Hypocrisy is all too common.
Have you ever met someone who tried to make an impression on you of being holier than thou? Don’t be fooled. You don’t become a saint by just looking like a saint. Progress on the path comes from being more and more human, and more and more natural. Hypocrisy is not only a dead-end street, it’s a dead-end street next to a garbage dump. And it stinks.
Why? Because the hypocrite does not get rid of his garbage he just covers it up. It may be out of sight, but it still stinks.
Getting Rid of the Garbage
The mind has a habit of deluding the soul that it is this or that, good or bad, intelligent or dull. But this is all due to impressions on the mind. These impressions are nothing but debris covering the mirror of the mind. When the mind becomes free of all debris, it reflects the light of the soul’s infinite nature.
How to clean the mind of the debris? It usually begins with suffering. And that suffering leads to awareness and the rising of consciousness. That allows for a greater scope of love. And that love springing from deeper levels of consciousness serves as a fire to burn away the impressions of the mind.
If it is your nature to curse the traffic, then by all means, curse the traffic. It is your nature to have a messy desk, have a messy desk. Your nature has to express itself. That is the beginning of the movement of consciousness that will eventually lead to freedom from the mind. We are given experiences to learn from them.
Sure, if Buddha or Jesus or the Prophet Mohammed appeared before me in a vision or even a dream, and told me not to curse the traffic, or be more organized, then I would heed the words. But otherwise, I’ll go through the experience that my nature dictates and learn from it.
And because everybody’s past is somewhat different, everybody’s nature is somewhat different. This difference is on the surface only, for in reality, all souls are one; they are infinite and eternal.
Here is a story about a Master and two disciples that illustrates this. One disciple, name of Bhau, became unsettled by the way the other disciple, Aloba, was shouting at some children for sleeping late and being negligent in their responsibilities. This behavior of Aloba troubled Bhau. And when their Master, Meher Baba, asked Bhau what he was thinking, he told him he was upset by the way Aloba had spoken to the boys.
Here is the way the story is told in Meher Baba’s biography, Lord Meher:
Baba suddenly scolded him, “You’d better leave for some other ashram. India is full of ashrams, and if you go to live in one of them, you will be able to lead a virtuous life.”
Bhau was greatly taken aback, and Baba explained at length:
With me, no one can live what the world considers a moral life. Here, we are concerned with spirituality, not morals. A spiritual life is not ruled nor bound by any principles. The sanskaras (mental imprints or impressions from past experience) of each one are different, and so the behavior and temperament of everyone are different.
In a virtuous life, evil is suppressed and good surfaces; but the evil is still there. The bad sanskaras remain and have to be worked out, if not in this life then in the next or the one after. In the spiritual life, both good and bad sanskaras express themselves, and both get nullified. A spiritual life leads one toward naturalness, whereas a virtuous life, in the guise of humility, inflates the ego and perpetuates it! A spiritual life, though, is only led under the guidance and orders of the Avatar or Perfect Master, who knows the pulse of everyone and treats everyone according to his particular malady.
You do not like Aloba’s behavior, but his behavior was quite natural and necessary for him. How can you understand that? People of the world act according to moral standards and socially acceptable behavior, but the Avatar or Perfect Master deals with everyone according to his or her sanskaras. Thus spiritual life is totally different and cannot be judged on the basis of morality, ethics or any principle.
Smiling, Baba asked Bhau, “Now, tell me which ashram you intend to go to?”
“None,” Bhau replied.
For me, the moral of the story is be natural. By trying to fool others, we only end up fooling our own selves. Repression does not lead to progress in consciousness. That comes from awareness and understanding.
Our lives are not meant to be lies. Our lives are opportunities to become real human beings.
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Our lives are not meant to be lies, definitely not. They are to be lived authentically. Each soul is an actor and we all have our own parts to play. Some of us are more fortunate than others just due to the unique part that we have been given. We are the lucky ones whom God teaches, like Arjuna. Except that it’s all metaphorical. The chariot is the body, Krishna is really God, Shiva, (the Incorporeal), Arjuna is each one of us who takes up the challenge.
This time period is unique in that it is the best of times and the worst of times. This is the most auspicious confluence age, the leap age between the iron aged hell and the golden aged heaven, when God Shiva Himself, the Incorporeal Supreme Soul descends on earth to transform every human being, animal and all the elements and make us all pure. This is the time when we have to face everything, all our inconsistencies and weaknesses and either transform willingly before time or be transformed against our will at the very end. We all have to become pure and ascend at this time period. God calls Himself Baba, Father of souls. Baba is a very sweet word meaning Father. God prefers to be called Baba. There are many Babas in India, Meher Baba, Sai Baba, etc. But He says He is the only one who doesn’t have a Father because He is the source of everything. How could God have a Father……..or a Mother………..or a Teacher? If he is Highest on High, the Almighty Authority? Only the Incorporeal One can’t have a Father and only He can truly be the Father of ALL souls. This demonstrates that all those whom people call God, but who are in human bodies and therefore have fathers and mothers, really can’t be God.
When God Himself comes, He comes and speaks the truth, and when we hear it, we become very humble realizing that we really knew nothing at all before God came, we were totally dangling upside down in ignorance. God, (Shiv Baba) becomes our Teacher and shows us the difference between right and wrong, (and there is right and wrong). Wrong is any action which separates us from God. All the vices separate us from God. God says, lust is the greatest enemy. How could we have known that before? We didn’t. And He doesn’t blame us for anything that we did on the path of devotion. Even devotion separates us from a direct connection with God. Devotion is about being in low self esteem and trying to attain God. When God comes He tells us who we are, who He is and says, now change yourself and become perfect and complete, karmateet.
Lots of love and blessings from the heart.
Om shanti.
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