The inner voice¹

To be true, pure, strong and brave what we need is the Inner Voice. Our Inner Voice is the Truth-Power within. Our outer voice is the money-power without. Man is not pure enough to see the Truth-Power operating in his outer world of desires and demands. Man is not fortunate enough to see the money-power operating in his inner world of aspirations and needs. The Truth-Power used for humanity, the money-power used for divinity can and will change the face of the world. Truth-Power will awaken and illumine the slumbering and unlit humanity. The money-power will serve and fulfil the yet unfulfilled divinity on earth.

The Inner Voice is the heart’s Wealth. When an aspirant uses this Wealth, it soulfully smiles. When an unbeliever and disbeliever of God attempts to use this Wealth, it gets mercilessly suffocated.

The Inner Voice tells us to help the world only in accordance with God’s express Will. If help is rendered otherwise, it’s bound to turn into dire calamity later on. He is not only divinely liberal but supremely blessed whose help to another is God-inspired and God-ordained.

To give a thing requested on second thought is to give once. To give a thing for the asking is to give twice. To give a thing unsought is to give thrice. To give a thing when God wants is to give one’s own body and the soul along with the thing for good.

We shall never hear the Song of the Inner Voice if we make friends consciously or unconsciously with anxiety. What is anxiety? Anxiety is the destructive breath of life’s poverty.

There can be no greater choice and higher prize than to listen to the Inner Voice. If we willfully do not listen to the Inner Voice, our false gains will lead us to an inevitable loss. And if we do listen soulfully to the Inner Voice, true gains will not only protect us from imminent loss but will surprisingly hasten our realisation of the Transcendental Truth.

An aspirant must realise that the Inner Voice is not a gift, but an achievement. The more soulfully he strives for it, the sooner he unmistakably owns it.

Sincerity tells man that he should be mighty proud that he has the all-discerning Inner Voice. Humility tells man that he should be supremely proud that the wrong-shunning, the right-performing and the good-fulfilling Inner Voice has him.

The Inner Voice is at once man’s untiring guide and true friend. If a man goes deep within, the Inner Voice will tell him what to do. If he goes deeper, the Inner Voice will give him the capacity. If he goes still deeper, the Inner Voice will convince him that he is doing the right thing in the right way.

There is a word, very sweet, pure and familiar to us. This word is conscience. Conscience is another name for the Inner Voice. Divinely inspired are the utterances of Shakespeare: “I feel within me a peace above all earthly anxieties, a still and quiet conscience.”

Conscience has two places to live: in the heart of truth and in the mouth of falsehood. When Conscience strikes us once, we must think that it is showing us its unconditional love. When it strikes us twice, we must feel that it is showing us its unreserved concern. When it strikes us thrice, we must realise that it is offering us its boundless compassion to prevent us from diving deep into the sea of Ignorance.

Rousseau says something quite striking:

Conscience and passion need not contradict each other if man aspires to offer his heart’s light to his passion and his heart’s surrender to his conscience. In this way man can easily transcend this apparently irreconcilable contradiction. Once man has transcended all contradiction, he can powerfully sing with Whitman: If you want to be a good man, then contradict yourself when sincerity demands. If you want to be a great man, then don’t contradict yourself even when necessity demands.

Fear asks, is it safe? Doubt asks, is it true? Conscience asks, if not God who else? What else?

The Inner Voice is the Temple in us. The Inner Voice is the Deity in us. The Inner Voice is the divine Duty in us. The Inner Voice is the supreme Necessity in us.

God has commanded the Inner Voice to be the friend of the aspiring souls and the judge of the unaspiring souls.

The Inner Voice is not only constant constancy, but perfect perfection.