MASTER: "Give God the power of attorney. Let Him do whatever He wantas. Be like a kitten and cry to Him with fervent Heart. The mother cat puts the kitten wherever she wants to. The kitten doesn't know anything. It is left sometimes on the bed and sometimes near the hearth." 91675834243857612345678

 

M: "Isn't it possible to develop both jnana and bhakti by the practice of spiritual discipline?"

MASTER: "Through the path of bhakti a man may attain them both. If it is necessary, God gives him the Knowledge of Brahman. But a highly qualified aspirant may develop both jnana and bhakti at the same time. That is the case of Isvarakotis-chaitanya for example. But the case of ordinary devotees is different.

     "There are five kinds of light: the light of a lamp, the light of various kinds of fire, the light of the moon, the light of the sun, and lastly the combined of the sun and the moon. Bhakti is the light of the moon, and jnana the light of the sun.

     "Sometimes it is seen that the sun has hardly set when the moon rises in the sky. In an Incarnation of God one sees, at the same time, the sun of Knowledge and the moon of Love.

 

355.- "That is why God incarnates Himself as man and teaches people the path of devotion. He exhorts people to cultivate self-surrender to God. Following the path of devotion, one realizes everytning through His grace-both Knowledge and Supreme Wisdom.

     "God sports in this world. He is under the control of His devotee 'Syama, the Divine Mother, is Herself tied by the cord of the love of Her devotee.

    "Sometimes God becomes the magnet and the devotee the needle, and sometimes the devotee becomes the magnet and God the needle. The devotee attracts God to him.

 

     "So the greatest manifestation of God is through His Incarnation. The devotee should worship and serve an Incarnation of God as long as He lives in a human body.

     "Not all, by any means, can recognize an Incarnation of God. Assuming a human body, the Incarnation falls a victim to disease, grief, hunger, thirst, and all such things, like ordinary mortals." 

 

All worship and spiritual discipline are directed to one end alone, namely, to get rid of worldly attachment. The more you meditate on God, the less you will be attached to the trifling things of the world. The more you love the Lotus Feet of God, the less you will crave the things of the world or pay need to creature conforts. You will look on another man's wife as your mother and regard your own wife as your companion in spiritual life. You will get rid of your bestial desires and acquire godly qualities. You will be totally unatached to the world. Though you may still have to live in the world, you will live as a jivanmikta. The disciples of Chartanya lived as householder in spirit of detachment (653)

 

Cry to your Mother Syama with a real cry, O mind! And how can She hold Herself from you?

 

"A man cannot realize God unless he renounces everything mentaly. A sadhu cannot lay things up. Birds and wondering monks do not make provision for the morrow (647)

 

This attitude of regarding God as Mother is the last word in sadhana. 'O God, thou art my Mother and I am Thy child-this is the last word in spirituality.(721)

 

"God alone is the Doer, and we are all His instruments. (794)

 

Meditating on the reflected sun, one sees the Real Sun troughh the grace of God. (344)

 

Give God the power of attorney. Let Him do whatever He wants.

 

What will you gain by mere reading? Some have heard of milk, some have seen it, and there are some, besides, who have drink it. God can indeed be seen, what is more, one can talk to Him.

The fist stage is that of the begginner. He studies and hears. Second is the stage of the struggling aspirant. He prays to God, meditates on Him, and sing His name and glories. The third stage is that of the perfect soul. He has seen God, realize Him directly and inmediately in his inner Consciousness. Last is the stage of the supremely perfect, like Chaitanya. Such a devotee establishes a definite relationship with God, looking on Him as his Son or Beloved. (344)

 

"Why should the universe be unreal? After realizing God, one sees that it is God Himself who has become the universe and all living beings.

"The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kali temple that it was She who had become everything, She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The image was Conciousness, the altar was Conciousness, the marble floor-all was Conciousness. (345)

 

"I am the machine and God is its Operator."

 

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