You are all familiar with the messages that were published a couple of years ago, under the title Whispers from the Brighter World -
mainly messages from Babuji Maharaj, but also containing messages from
Lalaji Sahib and some other highly spiritualized entities. And we have
been also putting them on the, what do you call it, the Web; one
message every day. I hope you have all been reading them, because
Babuji Maharaj himself says, "Good things must be repeated. Need to be
repeated." And one wonder behind those messages is that as you read
them again and again and again, the meaning goes deeper and deeper. And
it has been my own experience that, I don't know, you cannot quantify
it as seventh reading or eighth reading, but as you go on reading them,
even the reading itself seems to open up spiritual conditions in us. So
I would recommend that you read volume one continuously, and I am happy
to announce that we will be releasing volume two on the 30^th of April, the birth anniversary of my Master, Babuji Maharaj.

It
will also contain a great deal of messages; I expect it to run to about
six hundred pages, one message per page, and the details of how, where,
when will be released in Sahaj Sandesh. It will all be available by
email today to all who have access to the computers. This copy will be
followed - much to my joy and surprise - by two more volumes, at least.
One volume, that is the second volume now in 30^th April 2009, third volume, 30^th April 2010 and fourth volume, I hope 30^th April 2011, closing with the last message of 31^st December 2010.

There
is a wealth, I mean it is like you are digging for gold and you go on
digging and more and more gold comes. You know in the ordinary gold
mine there are only seams of gold. This is a gold mine which is nothing
but gold. And if, I mean we all live long enough and if the possibility
of accessing those messages continues to exist, I don't see why these
messages should not continue into the future, indefinitely. Volume one
has been published quite well - brought out, well printed, on good
paper. I should say even to a degree of opulence. In volume two this
will be maintained and if possible, it will be our endeavour to better
volume one in the, you know, physical values of publication.

One cannot say which message is more important, which is less important, because they are all very
important. And I am myself quite amazed when I read the messages of
volume two. I have been reading them as they come in to me and they are
profound in their implications for our spiritual evolution. Again and
again Babuji Maharaj emphasizes the fact that Sahaj Marg does not ask
you for all your life earnings, to give up your family and go into the
jungle. It is a very simple method: meditation in the morning, cleaning
in the evening, prayer at night. No major sacrifices involved. Only to
live a good life, in the right way, but with the only stipulation being
obedience to the Master's wishes, and that again is only for our
benefit.

We
obey to benefit. Unlike in public life, in human life, in our
day-to-day life, we obey for somebody else's benefit. In spirituality
we obey for our own benefit. You obey; you benefit. You don't obey; you
don't benefit. In obedience there can be no questions: "Why have I to
obey?" If you ask such a question, it would probably mean several lives
more to be taken before you understand why I have to obey. In obedience
there is no ‘why'. There is no search for logic. There is no demand for
your question to ask: "Why this question should be obeyed?" or "Why
this order should be obeyed? Why does the Master have to tell me and
not somebody else? Why does he ask me to obey and not somebody else?"
No questions. Totally unquestioning obedience is the only requirement
of this spiritual way that I know, Sahaj Marg. The moment you start
asking questions, it is implicit that you are questioning the wisdom of
your Master, the intentions of your Master and his existence itself -
never done, except at the peril of your own evolution.

Babuji
has emphasized again and again, that this journey from here to there,
the infinite, can be in terms of time, in a second or it can take an
eternity of time - coming again and again and again, you know. He used
to tell us that if you put steel in boiling water expecting it to melt
or cook, you can boil steel for an eternity of time, nothing will
happen to the steel.

All
our preparation as human beings is to prepare ourselves to face Him
with the heart open and find ourselves not there - missing. We are not
dead because there is no death in the spiritual life. As Babuji said,
"There is no death." In fact, if you look at it spiritually, from the
point of view of the soul, we are in a dead condition here on earth as
human beings; we are mortal, alive in the flesh. But if we had the
wisdom to look at ourselves from the spiritual point of view, we would
be weeping eternally, "What have I got into?" And people would say,
"But just look around you! How much happiness there is, how much there
is to be enjoyed, how much pleasure there is, how much wealth there is
to be acquired!" And then you would have to weep not only for yourself
but for them too.

So
you see, spirituality is perhaps - why perhaps - is certainly a curse
for those who are here because they don't want to give up the joys of
this existence. And they say, "What spirituality? What is the hurry?
Let me live while life is there, while I am young, while I have the
power to enjoy it. Let me do it. We will come to spirituality when we
are old." Babuji said, "Don't put off till tomorrow, what can be done
today," because if you have no strength, no will power, no ability to
enjoy anything in life, and you want to enjoy spirituality, that too
will not be possible for you.

Start
young. Do it when you have the energy to do what has to be done. If a
man cannot even sit up in bed, and is lying down twenty-four hours, and
he has to be helped in every possible way to continue living
physically, how does he expect to meditate, how does he expect to sit
up and do the cleaning. What are the maxims that he will remember even
to obey? So if we put off, we put off at our peril.

So
these messages re-emphasize - in fact you know they try to drum into us
in a very gentle Babuji-ish language, being his own language - they
emphasize again and again: My dear, what I ask of you is nothing.
Literally nothing. Sit with your eyes closed comfortably. Imagine
divine light in your heart. Meditate for an hour or at least for half
an hour. Do the cleaning in the evening. No effort. No barbells. No
dumb bells. Nothing to walk on, tread mills. And at night a simple
prayer, remembering what Babuji said, "Prayer must not be begging." All
religious prayer is begging. In spirituality, a prayer, as our prayer
is, is a statement of fact. This I am; that you are. Between me and you
is a whole universe. Please make it possible for me to bridge this gap.
And for this you help me. It is a statement; it is a request. And we
pray also not only for ourselves, but for everybody else, all over the
world. There are no differences, there are no races, there are no
religions. There are only human beings. As human beings, we pray for
everybody else.

So
these important messages which we have reiterated time and again, in
our assemblies, in our satsanghs, they are there, you know, in His
beautiful, simple language. All requesting, not ordering. It is strange
that we don't want to obey a Master who never orders, because we are
too much in the tradition of being ordered around by gods, by gurus, by
commanders, by captains, by governments. We are too much used to the
twin instruments of religion - fear and temptation - so that we come to
Sahaj Marg with suspicion based on centuries of bad experience given to
us by our culture, by our tradition, by our religion. Do and get; don't
and suffer.

So
you see, our tradition of centuries, of ages, where most of it is all
in the form of do, do, do without explaining why, has made us slaves;
unfortunately letting us imagine that we are Masters. Why do we think
we are Masters? "Oh, because I can disobey. If I obey, I am a slave. If
I disobey, I must be not a slave. If I am not a slave, I must be a
Master." Thus runs the stupid human logic, especially with the
intellectuals, of the well educated, of the powerful, of the rich. I
have heard people say, "I can employ people to do everything for me.
Why should I do this? Why should I do that? I, who command, should I
obey? I, who command, if I obey, what will others think of me? That I
am not the supremo that they thought I was." You see in what all
miserable ways our logic, our mind, our intellects, they lead us and
then the superiority which every human being today manifests: claiming
that his religion is the highest, claiming his family is the best,
claiming their wealth is immense. So we are trained to be arrogant,
proud, selfish.

I
beg to say that a mere reading of these messages will remove most of
our samskaras, provided you are sincere and are reading to benefit. You
know you can read anything and criticize. It is easy to criticize
especially if you are a fool, because then you have more to criticize,
because you know nothing. So those who criticize without reading,
without understanding, without any desire for self-improvement, without
any intention of carrying out what is written, they are the greatest
critics. "No, no this is all rubbish. No, no this has been said over
and over again." Yes, you have been drinking milk everyday. You have
been earning money everyday. You have been miserable everyday - even
the best, most happy. What have you learnt from your own life? Why
don't you learn something from a life which we claim to have been the
highest?

So
I would take this opportunity of imploring you all to read these
messages again and again. Read it with, you know, an open heart so that
the meaning goes into you direct into the heart without going through
the brain. We have to bypass the brain if you are going to be a
spiritual person seriously interested in your evolution. Anything that
you subject to your brain for evaluation will only doom you to further
slavery. I hope you will take this last warning of mine to heart - put
away your head completely. Read with your heart. "No, no, how can I
read with my heart?" Try it and you will be amazed at what the heart
can find, which your brain never told you exists. I pray for you all.