Timeliness

You will appreciate that every decision has to be appropriate to the time and circumstances and if the time is not appropriate, the decision too will not be correct. So we have to pray that the right decision may come at the right time for us to work correctly.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I ", chapter
"Prayer-Touching the Heart of God", pg. 211-by Chariji.

Plan

"Nature's plans can be shortly said to be a plan of evolution. It is an evolutionary plan - how something can begin as what it is and evolve to be Him who created it. Like every father and mother want their sons and daughters to be like themselves - it is an evolutionary plan, though we put ourselves with our limitations as the goal for that child. But, God not having a person or a name or qualities...cannot have any attribute-based or achievement-based plan for us."

"Therefore, our evolution cannot depend on achievement or powers - things like that. Therefore, the divine plan of evolution must be the evolution of life form, whatever it is, through the various life forms, to this divine state, where there is no question of form, name, attributes. This has to be the divine plan, you see."

Taken from the video tape "Being There"--by Chariji.

Spiritual practice

Sadhana (Spiritual practice) has two aspects, one the abhyas (one's own practice) and the other the Master's help. Abhyas is meant only for creating inner conditions, which will be helpful to the abhyasi (aspirant) in attracting the flow of the Divine grace, and this involves one's self-effort. But self-effort alone is not sufficient. It must be supplemented by the Master's support.

As a matter of fact what we really stand in need of for our ultimate purpose is only Divine grace. But owing to one's inner complexities, it is almost beyond the capacity of a sadhaka (Disciple who practices a sadhana) to have it by himself. For that reason Master's help is indispensable. In earlier stages Divine grace flows into the abhyasi only through the medium of the Master. As such it is often interpreted as Master's grace.

Taken from the book "Complete Works of Ram Chandra Vol.2", chapter
"Master's Support", pg 85-86 --by Babuji.

Reality

All of us have problems with our jobs, with our environment, etc., and we hope very ardently that change of our own character and attitudes will help us to fit better into the environment in a cosmically pleasing way.

One cannot escape one's predetermined existential parameters caused by our samskaras (impressions, grossness) by artificially changing our environment. Sahaj Marg (Natural path, simple path) says very correctly that only by changing one's own self is a total change possible. Otherwise everything else is nothing but escapism.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I ", chapter "Hope-The
Foundation of Change", pg.94-by Chariji.

Patience

Patience shall bear the fruit in the end and therefore it is generally said that one should have patience for everything. All things happen in accordance with the law of Nature and we should wait for things to take shape.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I ", chapter "Hope-The
Foundation of Change", pg. 100-by Chariji.

Patience

Patience is absolutely necessary in dealing with human beings, and without love, patience is impossible. That is why the great saints of this world of ours have been so loving - because without it they could never have embarked upon the tremendously difficult, almost impossible job of bringing transformation in human beings. Love has been, and must always be, the sole instrument of human transformation. If love is there, all the other things such as patience, forbearance, self-control all become possible.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol I ", chapter "Hope-The
Foundation of Change", pg.99-by Chariji.

Prayer

The correct prayer, My Master, used to say, is to sit in meditation and silently offer the problem to God - Not Request - just offer the
problem. Let him solve, like you know, you give a computer a problem, it solves it, in whatever way it should. But, what we do is to ask. Suppose, there is some sick person in the house. "Lord, May the sick person be well!" It may be against that person's interest to get well. So, prayers are not answered, you see. The problem is to say, "this person is sick. Let your grace descend on her or him and do whatever you wish. Let your will prevail, not mine!" That is the right prayer.

Taken from the Video Tape "Being There"-by Chariji.

Morality

Culture is an emanation of human refinement. Morality is the
actualization of a human being's moral standards of existence.

We do not follow morality. Morality comes out of our living, out of our
behavior; out of the way we handle our environment. So to look upon
morality as a body of do's and do not's, rules, and then to be plagued by
the sense of guilt that I have done something which a body of knowledge
says, "Thou shalt not do," is stupid.

There is morality because there were people who lived in that way. And
we look at their lives and say, "This is worth emulation, this is the
standard, the ideal of perfection that I should follow." What did they
do? We codify it and a body of morals, a body of teaching, emerges out
of their existence.

Taken from the book " What is Sahaj Marg" Chapter "The Master, the
Mission, and the Method",pg 19 -by Chariji.

Life

My master, Babuji Maharaj, said that one way of defining life is that it is full of problems. We cannot change the outer circumstances but we can change our inner nature in such a way that the outer circumstances do not any more affect us.

Taken from the book 'The Spider's Web, Vol I ', chapter 'Hope-The Foundation of Change', pg. 93-by Chariji.