Does our spiritual journey come to an end, on reaching The Master's place? No, actually it is only the beginning of a new learning. We may know something, but we do not know the logicality or reasoning.
For example, a child can watch tennis matches on television and understand the rules and format of the game. But it is another thing to put it into action. Enter the court and play real tennis match.
Similarly, on the basis of hearsay, we can make slight progress, but complete understanding and how to move ahead shall not be known, until and unless, with start to live in The Master's Will.
The Saints say, "The Master's Will is to live in the Remembrance of The Lord, always."
Each and every breath available in our lifetime should be utilised to live in His Remembrance. Can we do it? As on date, for majority of us, it would be impossible. There may be couple of Lucky Souls amongst us, who may be living in the Lord's remembrance. Why is it so difficult?
The Master's say, "One of the reasons for our not being able to live in His remembrance is our mind orientation."
Our mind has us focussed on our family, job, business, name, fame and holidays. We are immersed in our day to day activities so deeply that we feel 10 or 15 minutes of a prayer or remembrance of The Lord in a day, is sufficient.
The Master's explain, "This is what we practice because this is what we see, we hear, we smell, we taste and we feel. That's why, we give importance to these things. Whereas, The Lord is invisible, we have neither Seen, nor heard or felt."
All that we have come to know about The Lord is that He lives in temples and comes to our help, when we call. Since, we cannot See or Feel The Lord, we do not Live in His remembrance. For all the small issues and problems that we face, we try to solve on our own, as we feel, we are the Master's. It is only when things go out of control and we are in a soup, do we Remember The Lord.
The Saints say, " Initially, The Master slowly erases the preconceived notion of the mind and then starts orienting towards The Lord."
The Master's say, "Till we breath in this human form, we need to fulfill our outer world obligations. But what is of essence is to create a balance between personal, professional and spiritual life. Remember The Lord even while doing The worldly activities."
It is not easy, but it is not impossible. If we tread The path shown by The Master, we will surely be able to Live in the Remembrance of The Lord. In the initial stages, the time may be less, but once we start living in The Master's Will, he will slowly and steadily increase the time. Slowly, the orientation of mind will shift from outer world towards The Lord.
Let us keep doing our Prayers and Meditation. Let us try to Live in The Master's Will, One day the Master will bless us to eternally Live in The Remembrance of The Lord.
Authored by K. Giri
