The Master Keeps Calling

 

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The Master Keeps Calling

All spiritual Masters are holding meditation camps – they are growing manifold in the current times. These camps are pulling in hundreds of thousands of people who come and attend these camps. Not only do they attend the camps they also start their meditation. Many of those who attend the camps do not continue with meditation – In fact only ten percent of those who attend actually get the calling. This is purely because of the values carried forward by such persons from their past birth.

Swamiji holds meditation camps and plants the seed of meditation within us. Some of us continue and get initiated and in turn connect ourselves with the divine energy which flows from within Swamiji. Many people lose their way and come back after some years. The diamond which is being subtly inserted within our being, which is giving us the spiritual experience of our soul – that has to be recognised by us, and us only. If we fail to do so, then we only are to blame, and then we continue our lives as before. Stuck in life’s problems, blaming others for our own faults and letting the ego play its game, we end up in the cess pool of life.

Call a thousand: a hundred will listen and only ten, will start moving. Ninety will listen and still will not move. They will listen but they will not understand or they will understand something else — or they will misunderstand. Ten will start moving. And when ten move, only one reaches; nine will be lost on the way. Call a thousand and the master gets only one. But this is how things are, so Masters have to go on calling.

We feel that only those who have suffered will be able to understand the Master. Pain purifies, suffering gives understanding. Suffering gives a certain crystallisation: unless we suffer, we don’t know what life is, unless we suffer, we don’t know how difficult it is to get out of life. Death has no explanation; it is the nature of life. There is no need for any special reason to be given. Life’s nature is like a dew-drop: it hangs for a while on a leaf of grass; a small breeze and it is gone; the sun rises and it evaporates. That is the nature of life. Remember that.

Only those who have suffered can understand that life is a dew-drop, but even then - ‘yet, and yet’ remains. Even when we understand, understanding is difficult. And those who have not suffered, what to say of them? They live a superficial life. Happiness is always superficial; it has no depth to it. Only sadness has depth. Life is superficial; only death has depth.

Life is very ordinary: eating, earning, loving — very ordinary. Suffering has a depth; it awakens us; it shocks us out of our sleep. Yes, only those who have suffered will understand this. And yet, and yet - even they may not understand. But this is so, this is how life is.

So, when the calling comes, we should just go and connect. Life changes, the inner world opens up, illusion or maya evaporates and we see reality within. We find our own selves; nothing can give more bliss than that!