Now some people are humble only in the inner life; in the outer life they are very rude; they know everything. When it is a matter of aspiration, they are humble to their Master; when it is a matter of worldly wisdom, they think that they know infinitely more than the Master. The Master is then helpless. I wish to say that a spiritual Master, even in the outer world, is more capable of seeing the Truth, than the worldly-trained person because the Master is in constant touch with the Highest, the Supreme. When I tell some of you things about your outer life, your family life, your business life, your office life, I wish you to feel that I am telling you this from the Highest Source. But if you people feel, "No, you don’t understand; you would have to meet such-and-such a person, or learn such-and-such a skill," then I am not ready to help you. Beyond the physical is the spiritual and it is in the spiritual that the real Truth lies. It is from the spiritual, from the subtle physical that one can most effectively change the physical. So when it is a matter of action in the physical world, I wish to tell people and especially disciples, that if they take a humble attitude, if they are really humble, basking in the sunshine of true humility, then I can act. I can run and I can make them run speedily.
Very often their doctor tells them something; I tell them something else. Now I am not an M.D. I have not a doctor’s qualifications. But I wish to tell the disciples that I enter into the patient’s, the sufferer’s body infinitely faster than the X-Ray machine. At that time, if the Supreme wants me to tell the disciple what he should do, I tell. Naturally, at that time, the disciple should listen to me and not listen to the doctor’s advice. But again I am humble to the doctors because they are also doing God’s work and they are fulfilling God in their own way. But when there is a conflict between the doctor and a spiritual person, between the medical doctor and the spiritual doctor, I wish my disciples to understand that I go to the Source, the ultimate Source and then I tell them the absolute Truth. It is not only in the case of their illness, but in all aspects of their lives. I want to tell the disciples who have really accepted me that even in their outer lives, where they have had forty or fifty years of experience in practising some profession or dealing with someone, if I say "Do this", then I wish them to be wise and really humble and do it! The outer results may be, for the time being, painful or hurtful or even apparently harmful, but inside the process is being worked out and fulfilled in accordance with God’s Plan. Almost immediately the problems will he solved.
If there is no constant humility on the disciple’s part, then the Master is really digging a barren field. I am a farmer, a sincere farmer; I cultivate, I cultivate, but from some disciples I do not get any crop, not to speak of a bumper crop. Why? Because what I want to give is very rarely accepted with humility.
Sometimes people accept me when it suits their purpose. Very often my disciples listen to me either when it suits their purpose or when it is what they themselves want to do and they are delighted when I immediately say yes. Or when there is no way out, when they are blocked, they call me up and this becomes the time to offer their deep humility or surrender. I must not feel sad... only I feel that I am not given the proper chance, I am not given the full opportunity to act with or through the disciples. So I wish to say that I am very glad that you have asked me about Humility. All the disciples should feel that when it is a matter of the outer life, a problem, if you discuss the matter with humility and at the same time with the inner conviction that what the Master is saying is absolutely correct, if you feel this with full sincerity and with the spontaneous joy of acceptance, then you are my true disciple and your life can be a song of freedom and oneness with me.
Humility is the real secret of the spiritual life. If you want to make immediate inner progress, you have to be humble, not only in the inner life, but also in the outer life. Then only one realises God sooner than one’s expectations. Otherwise I am working, meditating and concentrating in vain. Something else is necessary along with my action and that is your real, spiritual attitude. What is the real attitude? It is humility. If we knock at God’s door without humility, God’s door will never open to us. So let us go and knock as humbly as possible at the door of the Supreme, Him to realise, Him to fulfil.From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 4, No.10, 27 May 1969, AUM Centre Press, 1969
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