Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans. {72.}

Sacred Bhandara: Recalling Guru Bachans. {72.}
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Radhasoami!
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Trust the Caring Supreme Father.
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“The Supreme Father is always looking with solicitous care on all His children and grants from time to time divine beatitude and internal happiness to the extent which He thinks conducive to their advantage. You should always be looking forward for it and pray for its inward realization, but do not slacken your efforts when you do not experience it, as He alone knows when it should be granted and when not.

Sadness is also one of the instruments of progress and almost all whose spiritual advancement has begun have to experience an alternation of such condition. The Supreme Father is conscious of your resolve to resign yourself entirely to His will and will gradually grant you power to suffer your existence to be mended in accordance with it.

He has also Been Pleased to Accept your offer of youself and your belongings and He now Gives them back to you as His Prashadi {or Sanctified things}. You should now make a judicious use of them, and with the consciousness that they are the gifts of Your heavenly Father.”

---- Param Guru Huzur Maharaj Ji; Pilgrim's Path, Letter No. 13, Page 31.
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Radhasoami!

Immense Benefits of Firm Resolve. {80.}

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Radhasoami!

There is a Guru Bachan
{Master's Utterance or Pronouncement}
to the effect that one ought to
resolve to perform spiritual practices
“prarn le kar”,
that is,
as if sworn to do it regularly.

The Bachan says that
one’s mere firm resolve
is beneficial in itself.

I have found this
to be very true.

Religiosity should not occur
in sporadic, erratic
or intermittent impulses.

One’s good deeds ought to be
backed by clear thought,
intense desire, noble vision,
conscious decision, absolute resolve,
longterm strategy, practical planning,
fearlessness, courage, endurance, strength.

Nothing is possible in life --
neither worldly success
nor spiritual progress --
without one’s personal initiative,
determined resolve, focused efforts.

One’s living begins with resolve.

There is little real point
in idly desiring and dreaming,
in fondly wishing or hoping.

The point is what one is
to do about it.

So, let’s resolve to end
our present state of dissatisfaction.

One’s honest resolve effectively unleashes
tremendous potential within our selves,
and enables subsequent fulfilling actions.

Radhasoami!
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