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"It is the duty of every abhyasi of the Mission
to create an example, by his actions, by his thoughts, by his deeds,
by the way he behaves in his house, in society."
If you look at today's human beings, one may perhaps be
tempted to say that over these million years of evolution to what we
call Homo Sapiens today, the animal man seems to manifest itself more
and more. Of course, the primitive underdeveloped societies are always
blamed. I see this tendency to blame one section of the population over
the other, to say that they are crude, they are dirty, they are filthy,
they are primitive, they are animals, etc. But I don't think the other
half is any less animal, I only think they have whitewashed it, tailored
it a nice suit, given shoes to it, and cosmetics. Smells nice, but it
is still as violent and as animal as the other half. More and more animal
tendencies are being manifested as our greed, our avariciousness grows
in a materialistic environment.
We know for a fact, you see, that God has no heart. We know from the teachings
of the Master that God has no mind. When I asked Babuji why He creates,
he said, "He would suffer from power grossness if He did not."
He has to create. Then what happens is, in this creation of ours we have
all the raw materials necessary for evolution, and we as human beings,
we have been blessed - sometimes I think we have been cursed - with an
intelligence and the will power to guide our own destinies - one helping
us to choose the right destiny, the other giving us the power, the motivating
power to go on the path, the chosen path.
So there is no use looking to a god to correct us, or our societies,
of our tendencies. The buck stops here, and the here is - each man pointing
to his own heart, each woman pointing her finger to her own heart -
towards yourself. The buck stops here. So now we have to wonder, you
see, what is this role that the Master is going to play in this. Has
he any role at all? Can he help us? Of course, it is almost a truism,
it doesn't need an explanation, that help can be forthcoming if my direction
is right. Babuji can help only in an established direction in which
he can take us, and in no other.
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