Ancillaries
1. Reading Of Mission Books
Reading means we do something for our mental level,
for our intellect. So again depending upon what we take in,
by way of assimilable stuff from outside, we become that which
we assimilate. If it is all the modern trash, we become trash
ourselves. So read that which can contribute to your growth,
to your well being, to your development. Don't read trash.
Let us read something that will train our minds, train our
wills, train us how to think.
So I would suggest that apart from your daily sadhana,
you should devote half an hour every evening, or at any
time convenient to you, to a reading of Master's literature.
Do it systematically, do it everyday. Every time we read
these books, we find a new meaning in them. Therefore they
should be repeatedly read.
Apart from your sadhana - we all have time; let us not
fool ourselves into thinking we are too busy (I am yet to
see a man who is too busy that he could not eat, or he could
not sleep, or he could not read his "Illustrated weekly")
- let us set apart half an hour every day, to reading Master's
literature, in a real way of study, not as if we are reading
a novel.
Let us set apart with absolute determination, inflexible
determination, the necessary period of time for sadhana,
the necessary period of time for the reading of the literature.
And instead of asking questions to preceptors or other abhyasis
and getting confused - because you will receive as many
answers as there are people, who are willing to answer these
questions - let us look to the source itself for our answer.
By source I mean, the physical source, which is the literature;
better still, the source in your heart; because if you sit
with a question in your mind and meditate on it, the answer
invariably comes. And that is the true answer.
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