliefs and opinions and decisions and judgments have been different and even contradictory. What a hopeless wastefulness of life it is, to be consuming one's everything over them that have been holding just the contrary beliefs.

Welcome every family head to express his religious and social views in open declarations, and help each one, to take up one's place in the class where and his family would be in natural waters with men, environments and atmosphere suitable for all ambitions, experiences and progress. Let there be a clear-cut arrangement of each in matter of his either following or leaving a particular, definite organization of certain principles, beliefs and customs. No dabbling thereafter.

Let all saints and saintly persons and religious minded interested eminent persons, once sit together, putting all their heads together, with their best mettle, to chalk out some to save Religion. It is high time to make some such beginning of an institute, with a permanent standing interest of a fully constitutional organisation, with the all year around running activity, with the exclusive specific aim and object of ameliorating and preserving morality and religion, maintaining the culture and caliber and general standard. One such a beginning is made, in however poorly in a way, it is sure to do its work most efficaciously after sometime.

Please note one extremely subtle point. This sort of work, none can begin except saints. Here the best worldly householder can do very little. They can only help saints, but the initiative can be taken by saints alone, who has risen above self-interest, under no infatuations of personal attachments and universal-minded, especially as it is an upstream task, against the natural mass flow and because it requires for its success god's Grace, obtained by living a life of Love, service, devotion and Self-surrender. We require ministry of saints, an assembly of family heads and a council of individuals, with volunteers of both sexes to work methodically and constitutionally.

Summarising the whole religious situation, this book has been written with a view to give all impartial information about Mai-movement is. What are the tenets of Mai-ism, what beliefs the Founder has been holding, what he has to suggest, how far his experience has approached and mastered the absolute Truth, how has he worked and tried to increase the religiosity of the world etc.

In the first place the Founder is strongly of the opinion, that the world, any nation, community, family or an individual, can not be happy without religion or to put in Founder's words, without religiosity. Of course the word religion has to be very widely interpreted in a much wider sense than what we have till now. It should not mean any individual religion, nor should even the belief in God be indispensable qualification of a religious man. It should be enough if he loves and serves mankind with a universal mind. The belief of God's existence may dawn later. A belief by itself is nothing unless it prompts and controls you to be acting best with your brothers and sisters, or rather Mother's children.Exemption from the belief of the existence is only a compromise and a concession. That there is an invisible world, a life after death, the providential arrangement of invisible helpers and help etc., that there is the finalmost Beneficent Divine Mother who helps guide sand saves Her devotees - is the personal experience of the Founder which he has narrated. It is an experience which has come down to us since the world began, actually to so many blessed fews, who have tried with that conviction to set the world aright. They have well neigh succeeded. The process of regeneration and degeneration of the world is constantly at work, just as any house since the time it is constructed, gets dirty from time to time and has to be cleared by efficient well wishing philanthropic workers.

The Founder wants to make the first exterior form of a religion, to be as simple as can to be acceptable by any beginner, so that, to start with,everyone has an admission at some one stage or another, and is not left to be groping in the dark. Subtleties may follow, as the aspirant shows his worth and solid progress, like the primary education, whether you have an aptitude for study or not, whether you are dull or bright, whether you have mechanical, artistic or scientific training, you must have been admitted into some school. It does not matter if the work in the primary class is simply eating sugar pills and gradually learning the counting of their number. Lower the depth from which you begin cement filling, surer is your foundation, and safer is your construction thereon.

The highest emphasis that the Founder has to lay upon is " Nothing can be achieved or attained, unless you die for it." Prefer being worn out, to being rusted. Even a failure or a defeat is more glorious than the lukewarm deadness and inactivity, expecting others to do what you can do or expected to do. The Founder is not pessimist or a fatalist. He is extremely optimistic and a believer of Mother's Grace which can overturn the whole working of the world. Here too, there is a difference of belief and a reminding is necessary. God or Guru will help you. Without their Grace you can not move an inch, but it is you who have to lay brick over brick to construct your sheltering place.

Further the Founder is for steady and slow progress in quite a rationalistic way, just as you master any art and any science. He asks," What sort of people and of what stuff are we, if in order to be approaching a high soul, who has mastered his mind, we need a fool's impossible and impracticable stories?" Mai-ism is rationalisation of religion and religionisation of rationalism.

All humbug in the name of " Choo mantar " should go. There is no higher supernatural power than one that can be attained by repetition of pure and simple name of ' JAY MAI ' day and night, while living the life of love, service, devotion and unconditional cheerful self-surrender.

He is doing for even a little, rather than doing nothing on one hand; and just reversely for doing nothing, rather than doing anything insincerely. He prefers a little religion to ‘no religion’ and irreligion to ‘sham religion ‘.

He gives greater importance to the inter-dealing between man and man, than man and God, “Be first a man, than, a brother, and thereafter alone a religious man.” He gives much greater importance to the formation of character than the versatility in sacred lore and Divine knowledge. He takes your practical life and living to be the deciding factor, as to the rung of the spiritual ladder on which you stand.

He recommends practice and practice of the smallest things under the guidance and Grace of the Guru and Mother’s Mercy. He quotes so many practical instances of himself wherein he has been a failure to do a certain most mechanical thing for which he has no practice.