The Master

We can travel all over the country finding out by trial and error which road goes where, but why go to all this trouble? Simply ask someone the way! After all, life is not very long. It is not long enough to investigate all the possibilities. That is why the scriptures say, "Meditation starts from contemplating the Guru, worship starts at his feet. His word is the basis for controlling the mind and liberation comes through his grace." If you have the address of this house, you can reach here by asking along the way, but if you don't know the address, how can you ask for directions? People wonder, "Where should we fix our mind? On what should we meditate?" That is why you need the Master.
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Key of Spiritual Knowledge

God is infinite and our senses are finite. How can something infinite be grasped by the finite? How can the ocean be poured into a jug? That is why Krishna told Arjuna, "I will give you the Knowledge which is itself infinite, in which the whole universe is contained." So Knowledge is something very great. You cannot enter the door to God without the key of Spiritual Knowledge.
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Realized Soul

Not everyone who calls himself a guru can give you this. The true Master is not a dead weight; he is a living reality who can show you the Truth. He can pull you out of the swamp and put you on the right path. And not only you, but thousands. A magnet has the ability to attract not one, but countless iron filings. Its magnetic field draws all kinds of metallic things and they attach themselves to it. A spiritual man, a realized soul, is like a magnet. He attracts one and all - he doesn't discriminate against anyone. The magnet transfers its magnetism to the pieces of iron. St. Kabir attributes the same quality to the Guru: "Prostrate yourself to your Guru countless times, because he can make you like himself, just as the bhringi wasp turns other insects into its own shape." This wasp is supposed to carry off the larvae of other insects, enclose them in a cocoon and, by emitting a certain humming sound, transforms them into its own shape. The Guru is like this. Through the Knowledge he gives, he can make a disciple as enlightened as he is.
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Dharamdas

Suppose you want to purchase an acre of sky. Can a real estate agent sell it to you? No, because the sky is not for sale. It has no boundaries. However, if you purchase an acre of land, the air above it is automatically yours, too. The Master is like that acre of land. When you find him, the infinite Knowledge, like the sky, becomes yours. The Master is the medium which makes the Unmanifest manifest. He turns an ordinary person into a spiritual being. He makes us realize what we really are and helps us let go of what we are not. There was a saint named Dharamdas who said, "I bow to the holy feet of my Guru, who revealed God's Name to me. Its sound awakened my mind which had been slumbering in ignorance for lives together. Darkness prevailed and nothing was visible until my Guru lit the lamp of Knowledge in me. His Nectar stilled all desires, which used to arise like poisonous waves in my heart. Deep and unfathomable is the river of life. Master, please sail my boat across it."
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Ego

What is ego? Ego is that which separates me from the total. The feeling that I am a separate person with free will and responsible for my actions creates the sense of ego. The ego is the false (ME) created by the identification of consciousness with mind and body. The ego is therefore, the cause of bondage.
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Ganga Dashehra Mahotsav

Ganga Dashehra Mahotsav ( 7 - 08 Jun 2014 ) 

 
  Timings : Evening 6-9 PM

 
  Programme Venue :-
   Subham Nursery, Opp. Oriental College,
   Raisen Road, Patel Nagar,
   Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh )

  Contact :-
   Manav Utthan Sewa Samiti, Plot No.E 5-6,
   Opp. Oriental College, Raisen Road, Patel Nagar,
   Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh )
   Tel. :- 09926966891, 09826246106

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Get rid of Ego

Every religion tells you to get rid of your ego, but the “one” to whom the religions tell to get rid of the ego— is the ego! The ego is told to get rid of the ego! But the ego is not going to commit suicide. Therefore the question really is, Who created the ego? That the ego has to be got rid of— agreed. But who created the ego? You didn’t create the ego. Where could the ego have come from? Where could it have come from except from the Source! Whether you call that Source Consciousness or Primal Energy or God or Awareness makes no difference, so long as you understand that it is the Source— One without a second.
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I

So the ego has also come from the Source. That is why I call the ego Divine hypnosis. The hypnosis is— “I” consider myself a separate being with a sense of doership. Why has the Source created the hypnosis of separation, because without separation interhuman relationships won’t happen. It is only because of this separation that we have friendship and enmity, love and hate. All that arises only because each individual considers himself or herself a separate being. And without interhuman relationships life as we know it would not happen.
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Sages

Remember, the Source having created this ego, or Divine hypnosis, is in the process of removing the hypnosis in a few cases, not in all cases. So the ego— the sense of separation, the Divine hypnosis, the sense of personal doership— basically has been destroyed by the Source in the case of a few body-mind organisms called sages.
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