Golden Message No. 151
“OUR
O’ Master,
My heart is Thy throne,
Yea, it is for Thee alone….
It is love’s own design
And built by life’s unmixed devotion….
It is designed by love,
Encircled by love,
It is love’s own creation.
The beginning of our regeneration takes place, once we know
our true nature through our connection with the Master. Real good comes to us when we find that we
have the divine spark within us. If we
learn to unfold that, all we have to do is to remove the obstacles from its
way, and then it shines in its own glory.
We must have a basis for our life, which is dependable. Wise men make it their first duty to find
their home in Truth.
Awakening happens only when we take rebirth in
this same life. When our life changes with positive attitudes
and divine love, we can think that we are starting a new life itself. This will happen only when we connect to a
Divine Master of caliber and truthfulness.
In spirituality, it is inevitable to have a Divine Head who
can guide us in all means.
Spiritual practice itself is to take a new birth. Our mundane life with all desires, worries,
anxieties and fearfulness cannot lead to Him, who is away from all these
unwanted qualities. Only the Spiritual Head
can lead us to the Ultimate
by giving us a second birth and new life.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou Divine
Essence!
Thou art one Absolute
Being without a second
Make me realize Thy
All-ness
Enlighten my heart
that I may always feel Thy Holy Presence
Teach me ever to draw
my strength through contact with Thee
And surround me at all
times with Thy blessing and peace.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No. 152
“BLESSED
O’ Master,
Give thy life and give thy love;
Give all! Give all!
When thy hands and heart are free
Thou shalt receive Him who is All, yea, All
in All.
We do our best part when we leave behind the element of
self. It is not that we lack the power
of love ; we lack its application. We
fail to find an avenue through which we can express it.
The more we establish love in our heart and abide by it, the more the
vista of our usefulness expands. We
never do anything noble without love. We
must sever ourselves from selfish interest and fix our thought on loving
self-forgetting service.
When the self does not expand as Self, there is no value in
spiritual practice. Spirituality is the
quality of the Self and not self. As
long as we remain as self, we cannot lose our quality of selfishness. The feeling of ‘I’ and ‘I-ness is not there
for Self and it never exposes itself to others.
When we consider as everything belongs to Him, where is the question of
discrimination and hatred? We can only
love and love this universe and His creation.
Hatred comes sometime, when somebody behaves against the quality of His
creation, but immediately vanishes when we know that he is ignorant of his
doing.
Thoughts of the day:-
Infinite and All-loving Master, I lay
my heart at Thy Divine Feet;
May it be cleansed of all stain of
selfishness;
May it radiate a love that knows no
hate
May it find all its joy in willing
service to Thee and Thy children
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 153
“PEOPLE WHO WISH TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING IN THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE MUST NOT WAIT FOR SPECIAL OCCASION
O’ Master,
The stream of my life is ever flowing on,
Perchance checked by an impassable rock
As if blocked for all time from its goal
Yet the yearning soul with feeble stroke
Finds its course through adamantine walls.
We already possess all the higher qualities and we can
possess them consciously. We can bring
ourselves to such a state of mental evolution that we are always equipped for
our task. Then after we have done a day’s
work, instead of being depleted, we shall fell strong. When we depend upon our inferior faculties,
we accomplish less and we are often tired.
Our strength is replenished through simplicity, humility and trust.
Spiritual life is against all the unwanted rituals and
‘unworthy traditions’ created by
earlier people from time to time. These
rituals and faith were useful to them at that time, since all these were
related to that culture. Today all these
things do not have any value but we waste time in conducting and following
traditions of old age. Spiritual
occasions for a spiritual practitioner are very few. First, FINDING A SUITABLE MASTER OF RELIANCE, Second: SURRENDERING
EVERYTHING TO HIM, Third: ENLIGHTENMENT,
Fourth: REBIRTH WITHIN THIS LIFE OR DEATH OF ‘I’ WITHIN. We need not wait for
all these, it happens during our journey.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the All-abiding
Master free me from anxiety and fear
May He surround me
with His protecting love,
May I learn to draw
consciously on Him
May I find my rest
and peace in His abiding Presence
May I fasten my life to
that Unchanging One and depend on Him alone.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 154
“EVERY TASK SHOULD BE FOR THE GOOD OF MANY”
O’ Master,
I plead with them with all my might,
But they would not leave their accustomed ways of
darkness and of shadow, the enemies of life
O unhappy fate that leads the weary travelers from light
to dark!
There is not a moment in your life when you cannot render
service and set an example. Every one of
us can bring something to this world every day.
We can sound a note that will resound rhythm and harmony. When we cultivate our inner sense of values,
we cease to be fretful, we cease to complain and we always have something to
give. If we give with wholeness of
heart, we shall be able to remove mountains of obstacles and difficulties and
all our struggles, which arise from our imperfections and which make our life
so full of suffering, will vanish as slight before the day. This is the higher ideal of life,-oneness in
faith, oneness in hope and oneness in cheer.
Yes, we have born here to serve the humanity, because we are
also human. The best quality of a human
being is to be humane always throughout his life. This quality only makes him to be a member of
the society. God created human beings
with a purpose. No other species need to
practice spirituality, because they cannot change from their nature. However, human beings are different in their
nature due to their own samskaras. To
remove samskaras and to gain the best human nature, we need spiritual
practice. Spiritual practitioner
understands goals of his life, and one of the goals is to service the humanity.
We are all co-travellers towards ‘That’ and we should not be separated
throughout our journey, by creating difference among us.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the Divine Master
protect me from selfishness and narrowness of vision
May He enlarge my
heart and expand my love until it embraces all His children
May I never be impatient
or weary in His service
But may I feel at
peace in my own heart
And bring peace to
other hearts.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 155
“WE CANNOT
O’ Master,
With thy holy lamp in my hand, I stood at
the corner of the street of life a long, long time
At first, I thought that no one would ever
see my precious light;
My heart grew anxious and I called aloud
They turned and looked, but saw no light
nor understood my voice.
Those whose hearts are full of spiritual light, they long to
impart that. Not everyone may be open to
the higher Truth. It cannot be
apprehended by mere intellectual cleverness, nor can it be imparted by a little
oratory. But even the most unlettered
can serve the Divine Master or God and His children. If Truth is clarified by the life, and the
one who serves proves his fervor and sincerity, then the sense of Divine
Presence will be behind the service and it will be living. If it is living, it cannot fail to be
productive of good.
As said earlier, serving is the quality of human being. We serve our parents, brothers & sisters,
cousins, relatives, in-laws, friends and many others, who come across in our
life. Do you think that we have been
taught to serve our beloveds and others?
No, it is our inherent quality.
The problem here is we serve only the people whom we liked very much and
not others. We are not considering
everyone as the children of our Father, the great God. We feel sometimes that we are great by
serving few people of this society.
Absolutely not, we become great only when we replenish our true human
nature of serving all.
Thoughts of the day:-
O, My
Master, open my heart to Thy Divine influence,
That it
may be from pride and arrogance,
I know that
Thou art never far from me.
Grant unto
me the power to serve Thee humbly
And to
live with true selfless devotion and steadfastness of purpose.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 156
“STEADFASTNESS, LOVE, UNSELFISH DEVOTION
O’ Master,
Thou alone canst save us from the tyranny
of self
And restore unto us selfless love,
Whose fragrance bringeth life and healing.
The small concerns of the little self are all detrimental to
a man. Try to cultivate selfless love,
steadfastness and loyalty and a new world will open before you. These qualities cannot flourish in the soil
of selfishness. They do not come to one
who is a slave of himself. They are to
be found only in one who has learned to turn within and listen to the inner
voice of the soul.
Commitment, determination & loyalty to the Master are necessary in spiritual practice. Unless otherwise we discipline ourselves, we cannot become a true disciple of the Master. Ordinary man does not know what is spirituality and spiritual practice, because of his own samskaras. By chance, he comes to a spiritual guide and starts a spiritual practice under his guidelines. Once he becomes a true disciple by accepting his Master, his devotion and unchangeable loyalty increases multifold and starts receiving His blessings. His life will be settled, without any struggle.
Thoughts of the day:-
O’ The Ever pervading
Consciousness, make Thy Presence felt in my soul,
That I may know Thee
as the Embodiment of all blessedness & love,
Inspire me with love
and holiness
Cleanse my nature lf
all vanity and self-interest
Van fold my spiritual
insight that I may realize, Thee both within and without
Free my heart from all
in- harmony and keep me ever in Thy peace.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 157
“HUMAN LIFE IS A SACRED THING”
O’ Master,
My adoration to Thee, Thou heroic,
compassionate heart,
Who does lift the distressed from their
woeful state!
Thou Giver of superabundant life,
My soul’s adoration to Thee alone,
Thou incarnate spirit of light and love.
Our sacred obligation is not much to the outside world as to
ourselves. We must prove our Divine
heritage; we must show by our life that we are descendants of God, that we have
a mission from Him, that we live for Him, that we spread His love and the sense
of His living Presence. It is not a
question of mere preaching. Everyone
does not have to be a preacher, but everyone must live the life with humility
and purity of purpose.
We only heard that we are the children of God. We have to experience it. Once we prove our connection with Him, we
become the real descendants of God.
Human beings have to prove that the small spirit within him is a part of
‘THAT’ through their behaviour as a real Human Being. Human being is the closest species of God
among all the species created by Him.
This closeness is the speciality of this creed and realising Him is the
right of everyone. We attained Human
life only for this and not simply enjoy and waste our time. Spiritual practice under the guidelines of a
Master of Calibre can help human beings to realise Him and become His real
descendants.
Thoughts of the Day:-
May the
unbounded Spirit, who directs all our thoughts and actions,
May He
help me to live so worthily
That my
life may gain new majesty and sanctity
May I be
free from all smallness and pettiness
May I
live in the consciousness of the Infinitude of God
And look
to Him for all protection and inspiration.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.158
“STAND LIKE A SENTINEL GUARDING A SHRINE”
O’ Master,
Be brave; be true, and wait!
How long?
Who cares how long or how short!
Time is not our end;
Time is not our aim;
Nor waiting, our goal,
Yet wait and watch;
For time will be ripening Thy soul.
To abide by one’s Ideal necessitates undaunted courage,
unfailing vigour, unwavering faith and selfless aspiration. One must be fearless in opposition; in
failure one must be under pressed; and in moments of darkness one must have
faith. Love of our task must make us
forget ourselves and all sense of personal gain and loss.
To protect ourselves from negativity and negative thinking
people, we must have courage. Once we
start experiencing the presence of our beloved Master in us, courage comes
automatically and the purity inside us takes away all the negativity and
creates a distance from the negative thinking people. If we are sure that we protect our purity by
all means, we need not bother about any untoward things in our life. If courage is not there, spirituality cannot
work on others and we cannot transform the society.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
All-compassionate One!
Grant unto
me such a sense of Thy living Presence
That I
shall never fail to consecrate all my thoughts, words and actions unto Thee
Make my
heart free from all blemish and unloveliness
Make me
ever loyal and true to Thy service.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 159
“LIFE AFFORDS US ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR
UNFOLDMENT”
O’ Master,
The stream of my life is ever flowing on;
Perchance checked by an impassable rock,
As if blocked for all time from its goal
Yet the yearning soul with feeble stroke
Finds its course through adamantine walls.
A person cannot begin to think and unfold his inner
faculties without transforming everything.
His speech, his thought, his action will all manifest it. His life of
itself will be consecrated and steadfast in purpose. Egotism and aggressiveness often blind our
vision and make us miss higher opportunities.
Only as we learn to draw from within are we able to make the best use of
the opportunities,
As human beings we have tremendous capacities hidden within
us. We have to unfold these faculties to
use in our life. Our ego prevents to get
these qualities from within and directs towards unwanted areas. If we are able to connect with a Divine
Personality, who has the capacity to unfold our positive faculties, we should
not miss to meet him. NC gives this
guarantee to open up these qualities and accomplish in our day to day
life. Bring the Master in your heart and
allow Him to cleanse your mind thoroughly.
We should not miss this opportunity in our life.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Supreme Master of the universe,
Reveal Thyself
unto me that my mind be freed from all lethargy and doubt
Lift my
thoughts and prayers that I may have access to Thy Infinite Being
Make my
heart harmonious and peaceful
That I
may be ready for Thy Holy Spirit to come within me.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.160
“THE AIM OF ALL SPIRITUAL TEACHING IS TO
MAKE S LOVING, PURE, HUMBLE AND UNSELFISH.”
O’ Master,
Alter-flower, I have watched three with
deepest wonderment
Thou fragrant beauty of delicate loveliness
Thou hast given thine all !
Now thou art fading
Art thou dead?
Nay, thou art risen to thy glory,-
Thou art ascended !
Religions do not differ fundamentally one from the other; they
all point the way upward, God ward. They
tell us never to be afraid to lift up our head to God. They strive to give us a greater vision, to
make us forget our smallness and realize our Divine inheritance. They show us the way to attain fulfilment; they
say we must cease to cling to the little notion of “I and mine” and cultivate
humility and simplicity.
All the religions in this Universe are emerged with one goal
only, to transform the human beings from barbarian attitudes to civilized
ones. This effort is done by every
religious leader of the yore. When the
followers strictly follow the principles with love and courage they get
transformed to real human being and start their spiritual journey. Then they become spiritual persons. And every spiritual person acquires the
quality of real divine love because of his purity of mind, courage because his
God within is active, humble because of humility and simplicity and unselfish
because his own selfishness is lost due to his positive thinking and unselfish
attitude.
Thoughts of the day:-
In this
hour of worship, I gather up my thoughts
And lay
them at the feet of “THAT’ One who is my loving Master
May He
lend me His tender protection
And lead
me in the path of humility and unselfishness
May He
protect me from all ignorance
And enfold
me with His holy peace.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.161
“PRACTISE HUMILITY. NEVER TRY TO GET AHEAD
OF ANYONE.”
O’ Master,
Thou Divine Messenger, Friend of the lowly,
Dwell within my heart, be it in poverty or
in wealth.
Be it in pomp or pain, be it in darkness or
in light
Do Thou dwell in my heart as my Friend and
Guide.
The spiritual life can become very living. When our life moves along avenues of humility
and simplicity, we are healthier and happier.
That which represents simplicity, with order and messiness, that is
naturally the best way and that is the spiritual way. Not by strain
and struggle, not by aggressiveness and self-assertion, can
we approach Truth.
It comes to those who
are humble and surrendered to the Divine Master.
Humility is one of the qualities of a spiritual person,
because he behaves like a real human being.
To practice humility, we should have the sacrificing tendency, when
needed. We may have to lose sometimes to
gain something to us or for others.
Every time, we should not think of crossing anyone for the sake of
fulfilling our selfishness.
A leader always sacrifices for the sake of his
followers. Every spiritual person is a
‘leader’ and can help many others during his life time. We should only
gain the strength to do this kind of sacrifice and practise
humility.
Thoughts of the day:-
In prayer
I lift my heart to the Infinite Divine Master,
May He
free it from all unkindness and unloveliness
May He
fill it with His love, leaving room for naught else
May I serve
all His children with humility and unselfishness
And shed
His light at every step.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No.162
“DIVINE MASTER PICKS UP THE HUMBLE LIFE AND
MAKES IT FRUITFUL”
O’ Master,
I found happiness nowhere till my self-will
was lost in His will.
Now I have no will of mine, nor do I want
my will again.
His will is my will and my will is His
In His Will is my delight, His Presence is
my peace
The lowly ground, there the water rolls; there it fertilizes
and enriches the soil. People who are
great are never aggressive or domineering. There is no reason to be either
arrogant or self-depreciative. When we
depreciate ourselves, it is not humility.
When we fall into despair and despondency, it means we have lost our
higher instinct and forgotten our own true value. Our sense of values has become distorted.
Our beloved Master never advises to become aggressive and
dominating, because
love cannot be there
in these two qualities. Where love is
not there, there cannot be humbleness and simplicity. When we make our life humble and simple, we
get appiness, and life becomes fruitful.
In spirituality, we practise Divine Love and not ordinary human
love. If we want the Divine Love to be
active in us, we should try to practise all the positive qualities known to
us. Be with the Master, He teaches
everything.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
All-blessed One, bestow upon me tThy grace,
That I
may always yield my will up to Thine,
And seek
Thy Will alone
Free me
from all sense of self-importance and arrogance
Take from
me all heaviness and sadness and make me worthy of Thy blessing.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 163
“FEAR NOT WHEN YOUR BELOVED DIVINE MASTER IS
WITH YOU”
O’ Master,
I fear not, my heart,
Even the darkest night must end at dawn!
Clouds and mist may come and go,
But they cannot rob Sun’s radiant glow
Look up, mine eyes, keep steady watch,
For never must ye lose your guiding star
Hold fast! Hold fast!
Faith and courage are His tender blessings;
He will not hold these from thee when He
sees thy yearning, struggling soul
Rest will come when thy toil is done.
All our negative thinking and qualities are because of our
own samskaras and our soul or the ‘God within’ is not at all responsible for
these. When we suffer because of our own
samskaras, we remember Him with humility and love. But when we love our beloved Master and bring
Him inside, we get His assurance that He will be with us always, especially
during our hard times. We need not
worry, He says, it is His duty to be with us, when we depend upon Him fully.
Internalisation is the process of bringing Him inside our
heart. Unless we keep our mind clean and
away from our dirty thoughts, He cannot continue His stay in us. But one thing He says, “Do not get perturbed when
we love Him sincerely and follow His guidelines in our life, His help is always
for us and He is only for us and always ours, ours only.”
Thoughts of the day:-
Where is
the prayer, when Thou stays in me
My heart
expands with joy and courage
I expect
only Thy divine blessings
Be with me
always and leave me not alone in the darkness
Play with
me, stay with me always
May my
death happen in Your Divine heart and not elsewhere
And stay
until I live in this world.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 164
“THE DEDICATD SPIRITUAL PRACTICE GIVES US
TANGIBLE POWER BY WHICH WE EXPERIENCE THINGS WHICH AT PRESENT SEEM UNATTINABLE”
O’ Master,
Thy countenance of compassion has
transfixed me.
All my wants are forgot; I am lost yet
fixed in Thee
Lost am I in this wonder of wonders!
Spiritual attainment seems at times so distant that we even
doubt our ability to acquire it, but all these doubts vanish when we approach
the Divine Light of the Master. When we
turn our back to this Light, we do not see it.
But when we turn our back to ourselves and our face towards this Light,
we see it shining there steady and unfailing.
Then if we follow it with undaunted spirit and fervent devotion, we
reach the Highest.
The Light mentioned above seems to be non-tangible for our
naked eyes. But for a real spiritual
practitioner, this Light can be experienced with the help of our beloved
Master.
Though this Light is understood as luminosity, really this
Light is the lightness that we are going to experience in our mind through
spiritual practice. This lightness of
the mind gives tremendous strength and courage.
This non-luminous Divine Light of the beloved Master, when transmitted and translitted to the practitioner,
lights the spirit within
him (God within) and allows its own expansion continuously.
This gives
tangible mental power & positive qualities to the
practitioner.
Thoughts of the day:-
May My
Master, the Giver of all blessing bestow upon me the gift of a truer devotion,
May He
teach me to depend upon Him for all power and strength
May He
help me to realize that He is behind my every thought and act,
That I am
but His humble child, at all times led by His all-wise Hand.
May I walk
in His Light and follow His path at every step.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 165
“IF WE HAVE TRUE LOVE IN OUR HEARTS, WE
CAN
NEVER BE UNHAPPY”
O’ Master,
When Thou art near me I am filled with
irrepressible joy,
Oft am I held speechless as I gaze on Thy
unformed beauty.
Thou art ever silent, yet Thy voice
re-sounds the sweet music of the universe
How can anyone who has lived close to the beloved Master be
anything but happy? Unless we can
maintain unshaken devotion to the Ideal, we shall lose all our blessing. We must never doubt or question. When we learn to love and trust without
reserve or questioning, there comes upon us a great peace and that peace has
wonderful healing influence. It soothes
and cheers. It makes us over and sets us
free.
True love is the love experienced by others, when we love
them. If our loved ones do not
experience love from us, we do not love.
True Love is the quality of a spiritual person, who expects nothing when
he loves others. This unconditioned love
can be experienced gradually by anyone who gets connected with a spiritualised
person. In NC, the practitioner can
experience himself this Divine Love once he accepts our beloved Master fully
and undoubtedly. And once this practitioner reaches higher levels of
spirituality through a dedicated practice, others can also experience the same
love from him when they are with him.
Thoughts of the day:-
All-tender
Master, Thou art the embodiment of love,
Shed its
purifying influence upon my mind and heart
Quicken
with new ardour my life of devotion, my aspiration and my prayers
Rouse in me
greater spiritual yearning
May my
love for Thee be so great, my delight in Thee so unbounded
That I
shall never yield to discouragement or discontent
But shall
ever live with Thee in peace.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 166
“WHATEVER WE DO WITH WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS
BRINGS
ABUNDANT RESULTS”
O’ Master,
Love is a Divine essence
Its inbreathing is life
What is opposed to love is enemy of life
Those who love truly, they live;
For love abounds in unending life.
There cannot be any devotion without wholeheartedness. Devotion
cannot be with calculation. As long as
there is any element of calculation, there cannot be any real spiritual
devotion. In the crude form of religion,
man may pray out of fear.
He is afraid of a powerful revengeful Deity, so he bends his
knee to
be forgiven of his
sins. But the man, who is truly devoted
to spirituality and
Divine Master, bends his knee
out of pure love and
humble worship.
When our heart expands towards good things and good
qualities through a spiritual practice and Master, we express only love,
sympathy, mercy, etc. to others.
When we apply these
conditions in our mind before doing any work along with
courage, we get results automatically. When our heart is filled up with our beloved
Master’s energy wholly, we forgetting ourselves, we cannot perform
anything without whole-heartedness. Holy hearts never
expect results while
performing duties.
Because, results come with the benevolence of the divine Master,
automatically without
any application of mind, abundantly and
fruitfully.
Thoughts of the day:-
In this hour of my existence, I lift my heart to the
Divine Master
May He receive the divine touch and be inspired with new
fervour
May all the wounds of my heart be healed by that touch,
I bring all that I have and all that I am to that One
Who alone can give me fullness of life.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 167
“IT IS NOT THAT ANYONE LACKS LOVE, BUT THE
LOVE IS OFTEN MISDIRECTED.”
O’ Master,
It is beauty I love
Though like the foolish moth
Oft I burn my limbs in the flame,
Yet evermore my soul craves its attainment…
In love and with love
I seek the Maker of the Beautiful.
What bars the stream of love? Fear, petty thoughts, anxiety. If you would have it
flow freely, you must free yourself from the habit of
complaint and discontent.
Never any complaining
spirit enters into true discipleship.
Love and selfless
devotion to something higher alone give access. If we keep our mind fixed
on the main end of
our life, we shall attain it. Attaining
love is very
easy through sincere and dedicated spiritual practice.
Divine love what we mention in spirituality is available
within every human being. When we do not
get proper guide in our life, we have been misguided. The pure love
that we are supposed to receive is misdirected. People exploit others in the name of
love and ditch them sometimes. Divine Love cannot deceive anyone, because it
belongs to Him and
plenty of it is available within us.
Spiritual practice is to dig
out this love from within to our surface mind. This love not only helps us
but helps others also without our knowledge. A practitioner who attained
the condition to transmit Divine Love to others either knows
that he is
transmitting or he
experiences the Divine Love received by others.
Thoughts of the day:-
I lift my
thought to the Supreme Divine Master, who
Knows all my struggles and failures
May He
awaken in my heart a new sense of His abiding love
And may
that love flow back to Him in unceasing worship and devotion
May it
never turn to the objects of this world
May He
give me the power to consecrate myself to Him more fully,
And live
in ever closer and closer contact with His holy Presence.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 168
“LOOK INWARD TO KNOW HIM, EXPERIENCING
TRANQUILITY AND CHEERFULLNESS”
O’ Master,
Sing when joy fills thy mind!
Sing when sadness crowds thy heart!
Sing when thy life-stream runs its fullness!
Sing when death brings its darkest gloom!
Sing that song which will never change with
time or tide of life!
Light and shadow, joy and pain, Fame,
infamy, loss and gain-
These are all set hours for our life’s
eternal song.
The wise, who knows That One hidden in the cave of the heart
as God, is
liberated from the fetters of joy and sorrow. A mortal having realized through
discrimination the subtle Self (Immortal Spirit) rejoices, because he has
obtained that which is the Source of all joy.
- Katha-Upanishad.
The oneness of the individual soul and Supreme is
established in the categorical statement that the Supreme Being is manifest as
the inner Self of all creation, animate and inanimate. It is He who abides and pervades their
varying forms and tendencies. Dwelling
within the body, He is the witness of the past and the future as well.
Knowledge of the self is gained when one realises that He exists in all and all
exist in Him.
Being self-luminous and beyond all thought, it is He who
illumines the world. He is the light in whose presence things are known and
identified. He shines and all things
else shine as a result. Everything in
the universe reflects but that light “Subtler than the subtlest is He, farther
than the farthest, nearer than the nearest. He
Resides in the shrine of the heart of every being”
Thoughts of the day:-
May I
reach Him, who is hidden inside, through my beloved Master
While
reaching Him, My Master only guides me, I am sure,
Know that
He is the He, who is my beloved Master,
My
delight to find Him there.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 169
“LIFE IS A LADDER UP WHICH WE GO STEP BY
STEP.”
O’ Master,
The good and the pleasant approach
man. The wise examines both and
discriminates between them; the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the
foolish man chooses the pleasant through love of bodily pleasure. –
Katha-Upanishad
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Knowledge of the Self is to be aware of the soul’s immortal
nature against the mortality of the body, and of it being very much a part of
the Infinite and the Absolute. This
knowledge is described as a smokeless flame, which shines without the blurring effect
of ignorance. Only those who are contemplative, strong, have the yearning to
know Him, and strive to meditate on Him in the right manner can attain Him.
The teaching emphasises that to escape the tangle of
illusion, one need to overcome attachments, threats and temptations. To tread this path of adhering to
righteousness one needs to exercise one’s will and sense of
discrimination. This can help in
transcending one’s individuality that appears in the form of ego. One should realise that anything that is
achieved through desires and actions shall vanish one day and that the only
Thing ever enduring
and worth knowing is the one Self in all.
Knowing the self is
the key to knowing the world.
Balance is necessary.
You cannot climb a ladder without balance. What does poise imply? That we are in a balanced, normal
state. We should definitely cultivate
this. There are certain fundamental
principles which underlie everything, and life is not complete until we have
our grasp on these. Poise and higher aspiration are among them. When life is full of non-essentials, we have
no time for the essentials. We cannot
lay emphasis on what is superficial without affecting the course of our
destiny.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Eternal One, my beloved Master, grant me wisdom
That I
may learn to fasten my little life to Thy great Eternal Life
Merge my
love in Thy unending Love
Give me
higher aspiration, more fervent devotion;
And help
me more and more to realize that naught exists apart
From Thy Supreme existence
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 170
“MANIFEST DIVINE WISDOM IN
YOUR DAILY LIFE.”
O’ Master,
Dangerous are the senses,
they even carry away forcibly the mind of a discriminative man who is striving
for perfection. The man of steady
wisdom, having subdued them all (senses), becomes fixed in me, the Supreme. His
wisdom is well-established whose senses are under control……………………… Bhagavat Gita
Chaos rises when all the lower instincts of
man become uppermost. The bite of a
rattlesnake is not half so dangerous as the sting of anger, envy, jealousy and
hatred. They distort the mind and poise
the whole system. The ways of the mind are countless. Every thought and deed causes a ripple or a
wave in the mind-stuff. The most harmful
ones we recognize are anger, hatred and jealousy. They are counteracted by waves of love,
generosity, patience and unselfishness.
Every thought creates impression in the
mind. These thoughts come through the
five senses. When the senses give the
information to the brain to receive the messages, mind also gets involved in
creating thoughts and impressions. Brain
does not know the positive and negative, it acts according to the need of the
hour. If we are able to screen the needs
through our mind, brain acts accordingly.
The five senses give us lot of information whatever we see, hear, touch,
taste and smell. Though everything reach
to the brain, it does not act on its own but waits the order of the mind to
act. So many things will be screened
automatically because mind cannot work two places at a time, perfectly. If we purify our mind through an effective
spiritual practice, our mind screens all the unwanted information and protects
from creating impressions. Thereby we will not be pulled by the senses and our
mind protects ourselves from bad deeds.
This capacity of mind is called divine and
the personality whose mind working with divine capacity is called divine
personality. Purification of mind is
most essential to progress in spirituality and utilise spirituality in material
life.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the Supreme Master make
me so strong and resolute in the spiritual path
That I may never follow my
lower instincts
Or yield to the promptings
of the senses
May I show forth His love
in all my service
May I never give way to
anger or hatred
May my mind dwell in holy
thought,
And my heart rest in His
Infinite Heart.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY &
GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No. 171
“IF OUR REAL INTEREST IS IN THE HIGHER, THE
WHOLE LIFE WILL MANIFEST IT”
O’
Master,
The good is one thing and the pleasant
another. These two, having different
ends, bind a man. It is well with him
who chooses the good. He who chooses the
pleasant misses the true end. …………………………
Katha-Upanishad.
When we enter into true relationship with our fellow-men and
with Divinity, we find our own true worth.
We would all like to feel that fortified state of mind which comes from
conscious connection with the Whole; but the ego brings a harsh, discordant
note into our life and makes it barren and unhappy. It also creates unhappiness for other
lives. It is through the ego that we say
something unkind to another or that we hurt another; but we hurt ourselves more,
because we cannot harm another without harming ourselves. Only one who is master of himself can help
others to be happy.
All the pleasant things cannot be good, and all the good
things cannot be pleasant to us.
Spiritual practice is to identify the good and not the pleasant
ones. Anything above, our life is more
important to us. But how do we know that
what are important in our life?
We get confused sometimes to select the right ones which
will support our life. Here we require a
guide to advise properly to give a different sight to choose the right ones.
Spiritual practice and a right spiritual guide is a must to
bring us to know what is important in our life.
If we can spiritualise our material life, our problems of surviving in
this planet gets dissolved and we start living pleasantly with all the good and
important things in our life.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Abiding Presence, do Thou manifest Thyself in my life,
May I
never think of myself as a mortal perishable and frail;
But help
me to realise that I am born of spirit
May I
express spiritual grandeur in all I do and say and think,
And
glorify Thee at every step.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.172
“A TRUE LOVER ALWAYS LOVES”
O’
Master,
Think of love and speak of love;
Dream of love and sing of love-
Let love reign in our life.
Love cannot be a compulsion; but if you have not this rare
gift, both human and Divine, what have you?
You are deprived of everything.
Why do we love? Because we have made ourselves avenues through which
love flows. Love is a lubricant, Life is
a machine which needs frequent oiling and love does this. We must never forget that hatred is conquered
by love, harshness by gentles. Do not
brood over harm. Any ordinary man can
brood over an injury only the noble man forgives.
It is not at all necessary to explain what love is. Because, every human being knows love and
also experiences the same many a time in his life. Every species in this universe experiences
happiness when they get love from someone.
It is a happy occasion to be with a beloved. Pure Love removes all
negative thoughts and attitudes. A true
lover will not do anything against his beloved and spoil him. Lover does only good things to his beloved
but removes his burden in life. Pure
love comes from a true spiritual practice.
Pure Love takes the practitioner towards Truth. If love is not associated with Truth, it is
not pure love. When Truth is experienced
with the help of pure love, the experiencer experiences another love called
Divine Love. This divine love is the
Highest Love which makes to love everyone in this Universe. Because, this love belongs to “HIM”.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
all-loving Master, make me clear channel through which thy love may flow out to
the world.
May I
never harbour hatred or resentment in my heart.
May I be so
pure and selfless that I shall be worthy to enter thy Holy of holies,
And taste
the sweetness of thy divine Love
Grant that
I may never fail to share that love with all who suffer and are oppressed.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE’
Golden Message No. 173
“WE CANNOT SINK WITHOUT DRAGGING OTHERS
DOWN”
O’
Master,
May the Ego henceforth stay out of this
land, for it is guarded by His Sentinels?
When the Ego didst first enter my home as a
friend, I trusted thee, also thy companions;
But thou (ego) art no friend of mine.
Thou hast brought me vanities of self-love,
pride and passion.
It is a diseased state of mind when we look at another or
speak to another harshly. It implies a
low grade of humanity. When we strike at
another, we deal a blow at ourselves. We
cannot harm another without having a harmful reaction in our own life. When big forces stir in small vessels, it
rouses the worst in them. When anger and
hatred sweeps over a little nature, it acts like a fever or delirium; it causes
havoc and disaster.
In a human nature, when I spoil myself, I also try to spoil
my associates. It is epidemic. When we are bad, we try to motivate our
friends towards bad things. Nobody
becomes bad on his own, he gets into
bad companions. It is the same as the
Good guy is concerned. He becomes good
because of his associates and creates good friends because of his
goodness. It is also epidemic. Let us sink together into goodness and drag
others into the
Thoughts of the day:-
O my
Master, the Infinite One, awaken in my soul a sense of thy Reality,
That I
may never do anything unworthy of thy Presence.
Though
knowest my innermost thoughts,
Cleanse
them of all impurity and imperfection,
And uplift
my mind and heart
That they
may never fail to seek Thee.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & AND GIVE A
PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden
Message No. 174
“COMPLETE FAITH AND
SURRENDER ARE PERFECTLY PRACTICAL IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.”
O’ Master,
Anything or nothing – I am content if it be
Thy Will
When Thou dost dwell in my heart feel no
lack of things of this world
Only one thing I ask of Thee –
That Thou dost abide with me always and
evermore.
There is nothing impossible unto the Divine Master. If we can only yield ourselves to His
beneficent Will, no ill can touch us. It
is through surrender that we know the Will of the Great master. What a pity it is when we forget the One who
is always ready to guide us and protect us.
When we have surrendered, all our troubles cease; not that they have
been eliminated, but we have risen above them.
Many of us do not know the difficulty to get a divine Master
as our guide. Our Master is an
embodiment of love and truth. He is the
possessor of Godly essence. Sometimes it
takes time to realise it. The more we
delay to realise the truth about our Divine Master, we ourselves delay to
happen the things in our life. Practice
to LOVE HIM, who loves all. There is
nothing in the world that He cannot do, provided we surrender everything to
Him.
Understand what He says, follow what He says to follow,
think whatever He wants us to think, rest of our work become automatic.
Thoughts
of the day:-
O Thou
Giver of all strength fills me with new strength and power;
Free me
from all weakness and faltering
May I
never seek safety or protection apart from Thee;
Thou
alone canst guide me and bring me fulfilment.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya
Shiva Balan
“LIVE
IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No. 175
“NO MAN IS STRONG ENOUGH TO
STAND ALONE”
O’
Master,
How long with Thou play this game of hide
and seek?
May we not play another that keeps us
always together?
Those who have their eyes open, instead of lifting their own
hand in defence; they look wholly to the Divine Master for protection. Whenever, we lift up our petty little self,
we strike a discordant note and we deal a blow at our higher Divinity. When we have perfect trust in the Master, we
cease to be petty and small in our thought and action. It is always the ego that betrays us and
makes us unworthy. If we see only the Master
everywhere and trust entirely to Him, what will happen to us? It will purify us; it will sanctify us; it
will free us from all pain and selfishness.
Master seems to be hiding for the people who try to hide
themselves from the Master. We have to
become naked in front of Him to know Him fully.
This nakedness belongs to our mind and not to the body. Opening our mind always invite Him to stay
with us. Making to stay in our heart is
our duty ad not His duty. He wishes to
stay in every heart but He does not get permission nor is He allowed to stay on
His own. The moment we give a little
space to Him in our heart, He enters without any effort and expands Himself
with our co-operation.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the
All-compassionate One shield me from the onslaughts of pride and egotism
May He
fill my heart with undaunted trust
And make
me holy, selfless and uplifted
May I
look to Him at every hour for guidance
And cease
to live or act apart from His all-encompassing wisdom.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 176
“THE ALL-BENEFICIENT POWER NEVER FAILS
US. IT IS ALWAYS READY TO SHEILD
O’
Master,
Great Master Heart, how tender art Thou;
Thy Love, transcending all mine iniquities,
Pours upon my life its benign sweetness.
How oft my imperfect nature lies mortified
and by Thy unfathomed tenderness;
Who art Thou that givest this endless
bounty to meritless and ignorant?
Surrender yourself entirely unto the Divine Master, and then
there will be no danger. Take good care
of your spiritual life in every way and never neglect anything. Then the Master’s blessings will ever
surround you and keep you safe. He will
guide and protect you. Be always careful
about everything. Remember He has a
tender loving heart and always holds you close!
Surrender to the Divine Master is equivalent to surrendering
to the Atman or Bhagavat-chaitanya within ourselves. This Chaitanya in us speak to us through our
own Master in the human body initially, until we achieve the condition to
receive the communication from within.
The all potent power within us will start communicating to us in the
form of Divine Master, through our own divine thoughts. All of a sudden we will be surprised, how the
divine thoughts started coming into us!
These thoughts come through a purified mind which possesses the Divine
Master.
Thoughts of the day:-
All-protecting
Master, help me to open my heart to Thee with sincere and spontaneous devotion
I am Thy
little child, ever in need of Thy watchful care.
Make Thy
Mother-love felt in my heart
May I
yield myself up wholly to Thy Father-love
And never
fail to lean upon Thee in willing submission to Thy Will.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 177
“THE DIVINE MASTER WILL DO
EVERYTHING FOR US, IF WE BRING HIM ONE FLASH FO SOUL-JOY”.
O’
Master,
Verily, Thou art the Master of miracle!
Thy approach filleth our soul with light of
gladness
Where Thou dwellest the gloom of darkness
can never be
Thou art the perpetual sun that feedeth my
soul with ever fresh life.
Complaining never accomplishes anything. Master is eternally blissful. If we approach Him with a sick soul, our
sickness is cured. Whenever we connect
ourselves with Him, all our ills are healed.
Master never wants us to live with sad heart; He is always ready to
carry our burdens.
We should feel, speaking the truth to Him is our moral
duty. The more we get away from Him, we
are the defaulters. Are we trying to
become the best disciple for Him? Are we
following his guidelines in our life?
Are we satisfying Him by following his instructions? Are we really
interested to stay with Him forever? Let
us analyse ourselves to know the answers for the above. Once we are truthful to ourselves, we can be
truthful to Him also.
Practice spirituality in all walks of our life. We can not only satisfy Him but also give Him
the soul-joy.
Thoughts of the day:-
In this
hour of prayer I lift my heart to Thee, O Thou all-protection Divine
Free me
from all fretfulness and complaining
Make me
strong and contented
May I
take cheerfully whatever Thou sendest, and bear my burdens bravely.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 178
“THE DIVINE MASTER HAS
GIVEN
O’
Master,
My soul is happy with an inexpressible joy
Since I say His smiling face turned towards
me
I can never forget that radiant smile;
Wherever I go it haunts me by day and it
haunts me by night
When in grim despair of life, it brightens
my path with hope and love.
No man can attain his goal without practising the higher
principles of life. No man can be truly happy who is selfish. What possible use is outer light if there is
darkness inside? Happiness is a quality
of the soul. It enters the soul which
has tasted God-consciousness. God is
ever cheerful. Life is given to us to
work out our freedom and lasting happiness.
We have experienced human level happiness many a times. Did we experience the Divine happiness at any
time? This happiness is totally
different from ordinary human happiness. Happiness is the state of mind,
whether it is a human happiness or the Divine. It is a devoid condition of all the sorrows
or impurities of our mind. When we
remove sorrow, happiness does not come automatically, because it requires
another incident or article to give us happiness. But divine happiness or bliss comes
automatically once we remove our impurities, negative thinking negative
attitudes etc.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Giver lf all joy, may I not be unworthy of Thy gifts
But may I
radiate happiness and cheer in every hour of my daily life
Help me
to realise that when I am sad, it is because I am separated from Thee
All my
sadness and sorrow will vanish when I seek Thee with open heart.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 179
“ASK YOUR MASTER THAT YOU
MAY BE ABLE TO SERVE WISELY.”
O’
Master,
I was sad at heart, most doubtful of my
thankless task
But I stood firm, obedient to Thy Will
At last a few came and paused and asked me
what manner of light was this that burned without oil or wick
I told them it was Thy unfailing lamp that
needs no aid of human hand;
I begged them to kindle their own, but they
were afraid and hesitant.
The best thing we can do for others is to inspire them with
new hope and courage; by doing this we also benefit ourselves. We can never hold lofty, noble thoughts
without benefiting both ourselves and others.
Man needs action, he needs help, he needs service, he needs love, and he
needs cheer. Do everything with selfless
ness and a true spirit of service and you cannot fail to bring blessing.
Anything that we do should have a sense. This sense is the belongingness of ours
towards the nature and nature’s creations.
When we start realising the truth that this nature is ours and we have
to protect it and its creations from calamity and sorrows. Human beings require motivation at every
point of time, whether it is from within or outside. This motivation from within is not possible
always because of the heaviness of mind due to unbearable loss or failure. Such time is the hardest time for a human
being when he really needs help of motivation from outside. If we are spiritual in our thoughts and
actions, we can motivate anyone who is in distress and pain.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
inexhaustible Source of life and wisdom,
Grant
that I may feel Thy all-abiding Spirit within me
Reveal Thy
Divine wisdom unto me
That Ii
may convey it to all thy children
May I bring
to Thee a willing service
And may
thy love flow through my heart to all living things.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 180
‘AS WE LIVE IN THE DIVINE
LIGHT OF OUR MASTER, WE SEE MORE AND MORE CLEARLY THE PURPOSE OF LIFE AND WE
LEARN TO LIVE MORE WORTHILY”
O’
Master,
It is the flame without smoke;
It burns without fuel, save what is not
visible to the eyes
It burns in the mouth of the wise
It dwells in heart of love
It is the perpetual altar fire where saints
pour their oblation of worship
It is eternal life.
Everyone should carry the inner light of God, even when
sorrow and misfortune come. There is no
chance happening in this world. Great
souls do not complain or rebel against adverse conditions, they convert them
into benefits. They change evil into
good. People who have any deep thought, how majestic and calmly they are. Where does this calm spirit come from? It is
from the inner courage and truthfulness.
Our divine Master is the biggest carrier of God’s
essence. If we are able to connect Him
with love and respect, we can obtain this Divine Light without any effort. Love is the only path through which we can
attain this Light. When Love and Truth
are together with righteousness, there must be the divine light. Our sincere spiritual practice, following the
guidelines of our divine Master will definitely lead us to become the carrier
of this Divine Light. We become an
instrument like a petro-max carrier.
Wherever we go, we carry it and the people surround us get the benefits.
Thoughts of the day:-
I offer
my heart’s prayer to the Great Master
May I
learn to carry His blessing without any obstruction
May I be
worthy of His gifts
May His
beneficent light shine through me
And bring
understanding in my heart.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No. 181
“BE VIBRANT WITH LOVE,
FAITH AND HUMILITY.”
O’
Master,
Faith, thou dost lift my humble heart,
Faith, thou dost show me His glory.
Faith, thou dost give me the nectar of love
to drink,
To revive and refresh my spirit.
How oft thou dost bear me up
From the world of doubt and weight of self!
We can make and unmake our outer conditions by our thoughts
and feelings. If we are humble, sincere
and full of faith and devotion, we can change the whole order of things in our
outer life. If our miseries are the
result of a wrong point of view, we can remove them by discrimination, right
feeling and nobility of purpose. Many
times we may have to fail and stumble, but if our efforts are blessed with the
Grace of the Supreme Master, they will always be fruitful.
The positive side of love is vibrancy. The eternal love within us gives us the
vitality and courage to live in this world.
The liveliness of love never gets shaded by prejudice. Love has such a capacity to wash away all our
impurities. This love along with faith
gives humility in our life which can lead us to advanced spiritual condition. This Eternal Love is the divine love hidden
in us because of our ‘selfishness’ and once this selfish ego moves from us, we
start experiencing this divine love.
There is no equivalent love to this divine love, because it is eternal.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Supreme One, I lift my heart to Thee
Help me
to assimilate the spiritual blessings which Thou dost bestow upon me so
abundantly
May Thy
Presence kindle within me a more fervent fire of faith and devotion
Thou art
the Source of my life and strength
Unfold my
understanding, that I may feel myself at one with Thee in spirit.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 182
“WE MUST SEEK THE PATH OF
HOLINESS, THE PATH OF STRENGTH, THE PATH OF CONSECRATED ACTION.”
O’ Master,
These thoughts of my inmost soul that I
sing,
It mattereth not whether they be in rhyme,
rhapsody or prayer
The songs of the soul are not made of words
The singers that are true sing not with
their voice or tongue
But with feelings which are beyond
utterance.
The finer qualities can never be monopolized by anyone. We can sing the same song as Saints and
Saviours. We may remember only fragments
of it, but we can gather all those parts and sing the whole song as they have
sung it. When we partake of the inward
life, we become sanctified and all things assume their proper value in our
outer life.
We may be surprised as to what these saints would have sung
in those days? They sing the music of
the soul, the only sound it can produce, and that is ‘silence’. If we continue
to sing the song of silence, through our mind and not through mouth, definitely
one day we can reach our goal of experiencing the ‘silence on reality.’ How a
musician goes in Trans when he
himself is enjoying his music, a saint goes in Trans on enjoying his inner music of silence. Silencing the mind is the only way to control
our mind from unwanted thoughts. The
path of holiness is the silence and that is the path towards strengthening
ourselves from fear and worries and the path of sanctified accomplishment.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Eternal, Infinite One,
Grant
unto me a serene heart
Grant
unto me a peaceful heart
Fill my
heart full of love for Thee and Thy children
Cleanse
it of all weak and narrow feelings
Make it
joyous and selfless and all-embracing
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 183
“EVEN A LITTLE SPARK OF
HOLY ASPIRATION WILL TRANSFORM THE HEART AND MIND AND MAKE THEM CAPABLE OF
HIGHER THOUGHT AND FEELING”
O’ Master,
When pure Spirit shines who sees it
Few; yea, only a very few
For not many have the Seeing Eye
Many see the light of the sun, the moon,
and the far-distant starts
And the light of yon road-side lamp;
But only the pure heart with the eye of
love
Can see the light that shineth from pure
Spirit.
A man who is spiritual cannot be less capable in any
direction. He has greater capacity for
loving God, he is able to love his fellow-beings more; he has clear vision and
greater power. Too often we are afraid
to take interest in big things because we do not wish to let go of the small;
yet in that bigger thing we find the smaller included. Our life is never impoverished by higher
aspiration, it is always enriched.
When we understand our goal clearly, it becomes easy to
attain it. Any trial to attain the real
goal gives holiness automatically and they become holy-men without their
knowledge. Holiness is the acquired
capacity of a saint to perform rightful things all the times. This holiness is
the lights a saint spreads to others with love.
Higher level of thoughts and experience comes after attaining the
holiness. Attaining holiness becomes
easy when you are connected to a real spiritual Master.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
all-radiant One
Out of Thy
compassion, kindle in my heart a new fire of holy aspiration
Clarify
my sight, that I may gain new vision
Cleanse my
mind, that I may perceive Thy presence in all things
And
dedicated myself with new ardour to Thy service.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 184
“THERE IS A SONG FOR EVERY
HOUR, LIFE IS A ‘CONSTANT SONG’ TO THOSE WHOSE EARS ARE OPEN”
O’ Master,
At times, I catch the echo of Thy voice in
my song
Then my madness grows with joy
And I sing again and again
Not to hear my own voice
But no catch the echo of Thy voice in my
song
It is not a strenuous effort to sing this song of life. It comes easily in the heart that is directed
towards God. It is because we are not
trusting that we do not sing that song.
A man cannot have happiness until he has earned the right to
happiness. When our heart is in tune
with the Infinite Heart or Divine Master’s Heart, a joyous song of life arises
spontaneously in our soul. That song is
never boisterous or noisy. It sings
itself in silent communion with the inward Presence of our master.
Probably most of the poets may appreciate that there is a
song for the soul. If at all the soul
sings itself, the music must be silent.
This silent singing of the soul cannot be heard by the human being
because he is in sound. Silencing the
mind can hear the sound of the silence, which comes from the soul. This silent song can be enjoyed more
beautifully, when we are able to enter the Heart of our Master through our Love
towards Him. Once we enter His Heart, we
start receiving the Divine Love from Him automatically. Love Him completely and
receive His Divine Love permanently.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
All-radiant Master, help me to live this day with radiant spirit
May I do
each task joyously and with contented heart
May Thy
voice sing in my soul, Thy flame of love burn in my heart
May my own
voice be silent, my own will lost in Thy Will.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 185
‘THE SELFLESS HEART IS
ALWAYS IN RHYTHM.”
O’ Master,
The voice of love hath melted my life into
sweet harmony;
The holy compassion hath filled my heart
with endless song
My soul breathes now in peace and music
Steady devotion and unfailing selflessness always bring joy
and satisfaction to the heart. May these holy qualities grow daily stronger in
you. May the world learn through you
what true devotion means! You have all
the strength you need. What we require
is great ardour of devotion to direct it.
If you have an earnest spirit and a prayerful attitude, you can break
down any obstacle. We do not gain
devotion by chance. It comes through
unselfishness and practice of inner harmony.
When we want to balance our life, we forget the power of our
Inner Spirit which can really help us in doing it. This inner spirit or God-within can do a lot
in balancing our life. It can lead us to a rhythmic life with utmost harmony. When our selfish motive of acquiring
‘everything for ourselves’ only is dropped from us, this God-within starts
creating harmony in our life. Our life
is not only for ourselves but for many people.
When we connect ourselves to our Divine Master, we start losing
ourselves and become His-self.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Master of the Universe, make me a worthy child
May I
never fail in trust or surrender
Help me
to follow Thy Will with unwavering devotion
That I
may never be out of rhythm in my thoughts of actions
May my
life ever be turned in perfect unison with Thy Divine Life
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 186
“TRUTH IS THE RICHEST THING WE CAN ACQUIRE
IN LIFE. WE MUST RECOGNIZE ITS VITAL IMPORTANCE AND BE LOYAL TO IT.”
O’ Master,
Enter Thou my inmost being;
Leave nothing in dark
Fill my heart, my soul, and all my soul’s
hidden most parts,
Unknown to my mortal mind
Come Thou!
I invoke Thee with my soul’s yearning
voice.
Not a particle of Truth can ever be lost, not a single
effort to realize the Truth can be unfruitful. Only thing required of us is to
have patience and perseverance and unshaken trust in the Divine. What else is needed? Life should be lived just for the sake of
itself. I mean for expansion, for vision
of That, but never for the opinion of any creature, rich or poor, learned or
ignorant. Worship of Truth brings great
strength of conviction and absolute fearlessness.
All the creations and the creator are truth. Every particle in this world is truth including
ourselves. Truth is everywhere except in
the human minds. It is truth that we are
living, enjoying, worrying etc., we cannot escape from truth because it is the
truth. It is our moral duty to realise
the truth, then we are not going to worry about truth in our life. Our success and failure are truth, our losing
and gaining are truth birth and death is truth.
Then what is that untruth in this world?
Our thoughts may be truth or untruth.
People with negative tendency have only untruthful thoughts. Once anyone surrenders to the Truth, he
experiences everything as Truth and the Truth only everywhere.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
Effulgent Light,
Thou who
art ever unchanging, without beginning or end,
Make Thy
effulgence felt in my heart.
Fill my
whole being with it, leaving room for naught else.
May Thy
Light of Truth illumine my path;
May I
follow it, faithfully and with fervour of Spirit.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden
Message No. 187
“WHEN THE LITTLE RAYS OF
LIGHT IN OUR MIND ARE FOCUSED, OUR MIND BECOMES LIKE A SEARCH-LIGHT AND REVEALS
TRUTH”
O’ Master,
Thine eyes stretched beyond the pale light
of mortal world
For what vision art thou lost in thought?
Thy motionless gaze,
Thy fervent ecstasy
Thy illumined face,
All these unearthly marks….
Have given me sight for seeking the unseen
Our body, mind and heart, instead of working in unison, go
in opposite directions; that is why we accomplish so little. When we unite all our faculties, we gain the
power of penetration. Unless man
possesses the power of penetration, he has not fineness of vision to perceive
Reality. Knowledge is really
image-making. The individual derives
great benefit from this image-making, but it can also make us visionary. There must be action with it. They go
together.
While practising spirituality, we try to attain the inner
power or God-within to our mind. This
God-within is compared as light and entering in the mind as rays of light. When we totally accept our Divine Master, He
is in a position to activate our God-within and it penetrates into our mind
like a searchlight. This entering of the
power slowly increases day-by-day reducing our I-ness and Samskaras. We start experiencing a lightness and
inexpressible solace. If this power
continues to occupy our mind, the truth get reveals at a particular stage and
we get enlightened.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
All-compassionate One,
Bestow
upon me power to show forth Thy Truth in my life
May I
centre my mind and heart in Thee alone
Help me
to gather up my scattered thoughts
And turn
them on Thee in whole-hearted aspiration.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.188
“UNLESS WE ARE BORN AGAIN
AS LITTLE CHILDREN, OUR BURDENS WILL NOT ROLL OFF”
O’ Master,
I shall always remain ignorant, that Thou,
All-wise one, may ever guide me;
I shall always remain a helpless child,
that Thou mighty Spirit of the Universe, may ever protect me
I thank my fate that keeps me ignorant of
many things, so I may know naught else but One
I bless my fate that keeps me ungrown, so I
may cling to Thee alone
The child has not the wisdom and calculation that a grown-up
person has and he is always protected. The
world is powerless to resist the charm, the appeal of a child. When a child is born, it seems to bring
fragrance from an unknown region. Let us
learn the art of being like little children.
We are so grown-up; we have such a sense of independence and
self-importance that we cling to our burdens.
When we gain a trusting spirit and give them up in complete surrender
and simplicity of heart, our burdens drop from us of themselves.
Ordinary persons grow mentally and physically, a mentally
challenged person grows only physically; but a spiritual person grows mentally,
physically and spiritually. This
spiritual growth happens only in the mind along with the regular mind. The condition of a baby is ignorant and this
ignorance only will allow us to grow spiritually. If this condition is maintained throughout
our life with regular mental and physical growth, we grow spiritually
also. Spirituality never affects a
normal life of a person but gives courage and strength to face the life, like a
child who never bothers about the material problems. For this we have to surrender our growing Ego
to the Divine Master and retain the Divinised Ego offered by the Master. Then really we become the children of our
beloved Master and can forget our burdens for which our Master becomes
responsible.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Lord,
make my heart pure and clean and humble
Help me
to approach Thee with guileless spirit
Make me
childlike and simple
That I
may be able to lay all my burdens at thy blessed Feet
And trust
wholly in Thy tender care
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 189
“SIMPLICITY IS A DIVINE
GIFT”
O’ Master,
Is it for my lack of knowledge that Thou
art come to me in this garb of simplicity?
Is it to help the helpless that Thou hast made Thyself known to this lowly heart?
The spiritual life is never arduous; but when we take a
wrong point of view, it seems to be arduous.
There is nothing as simple as to open our heart humbly before that Divinity
from whom we have descended. But if any
element of pride, calculation or doubt enters into us, it becomes
unnatural. Sometimes out of fear
children try to hide something, but they find themselves entangled and their
mind becomes blemished. If we want to
gain anything in the spiritual realm, the direct, simple method is always best.
First of all spirituality does not come automatically
without a Master. A Master who guides
the disciple for spiritualization should have the capacity to accept the disciple
as he is. There cannot be any
discrimination among the spiritual seekers as far the Master is concerned. All are children in front of Him. Our helplessness can attract a Master for
bringing us towards Him. If we get a
Master of calibre who can guide us towards “THAT”, we must immediately accept
Him and surrender everything without any doubt.
Emptying our mind from our burdens and thoughts is the method of
surrender. Love also can bring the
condition of surrender. No other arduous
method is required for spiritual practice. It is very simple and the simplicity
comes to us automatically as a divine gift.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the All-abiding, All-Loving Spirit of the Universe,
Who is the embodiment of all blessedness
May He purify my mind and cleanse it from al alien
thoughts.
May I find my highest relaxation and joy in His blessed
Presence.
May He make me simple and free from all complexity.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 190
“NO MAN CAN PERFORM ANY
SERVICE BIGGER OR BETTER THAN HIS THOUGHTS INSPIRE HIM TO DO”
O’ Master,
Let him speak whose spirit flows like the
river in flood-time, full and strong;
Let others keep silent-
The tongue that speaketh soulless words
But scarttereth pebbles before hungry
mouths.
There is a selfish type of humanity which does not sense
what is happening to others, but a man who has evolved his soul-nature and
found access to the higher realm, that one is full of concern for his neighbour. We cannot afford to sever ourselves from our
fellow man. We do not realize this so
long as we have not established an inward relationship with Him. Until we know God as our Father, we shall not
feel that He is really our brother and our service will always have an element
of selfishness in it.
No service can be compelled and compulsion without our own
interest creates prejudice. Service to
the mankind is our own duty and it need not be compelled. But a thought should arise in our mind to do it
voluntarily. Voluntary service is the
biggest and purest among any services.
Service without expectation is called Divine Service. When we connect ourselves with a Divine
Master, He teaches what Divine Service is.
When we are able experience this Divine Master as our Father, Brother
and Mother, we also experience that He is the real son of God who lives with
His Father’s energy. When we love Him we
start loving everyone in this universe without any prejudice. This Universal Love brings us the capacity to
serve every being in this universe without expecting anything from them.
Thoughts of the day:-
All-loving
Father and Mother of this Universe,
I lift my
prayer to Thee in humble supplication
Free me
from all pettiness and smallness
Help me to
consecrate all my efforts and thoughts to Thy service;
Fill my
heart with fresh inspiration and strength
May all
my words and thoughts and actions be worthy of Thy loving blessing.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 191
“SERVICE WIPES OUT ALL
EGOTISM, ALL BLEMISH, AND SILENCES ALL HARSH DISCORDANT NOTES”
O’ Master,
Do Thou fill my heart in full measure with
Thine inexhaustible Love
That I may scatter it abroad
For thy love is all-saving, life-giving.
If mind and heart are full, the overflow finds expression
through service. Whenever you have a
great Ideal or a lofty feeling, it finds its practical application through
service. When you service selflessly,
you do not lose anything, you come into your own. You have a new majesty and grandeur of
spirit. Service always opens up new
avenues for the soul’s expression.
Divine service brings purity and courage to face
anything. Divine service starts with our
Divine Master. Doing service to the
Master brings closeness with Him and this closeness creates love towards
Him. This love brings the condition of
surrender and surrender brings everything from the Master. Once we surrender to the Divine Master fully,
we can service anyone in this Universe without prejudice. Serving our own enemies become possible
because we lose the hatred towards them.
Most of the times, our Ego only prevents from doing service and this Ego
creates problems to others who do service.
Our incongruous thoughts distance us from the Master and we keep away
from doing service to Him.
Thoughts of the day:-
Thou who
art my loving Mother and Protecting Father
Imbue me
with the spirit of consecration
That I may
lose myself wholly in Thy Divine Being
Help me
to forget my own pains and struggles
And think
only of the needs of all Thy children
Fill my
heart with new love of service
And help
me to bring Thy peace and blessing to all that lives.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 192
“A RADIANT LIGHT FILLS
EVERY CORNER OF OUR EXISTENCE”
O’ Master,
Brilliance of the sun art Thou;
Veil of the twilight art Thou
Heat of the fire art Thou
Coolness of the earth Thou art
Lustre of the moon Thou art
Mystery of the dark Thou art.
There is no reason for us to dwell in darkness. An
inextinguishable soul-light burns in every living being. This is the supreme blessing of God and it is
given equally to all. It rests with us
to make the medium, through which the light shines, so transparent, so devoid
of everything that is alien, that it will shed its glow uncoloured and
unhindered. The light itself is
unfailing; but we can block its radiance by selfish petty thoughts and unworthy
actions, by pride, ambition and harshness.
As long as we stay in darkness, we require this light. This Divine Light only can remove our
darkness of mind. Samskaras create
darkness and ignorance and Ego works on its own with the help of this
darkness. When the Ego is illuminated
with the inner light, and kills the darkness, ego changes its direction towards
the Divinity inside and follows its directions.
With the help of our Divine Master, it becomes easy to ‘translit’ this
inner soul and radiate the light towards our existence. When our mind is fully divinised with the
transmission of our beloved Master, our minds gets attracted towards this
‘divine light’ and the ‘I-ness’ dies gradually, experiencing Him always in our
heart.
Thoughts of the day:-
Eternal
Spirit, Thou art the Soul of my soul
Thou art the
Essence of my life
It is Thy
light which illumines my being
May it
shine without hindrance
And drive
out all gloom and darkness from my mind and heart
Mayest
thou be glorified by my every word and action.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No. 193
“DIVINE MASTER PLEADS
TENDERLY WITH US LIKE A MOTHER TO GIVE UP SELF.”
O’ Master,
Divine Master is my Father
Gentle King is He.
He rules with sceptre of love
And He wears the crown of compassion
Be thou then like unto Him in love
If thou wouldst inherit His heavenly realm
Always hold your position with dignity and
selflessness. Know that you are a
channel through which the Ideal is manifesting.
Keep yourself pure and one-pointed in your devotion, and then there will
be no difficulty. If you have given
yourself entirely to Him, your body, mind and heart, with all their powers and
possibilities, then nothing can distract you or overwhelm you.
The Ego attached with your ‘self’ has to be transferred
through a method of surrender to the Divine Master and forget yourself. This transferring is difficult for most of us
because we feel that we cannot live in this world without this self-attached
ego. Once we are succeeded in
transferring this ego to the Divine Master and convert this ego as
Divine-attached-Ego, we need not worry about our present and future. Divinity takes care of us better than anyone
in this Universe. Divinity in us or in
our Divine Master is for protecting everyone whose ego is attached to the
Divinity.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou
All-loving Ruler of the Universe
Make me
worthy of Thy tender care and blessing
May I never
fail to hear Thy voice
May I
never fail to obey its call
Thou dost
never forsake me
May I
never forsake Thee.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS
LIFE”
Golden Message No.194
“THE STRENGTH OF LIFE COMES FROM FINDING THE HARMONY OF LIFE”
O’ Master,
Thy whisper hath filled my soul with an unending song
In noise and stillness, in crowd and alone,
Thy gentle tone is always in my ear
Thy breath like sweet perfume hath soothed all my sense-cravings
The touch of Thine immortal Hand is ever upon me
I am filled ! Filled am I from all sides !
Our vision is not always the same, but true vision is never lost. It may seem to grow less; but when it comes again it is stronger than ever. When we are in harmony, without calculation we say the right word, we do the right thing we lost all thought of calculation. Whatever we have is the gift of the great Divine Master. If we carry this thought ever with us, we cannot do anything wrong. When we connect ourselves with the Origin of life, we do not have to ask for the results of that connection; they come of themselves.
Life without harmony does not work for long time. Whatever we eat, drink, earn, sleep, do work, we require harmony otherwise we cannot get strength to enjoy it. Satisfaction of a work comes once we reach harmony in the work and thoughts. This harmony has to come from within and not from outside. Once we practice spirituality, we get connected with our strength and harmony. We need not try to get harmony & strength, it comes automatically.
This internal harmony when it comes to surface level, starts spreading to others. We can become an embodiment of harmony.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Lord, help me to open my heart
That it may be filled with Thy Divine Harmony
Free my mind from unruly restless thoughts
Silence all doubt and despair within me
Make me to realise Thy all-ness
And tune my life in perfect unison with
Thy all-encompassing Life.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
“LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No.195
‘GOD IS IN THE ABYSS OF OUR SOUL AND IS WAITING FOR US TO RETURN TO HIM.”
O’ Master,
O Light! Thou art my life!
My strength, my inspiration and action,
My vigour and joy –
All are contained in Thee
Shine forth! Shine forth!
Shed Thy beneficence!
Let thy healing radiance warm my ebbing life.
There is a yearning in every earnest soul to kindle the fire of Truth. It dwells in all, but we do not know it. Often we brood in wretchedness thinking we have it not, but it is always there and when the spiritual eye opens, we recognize our connection. We have our redemption; we have our happiness through this connection. Brooding does not take us onward. The only danger-point is when we lose our vision.
Our purpose of human life is to obtain the strength to expand our God-within, so that ‘IT’ goes back to the original void. Once we start attempting for it, we get inner strength and courage for it. If we get a Guide who can guide us in this process, we definitely succeed in returning to Him. Our respect and love towards our Divine Master will help us in recognising the connection with Him inside. Once we have a clear vision of what we have to do and what we have to attain, it becomes easy to open up spirituality within us.
Thoughts of the day:-
O Thou All-loving Lord, may I never forget Thee
May I ever remember that Thou art my Friend and Companion,
My Spiritual Guide and Refuge from all onslaughts of the world
Thou art the Giver of all sight:
Give me vision of Thee
Illumine my heart with Thy Effulgence
That I may never turn my gaze away from Thee
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
‘LIVE IN PROSPERITY & GIVE A PROSPEROUS LIFE”
Golden Message No. 196
“WE MUST NOT CUT OURSERVES
OFF FROM THE BASIC REALITY OF OUR LIFE”
O’ Master,
Soul art Thou in our life;
Life art Thou in our body
Who can know Thee, Thou subtlest of subtle?
How can we ever know Thee,
Save when Thou dost come to us in Thy glory
And grant unto us our sight?
It is never too late to come to the Centre of our
being. We may be tired, we may be worn
and weary, but we can still turn to that Centre. Time is always ripe for that. When we make our contact there, we find
protection. If we do not make this contact,
our actions are never productive. When
we touch that one basic Principle, we find the solution for all problems. Why
is a man restless? It is because he has
lot touch with the centre of his being.
Every human being has the Reality inside. We can call it as God-within, Spirit, Brahman
etc.
Our life protection really lies on it and not in our attempt
of making safety measures. Nobody can
protect us better than this Reality or God-within. Main work of this God-within is to protect us
because it is its ‘dharma’. Dharma
always protects not only us but also the people who depend upon ‘Dharma’. Once we are successful in activating this
Energy of Dharma of Reality, we need not worry about our future. It will be in the hands of ‘IT’
Thoughts of the day:-
O Supreme Master, lift my heart from the mire of delusion
That I may ever
rejoice in Thy benign Presence
Make my search after Thee steadfast and unfaltering
Thou art the storehouse of all light and inspiration;
Shed Thy light upon my path.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
GM. No. 197
“WE ARE ETERNALLY PROTECTED. KNOW THIS AND
BE FEARLESS.”
O’ Master,
Take
my hand and lift me to that plane where abide harmony and unbroken union with
Thee
I
was not ready when Thou didst give me Thy Hand of mercy;
Now
I come ready to follow Thee
Lift
me and lead me!
I
will follow Thee;
I
will not look back nor fear.
When a man feels
that in spite of shortcomings, in spite of faults, he has something abiding,
something that is his very own, which no one can rob him of, he gains fresh
hope and courage. If under pain and
sorrow a man can stand up and say bravely, “Thy Hand guides me”, it is a very
beautiful thing; but only he can do it who is master of himself.
How do we know
that we are eternally protected? The
moment the God-within enters in our mind, we feel lightness and experience a
tremendous courage that so far we have not experienced. This is possible only when our God-within or
the Inner Power is activated. When we
get a guide or a Master of calibre who can activate it, it becomes possible to
experience this Inner Power. Actually,
this Inner Power wants protect you everyone in this universe individually. This God-within protects all other beings
except the Human beings from within. This is due to the “AHAMKARA” of human
beings. When we remove our I-ness from
us, this Inner Power takes care of our life and us eternally.
Thoughts
of the day:-
O Thou Divine Protector,
make Thy protecting Presence real to me.
In my silent hours may I
feel Thy Presence
In all my actions, may I
feel Thy guiding influence
In my hours of waking and
sleeping, may I ever carry Thy blessed Presence in my consciousness
Grant mea new sense of
peace and security in Thee
Yours
Lovingly,
Subrahmanya
Shiva Balan
GM-198
“WHEN THE HEART AND SOUL YEARN WITH LIVING
FAITH FOR THE DIVINE MASTER, HE PURIFIES THE LIFE AND BRINGS A DEEPER VISION”
O’ Master,
Thou art the sweetness of my life;
Thou art the soul of my body;
Thou art the vigour of my limbs;
My clear sight and power of action
Why dost Thou ever leave me?
When Thou dost abandon me, I find darkness
in light and sadness in gayety
Who art Thou? What art Thou?
These mysteries of Thy Being I cannot
fathom.
A house never be kept in the dark. It becomes desolate and loses all its charm
and atmosphere. In the same way with
human life. We may have all the
ornaments and gifts, but if the spiritual light does not glow and glorify
everything, that life is dead and in darkness.
When the light of faith and hope illumines it, it is safe; otherwise, it
is in danger, because it is not sanctified and protected.
Initial stage of spiritual training is to start journey of
‘I’ towards the soul or Self-Centre, through our material life with a goal of
reaching the Centre. Once we reach this
Centre, this Centre starts expanding towards spiritual and material side. This process is called spiritualising the
material life. In this condition, your
spiritual life as well as the material life also will be taken care of and
protected by the Divinity or Self-Centre. You will be experiencing the Presence
of the Divine Master in the Centre. The
light of Divinity will illuminate our spiritual home and material house and the
darkness vanishes automatically.
Thoughts of the day:-
Grant, O
compassionate One, that I may feel Thy all-abiding Presence within my soul,
And that I
may rejoice in that Presence
Dispel
all darkness and depression from my heart
And fill
it with Thy radiance
That I
may shed forth Thy light in every act of my life.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
GM-199
“NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT WILL DESTROY
ANOTHER’S TRIAL TO REACH GOD. EVEN THE
SIMPLEST WAY LEADS TO GOD SOMETIMES”.
O’ Master,
Wouldst Thou receive this unworthy gift of
mine?
Then let me lay it prostrate at Thy blessed
Feet
I came with an eager heart.
Though courage had I none to approach Thee
But thou, All-seeing, dist know my Heart’s
yearning and dist call me to Thy side
I am wonder-struck at this, Thy mercy!
When we learn the art of connecting ourselves with the
Divine Master and Source of life, this little distracted fragment of life will
become glorified and we shall find peace.
Our little life will be blessed and we shall not again weep and
mourn. We shall learn to practise the
beautiful attributes of life-calmness, peace, steadfastness, faith. These are
the adornments of life, which beautify a man’s character.
People adopt different methods and systems to reach
Him. Even the simplest method also can
help anyone to reach Him. Hard-core
worships and practices sometimes do not take anyone to Him. Whatever may be the method of spirituality,
one must reach Him as early as possible.
HE is available within us. If a
Master of calibre can help us to reach Him through a simplest method, we must
be prepared for it. This Divine Master
can definitely help us and guide us to have a smoother life without hurdles.
Thoughts of the day:-
Kindle in
my heart the light of understanding, O Master,
That I
may learn to be a true instrument in Thy Hand
May I
never do aught to hurt or hinder my brother in his search for Thee
May I
always serve truly and faithfully all thy children
Accept my
offering of prayer and bestow on me Thy holy blessing.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
GM-200
“A SINCERE NC PRACTITIONER GIVES UP ALL HE
HAS TO HIS MASTER AND BY GIVING UP HE ACQUIRES IMMENSITY OF LIFE”
O’ Master,
To Thee whose holy Hand kindled my heart
with this fire of love,
I consecrate my soul’s outpouring,
I lay at Thy tender Feet, whose sacred
touch fills my whole being with ecstasy, this, my inmost secrecy.
All the power that manifests through you comes from one Source. You open the channel for it thorough constant
loving service, humility and devotion.
Let it always flow steadily and the current will grow mightier and
mightier every day, so that whoever comes in contact with you will
blessed. It is when your heart is humble
that the light of love sheds its radiance through you. That light reaches every one whose life you
touch.
Every NC practitioner should radiate the energy of love to
his surroundings. This love comes from
the Divinity or God-within and not from the practitioner. When the I-ness is surrendered, the vacuum
created by the I-ness, receives the energy of the Divine Master through His
transmission. This transmitted Divine
energy of the Master activates the God-within to give you the Power of Love. This Power of Love radiates from you
automatically giving you a complete joy and happiness always. Whoever loves you gets the energy freely
without any effort. People nearby you
get peace and courage from you due to radiation of love from your side.
Thoughts of the day:-
May the
Supreme Master grant me this blessing
That I
may always walk in High light
And shed
forth His love
May I
realize that I am always in danger when I sever myself from His protecting care
May my
life move in union with His life
And may
my heart be filled with a new sense of His peace.
Yours lovingly,
Subrahmanya Shiva Balan
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