Question::
What constitutes ‘falsity’? What does ‘Truth’ imply?
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Why should one seek ‘Truth’? How can one find Truth?
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What is the way to get released from all our ‘illusions’ & ‘falsities’?
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What does ‘GIVING UP MAYA’ constitute?
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Why are spiritual Masters (Truth-realized Masters) considered the HEROES of the spiritual world?
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What is ‘False life’? What does ‘GIVING UP OF FALSE LIFE’ mean?
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Why should one trust his Master and serve Him? Why are God-realized Masters considered a boon to the universe?
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Why is Master’s grace considered important in the spiritual world?
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What is the task of real heroes?
Answer::
(Extracted from Meher Baba’s literature, which is a copyright of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust(©AMBPPCT), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Bharat/India)
Truth has nothing to do with the present organized religion. It is far beyond the limited dictates and bare doctrines of religions.
Truth implies simply giving up Maya, i.e., release from the false. The ‘false’ expresses itself through the bindings of
- Kama, or lust,
- Krodha, or anger and
- Kanchana or greed.
Anybody can aspire for the Truth; and every one can attain it. Here there are no restrictions of ‘caste’ or ‘prejudices.’
The more you think of the ‘false’, the greater is your anxiety and the greater the fears attendant upon it. And what are these ‘fears’ and ‘anxieties?’ They are the refuse, the badbu of your own mind.
The ‘Maya’ or illusion is so very strong that it subdues and captivates even great heroes. To subdue the forces of ‘ignorance’ is, therefore, the real task before true heroes, who are very rare.
He who is disinterested in ‘materialistic life’ becomes either the greatest sinner or a real Master in spiritual life. The great Masters of their times have been MOST disinterested in materialistic life. They were the heroes of the spiritual world.
SEEK that Truth which will give you ‘everlasting bliss’ and ‘real knowledge’. You will then be able to raise others also and save them from the entanglements of the world.
Keep your mind quiet, steady and firm. Do not submit to ‘desires’, but try to control them.
One who cannot restrain his ‘tongue’ cannot restrain his ‘mind’.
One who cannot restrain his ‘mind’, cannot restrain his “action”.
One who cannot restrain his ‘action’ cannot restrain ‘himself’.
And one who cannot restrain ‘himself’, cannot gain his Infinite Self.
To give up the ‘false life’ does not mean committing physical suicide. But it means, living without any thought of the ‘self’. It is to invite an utterly selfless life or living death.
Giving up the ‘false life’ means– the death of all thoughts, desires and even the ego-mind itself. People die a thousand deaths; but they are where they are, chained to the wheel of births and deaths.
Once you surrender yourself to a Perfect Master, he has to do his duty towards you. He cannot escape that. The only thing which is required is that you should have UNBOUNDED and UNSWERVING ‘faith’. And, that will enable him to do his duties towards you. So, take your Guru to be your God. And give unto him the surrenderance of full faith and the ‘ungrudging service of unfaltering love’.
The Truth-realized Master is here to GIVE. He comes down for DUTY. He is the fountain of spiritual force; and the waters of pure spirituality flow from this source as in a river. Whoever needs it and has a ‘desire’– may bring his vessel and fill it with ‘knowledge’ and ‘bliss’, each as he deserves and according to his own requirements.
The disinterested services of thousands of ‘selfless workers’ cannot come anywhere near what one God-realized person can achieve for humanity. One who realizes God gets the AUTHORITY for service. His very existence is a BOON to mankind and even to the universe.
God’s grace bestows on the soul the ‘human form’; but the Master’s grace absolves it from the round of births and deaths.
It is difficult to understand the grace of the Master.
If by temporarily hurting, you permanently effect a healing, your apparently ‘cruel act’ of hurting is, in reality, A BLESSING.
Similarly, if by effecting temporary healing, you are creating a permanent hurt, this apparently ‘kind act’ of yours is, in reality, A CURSE.
A doctor cutting open a boil and causing much pain to a patient may, at first sight, be considered as enemy. But when all “impure matter” is removed and the disease cured, he is, after fuller appreciation of the results, considered to be a friend.
So, the Master is at first taken to be an enemy, when He tries to remove the ‘sins’, take away the ‘desires’ and wipe out the ‘impressions’ of the aspirant by IMPOSING ‘strict discipline’. But when, through the ‘grace of the Master’, the ecstasy of union with the Divine Beloved is attained, he is seen to be a real friend.
There is always the difference between the ‘apparent’ and the ‘real’. Of course, one should go toa Perfect Master.
To consign one’s soul to an ‘imperfect Master’ is like making a mad-man sit on one’s chest with a razor in his hand.
– Meher Baba
Source::
Sparks of the Truth, Pg:: 9-10
© AMBPPCT, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India/Bharat
