Daily Messages

“In the beginning what you should know is that you are given sufficient evidence that He is the person who is capable of leading you to the ultimate. Now having come upto that do you accept Him or not. If you accept Him let not anybody else's consciousness flow into you. That is why this Institute insists on Sri Ramchandra Consciousness, and no other person's consciousness has relevance. If this 'Viswasa' is there, then what happens, now 'faith' as, those of you know something about Vedanta or 'Shat Sampathi', know that the fifth of the 'Shat Sampathi' is 'Shraddha'. What is the 'Shraddha' about? Why is it coming at the fifth level, not at the beginning? In the beginning you should have confidence in you but then that develops later into 'Mahaviswasa' in God. Mahaviswasa is a stage that comes after Anukoolasya Sankalpa Pratikoolasya Varjanam, Goptrutva Varanam and Atmanikshepam. This is not the first faith. The Mahaviswasa that comes here is of a different order than the 'Faith' in beginning that we have got in beginning in ourselves. This 'Maha Viswasa' comes to you when you know that your Master is capable of doing everything for you, there is nothing that is beyond Him, a thing that comes to our experience. Anything that is happening to you, you know is due to Him. It is because of Him I live, because of Him I breath, because of Him I move. Finally you say I move in Him, I breath in Him. This is the stage to which you come. That is the 'Maha Viswasa'. 'Mahaviswasa' should not be confused with ordinary faith. Faith you and I have in the beginning. If you get to the stage of this 'Maha Viswasa', you have almost realised. There is nothing more to realise. A stage will come where you will not ask Him what you want. Because the 'Viswasa' is of that type that you will not ask. He knows what is best for you. You come out of a stage of asking Him. Question of Prayer doesn't arise. Meditation becomes impossible there. You cannot meditate. There is nothing there to meditate upon. A stage comes where it becomes impossible for you to think about the Divinity itself. That is why He says "neither the beggar is there, nor the Master is there, only the extended arm appears now and then". In the article "Beggar's Bowl" that is the stage you will come to when you have 'Maha Viswasa'. Don't confuse the faiths in the beginning saying I have absolute faith in the Master. We should know the limitations here. It is at different levels of existence. That existence is 'Anandamaya' existence, this initial faith is at the 'Annamaya' existence. In 'Anandamaya Kosha' when you are seeing Master eye to eye, when you are feeling Him, when you breath Him, then what will you ask? and what is it that He can't give you. When you ask Him, what is that He will not give you. There is nothing that he forgets to give you on His own. There is nothing that you need to ask Him. He is you and you are He. There is no question at the stage of 'Maha Viswasa'. That is the stage of self surrender when the 'self' is totally surrendered there is nothing like a 'self' at all, 'self' does not exist. When faith develops into a 'Mahaviswasa' it becomes self surrender (Sarana). To say that I am 'Sarana' in the beginning is not correct.”

— Ref: BP1 - 243