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My Son! However intelligent and wise you may think yourself -- the key remains in the hand of Shri Guru (the Holy Preceptor) -- this you should never forget.
"Do not apply more mind to the material world than necessary otherwise it would be a waste and a loss to both the material and spiritual aspects of life. Just like putting more than necessary gum to paste the envelope. The gum will be wasted and the envelope will be spoiled."
We all go through moments in life where we wonder our hypothetical life-glass is half full or half empty; we assess our viewpoint and determine if we are optimistic, pessimistic, or a blending of the two. As we begin the journey towards self-realization we are forced to understand how we view the world and accept that it is alright that we may view the world in a different light than other people.
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Two men in a dark room who ask each other "Who are you there?" can both be equally satisfied with the common response of 'I' coming from either side...
"Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself"
"Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being."
"The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it."
"You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced."
Pure Consciousness is That through which we experience.
That is not a thing which one can experience.
The impartiality of saints is rooted in wisdom. Masters have escaped maya; its alternating faces of intellect and idiocy no longer cast an influential glance. Shri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Thus existent, subsistent and value factors correct the exaggerations of each other and of one another. Finally, pure being attains to self-awareness in the Absolute.
" In fact, God is needed only when we cannot find a guru. "
-- Please see below Article GURU BHAKTI to establish context of this quote
''Having undertaken responsibility for you, I will never allow any of you disciples to escape from me. Only keep faith and I will do the rest. I will give you what you want if it be to your benefit and wish that you will in due time desire what I want to give you. Wherever you may be, think of me and I will be with you.''
"I am One with my Father"
Separateness disappears when the created dissolves into the Creator as opposed to the more common translation: "I and my Father are One."
Go ahead, light your candles and burn your incense and ring your bells and call out to God, but watch out, because God will come and He will put you on His anvil and fire up His forge and beat you and beat you until He turns brass into pure gold.