Importance of ‘Authorised’ in Spirituality

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 Importance of ‘Authorised’ in Spirituality 

Swamiji keeps telling us about the importance of the word ‘authorised’ in his various discourses. Many of us actually do not understand what he means by that in the spiritual sense. We are all aware of the meaning of this word in the material world or its commercial applications. In the material world it means to give official permission for or approval to an undertaking or agent. Meaning you give an authority to someone to do something on your behalf. In companies you have authority limits set for sanctioning bills or bank payments. This is the stuff we really understand because it has acceptability in the material world.

What happens in the spiritual world is when you get a sanction from the higher energies to do a certain kind of work, you are ‘authorised’ to do that work. When this happens you need to submit to the sanctioning authority – that is your Spiritual Master or Guru – and do whatever he has asked you to do as his representative only. When you submit to your Guru or Spiritual Master and remove your ego or I-sense from the equation, you will observe that whatever task you have been assigned just happens. Then howsoever impossible the task may appear, even though you have absolutely no knowledge or experience of doing something similar before, the assignment gets completed and you get the satisfaction and feeling of wonder – how did this ever take place?

Each Spiritual Master has a following of millions of souls who have a positive outlook on life. All these people have various kinds of life skills, and when you start doing work for your Guru, at the subtle level, this collective group of souls who are connected with your Guru come to your help without your knowledge. Some or the other person will suddenly come and guide you and once you start working without any ego, the energies start working for you and even a mammoth task just happens through you. And you are left wondering how this happened!

While working for your Spiritual Master in an authorised manner the energies work for you and you just become the instrument to do powerful work for the benefit of mankind. But if you do any work with ego or without authority, you will notice that you find untold obstacles coming your way even in the simplest of tasks, leaving you frustrated and dejected and depressed! Never feel or think that ‘YOU’ are doing the work, because if you do that then you are adding to your karmas and will get stuck in the birth-death-birth cycle. Work without ego, with dedication and complete submission to the Guru-energies and you will find that the most complex of tasks becomes simple.