Suppose your father assigned a work to you. & Due to some busy schedule or circumstances not permitted time to complete that work. (But inside the mind you thought to complete that work also tried but didn’t complete it.)& Your father feels hurtย & thought himself now a days my children are grown up & they are not listening my words. & Father completed the work with an angry/unease attitude. What are the effects of these type of actions?
People say all kinds of things. If you start taking them seriously then the mind will enter into endless confusion. The rule of spiritual life is that if you have once taken to walk a particular path then stop looking left and right. Read, listen to what your Guru says. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have written on every subject. Why should one even waste one’s time and energy on these pseudo pundits who claim they know. If what they say is true about listening to parents then the entire teaching of Sri Krishna and the Gita is false and even the actions of Sri Rama and Sita and Vibhisana and Prahlad would be wrong. Don’t you see what happened to Ravana who listened to his mother? One has to listen and obey only to one’s soul that dwells deep inside the heart and, until that is found, to the Master and his word.
Listening to parents is valid only if their advice, suggestion or demand is consistent with Dharma and passes the test of your Buddhi, the discerning intelligence given to man. And sin? What kind of an outdated idea is this? The only sin is not to live by one’s highest ideal and the deepest truth because of selfishness and ego interests and fear and desire. There is no other sin. Here is what the Mother says about it.
‘One who has given himself to the Divine has no longer any other duty than to make that consecration more and more perfect. The world and those who live in it have always wanted to put humanโsocial and familyโduty before duty to the Divine, which they have stigmatised as egoism. How indeed could they judge otherwise, they who have no experience of the reality of the Divine? But for the divine regard their opinion has no value, their will has no force. These are movements of ignorance, nothing more. You should not attempt to convince; above all, you should not let yourself be touched or shaken. You must shut yourself carefully within your ivory tower of consecration and await from the Divine alone help, protection, guidance and approbation. To be condemned by the whole world is nothing to him who knows that he has the approval of the Divine and his support.
Besides, has not mankind proved its utter incompetence in the organisation of its own existence? Governments succeed governments, regimes follow regimes, centuries pass after centuries, but human misery remains lamentably the same. It will always be so, as long as man remains what he is, blind and ignorant, closed to all spiritual reality. A transformation, an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about a real amelioration in the condition of humanity. Thus even from the standpoint of human life, it follows logically that the first duty of man is to seek and possess the divine consciousness.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
