Humility, Anonymity & Insignificance (Continued)
Q7/7. 1. List five techniques that drew your attention 2. List points that will help in correcting one’s attitude 3. List points that will help in correcting one’s behaviour 4. List points that will help in correcting one’s thought 5. Which were the guidelines that you were able to practice during the week
Patel, Kamlesh D.. Designing Destiny (p. xi). Hay House. Kindle Edition.
I am sure, however, that my life would have never been as it is now if I had not met Ram Chandra, who is generally known as Babuji. He is the epicenter of Heartfulness and the reason I am doing what I do today. One day, the world will know the contribution he has made to humanity, quietly, in anonymity, with the true humility of a divine being. His inspiration keeps me going and nourishes my life.
Patel, Kamlesh D.. Designing Destiny (p. 16). Hay House. Kindle Edition.
Likewise, each one of us responds to pranahuti according to our nature. When we are very receptive, when there is humility, when there is an emotional vacuum within, it pours in. We receive it, and it flows all throughout our system. Not only do we receive it, we are also able to unconsciously share it with others as the heart is saturated with its essence. Having received the Transmission, we can now distribute it.
Patel, Kamlesh D.. Designing Destiny (p. 47). Hay House. Kindle Edition.
The process is so simple, so beautiful, and so scientific. The attitudes of humility, supplicancy, innocence, and insignificance create a vacuum in the heart so that the current from the Source flows in and enlivens the connection, just as electrical current flows from the positive to the negative pole in an electrical wire. Our job is to create the negative polarity by allowing a receptive, yielding state within the heart.
Patel, Kamlesh D.. Designing Destiny (p. 53). Hay House. Kindle Edition.
The mechanics are always repetitive. So what makes an endeavor come alive and develop vibrancy? It is attitude and interest. Attitude is 95 percent of success. I have found that the attitudes of love, humility, and prayerfulness have helped me a lot.
Patel, Kamlesh D.. Designing Destiny (p. 111). Hay House. Kindle Edition.
It is only when we break the wall of greatness and submit ourselves as humble and insignificant beings, subduing our behavioral complexities and ego, that life will be truly enjoyable. And for that we need to cultivate an attitude of surrender.
Autobiography of Ram Chandra_original (Kindle Locations 356-358). Kindle Edition.
23rd June 1944: Revered Lalaji: "The humility adopted by you belongs to the next stage of Qutub-ul-Aqtab. In creating this condition of humility, there will be a lack of courage. No doubt, one has to come to it. Amongst our associates, nobody is endowed with the approach to the condition of divine revelation, to compare with you.
Courage, in the ordinary understanding, has in it the flavour of equality of status and position, which is opposite to the humility of a devotee. As soon as there is a
Masters of Sahaj Marg. A Basic Guide for Preceptors - Masters of Sahaj Marg (Kindle Locations 34-35). Kindle Edition.
DUTIES OF A PRECEPTOR OR TRAINER Teach others, treating them as your own brothers and sisters. Have brotherly love and sympathy for abhyasis and follow your Guru (revered Lalaji Saheb) fully in this respect. Talk with humility and softness, as if one is speaking to oneself. Words spoken should be like the flow of a river, when its water is calm. Abhyasis should be respected and loved in one's heart as creatures of the same God. Useless talk should not be allowed at the time of satsangh. - Ram Chandra, Autobiography, diary entry of the 23 August 1945.
Masters of Sahaj Marg. A Basic Guide for Preceptors - Masters of Sahaj Marg (Kindle Locations 235-236). Kindle Edition.
The technique of developing softness is to create extreme humility in temperament, so that it is filled up with such a sentiment of love, as to have no inclination to cause any hurt to anybody's heart, and the words are also such as not to hurt anybody's heart in the least. Ram Chandra of Fatehgarh, Sahaj Shishu, Volume 9, 1995, 'The Principles of Conversation', from UPSM Journal, 5th September 1982. Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume 3, diary entry of 7th March 1945 (dictated by Lalaji).
Masters of Sahaj Marg. A Basic Guide for Preceptors - Masters of Sahaj Marg (Kindle Locations 324-325). Kindle Edition.
Humility and Willingness to Change
By becoming humble, by serving, we evolve. So that must be the motto of our preceptors. P. Rajagopalachari, Working to Learn, 'Become Perfect Preceptors', January 2013.