Everything is already perfect, even if you do not realize it. The question is not to work to let emerge the perfection but just to realize that it is there, to start inside you and then, then, outside.
Summary:
The human-being, even the most inclined to the spirituality, brings its vanity with him, in form of the spiritual-ego (an adaptation of the false-ego). It decides what is spiritual and what not.
But it should not make thus because everything is perfect. The physical body, the mind, the ego, the soul have each a game to play under the rod of the orchestra conductor. Nothing is there by accident.
Some put in opposition the spirituality and the life in society, as if it were impossible to reconcile social and spiritual life ! These same people also put in opposition the soul and the body, the intelligence and the Conscience, the intellectual reflection and the Meditation.
The body, the mind, the ego and the soul, or Conscience, are made to be used together for the
achievement of the human destiny. Without the physical body the
Meditation, therefore the spiritual Conscience, would be impossible.
The body is the God’s temple
and where it is possible to contemplate it.
It
is because the human body is made as it is made
that your Conscience
can make use of the four revealed techniques,
to deepen
by finding the inner reference of the Holy-Name.
[Bhaktimàrga
2-1-16]
This meditating Conscience brings to the spirit the alleviating feelings of inner Peace and a centring allowing to rid of the duality, the confusion, the blindness and their procession of sufferings.
If you did not have the ego,
you wouldn't be and how, then, would you achieve your destiny? Of
course each medal has its reverse and the individualization of the
soul, made possible by the ego, has its reverse which is a strong
attraction for the appearances, the surface of the things, most
easily accessible and the free-will which prevented us from being
installed effortlessly in the happy equanimity in which some believe
and which they aim without never reaching it.
''The soul comes from One,
the Grace gives it flesh
[Bhaktimàrga
1-2-12]
your duties of
citizen, husband, wife, father, mother etc
It is not question of
cutting you off from the world
nor to preserve yourself in the only
Meditation.
There is no opposition between the spirituality and the material world. The practice of the path is setting on the three feet of the Agya [Sadhàna] and two of these three feet are put in the world: Satsang and Service. In the Service, the fact of assuming all your responsibilities as human being is taken into account. In the Satsang the sociability is important. Only the formal, deep Meditation is done in the secrecy, the calmt and the loneliness.
This mania to put always in
oppositions these faces of the same diamond is to be credited into
the account of this the false-ego’s inertia which does not want
your Conscience to deepen wallowing in the duality, the polemic, the
sterile discussions, playing with the words, the concepts and the
dialectical one.
Each reader brings his
interpretation of the sacred text in such way that he can arrive at
the most brutal terrorism starting from the same sentences as those
which preach the universal love. A tolerant and peaceful person will
find, with the reading of the holy book, the confirmation of his
conviction. Another person with a disturbed spirit and full with
hatred, will find in the reading of the same verses all the reasons
to nourish his hatred and to kill those which he regards as his
enemies. That always was thus.
Therefore it is necessary to be guided by a living word, able to answer the doubts and the questions. When the voice, which carried this word, dies, the writings are born and take his place and the man remains alone with his reading. But the writing cannot contradict it.
The false-ego does not like the
idea of a living word.
The false-ego likes to be the fan of a singer, of a politician
but not of spiritual guide,
unless he abounds in his direction and shares his concepts.
The false-ego likes to be the fan of a singer, of a politician
but not of spiritual guide,
unless he abounds in his direction and shares his concepts.
''Stupid
is the one who believes to be the guide of himself
When he is the submitted subject
Of his desires his vanity and his concepts ''
When he is the submitted subject
Of his desires his vanity and his concepts ''
[Bhaktimàrga
3-1-8]
