Meditations — Weekly Meditations — No. 1, Dec, 1966 to May 1967

Return to the table of contents

11 December 1966

Arise, Awake, stop not
    until the Supreme
    is yours.

18 December 1966

My body is the Truth of the
    Supreme.
My mind is the Peace of the
    Supreme.
My heart is the Love of the
    Supreme.
My soul is the Delight of the
    Supreme.

25 December 1966

No right have I to undertake
    any other work before I
    work out my own spiritual
    salvation.

For did God not entrust me
    with this unique task
    at the time of
    my birth?

1 January 1967

What have I?
Desires and death.
    What has God?
He has Liberation and
    Immortality.
What are we here for?
    Just for an exchange.

8 January 1967

God's all-fulfilling Grace
    descends

Only when man's
    unconditional surrender
    ascends.

15 January 1967

Self-giving alone
    has free access
    to Joy everlasting.

22 January 1967

When we are in Ignorance,
    AUM feeds us.

When we are in Knowledge,
    AUM feeds us.

When we are beyond both
    Ignorance and Knowledge,
    AUM still feeds us,

For it is the Nectar which gives
    life to creation,
    born and unborn.

5 February 1967

Aspiration
    Is the mounting flame
    of our Divine Wish

To raise ourselves
    To the crest and crowning
    of Divine Perfection.

12 February 1967

True aspiration can and does
    make us feel
That if God is for us,
    who can eventually stand
    against us?

19 February 1967

Our tears to God are our
    greatest strength
To bring down His adamantine
    Protection.

26 February 1967

We turn to the Lord for Grace;
He waits for our soulful sincerity.

5 March 1967

Adversity leads us inward
    to correct and perfect
    our march of life.
Prosperity leads us outward
    to illuminate and immortalise
    our human birth.

12 March 1967

"No suffering, no salvation"
    so says the teacher, Adversity,
    to his student, man.

"No soul's delight, no salvation,"
    so says the teacher, Prosperity,
    to his student, man.

19 March 1967

Man's joy in forgiving is a joy
    worth having.
Man's joy in being forgiven
    is a joy worth
    aspiring for.

26 March 1967

The man who is a sincere seeker
    of the Infinite
    Must needs always say,
"So little done, so much to do."

2 April 1967

A theory must be tested.
A fact must be honoured.
A truth must be lived.

9 April 1967

The Guru can kindle
    the lamp in you.
When?
Only after you
    have brought him
    the wick and the oil.

16 April 1967

Who can show a disciple
His true Motherland?
The Guru.

What is the name
Of that Motherland?
Consciousness:
Consciousness Infinite,
Consciousness All-Pervading

23 April 1967

Unconsciousness, the mentor,
    uses us as
    blind instruments.

Consciousness, the mentor,
    teaches us how to be
    pure, knowing agents.

30 April 1967

Every falsehood eventually
    dies in Truth.

But Truth, once revealed,
never dies.

7 May 1967

In the intensity of love,
    we can extend our knowledge
    and follow the
    Footsteps of God.

14 May 1967

As our very existence
    depends on God alone,

We must be independent of
    the opinions of others,
    the values of others,
    the demands of others.

21 May 1967

Today properly guarded can
    easily escape tomorrow's
    snares.

It can even nullify yesterday's
    stumbles.

28 May 1967

Are you casting about
    for the happiness in life?

If so, yield not to reason,
    yield not to fate,

but yield only to the dictates
    of your inner
    Voice.