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IDEAL (Commandment 3)
The third commandment pleads with us to, "Fix up your goal which should be complete oneness with God, Rest not till the ideal is achieved".
In order to achieve success in any sphere of activity, we should have clear idea of the goal to that endeavour. A firm determination to reach the desired end goes a long way in strengthening our will for the task. If however there is no clear determination the chances are that we end up with penultimate results. A student seeking to have his honors in the graduation if he is not clear about his aim, is likely to end up in sports or in theatres or simply to have squandered his time and resources. It is true in the beginning we have no practical idea of the goal in any task. But we have before us persons who have aimed at the same goal and achieved a great degree of success. Their lives become our basic information in the task at hand and they become our models to emulate. We have earlier while studying the Prayer given to us by the Master stated that the goal of human life is the Master. The idea of the Master as the goal is likely to attract many ideas about God/Master we are accustomed to either through study or cultural inheritance. The most mature concept of the Master is that he is a Samavarthi one who does Just.
The Master exhorts us to fix our goal. This call for "Fixing up our goal." many of us have heard several times as some sort of a choice before us. We can choose either Hell or Heaven or Paradise or this earth itself or we can choose God. That seems to be our approach. Revered Babuji's approach on the contrary is, it is our duty to reach the Ultimate. Thus in Raja Yoga to reach the Infinite Absolute is one of the primary duties of man. Master explains that 'the currents flowing from the Origin manifest themselves in diverse ways. They had descended not without purpose. They were in fact powers, which began to act in numerous ways, producing the required results. All these powers had emerged from the Origin and began to manifest their actions'.
Similarly in the case of man, Master explains 'the multiplicity of actions made him incognizant of all the various changes which, he had undergone during the march towards grossness. Now he is so intensely engrossed in it that it defies all efforts to get out of that state of complete grossness. Later on it took another turn. He came in touch with the world around and was influenced by the dealings and associations of others.' This explanation is one of the best we have