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Messages delivered by Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India during 1970.

 

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Life is the awakening of the State of Being. When we brought in our share of the awakening state, every function of the material existence commenced. In the beginning, it was more in relation with Divinity from which life started. With the progress of life, actions continued having their effect according to their nature. Now we have lost our balanced character and have grown unbalanced.

 

Action is a very strong thing because it is connected with life. So its misuse has produced wrong effects and each centre has lost its originality and has begun to imbibe different effects, with the result that the whole frame of the body become a human factory and began to pour out, what we have collected so far. And this process continued for years. When the span of life ended we took another form with the accumulated effects of grossness we had formed. Thus we have been adding at each birth till we have become the actions themselves. Every centre of the nerves became a pole itself producing different climates and changes. We have formed the poles according to our actions and the repeated actions made the centre more strong. The outcome is that we remain embarassed by the commands we receive from different centres for each faculties.

 

Now our life changed from spirituality to matter and this went on and we became worse. Somehow, either by the effect of circumstances or by the company of pious persons, we got a passing air of Divinity and began to compare it with the present state, and then we came to know that there is something superior to what we have.

 

We now began to seek the method to revive our original condition. We searched for a proper man. If the thought deeply touched the core of the centre which is ultimately found in all centres, in other words, if somehow we touched the spirituality, the basic substance of all the centres, it produced a kind of trembling, and as every action has some result, it had its own, i.e., it would lead us to the proper man who is really spiritual. If we fall short of it, we will move towards the person who has formed a personality, gross, in the garb of spirituality. We will always get the right person if the craving is for the realisation alone. Fortunately if we have got a master who is all spiritual, then it will be master's duty to destroy the poles we have formed by the effects of our unbalanced thinking. When they are destroyed, their channel of wrong influence is cut off and we move to the proper level of spirituality. It becomes the duty of the master to regulate everything and to bring about the original state into us, so that we may begin to realise the awakenness of Divinity which first fell to our share.

 

How does the master proceed? He introduces in the abhyasi the Pure State of Divinity, which he is having because this is his work. For the sake of help and cooperation he prescribes certain methods. The best one is meditation and he helps abhyasi in it also. Meditation really means that the mind may be accustomed to the centre itself instead of wandering elsewhere. Meditation on heart is prescribed for that purpose. Why we meditate on heart is already written in the books, so I need not repeat it here.

 

The abhyasi meditates on the heart as I have already said, but there must be yielding attitude towards the master. If there is anything difficult in the path of righteousness, it is surrender, if taken up directly (that ensures the result). People usually surrender verbally alone by going to the temple and bowing to the idol. It is not surrender at all. Actually, it is a sort of state when one feels like a child going to the lap of his mother even if a tiger attacks him. He does not know whether his mother can save him from the tiger. The Best way of surrender which I have stated is to "Feel Dependence Upon God". Before it as already said there must be yielding attitude to a really capable Master. By doing surrender we generally know "I am doing it". So we proceed with the "I" which should be shaken off. In this way "Self" develops but not surrender. Surrender is really the outcome of Bhakti (Devotion) if it is done in the real sense. Real Bhakti is the inner attachment with the Being. Of course Bhakti (devotion and love) is the chief instrument and the highest type of Bhakti is that when an abhyasi "May not feel what he loves and for what he is loving". There are such instances in the scriptures also relating to Lord Krishna. The consciousness of separate entity not only bars the spirit of surrender but sometimes produces altogether different results from those desired. If a tiger feels he is a tiger, he will pounce upon his own cubs. If a man thinks himself to be a man he will torment others like a demon. How do we know that our Surrender is complete? It is when we begin to know that the abhyasi is surrendering naturally to all humanity. When surrender is perfect the idea of surrender itself is gone, and it becomes completely natural. "To acquire naturalness should be the main care of the abhyasi". Surrender and cooperation are twin sisters.

 

The Abhyasi proceeds in two ways and both are necessary. By the effect of transmission and his own efforts. The light which the preceptor infuses travels to the different centres and a sort of vibration is felt by the abhyasi even at the higher points. The other thing which the preceptor does, is to start YATRA to the different regions and centres. There are very few persons who do the yatra by their own labour. In Natural Path alone the method of training weaves all the requisites of spiritual fabric of the abhyasi, and so the preceptors have got very heavy work to do. I can say with authority, that without the help of the preceptors a man cannot cross the higher regions, because life has come from higher to the lower regions, in other words it is descending with its own force. Subtle force is very strong, and if an abhyasi tries to go further by his own effort, he is pushed down because he can not get at the subtle force. Up to certain centres an abhyasi can go in considerable time, but beyond that none can go by himself. The preceptor has the "knowledge of centres and the energy they contain, and he exercises the divine power coming direct to him to set everything right". If an abhyasi proceeds with his own efforts, or if he neglects the master at a certain level, he forms a curvature and it itself becomes a knot, barring his further approach. It can be rectified only through the method of transmission.

 

The chief instrument of work for the preceptors is the WILL. Of course the methods are there which help the abhyasi to achieve quick and better results, and these I have already written for the preceptors. Now I have requested the preceptors of the mission to add their own experiences. The methods that preceptors follow for the abhyasis are meditation and prayers. The other necessary methods are resorted to by the preceptors themselves for the elevation of the abhyasis.

 

Why is Prayer necessary? It is because at the time of prayer we adopt supplicant mood and becomes very near to surrender. When we cannot do surrender easily, this is the method. Now other things follow. It often happens that a person occasionally, or as a habit, feels the charging of rage in the mind and he goes to the master who prescribes a certain method to eradicate it. My Revered Master has, in his notes, written that prescribing the method for certain mental ailments out of avowed authority is not good. He should prescribe that method which a great saint might have prescribed in such cases with successful results. The method will, therefore, be correct because the evidence is there. Of course, if the Divine wisdom has been awakened in a Master, then whatever he prescribes will be perfectly correct. In Natural Path System all the methods of "doing" are for the preceptors, and "becoming" is the job of the abhyasi.

 

The background of spirituality is the "Moral Courage" which rises when one is moral. My revered master used to say "How so ever advanced a person may seem to be, if his moral character is doubtful, I would say that he has not got even a breath of spirituality". And what is morality in the True Sense? It is that all the faculties may come in harmony for proper use. How does this happen? When a man begins to be away from the "Self", it begins to develop. So all the methods given in any religion are only for this end, and the methods and procedure of Natural Path are very easy for it. With the overemphasis on "Self" morality decays. But it is the part to be played by the preceptors alone that the self be turned to Divinity.

 

What is the Self? It is the gross state produced by the charge of the mind. If I may be more vivid for the common understanding I can say that "self becomes the individual force with its separate entity". If we are in the hands of a real Master, all the things necessary for 'man to be called man' gradually come out of themselves. Really speaking, in our system, the methods are for the preceptors to introduce divinity into the abhyasi who is in a sleeping state. Remembrance on the part of the abhyasi helps a lot. The job of the master is to remove the thick layers so that the divinity may begin to bloom. In the state of spirituality the bud becomes a blossom. Every transmission from the preceptor, even if given with a lack of confidence in himself, will give light to the abhyasi, whether the latter feels it or not is due to lack of sensitivity, because the one and the same force is working in all of us. Moulding is the Preceptor's Business. I am happy that all the preceptors of the Mission are doing good service to the abhyasis selflessly, not as a Master but as a fellow being. May this develop further.

Messages delivered by Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India
during 1970.

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Episode Notes:

 

AT THE SEMINAR IN TIRUPATI - 1970

 

All the religions of the world have been started when we have found the necessity. Some start from the
core of the Being and some out of the outer aspect. But all of them try to touch the Divinity above all religions. They prepare the masses to dive deep into the Reality. They succeed in many cases and fall short in some other ways, because the religion is for the masses and spirituality is for the selected few. Since millions adopt the religions with some views which their status of wisdom warrant, now, they burst out into branches because the people of different mentalities adopt it. At one side there is high thinking and at the other side there is gross behaviour. But these things play their own part in the spheres they
have formed. Now both grossness and subtleness exist. To the subtle minds the idea of the greatest is understood and to the grosser minds only the idea of grossness is evident. Now the thinking has become gross.

They connect the grosser things with the religion and if even a lie is spoken a hundred times it becomes the truth. Similarly the same thing and their adverse belief have become the part of the subject of religion.
When we are out of light we fall in darkness. When we are out of wisdom we become fools. When we are out of Reality we become Satan. Now they have come down to the adverse state of Reality. They begin to imbibe that which is not in consonance with Reality. In other words animalism begins to spread into them and they begin to peep into the state which an animal has. Some times they will think 'Since I tamed this cow I began to get enough money, I tamed a horse and I have a grandson'. So such ideas are nurtured. Such conditions when observed for some time breed so many other ideas which we call superstitions which themselves denote they have no meaning. But this is the result of only gross thinking.
When we take the finer aspect of grossness we begin to think ourselves spiritual. That is also a
superstition. They think of what they are not really. If milk is adulterated in wine it remains no more milk.

In any religion which becomes old such things creep in and then saints come to remodulate. But
unfortunate it is that such saints do not come at all times. That is because we do not call them for it. Why do we not call them? Because superstitions become in the mind of the people a religion by itself. And they are so immersed in it that they do not think what is above it. What is above the superstition is really a power which can call the saints. And that is the spirit required for the transformation of the lives of whole
of the world. A doctor can cure a disease but the shepherd cannot. What is the call of the present day? Nothing but the energy issuing forth from the centre. Either it should burn us or it should embrace us. That should be our thought if we really want our transformation, for which we should come forward like a warrior in the field to test our own bravery for the task.

Messages delivered by Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India during 1969.

 

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Message on 06-05-1969                   

The world today, is in a state of unrest and disorder. Everybody seems to be crying for peace. But all efforts for bringing about peace appear to end in failure. The reason is that all efforts are merely external, touching only the outer surface. In fact, the problem is far from being related to the world in general; really it is the problem of the individual first and of society afterwards. As such it needs to be tackled in that order. World peace is closely related with the peace of the individual for which one has to take into account the inner state of one's mind. If man's mind is brought to the state of peace and order, everything in the outside world will get into order in the same colour. But it is sad that the world has lost its real basis, and for its reestablishment, it is necessary to adopt means which may promote the feeling of peace and calmness of mind of the individual man. What we have to do for the purpose is to introduce proper adjustments in the mental tendencies of the individual, which in effect is the proper moulding and regulation of the mind. This is possible when the individual mind develops up to the state of the universal mind. Just Imagine! There will then be no problem! As it is, individual minds which themselves lack peace and tranquility are trying to establish peace in the world. Isn't it ridiculous? The only way open to mankind is to take to the spiritual way of life, which is unfortunately absent today, leading to all this chaos.

Numerous means and practices have been and are advised for the purpose, but the most important feature is found lacking almost everywhere. The proper moulding of the tendencies of the mind is the primary factor of any system of Sadhana (Practice). The regulation of mind must therefore be the very basis of all spiritual practice. The mind, which in its primordial state was absolutely pure and regulated has now been spoiled and polluted by our wrong ways and doings. It is now to be set right so as to resume its primordial state.

                           

Almost all systems of Sadhana have two aspects - one self-practice or abhyas and the other the Master's help and support. In order to develop the required condition, selfeffort (abhyas) alone is not all or even enough. It must be supplemented by Divine Grace which is the one essential for the purpose.

                           

The inflow of Divine Grace is possible through the medium of the Master alone. Thus the real thing to be invoked by an Abhyasi is Divine Grace coming to him through the Master. Self-effort (Abhyas) is just the means for making one's self deserving of Grace.

                           

I do not hereby mean to advocate the orthodox idea of Gurudom in any way. Only a person capable of transmitting Divine Grace through the Yogic process of Pranahuti is fit to become a Master. The selection of such a worthy master is certainly a problem. I may here indicate an easy method of judging a worthy Guru (Master). When you happen to come in contact with one, try to understand whether or not his association promotes in you a feeling of peace and calmness, and the restless tendencies of your mind seem to be silenced for the time being at least, without causing any weighty effect upon it. If it is so you must thereby conclude that he can be a fit person to help you in the solution of your life-problem.

                           

In Natural Path, Divine Grace is directed towards the Abhyasi through the process of Pranahuti (Transmission). As a matter of fact, what Pranahuti does for the spiritual uplift of an Abhyasi and removal of complexities in a short time, independent efforts cannot achieve even in a full decade. Serious difficulties arise when meditation is practised independently in accordance with the old methods prescribed in books. Under the old system, one has to keep on struggling with the mind in order to suppress its unceasing activities. This continues all the time and there is practically no meditation at all and all the time given to meditation is lost in struggling against and trying to suppress thoughts and tendencies.

                           

In order to overcome this greatest difficulty, under the Natural Path, one has simply to connect one-self with the power of the Master whose mind, senses and faculties are all thoroughly disciplined and regulated. This power then begins to flow in regulating the tendencies of the Abhyasi's mind also. The Master's help is, therefore, of prime value for sure success.

                           

Usually, people initially aim at the cessation of the activities of the mind. This can best be achieved by linking ourselves with the great power which is beyond the range of senses or in other words, one who has transcended its limits. By connecting ourselves with such a person with love and devotion and by practising meditation in the right manner, we begin to get transformed accordingly. In short, we have to break down one by one the bondages which serve to keep us down under limitations and tensions.

 

May Grace descend and bring Peace and Order to the World and to Humanity!

Messages delivered by Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India
during 1973.

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Message at Madras on 24-02-1973 at the Birth Centenary of Lalaji Maharaj               

We have assembled here on a very auspicious occasion to celebrate the Birth Centenary of our Great Master Samartha Guru Sri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh (U.P.). We should utilize this occasion in getting into the Master and Master alone, which will act as food and tonic for spiritual elevation. Remembrance should be in a way that we feel the thought of remembrance oozing out from the objects everywhere. It is the real remembrance which mortals can have. It is a play for our good.

Now a new chapter opens in the web of life. The effect of our deep devotion begins to resound in a way, that we feel the Ultimate is remembering us. That is the justice of Divinity. When you have played your part fully well, the Ultimate cannot fall short in playing His part. That is only a beginning of the higher sort of spirituality. As a result of it, our senses become summarised to have their own share in the Being. This is my experience.

When they are summarised, they become a new force for our regeneration. Now, this is another instrument for our help. When this thing is attained, we have formed a base for our further approaches. It begins to modify itself when the effect of Divinity starts to percolate. The base becomes a sort of force and begins to reinforce the substance required for our elevation. When the base is formed within us, the charging with its contents, is also there affecting the entire fibre of our being. These contents are the ingredients of real life which we can safely call "Life in Life". The main difficulty we find is that all our actions are directed unwisely. Actions are results of thoughts and thoughts are our own actions. Truly speaking, we give wrong suggestions to the mind. People can object to it. How do we give such suggestions? The environment creates the circumstances to have such ideas. We move in that sort of environment.

The rishis of yore used to recommend people to go into the forest or the hills, where the environments are natural. The place recommended was to be far from human habitation. If one goes to a high peak of a mountain, he will only find a sort of echo and not any thought. Purity starts from being and impurities are the result of the wrong suggestions and improper utilization of the inner environment. When all these are combined, a narrowness of views is effected and this is one of the factors for creating a sort of confusion, sometimes automatically and sometimes forced by circumstances. When all these things are accumulated, they bring different colours. This affects the lower part of mind which gives direction to higher part of it. Now, your direction is not correct; so mind itself becomes thorny. We do not create congenial vibrations because we move contrary to Reality.

Before the world was born, a balanced state prevailed. When the balance was disturbed, we came into existence. I do not want to elaborate the subject metaphysically. The thought for creation stirred up near about the Centre and energy began to flow out. What was that? That was the First Mind - pure and simple, and that has woven all our frame and structure. It brought purity with it which is still maintained. So when we begin to give wrong suggestions, the mind which is absolutely pure, expels them in order to maintain its eternal purity. That is the cause of thoughts. In reality, it sends out the contents which appear like a fog covering a certain surface. We call them thoughts. When we are attentive to the thoughts, their power develops. If any of you breed the divine thoughts, mind will grasp it and will not eject them because, it is the real nature of mind since it has come from the real Artery.

If a man wants to work out the problems of his life easily, he should give right suggestions to the mind. It is the condition which comes by practice and proper moulding of one's self. It is very easy to remain in one's own condition which is divine. It is the sure process for evolution. A little inclination towards the attainment of the Reality, will start weaving the future.

There are so many processes prevalent in India and they may be correct. But what is correctness?: The process which may put you in the undisturbed State. Vibrations should become all divine. How does it happen? When heaviness is gone, then only the thing behind the scene opens to the mind. If any of the methods brings about desired result, it is genuine, right and natural. Out of so many methods you have to seek one for yourself which may bring out this state. If you are really trying for that and have got a real Master, the things become very easy and a good deal of time and effort is saved. People can ask "How to get such a master?". As an answer to it, I can safely say, "How can one get such a disciple who may follow what is said above?". I must say, for entering into the vast ocean, swimmers and swimming, both are needed. So Swimming is the part of swimmer and to teach swimming is the part of master. We can get such a master as can lead us to the extent of his approach, if we follow him earnestly. But really speaking, such a master is required as may be able to foment us by his divine power. There are stages in the cosmic regions which we have to cross and indeed we proceed to a certain length. Afterwards the power of the abhyasi fails to get at the subtle force. It is very difficult to cross it unless and until a push is given to the next step and that is the Master's work.

I have come across many a person who argues with that in him which is not in Himself. Some also say, they have made their conscience as Guru or Master. But I am sure, they have not made conscience as their Guru but their own ego. The conscience, as described in the Shastras, is made of four things - Manas (mind), Chit (deeper conscience), Budhi (cognition) and Ahankara (ego). If all these become perfectly purified, conscience will give you only correct signals.

After the purification of these things there come the higher powers. And at the same time purity has now begun all round. I hope people will excuse if I add a little more in the context that incorrect way of worship will lead to the incorrect result.

We all desire for realization, but have no yearning for it. I pray that we all return to our original condition and see the difference between the earthly and heavenly life!

Messages delivered by Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India
during 1970.
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Great men are not accidentally born, they are born when the world waits for them in eager
expectation, says Swami Vivekananda. The saints come, do their job and go, such is the
phenomenon of Nature. India, that has always been the home of spirituality, was groping in
darkness and had totally forgotten the age old system of yoga.
Solid materialism had taken the place of fine spiritualism. Dark clouds of ignorance were
hovering all over, yogic transmission had become quite foreign to us. At this state, when
spirituality was tottering helplessly some great personality was urgently needed, to set things
right for the upliftment of mankind.
At such a time, the power of Nature descended in human form, as Samarth Guru Mahatma Ram
Chandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, U.P., India. This spiritual genius was born on Basant
Panchami, the 2nd February 1873 in a respectable family. He explored the vast fields of
spirituality and evolved the remodelled system of yoga with the result that it has become easy
for all the souls to grasp it and a good deal of time has been saved thereby.
The world will be astonished if it views the system with heart's eye. Realisation has become a
very easy job now. The old idea that it is very difficult is now cleared and thrashed out. The main
basis of training is transmission - pranahuti - which make the task easy. It has been introduced
into the system called as Natural Path. We start by meditation on the heart, which is the nucleus
in the human body. The changes are felt when the yatra, journey is started. That, what these
changes and experiences are, have been already given in the book "Towards Infinity", so I need
not mention here. There are only four conditions felt in each one of the centres. They are rarified
as we proceed further in the region, and they continue till we reach the final stage of Being.

When the yatra of all the centres of Pind Pradesh, microcosm is over, we reach Brahmanda
Mandal. This is cosmic region, called macrocosm. All the powers of Nature are at work, and we
try to absorb in them. It is a very big region, no doubt, but vaster are the regions coming after.
Every point is the continent itself and the beauty of it is more felt, when we begin to traverse that
part. Afterwards we enter into the Parabrahmanda Mandal, then Prapanna, where we feel the
utmost devotion, and the greatness of God. After it comes Prabhu where we feel our share in
the creation. Then comes Prapanna Prabhu where both things are there in rarefied form.
Afterwards there are 64 points which are all my discoveries. Man becomes potentialised when
he crosses all these points with yatra. After the crossing all these points we get tidings to enter
into the Central Region. This is the purely realm of God. There are 7 Rings of Splendour as I
have discovered. If we get somehow the Master of the highest calibre, then we proceed further
on to cross all the rings.
The work is not yet over. After crossing all the Rings of Splendour, the abhyasi begins to feel
expansion throughout the universe. Then comes the stage of Divine knowledge. Afterwards we
feel the vision of the absolute. In the end starts Layavastha in Brahm, at this state the problem
of life is thoroughly solved. And this is the last run of all our spiritual activities, - but the thing
never ends. We begin to start swimming in the Infinite in order to complete the chain, I must add
that during our march to Reality, of course at a higher point, the atoms of the body, begin to
convert themselves into energy, and then energy into its absolute. The whole of the system is
thoroughly divinised and a man becomes dynamic.

Message delivered by

Pujya Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, UP, India on May 1970. 

Also known as Babuji.

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It is with the feeling of deep pleasure that I take this opportunity of sending you a message. It may be short but it has gushed out from the deep core of my heart with love and affection.

The soul, is longing to feel its characteristic which has gone out of sight, and this insignificant being is seeking fellow pilgrims to march on the path of freedom. My longing to get fellow travellers is only for the sake of rendering service to help their safe arrival at the Destination. The idea may look foreign to you at first sight, but if you pause a little to consider the problem (the Destination) you will surely come to the conclusion that you are sailing towards your own Home, wherefrom you have been snatched away by the irony of Fate.

When we use the phrase 'Irony of Fate' the idea of UNBALANCED character presents itself to our memory. So long as there was the Balanced State, we had no form of our own. We have simply to unfold ourselves and restore our own BALANCE which we had lost.

How simple it looks when we say that we have restored our BALANCE! It is of course a very simple thing, but it becomes very difficult to follow, because with our unbalanced state we have created intricacies. We always like to seek our way or to solve our problem of life through the difficult methods so commonly prevalent in our country. That is why disappointment and frustration result. We want to extract essence from fatty substances; in other words, from things which are puffed up with material knowledge, and not from bones where Phosphorus is abundant to illumine the particles however soiled they may be. Our difficulty thus becomes greater in the struggle.

Adopt easy means for gaining the easy thing. Dogmas can do you no good. It is only the practical thing that can weave your Destiny, under the guidance of one who has measured the Distance, and has discovered the original source.

There are such men in India who can very easily guide you to the Destination, so near and dear to you. But the selection you have to make yourself. For Him to guide you in your search, I may say that where you find the idea of service with no selfish motive of the Guide, there rests the Real Thing. One more thing to take into account specially, is to know and be sure that one who can foment you with his own internal divine power to make your task easy, is the only capable hand for spiritual guidance. To get such a man is a sure sign of successful solution of the problem of life. For you all I pray that the seekers may get such Guide. AMEN!

I think now there remains little on my part, to pray for your spiritual elevation when you get such a man as your Guide. As is duty bound, I wish that you all see the Light of the day

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