25.08.1971 "SEVEN WEAKNESSES AND THE METHOD TO FINISH THEM" Avyakt Murli Points and Churning:
1. Are you able to stabilise yourself beyond sound in one second? Just as you are able to move your physical organs as and when you wish, in the same way, are you able to stabilise the love of your intellect as, when and wherever you wish?
Churning: In fact, the mind (thoughts) is just another organ (like hands and legs) for the soul. If we can detach from thoughts, and know that I am consciousness, is separate from thoughts, it becomes easy to use thoughts when I want and stop (detach from) thoughts when I never need.
And this awareness of consciousness becomes easy when we know how to see through 3rd eye awareness. If we look straight with eyes, but move our attention on the external various objects/things, we know that it is the consciousness/soul/3rd eye who is attentive and not just the eyes. And if we can maintain this awareness of seeing through 3rd eye, it is very easy to remain a witness and use thoughts as and when required and other times, we just remain a witness to thoughts or external activities.
2. what are the main weaknesses visible in the effort of the effort-makers? First, there isn't power in your awareness. Second, according to your capacity, you have developed numberwise divinity and spirituality in your vision. Third, due to a lack of will-power in your attitude, your attitude is not constant; it continues to be mischievious. Fourth, due to a lack of attention to the incorporeal stage, the main vices of body consciousness, lust and anger repeatedly attack you from time to time. Fifth, whilst you are living in the gathering or coming into connection with others, the atmosphere and the vibrations create their own impression on you. Sixth, due to a lack of the avyakt, angelic stage you fail when you come into any feeling of good or bad things. Seventh, you are not so content with your pilgrimage of remembrance. These are the numberwise results of the effort of the effort-makers.
Churning:
First, there isn't power in your awareness: There is no power in our awareness because we dont know or we have not experienced awareness or being a witness. If even once we are able to have this experience, it becomes easy to maintain self awareness all the time.
Second, according to your capacity, you have developed numberwise divinity and spirituality in your vision: Lack of divinity and spirituality in awareness has many reasons. The most important is that we dont remain self-aware all the time. Next, we dont try to control ourselves or move ourselves from situations that make us fall down. Third, we dont experience happiness in our spiritual effort because we dont know the right method. If we know the method to remain self aware and get connected with God/ His bliss, then it is not difficult to remain divine or spiritual. The truth is simple, the method is simple but we make it complicated because we dont know and there is no one to guide us.
Some people are more in to visual and others are more in to kinesthetic or feelings. Both needs different techniques to experience spirituality. One is more visual and other is more into feelings. We should know, whatever method we use, ultimate focus should be on feelings of love, peace and bliss. And this will happen only by reducing the number of thoughts to almost zero or one or two. But most of us keep ourselves busy in thoughts that the real experience never happens at all.
The method is like this: 1. reduce number of thoughts. If this is not possible to past repetition or remembrance of thoughts, take help from Counselor or senior to settle the past or apply full stop to the past to keep the thoughts minimum - say 0 to 4 thoughts at a time. 2. Once we are able to control or reduce the thoughts, then we start experiencing peace. 3. The more we experience silence, then we will be able to remain self-aware. 4. With self-awareness, we can be a witness to actions, thinking, etc. 5. The more we remain a witness, it will be easy to focus on God and His qualities when we are not involved in normal action or thinking. 6. And in remembrance of God, we lose our ego or self awareness to get lost in love of God, giving the experience of divine love and bliss. 7. When we taste this bliss of God, then it becomes easy to remain divine and spiritual all the time.
Third, due to a lack of will-power in your attitude, your attitude is not constant; it continues to be mischievious: Will-power is to surrender every moment, every thought to God. In other words, every moment, we should know to detach from the thoughts to get back to our self awareness. One moment do action or do thinking and next moment we should be calm and quiet as if I have not done or thought anything. This attachment to and detachment from thoughts has to happen continuously every moment to keep our attitude constant. Otherwise, we get attached to thoughts and we become mischievious. It is like Abhimanyu get caught in Chakravyuh and did not know how to come out. The chakrvyuh is nothing but our own thoughts.
Fourth, due to a lack of attention to the incorporeal stage, the main vices of body consciousness, lust and anger repeatedly attack you from time to time: When we are able to detach from thoughts, then we experience the deep silence of incorporeal stage like the sun rays spreading everywhere over the universe. And this awareness of deep silence is the real power which empowers the soul. Due to lack of experience of this deep silence, our soul remain weak and get addicted to the vices.
Along with deep silence, we also need to experience the incorporeal or soul awareness knowing self as a point of light. In fact when we really know myself as a point of light, we really experience the same lightness of being a point. The more we remain silent with reduced number of thoughts, we are able to feel the 3rd eye as a point of light. And becoming a point of light means, we experience unlimited awareness of silence.
Fifth, whilst you are living in the gathering or coming into connection with others, the atmosphere and the vibrations create their own impression on you: It is better to remain away from the atmosphere if we know that we dont have the power to overcome the atmosphere. And another reason is , the soul when it focuses on any person or object or situation, it loses its awareness and become that object. So, it is always to go away from the person or situation until we gain power over us, being in self awareness even in worst situations.
Sixth, due to a lack of the avyakt, angelic stage you fail when you come into any feeling of good or bad things: Because we dont experience God's bliss or bliss of our own soul, we get influenced by the five senses, sense attractions, thoughts, objects etc. Once we understand exactly what is the sweet nature of avyakt, angelic stage, then it is easy to remain detached from external good or bad things. Otherwise, we lose our self awareness of bliss (supersensuous joy) and get lost in external happiness which ultimately leads to sorrow.
If we are in avyakt or angelic stage, we never get attracted to the five senses or external objects even if it gives lot of happiness or even if it is so much beautiful or so much loving and caring. We always remain stuck or keep experiencing our internal happiness. Whenver we get attracted to external good or happiness, then we will lose that gooness or happiness in very near future and become sad. Being in avyakt stage means, you remain aware of blissful self(and God combined) and never attracted to thoughts (good and bad).
Seventh, you are not so content with your pilgrimage of remembrance: We are not content because we dont know the right method and we dont know what we are doing. We do practice but without knowing what we are practicing. If we know the method, it becomes easy.
Even if we dont know the method, we can still remain content if we have the same intoxication of God's love and service which we had during our younger days when we got newly introduced to Baba.
3. now sit in solitude at amrit vela, and solve each of the seven things one by one, and then churn about how they are merged in your day's activity, and then extract the butter, that is, the essence and exchange views amongst yourselves.
practise each lesson for a week and put it into a practical form. So what will happen by revising it? Success will easily and clearly be visible closely. So you will automatically become elevated.
Churning: We learn not by listening or reading. Being in solitude, we understand by being our own teacher. Another way of saying is, we keep listening, reading, doing but we never practice or we never experience or we never give time for us to understand. And all this practice, experience, understanding happens only when we remain in solitude and give time for ourself to practice, understand. We need to be our own teacher instead of expecting others to teach. WE should draw a line where I spend time for myself without any distraction from external people or world.
4. In order to become great, first, you have to consider yourself to be a guest in the old world. Second, whatever thoughts or actions you perform, keep the great contrast in your intellect and then have those thoughts or perform those actions. Third, continue to praise the virtues and the elevated task of the Father and the divine family. First, a guest, second, the great contrast and third, the praise: if you continue to think about these three things, then the seven weaknesses will finish.
Churning: Guest is nothing but being a Trustee, by which we are able to apply full stop to the thoughts immediately and become self-aware in a second. Keeping the contrast is to keep the contrast of whatever I do, I do it with self-awareness,not just becoming automatic lost in 5 senses and external objects.Praising the virtue happens naturally when we remain in the Bliss of God's love. And to remain in God's love constantly, there is the method to become egoless and humble.
5. Because of not considering yourself to be a guest, you become attracted by any form or company and your attention is drawn to it. By keeping the great contrast in front of you, there can never be any trace or progeny of body consciousness or anger. Third, by praising the virtues and the task of the Father and each soul, you will not come into any ill feeling due to any situation or any person. And by constantly singing praise of the virtues and the task, the discontentment of the pilgrimage of remembrance will easily change into constant remembrance. Constantly keep these three words in your awareness and you will become powerful. Then your vision, your attitude, your awareness and the atmosphere will all be transformed.
Churning: It starts with vision. If we see through eyes, we get into problem. So, try to see through 3rd eye. By seeing through 3rd eye, the attitude is spiritual with good feelings and good wishes, with 3rd eye you see with unlimited awareness, and with all these, the atmosphere remains always loving and beneficial without creating ill feelings even if the external situation seems to be bad.
6. Now, you have experienced that no matter how beautiful an idol in a temple may be, how beautifully decorated it may be, your vision does not become mischievous towards its beauty and beautiful decoration even the slightest, even in your thoughts. However, if you see any attractiveness or any beauty in any cinema or any such books, or if you even see a hoarding, then your vision and attitude become mischievous. Why? Even the idols have that attraction. The idols also have that beauty in their decoration and in their features. Even then, why does your vision and attitude become mischievous? Keep both these images in front of yourself and on either side of you, and in one second, as you go to that side, the attitude becomes mischievous, and by going to the other side, the attitude becomes pure. What is the reason for this purity and impurity? Awareness. You have the awareness that this one is a goddess, and so the awareness makes your vision and your attitude pure. But when you have the awareness that this one is a female, then that awareness pulls your vision and attitude towards impurity. There, you see the form, whereas on the other side, you see the spirituality. You must have had this experience in the past, have you not?
Churning: When we are lost in God's love or when we are self-aware or when we remain combined with the nature of self and God experienced together (sat-chit-anand), we never get attracted to the five senses or external objects. And hence, we can constantly remain pure.
7. And so, in order to finish this, whenever you see anything anywhere, whenver you are speaking to anyone, what should you have in your awareness? To consider that one to be a soul is the first stage, but whilst performing actions, whilst coming into connection and relationship, have the awareness that these living images are the living form of the images of the non-living deities. So by having the form of a deity in your awareness, just as you do not have the slightest thought of impurity or attraction for the body of the non-living images, in the same way, by having this awareness for the living images, you will not have this complaint even in your thoughts, and you will become complete.
Churning: When we are focused on internal happiness and bliss, it becomes easy to see the external person in a divine manner as a soul or a deity.
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