Meditations — Weekly Meditations — No. 1, Dec, 1966 to May 1967

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11 December 1966

Arise, Awake, stop not
  until the Supreme
     is yours.

18 December 1966

My body is the Truth of the
     Supreme.
My mind is the Peace of the
     Supreme.
My heart is the Love of the
     Supreme.
My soul is the Delight of the
     Supreme.

25 December 1966

No right have I to undertake
  any other work before I
    work out my own spiritual
      salvation.

For did God not entrust me
  with this unique task
    at the time of
      my birth?

1 January 1967

What have I?
Desires and death.
  What has God?
He has Liberation and
  Immortality.
What are we here for?
  Just for an exchange.

8 January 1967

God's all-fulfilling Grace
    descends

Only when man's
    unconditional surrender
        ascends.

15 January 1967

Self-giving alone
   has free access
      to Joy everlasting.

22 January 1967

When we are in Ignorance,
   AUM feeds us.

When we are in Knowledge,
   AUM feeds us.

When we are beyond both
   Ignorance and Knowledge,
      AUM still feeds us,

For it is the Nectar which gives
   life to creation,
      born and unborn.

5 February 1967

Aspiration
   Is the mounting flame
      of our Divine Wish

To raise ourselves
   To the crest and crowning
      of Divine Perfection.

12 February 1967

True aspiration can and does
   make us feel
That if God is for us,
   who can eventually stand
      against us?

19 February 1967

Our tears to God are our
      greatest strength
To bring down His adamantine
      Protection.

26 February 1967

We turn to the Lord for Grace;
He waits for our soulful sincerity.

5 March 1967

Adversity leads us inward
   to correct and perfect
      our march of life.
Prosperity leads us outward
   to illuminate and immortalise
      our human birth.

12 March 1967

"No suffering, no salvation"
   so says the teacher, Adversity,
   to his student, man.

"No soul's delight, no salvation,"
   so says the teacher, Prosperity,
      to his student, man.

19 March 1967

Man's joy in forgiving is a joy
   worth having.
Man's joy in being forgiven
   is a joy worth
   aspiring for.

26 March 1967

The man who is a sincere seeker
   of the Infinite
      Must needs always say,
"So little done, so much to do."

2 April 1967

A theory must be tested.
A fact must be honoured.
A truth must be lived.

9 April 1967

The Guru can kindle
   the lamp in you.
When?
Only after you
   have brought him
      the wick and the oil.

16 April 1967

Who can show a disciple
His true Motherland?
The Guru.

What is the name
Of that Motherland?
Consciousness:
Consciousness Infinite,
Consciousness All-Pervading

23 April 1967

Unconsciousness, the mentor,
   uses us as
      blind instruments.

Consciousness, the mentor,
   teaches us how to be
      pure, knowing agents.

30 April 1967

Every falsehood eventually
   dies in Truth.

But Truth, once revealed,
never dies.

7 May 1967

In the intensity of love,
   we can extend our knowledge
      and follow the
         Footsteps of God.

14 May 1967

As our very existence
      depends on God alone,

We must be independent of
   the opinions of others,
   the values of others,
   the demands of others.

21 May 1967

Today properly guarded can
   easily escape tomorrow's
      snares.

It can even nullify yesterday's
   stumbles.

28 May 1967

Are you casting about
   for the happiness in life?

If so, yield not to reason,
   yield not to fate,

but yield only to the dictates
   of your inner
      Voice.