Page 120 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

The L to U is the first transition that should happen i.e. you must find your mental vrittis not going to the animal and the baser levels and as far as possible plying at human level. Why I am using the word as far as possible? We are all grihastas, we are committed to household life and we would like to lead a life which is useful to society in which we are born, we have got to contribute as expressions of the Divine for the better feeling about the presence of God; we have got to do that. We must enable others, as the 9th commandment says, to feel that piety and love towards God. Our behaviour should be such and that is possible only when you live as far as possible at the upper level.
Does this happen to you or not is the question and we have given you the answer it does happen, but more depends upon your own attempt. Something is done, it is like hatching - the egg must have life then hatching gives it the heat and then you have got a chick. Neither the hen by itself nor the egg by itself can do anything by itself; nothing will come out of it. So this fomentation or the heat that is given is the Pranahuti aspect of it, and the other one is your own effort. There must be a life in you, an aspiration in you to become better than what you are. You can’t throw the load on others nor can somebody think that he can make something out of you. Nobody can do anything with you unless you are willing for that. If this aspiration is maintained it will be good, but how to get that? I want to serve, but I am not able to.
Now what happens is when you come to the knot 1 and 1a, located in the heart, they are twin points, they are knotted together and one is connected with the Viveka and another is connected with the Vairagya. Now at one stage we are taking about the grihasta life and simultaneously we are talking about the Vairagya. It may appear a bit odd, it is not odd. What we are trying to do here is, instead of a negative attitude towards the world and say that I shun it, we are asking you to develop a positive attitude towards the whole thing and then love God and His expression. So our attachment instead of being to our people in the sense of exclusively our own people, we are asking you to develop that attachment to the Divinity. The famous illusion theory is there where you have got one line and you think that’s a big line put a bigger line by its side then this becomes smaller. That’s how we develop the Viveka. So the bigger thing to which we get attached is the