|| OM SATYAM PARAM DHIMAHI ||

Work on Ones Self

Param Pujya Gurudev Shri S.N. Tavariaji.
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(Request to all Readers --- Param Pujya Gurudev Shri S.N. Tavariaji. was (is) in fact a Living
God incarnated, a very rare, once in a few millennium Divine Personality, who silently
devoted his entire lifespan for the service and benefit of the mankind. The notes given
hereunder are truly an invaluable gift to our humanity by him, which is based upon purest
truth, his true experiences of a lifetime of ceaseless, untiring, and one pointed yogasadhana. To experience and accumulate even a fraction of such kind of priceless, distilled
wisdom, the ordinary men like us, may have to put in several (may be innumerable) life
times in one pointed, untiring yoga-sadhana, so all the readers who are fortunate to
receive this divine literature, are most humbly requested to read it, re-read it several times
again and again and then diligently follow and practice each and every word of it with
utmost sincerity, dedication and profound adoration, if he or she is desirous to achieve
some very concrete spiritual progress. A. B.)

Human life is the opportunity for conscious readjustment to a higher order

of consciousness, and yet without losing the best that Human life has to offer of
work, love, family, and national, civic and social relationships. Service in the
world is as imperative as prayer, and a balanced life requires spiritual resource
for mental achievement.
Realize that the whole purpose of creation is to produce a body capable of
responding to higher and higher degrees of consciousness, the germ of which
was breathed into Human form.

Nothing that exists has of itself the power to change or modify its own
nature. It is bound to the laws of recurrence. It does not follow however that
Existence is static; but only under the impulse of essence forces can it progress.
Enter into yourself you need no longer be in search for something
without.
Make a forced beginning in spiritual living. Forget the past achievements.
Breadth of vision, inclusiveness of understanding, a widened horizon are the
preliminary essentials.
The word spiritual has a wider significance: an inclusive endeavour
towards Human betterment, uplift, understanding, tolerance, inclusiveness and
all trends of thought which concern the esoteric development of the Human
being. Let us use the word spiritual to signify the world of light and beauty, of
order and of purpose.
It (spiritual living / consciousness) signifies the silencing of all unreality, of
doubt, fear, false beliefs, worry, complaining, grief, of everything that is merely of
outer personality, and remaining fixed in the vivifying fires of inpouring, restoring
life.
It means to turn the mind inward, focusing the mind upon a mantra,
meditating upon it, and in it until the spirit of that word flashes into reality and the
mental field is alive with it.
It requires lucid work of highest activity, demanding time, study and
practice. It is not for the lazy mind, thinking to enter a donothing state without
method or efforts and to remain there inert and passive receiving deific gifts.
Knowledge has never been vouchsafed to anyone who is inert and ignorant.

Spiritual consciousness is a matter of growth. It is not attained

haphazardly any more than mathematics is learned by guessing at it. Perfection
is a continuous process and calls for perpetual fires burning on the altar of the
heart, consuming the dross of unworthy aims and selfdelusions.
Moral and spiritual rectitude is won only after hard struggles. Remnant of
the ape and the tiger still crouch beneath the surface. They should be brought
before the conscious mind and re-educated. Years of training are required to
relieve mental and moral blindness, before spiritual blindness can be removed.
Lose sight of your own affairs, your petty sorrows, worries and suspicions,
in the urgency of the task to be done.
Waste no time in self-pity, self-justification; know that the law has placed
you where you best can serve, that difficulties are ever a mans own making and
the result of his own mental attitude. Aspirants fail to make good where they are
because they find some reason which makes them think they should be
elsewhere. Men run away, almost without realizing it, from difficulty, from
inharmonious conditions, from places which involve problems, and which are
staged to draw out the best that is in a man, provided he stays in them.
The inner severance from the affliction of misery is spirituality. It should be
practiced with a heart that refuses to be depressed. [Voluntary sufferings Ajay]
Develop a capacity to overlook the non-essentials and to emphasize
the essential; a submergence of personal ambition, a study of preservation of
the inner contact.

[Spiritual will Ajay]

Reorient desire, redirect desire; a constant process of reorientation of

the entire desire nature, so that it eventually becomes a habitual state of mind.
[Spiritual will Ajay]

Distinguish the real from the unreal, control the body emotions. Make use
of the mind, use thought properly, not only for the use of separative desire. Vivify
emotions, verify motives, cast out fear, hate and greed.
Learn to know yourself, to change, to rebuild the foam aspect. It is the
achievement of that spiritual orientation held steadily, no matter what the outer
disturbance in the physical plane life may be. It is to submerge and to lose sight
of the personal lower self. It will occupy all of a mans attention and time, even
his entire thought life.
Learn to put aside the inhibiting forces of wrong thinking, to become
hermetically sealed towards negative emotions they lead one back to the
prehistoric man. Doubt is a mild form of expressing something stronger and more
dangerous failure.
Positive identity is to exist according to ones own essential pattern, to be
what one is. Negative identity is essential non-existence; it is to be what one is
not. Being what one is not, and confronted with being what one is, is to have
constant internal conflicts. This state of will is called fear.
Fear is negative identity. It is neither a state of consciousness nor a mode
of being. Fear is a contagious evil force in all the worlds to which it can penetrate.
It is closely allied to other negative forms such as anxiety, suspicion, jealousy,
anger, arrogance, and grasping.
First we must abstain from action which increases separateness.
Secondly we must tranquilize our senses. Thirdly we must harmonize the
opposing forces in ourselves.
To feel ourselves different from others is a great heresy, for separateness
when the whole is evolving towards unity is opposition to the law. The people

most separated from God are the ascetics with their asceticism, the devotees by
their devotion and knowers by their knowledge.
Criticism, being a faculty of lower mind, can hurt and wound, and no man
proceed upon the way as long as wounds are made and pain is knowingly given.
Learn never to criticize in thought and word. Speak no word which can hurt, harm
or wound. There is a great hindrance to the growth of a man in spiritual being
through the critical attitude.
Harmlessness will result in control of speech; harmlessness in emotional
reaction will result in being a channel for the love aspect of the Soul (Self);
harmlessness in action will produce poise, skill in action, and the release of
creative will. Harmlessness is the expression of the life of a man who realizes
himself to be everywhere; he lives consciously as a Soul whose nature is love,
whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil
and hide the light.
Spiritual progress is only possible with the aid of the very things which are
the cause of mans fall. The vices of man become steps in the ladder, one by
one, as they are surmounted.
Develop intentional suffering through doing small things you do not like to
do voluntarily. In the first place, voluntary suffering is only conceivable for him
who has long ago freed himself from involuntary suffering, i.e. from fear, worry,
slavery to others opinion, and so on. Otherwise, between the great things that
we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do
nothing.

Accumulate all possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right

activities. Put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way;
make arrangements incompatible with the old. Reverse every adverse thought.
Character is the moral deposit of a million struggles.
When we maintain our first principle, Divine Guidance, secondary matters
clears up one by one. Physical resources are paltry compared with the spiritual.
The attainment of right vibrations will work automatically in the production
of right conditions.
A man must know and understand what he does and why. He must
sacrifice self-deception, prejudice and inconsistency. There can be no divided
existence of being one thing and having its opposite. The peace that passeth
understanding is a peace that is brought about by the conquest of the self from
its perpetual discords. Nothing short of daily spiritual immersion in the chemical
waters of reality will dissolve discordant films and open the way to pure knowing.
I wish to give you one word to ponder well, to observe, to honestly check
your heart, mind and actions and see how far you can honestly say that you have
lived accordingly: Mental Integrity. Look at it from angles and diagnose your
past and present and mold your future. If you find any weaknesses of the mind
and heart, be honest and prepare to put an end to it.
The aspirant has to achieve Mental Integrity. This is an unending work
millions of past memory patterns lurk, especially of ego, sex, possession and
sensitiveness. Be never satisfied with your work, i.e. believe that you have done
all that had to be done.
Conscience is not an organ I mean a physical organ and yet it is
something that exists. We may term it the computer not known to man.

Conscience, I would say, is the voice of the Soul, waiting to be heard if only we
do not try and run away from it. This questioning of it helps us build Mental
Integrity, as each action or thought would be performed intentionally and not
automatically.
Work is on the subtle emotional and intellectual side the side that is not
seen easily but is to be caught time and again each day.
How does work differ from practices and methods? It is like knowing the
law differing from practising the law. How many indulge in the very things they
condemn in others? For we may not act or do as those whom we condemn. But
subtle linking thoughts, if honestly traced, would be found equally to be
condemned within us.
On the path we do not make use of simple mathematics, for if the aspirant
were not to practice one day in week of seven days, he has not practiced for the
other six days also, for 7 1 = 0. On this quest, the basis of regularity is
increased to 30 1 = 0 and is eventually perfected to 365 1 = 0.
There is not a moment without some duty. One must work beyond ones
capacity daily to change ones level of being.
You better not compromise yourself it is all you have got.
He, who excuses himself, accuses himself. Make no excuse give none,
accept none, be ruthless with yourself and with your own failures and make more
determined efforts.
The guarantee of arrival is practice. Discipline must precede
philosophy.

Man has lost connection with his Divine Consciousness. He must reopen
the channel through his mental field. The Soulconsciousness aspect, which
makes a Human being a rational thinking entity, is anchored in the brain. In the
average man, the brain is the only part in which awareness has definitely
become self-conscious in all the rest of him awareness is still groping about.
A man is a machinery of thought; he should know its laws and how to
govern it, because his well-being is involved in every impulse passes through
him. Fire, electricity, atomic power, mental energy all are given to man under
same conditions, viz., that he act to know their laws and bring them under his
control. Thus prayer is another process of engaging miracle-moving energy.
Nothing is achieved until the mind is captured. All systems, all methods
are of value as they serve one great purpose the capture of automatic, random,
unproductive thoughts. Different methods appeal to different temperaments. Thus
it is left to each to make choice of effectual means to achieve this. The one aim to
be achieved in all this is the perfect purity and steadiness of mind.
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Thought should not be allowed to subside into automatic, uncontrolled,
sub-conscious undercurrents. Karmas have their roots in distractions and
become powerless for fruition when the distractions have been systematically
reduced and brought to an end.
When the individual awakens to the truth of his spiritual nature and
consciously enters upon definite means to clean up his subconscious mind, he
will stand guard at the door or conscious thought. Watchfulness must be
constantly exercised. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Intelligence should rule desires and reason should triumph over impulses.
A mind governed by reason is greater than mind governed by emotions, yet it is
far from being a perfect mind. It has no other avenues through which to obtain
information but through senses.
Indolence,

ignorance

and

self-love;

aggressiveness,

haste,

self-

importance; demanding rewards, exercising authority, condemnation, self-pity,

self-righteousness these hold man in mental slavery. The barriers that cloud
spiritual perception are false human tendencies covering the Soul with seven
layers which must be burned away by the divine fire within. These are selfrighteousness, avarice, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and inertia. By the simple
method of preference of ideas, thought nourishment is denied them.
At the back of the mind are thought habits a little overactive, such as selfpity, over-sensitiveness. Every thought enters into the creative process of life,
and when little whirlpools of adverse thoughts are created, they strike us as
accidents: loss of valuables, fits of temper. Every adverse thing that happens is a
voiceless warning.
No general denial will answer, because there are in mind certain
discordant ideas and conditions, each requiring specific arguments in order to
break down and stop its action. The mental field has got to be brought under
sight now exactly as physical action has been disciplined.
A certain structure of right living, of thinking, of conduct has to be attained.
Right standards and moral qualities transfigure the gray recording mass into an
intricate system of highly developed electric cells, with corresponding effect in the
heart centre and communications throughout consciousness. It should be
realized that good character, higher ethics, sound morality and spiritual
aspirations are basic and unalterable requirements, yet more is needed if the
right to Union (Yoga) is to be granted.

 The science of physical breath is the least important aspect. No

breathing exercises can be safely used where there is no attempt to improve
rhythm upon the life of everyday. The activities should go hand in hand.
Seek to equip your instrument, learn to function in quietness, fulfill your
obligations, do your duty, develop restrain of speech, develop calm poise that
comes from unselfish life motives. The outer duties (Dharma) are carried out
with precision, whilst the inner adjustments proceed in the silence of the heart.
The secret for all aspirants is to cultivate the attitude of the onlooker and
of the silent watcher. By premature speech and too much talk, the child of his
thought is still-born.
But as time goes, a man grows spiritually; his meditation will perforce give
way to a steady spiritual orientation. He must assume and constantly hold the
position of the observer, detached from the mechanism of observation. It is
persistence in the attitude of right observation that brings about detachment from
form and subsequent power to use form at will.
The cultivation of a detached attitude personally, with the attached attitude
spiritually, will cut away the roots of a mans life, but it will render a thousand-fold
for all that is cut away.
Spiritual poverty is selfless use of everything one has. I speak not of the
absence of things, for absence is not detachment. True non-attachment does not
consist in separating ones self from ones possessions, but in possessing as if
one did not possess. Non-attachment is indeed the preliminary of real intuitional
knowledge.

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The happiness of solitude is not found in retreats it may be had even in

busy streets.
Spiritual progress is not hampered by material things, but we should not
be dominated or enslaved by them. Both wealth and poverty are divine gifts;
wealth is corrupted by forgetfulness, poverty by covetousness. Do your duty in all
things and have proper perspective.
If there is one law which determines ones duty done before God, it is
the law of self-support. Where is the dignity of man in an outstretched
hand? While man lives in a physical body, he is held accountable for an
existence of usefulness.
Concentration

involves

steady

vision,

one-pointedly

directed

towards a specific object. Concentration is not a mere word; it is a state of

mind. Concentrate with the mind and release the body.
Strive constantly to think inward towards the centre of being.
Regards the body as a mirror capable of reflecting states of mind,
and by holding certain ideas in mind to the exclusion of everything else,
man is transformed into a corresponding state.
One idea held in the focus of consciousness sharpens the mind to a
point and mental image is impressed throughout the consciousness.
Rhythm or vibration is the common denominator of ideas.
An idea received into the brain dynamo by means of senses is
reduced there to its common denominator, wave impulses, and conveyed

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to the communicating centres in the Human organism in the universal

code, vibrations, enunciating itself in exact correspondence to the idea.
Every idea completes its circuit in the body; peculiar modes of excitement
in the brain leave a sort of tenderness or exalted sensitivity behind them which
take long periods to die away, and as long as it lasts these tracks are liable to
have their activities awakened.
Within the inner sanctuary, in a still supernal silence, every thought must
be brought captive to ideas of perfect states held by mental and spiritual
affiliations, never by force nor by external will power, but by attention to the
undivided presence of an idea. In the careful discipline of the mind and the
manipulation of thought matter and the transmutation of the emotions comes the
working out on the physical plane.
Once the mind is set straight as to what is to be accomplished, moving
forward with persistent efforts towards a given end, the force that supports it to
completion is faith. Faith is giving substance to a thing unseen. It is not an
intellectual belief in something or someone, but a state of consciousness capable
of transforming an invisible idea into living existence. It is a conviction of bringing
a desired state to pass.
Act constantly in full faith that your thought form is working out.
Build on resolve, and not upon regret; the structure of your future; do not
grope among the shadows of old sin, but let your own Souls light shine on the
path of hope and dissipate the darkness. Waste no tears upon the blotted record
of lost years, but turn the leaf and smile, o smile, to see the fair white pages that
remain to thee.

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|| OM SATYAM PARAM DHIMAHI ||

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