37. DUTY -------- Lord Sree Krishna

DUTY

Let duty direct you, but not desire. What you have to do as a human being is given in the Scriptures. If you follow the Path of Duty, the serpent of desire cannot bite you. Desire leads to multitudes of desire. Duty employs you with one act of service or the other. Desire, like the prostitute, invites many. Duty invites only Dharma, the Law of Right Action. Let every speech and action be put to the test of duty; if it does not, follow it not. Let that be the dictum. Do not be haste to decide what your duty is, know it from the Scriptures and from the Teachers. An impure mind cannot gaze between duty and desire.

36. Right Behavior -------- Lord Sree Krishna

RIGHT BEHAVIOR

No man ever does any act of sin without feeling the compulsion from within. The man carries in his nature desirable as well as undesirable traits. Undesirable traits are generally filtered away by the will of man. But sometimes the inner traits may over power the will resulting in acts, which he himself may not feel comfortable of. In such situations he is helpless. “What is the recourse in such destitutions?” asks Arjuna, the representative of Man.

The Lord answers, “the qualities of man relate to Nature. Nature’s qualities exist in man. They are basically dynamism, inertia and poise. Poise gives desirable traits. The other two give undesirable traits. Man should know that it is the Nature’s qualities functioning in him as his qualities. He should try his best to be with the traits of poise for which his discriminative will helps. But, at the same time the other traits may work through man in spite of man’s will. In all such situations it is better for him that he surrenders his inability unto ME, the I AM, in him and seek pardon. Even gnostics sometimes are tricked by Nature and do acts of ignorance. In creation no one is an exception to Nature’s illusion. Mistakes can happen. It is not wise to brood over.

It is wise to intensify his prayers and meditations to align with ME, the I AM, in him. By doing so his will gets supplemented by My will, which would help him to exercise his desired resistance to the traits undesirable. Intense and regular prayers and meditations to align with ME would result in manifestation of the quality of poise, which neutralizes the other two qualities to form into an equilateral triangle of qualities.

Therefore, it is necessary that man engage more and more with the I AM in him and in all that surrounds him, than brooding over the mistakes that happen.

35. SWADHARMA -------Lord Sree Krishna

34. Healing --------- Lord Maitreya

HEALING

Man today is very alert and very careful in money matters. His Sradha for money is by and large very high. The reason being his belief in money that it is the means for all his fulfilments. When he is sick he feels the importance of health. When he is not sick he coolly forgets about it. His Sradha in health is intermittent. Man needs to look to his health first and wealth next. Health enables voyaging in the river currents of life.

Wealth is only supportive. When he cares not for the health he disturbs the equilibrium of the 5 elements in the body and the disturbed elements lead him to further sickness. Man needs to observe the treasure of the 5 elements more than the outward treasures. When the inner treasures are intact his voyage through life is peaceful. He therefore needs to observe if there is excessive matter or water or fire or air in him.

Anything that is in excess or in shortage breeds sicknesses. He needs to restitute the 5 elements in him. This is the real way to heal oneself. He can also work to purify and restitute the elements around him through prevention of pollution. It is also an act of healing. Today’s ills are mostly due to polluted matter, water, air and pollution through the smoke of fire. Remember, if you disturb elements the elements in turn disturb you.

33. Caution and Jealousy ----- Lord Maitreya

CAUTION ON JEALOUSY

Jealousy is mental leprosy. Mental leprosy is very high to day and we relentlessly try to heal. Jealousy killed many a disciple. Jealousy eats away the little knowledge and feeds the pride. Jealousy caused wars, jealousy caused robbery, jealousy makes man restless, and jealousy drives man to deadly acts. Jealousy is the energy that imprisoned this humanity. Only the focused one, who attends to their work of service with discriminative will, can escape out of the forest of jealousy. Duty, discriminative will, attitude to serve, and non-engagement in side issues are the four cardinal principles to escape out of the dark forest. Be not a leper at any cost.

32. MESSAGE ON ALL-ROUND FULFILLMENT -------Lord Maitreya

MESSAGE ON  ALL-ROUND FULFILLMENT

All events of life whether pleasant or unpleasant, whether progressive or regressive, whether flowing or obstructive are all purposive and do contribute for the evolution of the soul. The soul progresses from incarnation to incarnation, through varieties of experiences gained from each of the incarnations. In some aspects the soul gets fulfilled and in some other aspects it remains unfulfilled. Until there is all-round fulfillment the soul continues to incarnate. The rich needs to experience poverty, the poor need to experience the riches. The healthy needs to experience the sickness and the sick needs to experience health. Thus the presence and absence of every aspect of life need to be experienced. Ultimately he needs to experience birth and death, masculinity and femininity as well.

The Lord when incarnated as Krishna, He demonstrated total fulfillment. He expressed the 64 splendors of creation relating to 64 sciences of wisdom. He is the way; he is the goal of perfection. The soul needs to emulate, draw inspiration and move forward towards fulfillment through evolution.

31. A FEW HINTS FOR GROUP WORK ----Lord Maitreya

A FEW HINTS FOR GROUP WORK

A donkey cannot bear loads like a camel. One should know the load bearing capacity before he loads the fellow members. Loading with work is important for the member of the group to grow. Not all can be given equal loads of work. Likewise, the disciple should know the loads that he can bear. He cannot undertake more work and responsibility than what he can do. If he does so, he would either fail or would perfunctory in the work. Sometimes the overload can cause death through the related tension.

Among the group members some are more inclined and some are less inclined for work. There can be some who are just visitors. Work can be entrusted only to those who are inclined and such entrustments shall have to be as per their ability.

Even those who are dedicated to discipleship cannot continuously be with the work. The Law does not permit. They too need to relax. Aspirants who do not know how to relax would be put to relaxation through brief illnesses.

The aspirant should learn to work and to relax as well. He also has to learn the time dimension relating to the work. Sometimes the work moves faster. Some other times works move slow. There can be times where the work needs to be suspended.

The last word of caution, “do not drag disinclined ones into work.” It’s like washing the mouth of a pig!