Something To Think About

When something is simple, we often find it difficult to accept. The mind goes into overdrive wondering how it can be so simple. There must be a catch, a trick we’ve missed. Our mind has the knack of making simple things complicated. However, if a situation is complicated, the mind revels in the complexity; yet it grumbles that the problem should be simpler. The human mind makes simple things complicated and complicated things even more complex.
_{Concepts and Illusions, A Perspective}

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Some believe that if we have darshan of the physical guru, millions of karmas are erased. How can that be? How can we become rich by looking at a rich man? When hungry, can anybody else eat for us? It is the same thing with spirituality. Misconceptions like this make us try to get near the Master and we think this is devotion, but the only real devotion is to keep our attention at the eye centre. Travelling on the inner path is something only we can do. No one can do it for us. Looking at the outer physical form of the guru or even doing simran does not erase karmas. The only way to burn karmas is by listening to the Shabd.
_{from self to Shabd}

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We are proud of our youth, health and beauty – forgetting the Provider who gave them to us. We are proud of our intellectual achievements and professional successes. From where do they come? If they are in an individual’s hands, why does the intellectual’s intellect suddenly collapse? Why does a prosperous lawyer or doctor unexpectedly find his clients and patients vanishing? Successes are so transient, so much outside our control. They are God’s gifts, and He takes them back when He likes. They are apparel in which we strut about for a time. The honours they bring us are only fig leaves that cover our spiritual nakedness. It is not that we should abandon physical, intellectual and professional achievement. The Masters say, “Use all the powers that God gives you, but do not be proud of them; they are not yours.”
_{Sarmad - Martyr to Love Divine}