THE INNER PATH

 " I thank thee, O Father , Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes ".-- ( Matthew 11/25 )
          In other words, He says, "O Lord, I am very grateful to you that you have kept this great Wisdom away from the wordly-wise and intellectual people, and have revealed its secret only to those who are as innocent as little children ."
          It we wish to enter our house, we must first try to find its door . The door of our real home is behind the eyes . The Third Eye . To open it, we have to knock repeatedly on that door . This knocking on the door means that we reverse the flow of our scattered attention and focus it at the eye centre . When, by doing this repeatedly, the thought-currents become concentrated at the Third Eye, the door opens and we cross the threshold of the house .
          The Path opens up when we connect our consciousness with the Divine Melody, and this path leads us Home . When by the grace of the Perfect Master we are brought into the 'magnetic field of the Word', it pulls us towards itself and draws us upward to the Lord . With the help of the Sound we must find the direction of our True Hone, and with the help of its light, we are to fallow the Path to it
          When we step out of the nine apertures of the body, we leave behind duality and have the experience of oneness . While living within the bounds of these nine apertures, that is being attached to the world alone and of the world, we are entangled in the network of duality . But when we focus our attention behind the eyes, we lose our duality and see the FLAME .
     " The light of the body is the eyes; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."
                                                                                                                --- ( Matthew 6/22 )
          That is to say, when you collect your attention behind the eyes, your body will be filled with the radiance of the Inner Light .
          Every human being has this Flame burning within him . There issues a sweet and captivating music . We know that light are lit and bells are used in all places of worship . Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims burn lights, ring bells or call loudly (Azaan ) to the faithful for prayers and worship . All our religious places have the same symbols of light and sound . In reality, the fact that the human body is the only True Temple, True Mosque,or True Church, and it is in this house of worship that there burns a Flame and echoes a Divine Music, which sounds at first like the bell and the conch, and purifies all who give their attention to it . But we tend to forget or misinterpret his teachings and instead of turning inwards and seeing the light and hearing the music, we take to ceremonies,which are of no help . It is only by going inside that our mind becomes bound and subdued, and releases the soul from its grip .
          At present the mind dances to the tune of the senses . They have completely enslaved it . But when the mind becomes completely absorbed in the inner light, constantly hears the sound of the Divine Music and thereby reaches its own place of origin, our sole will be released from its vicious grip . Realizing then that it is of the essence of the Lord . It is only then that it wins true honor and glory in the COURT OF THE LORD.
     Christ says : --  " For judgment I am come in to this world , that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind " -- ( John 9/39 )
          That is to say , His purpose in coming into this world was to make people who have eyes but do not see the Lord , blind to the world and its objects , and to make them turn Godward and see Him .
          Saints discribe the glory of God in Holy Books and scriptures . By studying them we come to know why it is necessary for us , but the scriptures do not contain GOD . They only reveal the method of obtaining it . Solvation does not come by reading them . Same is with the Word or Logos . It becomes a reality only when we practise whatever we have read . Medical books describe methods of curing various diseases , but they do not themselves contain medicines . Even if a patient with some desease were to read books on medicine all day long he would not be cured . If , however, he prepares a medicine according to the prescription given in the book and then uses it , he can soon be healthy again . Thus , a book on medicine is one thing , and the medicine itself is quite another .
          Theoretical knowledge of a subject can never take the place of actual experience . We regard the reading of Holy Books or the recital of them as a means of Salvation . Not infrequently we do not even read the scriptures ourselves , but have it done by a Priest . This is not all . While the reading is going on in our house we are ourselves engaged in our daily chores . In fact, we may become vain and think that the reading of scriptures in this way is certain to win for us great merit .
          If we were to ourselves read and understand the teachings of the Saints , we would become conscious of our weaknesses and shortcomings and to learn the method of God-realization . To the contrary , however, we have made a ritual of the reading of Holy Books by a Priest, and we imagine , foolishly , that the reading done by a Priest will bring Salvation to us , as it were , by proxy .
          That is to say , if we were to read throughout the whole day, night , whole month, whole the year ,nay the whole of our life , there would be only one thing that would be credited to our account , and that would be whether or not our soul is united with the Lord . Otherwise , all our reading would be absolutely futile .
                                                      "O Father-------  ( Matthew 11/25 ) .
          By reading scriptures and Holy Books we gain only some theoretical knowledge . We some time develope the habit of argument . We may begin to pride ourselves on begin great scholars and intellectuals , and regard others as illiterate and ignorant . We may become vain and egotistic . But on the Path of God - realization, one must become untreated like a child . Reading is like cleaning a bowl; but if one's whole life is spent only in cleaning and nothing is put in to the bowl , it is , actually , a waste of time. The dirty bowl of our mind must be cleaned so that we can fill it with the Divine Nector .
          The object of our spiritual search is to merge our consciousness with the immanent Sound of Divine Power that resounds within all human beings . This power is the heritage of all mankind ; It is within each and every human body . It has been put there for our use, but the way to reach it is in the keeping of the -MASTERS.