Page 49 - Path to Perfection

“No human being is immune against trouble (misery): it is more or less for every one. This is (human) characteristic: no worshipper of God is immune of it. The heart of selected elders (sages) anyway, remains calm (at rest): just this happens to be the distinguishing feature between human beings in general and those specially endowed. Bear troubles. One drawback is certainly there: pain (trouble) of the heart of a mendicant (sage = man of poor disposition on way to God) never goes ineffective. People have very often taken the way to jungles in order to find freedom from (worldly) troubles ( and vicissitudes). In our fold, just these are penances (and austerities): just be in the household and bear with (its troubles and vicissitudes) !
[29-05-1948: pg. 230 (A.B.II - III)]
Faith (Shraddha)
“People be encouraged to acquire (real) faith; structure and develop themselves; engage in preaching and spreading (real sort of) the science of the Ultimate (Brahma-Vidya) all around (everywhere). Notes of highest ideals from elders of highest calibre are continually arriving: attempt should be made to develop these very states (of high ideals) in everybody (first of all starting with oneself). Thousands of (past) lives have gone by: no more should now be allowed to slip away. Liberation is not at all something difficult: it requires just (the right) attachment of thought! Ask dear Ram Chandra, how easily he has got his purpose achieved (served)! The methods that he has adopted are (really) unique (untouched = unused); and are just his own inventions, that he has been introducing step by step (all the time)! All these methods should be noted down and told to people (for being practiced / adopted). These are (all) quite easy. Even when away from presence, he was never away from thought (of me); and even when together, he was never oblivious of remembrance. He lost even the idea as to who was doing (all this practice) ! Bliss, he felt in a way that it had nothing to do with comprehension! What was the essential method: all things had got drawn together into one (thing) alone!”
[02-04-1946: pg.144 (A.B.II - III)]
Copying Nature
Method: The individual system (body) is to be kept clean, i.e. shorn of dirt externally, and of unclean thoughts internally. The mental tendency is to be kept