The New Year Message by Rev. Master, Shri P. Rajagopalachari on 1st January 2014, at BMA (Babuji Memorial Ashram), Chennai, India
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Dear sisters and brothers,
Brother Prakash has just been telling you that in another month I will complete fifty years in Sahaj Marg. It shows how little is fifty years in a man's life for purposes of sadhana, spiritual practice. I used to wonder when I heard or read of rishis [sages] in the past meditating for 20,000 years - some from one yuga [eon] to another. And what was that time in comparison to ours? From Treta Yuga to Dwapara Yuga, things like that - millennia, hundreds of thousands of years! They just sat in meditation, and when they opened their eyes they were in another yuga actually. That was how long it took in those excellent yugas full of peace, tranquillity, virtues, character, morality.
In those days it took so long - millennia, I repeat. And now in our life, in Kali Yuga, full of its corruption, immorality, lack of peace, violence, avarice, with all these negative qualities, our Masters have made it so easy that Babuji Maharaj could say with conviction that if we practise Sahaj Marg properly, every day systematically as prescribed, it is possible to achieve a goal even higher than what the rishis achieved, in this lifetime.
You see how the practice of meditation has been modified age after age, even from Lalaji Maharaj's time to Babuji's time. Because, if you have all read the literature of the Mission properly, Lalaji Maharaj gave practice according to the person who sat before him. To some he prescribed mantras, to some he prescribed puja, things like that. But Babuji Maharaj refined it, until today we have just to sit like this for an hour - I hope really meditating, because if we sit for an hour and not meditate, it's of no use. You have to meditate, which means, imagine divine light in the heart and stay fixed on it for the duration of that meditation.
So is this not a wonder - a wonderful transformation in the yogic practice, which is one of the things for which India is famous, which is our birthright? From millennia of meditation to a mere twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years of meditation if properly done, we go to the goal. And yet - I have to say ‘and yet' - unfortunately, many don't appreciate what we have got, the gift that we have got.
The time has been compressed into such a short span of a human life. Even to say ‘human life' is too long, because the first eighteen years we are not allowed to meditate; maybe the last ten years, we are not able to meditate. So, if you take what is an available span - even in a long life of a human being, probably sixty years of really active, systematic, dedicated meditation - what the sages of old could not achieve in thousands of years, we achieve, we can achieve in a mere sixty years. Even less, because Babuji Maharaj said, "You have only to turn your head from here to here and you are There, where you have to be." But, like all foolishness, when we have wealth in our hands, whether it is physical or mental or spiritual, we waste it.
We waste our time, we waste our energies in foolish pursuits. I mean, it is common knowledge that the human being possesses an intellect and a willpower which are supposed to take him on the path of evolution, but we seem to use both in the wrong ways. Even though we know what is right, we do wrong things. Isn't it? We willingly do wrong things. It is not that we are coerced or compelled into doing wrong things. We willingly participate in foolish activities, shall we say immoral activities, criminal activities. And then, what happens? We have lost another chance; one human life has been wasted.
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So I have only two messages - ‘Love Him who loves all' which is very easy. At least everybody claims that they love Babuji Maharaj. I don't know whether it is from the heart or from the lips, but let me assume it is from the heart. But ‘love all whom He loves' - has anybody understood its meaning or tried to put it into practice? So my message has two items today: "Don't waste time," and "Love all whom He loves."
My blessings to all of you.
~ Rev. Chariji ~
Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari better known as Chariji, was the third in the line of Raja Yoga Masters in the Sahaj Marg System of Spiritual Practice and President of of Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM).
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