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"Make out of your grihastha life, a temple of love."
Master is the living example of this way of life. He is a householder who has
married and shouldered the arduous responsibilities of family life. He has
experienced all the joys of love, and sorrows and miseries of separation that
we suffer in our own narrower lives. It is surely a matter for wonder that he
has so completely lived the life of the householder while simultaneously
developing in himself the divine capacity to be a Master of spirituality too.
His life is centred naturally around his own family. But whereas the centre and
the circumference of our own lives have both merged into one single point which
rests in the family, for Master the centre is the family while the
circumference embraces the whole universe. This is the difference between His
life and ours.
When Master, by his divine transmission, helps us to 'expand' into cosmic levels
and super-cosmic levels of existence, he separates the shrunken circumference
free, or liberating it, so that it can expand wider and wider until it, in
turn, is afforded the possibility of becoming universal. Thus, progressively,
the individual self-centred human soul and consciousness develops and expands
until it becomes a universal person possessing a universal consciousness
similar to the Master himself.
There are perhaps only a few among the masses who have ever given any
serious consideration to the problem of life. Generally they take a
very narrow view of it. The only problem before them is to secure a
decent living, well provided with the desired comforts. In other words,
to them the object of life is only to achieve the greatest possible
comfort and prominence in the world. If they are able to achieve it,
they think their life to be a success, otherwise not. They may, however,
pass on as great men, philosophers, scientists or politicians and acquire
worldwide fame and riches, but their problem of life still remains unsolved.
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