Sri Chinmoy: If somebody prays for God’s constant Victory, then if calamities take place, you can say, “I am doing my best. I have surrendered.” Everything is victory and defeat, victory and defeat. I will do my very best, and while I am doing my very best, I will feel it is God’s Grace that is acting in and through me. Otherwise, why is somebody else sleeping? Why is another person snoring? You have to place the result at the Feet of God all the time. It comes either in the form of victory or in the form of defeat, so you have to place it at His Feet.
We will always try to do the right thing. Prayer is very good. meditation is very good, then concentration and all that. One thing we have to know: purity, purity of the mind, purity in the mind, is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, when you are doing something very special, at that time wrong thoughts can come. They may not be lower vital thoughts. They can be jealousy, insecurity, frustration and other negative thoughts. If there is purity in the mind, then jealousy does not come, then insecurity does not come, then loneliness does not come.
Purity has to be established first in the mind. If purity is established in the mind, then one can see light, one can be light. The problem is if the mind is impure. Impurity does not have to be always vital thoughts or lower thoughts. The mind can have wrong feelings. If somebody has done something great, if somebody has become famous, I may be jealous. This impurity of the mind covers the length and breadth of human existence.
Purity we get on the strength of our surrender to God’s Will. If we can surrender every moment in our life, then God gives us the capacity to remain pure in our mind. We have to know that the vital, the lower vital, always plays a trick on us. We feel that it is the heart that is doing this. But unless we are spiritually advanced, quite often the lower vital plays a trick on us. We say, “Oh, this is the heart,” but the heart has nothing to do with it. The vital and the heart are very close. They are like neighbours. You have to know if your consciousness is inside your own heart or inside its neighbour.
Then the time comes when the purity of the heart covers the mind, vital and physical. When it can cover them all, when it can transform them, then we are all safe. So purity plays its role. The significance of purity can only be felt. Impurity means not only undivine thoughts. It can be jealousy, insecurity and all kinds of negative forces, negative thoughts. The best thing is to surrender, if God at this moment gives us this experience. Pray, pray, pray. You have to pray to God for purity, for sympathy, for oneness, oneness. When we establish oneness with God’s Will, no matter what happens in our outer life and inner life, if we can surrender our will to God’s Will, then God is bound to give us a pure mind, pure heart and pure life.
But we do not surrender. If we can feel that God is the Doer and we are the action, then all these problems are solved. But we say, “I did it, I did it,” if it is a good thing – and not if it is a bad thing. Always keep God as the Doer, and we are the action. Then when something is achieved, we have to place it at God’s Feet happily and proudly. It can come either in the form of victory or in the form of defeat.
Oneness with God’s Will: if we pray to God to establish our oneness with God’s Will, sincerely, unconditionally and self-givingly, then there is no problem that cannot be solved. Even inside the problem we see light. Light illumines the problems, and they do not remain problems as such.From:Sri Chinmoy,Only One Reality Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press, 2025
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