Friday, November 23, 2018

Welcome to the 2018 Issue of Raas Purnima

by Sri Sandip Dasgupta


Dear fellow devotees,
Welcome to the Raaspurnima edition of our electronic magazine. In this issue, I will try to reflect on some excerpts of Sri Sri Babathakur’s lecture given on Mar 11, 1988 at Delhi. 

Sri Sri Babathakur gave a very vivid example of dyeing a cloth.  In order to dye a cloth, you need a container of color, and you need the cloth to be straightened before it is immersed in the color. If we have folds in the cloth, then the cloth will not get colored uniformly. Our Master went on to say that the Sadguru is here with the bowl of color – the Knowledge of Oneness. If we are 100% sincere and immerse our mind into this Knowledge, then we don’t need anything else – no sadhana, no bhajan etc. On the other hand, if we have our own reservations, hold on to our own likes and dislikes – then we will not succeed in our spiritual lives.

Later in the lecture, our Master explained the difference between a leader and a seeker. According to him, it is very easy to become a leader because all you have to do is point out an opposing point of view – and you will get a lot of supporters. On the other hand, Dharma asks us to ‘Look at yourself, see within yourself, study yourself, learn yourself, get qualified – then assert yourself for others, for the upliftment of others’. Furthermore he went on to tell us that we should not try to teach anything that we haven’t fully learnt and understood. 

He stated that Jnana is not about knowing a lot of things – Jnana is to know your own Self, to know about the One Brahman within you. According to Him, if we study about ourselves, we will gain knowledge about the universe.

As you can see, our Master has provided us with several gems in the talks he delivered to us. It’s now up to us to decide how sincere we want to be in attaining the Science of Oneness. 

Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur!
       

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