Page 59 - Imperience Beckons

rebuked Arjuna and insisted equally on the need to fight the adversary. The lesson is we should throw away personal and egoistic feeling of hatred and ill will and take sides with the Truth and refuse to concede anything to the falsehood that attacks us. With this attitude we see that the inner spiritual equality is right and the active loyalty and taking firm stand with the truth is equally right- they are not incompatible.
We shall examine the next concept introduced by Master in this Commandment. "Rest not till the ideal is achieved". Here there is an advantage for those practicing PAM, because the influx of Pranahuti is a matter of abiding experience of the aspirants, and this propels them to not take rest till the experience matures into a state of being with the Lord. By saying that we will not rest till the ideal is achieved, we are firming up our will to be with the Master till the goal is achieved and thereafter abide in His Consciousness. We have accepted Him and we can always feel that His support is there. He is ever prepared to help us. He needs no rest. Because even if we rest He will be active still, once this path is followed.
We may recall Revered Babuji's illustration of a person getting drowned; the restlessness to reach the homeland should be like a person who is getting drowned. In one of the stories illustrated by the Saint Paramahamsa Ramakrishna we find, a person who went to him and wanted to know how restless a man should be in spiritual life. The Saint took him to river Ganges and then forcibly put him below the water. That man somehow wriggled himself out and then the Saint Ramakrishna said 'if you develop this type of restlessness to get out of this world, you will reach God.' It is for us to evaluate ourselves. We hear often "Am I not restless, am I not coming for meditations whatever may be the problems, am I not able attending to morning sittings, am I not attending satsanghs." We go on giving certificates for ourselves, but then these certificates do not work. It is like the same thing as a person who is going to get drowned. This question will be for persons who are not already drowned. All of us are drowned in the mire of Maya, in the mire of Prakriti, stated in whatever language we may like; in the display of Nature. We are lost here in the display of Nature; we have to come out to reach our Homeland. Do we feel so? We feel now and then perhaps that this is not all that convenient, like a fish, come up to breathe and again we go down. How long should we do this?
How long should we continue with our Sadhana? As long as it is required by us to become a 'Big Zero' and allow the Divinity to express itself through us. In us