Whenever darkness threatens to overpower the lamp of wisdom, divinity comes down and adequately manifests as a Master. The Master strengthens the power of the lamp so that it continues to shed the light of love. True, a Master is a chosen one - he is born a Master. He is chosen because he has chosen to serve the cause - of serving humanity by functioning as a harmonious instrument of divinity. To him the Plan is revealed; his role is defined; his flock is identified. He has no personal goals or programmes. He serves the Plan.

Such Masters visit our Planet every now and then and mingle with us. They even live like us to slowly lead us from where we are to what we really are. Each of them is a masterpiece and all of them know and serve the "ONE MASTER". They come in different places, speak different languages and teach different methods but they are one at their realm and they serve the 'ONE MASTER'.

The superfluous differences are therefore decided by the place and the quality of their flock. Most important, the nature of their teaching is determined by the need of the time. It is necessary to approach the life of any Master, bearing this in mind.

Master CVV was born on 4th August, 1868 in Kumbakonam, the famous temple town of South India. He led such a full life that every aspect of it was a significant demonstration of the all-encompassing wisdom that issued out from him.

Kumbakonam straightaway means the 'Aquarian Angle'. No wonder, the Aquarian Master chose to be born there. Further, the place is the fortress of orthodoxy and the Master was born in an orthodox family. He mastered orthodoxy, overcame and gave out that wisdom in an unorthodox, simple package - a master stroke indeed!

Like Gautama the Buddha, he was initiated (Upanayanam) at the age of five though it is normally performed at seven. Before he reached 18, he had virtually mastered all that was available in Sanskrit. He was especially proficient in the Vedas - both in chanting as well as applying them in life.

He was fluent in Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil and English. His particular fondness for English was understandable as he had clearly perceived that English was going to take the place of Sanskrit in the coming centuries, as a medium for spiritualism.

Around 18, he came across Theosophical literature. In fact, he remained a member of the Theosophical Society till the end. His sound knowledge of the Vedic system enabled him to grasp this literature fully. He understood the work of Madame H.P. Blavatsky in its true light. That the Hierarchy had brought out much of the Vedic thought through HPB for the benefit of the West, that the West was becoming increasingly aware of the subtler energies behind the physical, viz., light, colour and sound; that the Indians did not respond very well HPB's work because they presumed that they already' knew what she had to say; that even the orthodox Indian did not know what she had given out for she was an initiate of a very high order who could glean beyond the cycles of time into the Akashic records and bring forth informations which were revelations; that there We something more to be said - all this was clear to the Master.

He therefore felt the need to integrate HPB's work into the system, add the ungiven and also offer something more to the Planet, that was intended in the higher circles. It was obvious to him that in the total scheme of things, he was chosen as the fit instrument to do this task, and he was conducting his own experiments on these lines.

Yet, he was leading a normal life. He was married to Sow. Rukmini when he was 12 years old and through her, he had three sons and three daughters. She passes away when he was 36 and at 38 he married Venkamma and through her he had three sons and a daughter. Smt. Venkamma's entry into his life was another milestone of occult significance. She served him as the medium for eliciting cosmic information that he required for conducting his scientific spiritual experiments. She was an illumined soul as otherwise such capabilities could not have been demonstrated. The etheric body of HPB cooperated with her in this task and some therefore infer that she was verily HPB reborn.

The domestic front aside, the Master was a very popular person in the town. He served as the Mayor of the town. The Zamindars (Landlords), the local Rajahs and such elite were attracted to him, though they did not know why. They always sought his company. He was a musician of a high order. When he sang on the banks of river Kavery, many beings flocked around him totally mused into one consciousness.

At the financial front, he tried his hand in many a business venture. He bequeathed much property in his town. He sold them one by one, in order to feed the people who loved to gather in his house every day. Breakfast, sumptuous lunch with 12 to 16 items and dinner to many - it was a daily festivity in his house. It is also significant that when he left, he left behind one good house for the family.

Thus, while silently experimenting on his work for which he had come down, he was also demonstrating the need, the feasibility and the efficacy of leading a full life in all its aspects.

He was thus living as a fully prepared instrument to receive the Energies of Synthesis and distribute them to the Planet.

It was 1910. He was 42 years of age. The visitation took place Midnight of 31st March 1910, the descent of energy into Master CVV. It was the year of the Haley's Comet's visit to our Solar System. Its tail touched our Planet. The energies streaked into the house of the Master as a colossal lightning with the clap of thunder. The neighbourhood shook. The hearts trembled. People ran up to his house, fearing the worst. There he was! Sitting, absorbed in meditation, surrounded by a brilliant light. Struck by the awe-inspiring sight, the people withdrew. In the morning, they drew courage once again and approached him.

He opened his eyes and informed them that there was nothing to fear, that he had received unto himself the Energies of Synthesis from higher circles to be distributed for the benefit of the Planet, the Planetary beings and that he would call them after getting fully accustomed to these energies by conducting various experiments.

For him all were one and the same. But, he was never the same for them, thereafter. Whenever they saw him in the street, they stood up in respect.

All their eyes were drawn to him. They felt that he was floating upon earth but not walking. The entire neighbourhood was woken up one night by strange noises emanating from his house. Pounding noises of a flour-mill. They ran up to his house. He was in a deep samadhi state. They were awestruck to find that his heart-throbs were making such pounding sounds. Another day, they saw him inhale for six hours at a stretch, exhale for six hours likewise and remain without breathing for yet another six hours! He set on ascent the etheric vehicle of his wife Venkamma, son Chandu, disciple Sundaram to collect information from higher systems. He conducted many experiments and found ways and means to mould the human structure to enable the latter attain immortality. Many a time he demonstrated invocation of life into the dead, by linking the life on the Planet with the chief life of the Universe. He even conducted communications with Planetary intelligences, made certain arrangements with them in relation to our Planet. He used to call all such arrangements as 'contracts' in his inimitable style. He experimented with sounds Cosmic and formulated certain sound formulae to effectively rectify the human psyche. Indeed he is the Spiritual Scientist of the age - the Aquarian Age - who gave a scientific approach to the spirit.

Soon, as promised, he came out of his experiments and called out to people. He formed a 'Yoga School Friends Society' and inserted an advertisement in THE HINDU, a leading English daily inviting those who did not want to die to approach him. No wonder, some considered him mad and some mysterious, while the sensible were redeemed.

His system, methods and work will be discussed in detail in the coming chapters. It is sufficient to mention here the following:

- He lived and taught a full life of allround development - "Allround development".

- He advocated that sound is the key to salvation in the present age and gave out the Energy of Synthesis through the sound potency ' CVV '.

- Like there are different mantras for different purposes, he gave out different courses for different causes. Most of such mantrams are given in English and are popularly known as "Mystic Mantrams".

- He addressed the Energy of Synthesis that visited him through the Comet as 'THE MASTER'. He planned 1000 mediums, to distribute the energy and regarded himself as the first medium.

- His work was not confined to the beings on the Planet Earth but stretched to the other Planets as well.

- By deathlessness, he meant the complete transcending of the lower centres and keeping intact the etheric body.

In a nutshell, he gave out the most ancient wisdom of yoga, to the most modern age in the most suitable manner, embedding therein the energies that descended from higher circles.

He left his physical body exactly as predicted by him. When the people carried the body for cremation, thunder clouds rose in the sky and a heavy downpour ensued. The people were wondering as to how to cremate the body in such a heavy rain.

And then, the river swelled and the flood carried his body, yonder unto eternity.

We saw that "THE MASTER" refers to the one energy that is the background of all. Therefore, when we refer to any Master, we are referring to a medium of "THE MASTER". "THE MASTER" or the energy is called by various names - Narayana, Parama Shiva, Parabrahmam, and so on. But, it must be remembered that the background of a variety of manifestations through many Godmen is always the same. It is the background of all existence. It is eternal and is often referred to as 'IT' and THAT. It is time for man to raise his level of understanding and find out what is common among all of us instead of seeing how different we are.

Seeing how different we are is analysis.

Knowing how similar we are is synthesis.

The more we see of the similarity, we tend near to the Energy of Synthesis. Humanity has to be integrated and made to understand that all are beings. The Soul of the beings is one and beyond the level of the Soul, it is one energy, that eternally is.

At the level of the Soul, all are brothers and sisters. Below the level of the Soul there is difference. This diversity has to be understood as the splendour or beauty aspect of the creation and should not be misconstrued as a source of conflict.

Around the beginning of the 20th century there was much expectation of 'The Descent' which was to be an initiation to the Planet and the Planetary beings. The progress of the Planet and that of the beings of the Planet needed to be stepped up to meet the demands of the Time Plan of our system. The Descent was expected to give the necessary step up. The Descent - the step down of higher energy via Sinus planned in the higher circles was well-conceived in the sublime Ashrams of Himalayas, Nilgiris and five others. The task needed to be handled with utmost dexterity.

This was no small task, the motivation for which had to come from a special source. The scriptures tell us that from time immemorial, such special tasks are undertaken by special representatives of the Blue Mountains Ashram, the abode of Agastya Maharishi on the Planet. "Agastyo Bhagawan Rishihi", says Aditya Hridayam in Valmiki's Ramayana. It means that Agastya is the God or the Lord among the Rishis. He originates synthetically all branches of knowledge to be imparted to the beings from time to time. A creator in his own right and with an inimitable style.

So, such a stupendous task of channelising the stepping down energies from the higher systems is undertaken, ably handled by a special envoy of the Blue Mountain ('Nilgiri') ashram and is picked up later by the Hierarchy for working it out further on the Planet. In the Theosophical literature, the Nilgiri Hills Ashram of Agastya is referred to as the Ashram of Master Jupiter.

The Energy of Synthesis was the need of the hour to save humanity from disintegration through analysis. The system is beautiful and the whole creation is divine. But, in the name of specialisation, people analyse and segregate too far. In the process, they segregate themselves into separative units of Consiousness. Through separative attitude, they grow distant to the life universal and die. Even among groups that practice spiritualism in pursuit of truth, we find this separatism. There are as many faiths as there are human beings. But, the believers of each faith want others to believe that theirs alone is the faith that saves. The followers of various Masters see the other Masters as different and their followers as irrelevant. The various societies and esoteric groups are no exception to this. If you are not a member of their group, you are below par - is the attitude. It went to such an extent that certain societies started affirming that the Savior will work only through them. Each one is duped in his own glamour in the name of a separative faith.

It is forgotten that the Masters of wisdom do not have such preferences. They carry love and spread it from wherever they are. Their love is different - it is not love for a person, of a concept, or towards an organisation, a community, a society or a class. Whoever steps into their aura of universal love, gets inspired.

It is often forgotten that what we hold conditions us. We build a house to live in and become conditioned by it. So, too is the case with our body. We entertain a wrong idea that we live only through our physical bodies. It is not true. Even without the physical body, we live and work. The dream experience is a good example. The physical body has come out of us. It is a precipititate with us as its base. "You hold the body and you are not the body". That which we hold is to be understood as a facility. If not, we are held up. We develop a body, according to our quality and we choose to live in it. When the identity shifts to the bodies and their qualities, we forget ourselves and get conditioned. The wisemen are never thus conditioned.

Everyone has his own window. But, it is unwise for anyone to assert that the Sun can be seen only from his window. It is equally unwise to believe and profess that the sky is only as large as one's window. The "isms" and "ologies" in the psychological layers thus originate to mystify and confuse the unity which is otherwise clear and eternal.

This is the danger of deviation, diversion, separation, segregation, arising in the name of specialisation.

Synthesis will help us to ward off this danger and enable us to see "brothers in others". By realising the Energy of Synthesis, man remains undisturbed in a variety of concepts. He remains as the background of all. Instead of holding on to concepts he remains as their background. A man of synthesis understands say, the concept of Vishnu better than a proclaimed follower of Vishnu. He sees Vishnu as the permeating love energy, the unifying force in creation. He also understands that this unifying force has been called by various names in various times at various places. Conditioned by concepts, the followers of various faiths, limit the Eternal One to a form, to a name, to a place and to a time. The wise ones realise the One in and out of all forms, all names, all places and all times. They visualise the One within and without the system as all that is. He is visualised as the background of all that manifests and disappears. He is looked at as the eighth one, who is within and beyond the seven planes of existence. All the variety that is in manifestation is only His "formation" and yet He is unmanifest. Living in the awareness of this background, man realises the fitness of all, including that of the so called evil. His understanding of the concepts such as "faith", "sin", "darkness", etc., undergo convulsions. The systematised functioning of the creational activity upon the background of one existence is better realised. The synthesis is gained. The visit of the Master is to enable realisation of this synthesis, thereby realising the fitness of all that is.

We exist because the Energy of Synthesis exists and exists in us too. The central point in any created object is the Energy of Synthesis. It is the nucleus of every atom. Man is understood as a unit Consciousness. Sound is the medium through which this unit Consciousness is integrated to the universal consciousness or the synthesis.

Sound is the resource to silence, the source. Sound which emanates through ether is the best means for rebuilding the etheric body. Sound mellows the personality and links it up to the person. Sound helps one to travel from outside to inside and abide in the centre.

Sound is also the basis of mantra. A mantra is an orderly arrangement of specific frequencies of energy, invoked for a particular purpose. Mantra, therefore, is a powerful sound formula and there are many mantras of varied significance. They serve different purposes like bringing down rain, ushering sunshine, spreading splendour, breaking limitations and so on. There is the one sound, the sound of all sounds, the basis of all sounds - OM - the under-current.

As we have seen, the Master was an adept at the Vedic system and therefore knew the science of sound too well. Moreover, he had perfected sound as the medium, by his own experiments. There is more to this. He preferred sound as the right medium to awaken the Energy of Synthesis in humans and quicken their progress which was what he came down for.

For this purpose, he gave out the three letters 'CVV' as the sound potencies. The letters do not just relate to his name - Sri Canchupati Venkatarao Venkaswamy Rao.

The Master promised that, whoever uttered these sounds - 'CVV' - the Energies of Synthesis lying dormant in him will become dynamic through a process of link up to the Energy of the Planet, that of the Solar System and that of the Cosmic System. When they become dynamic, the concretised aspects of the human being start yielding. Man becomes more and more open and becomes capable of accepting every system and every other concept, faith and Master and their fitness in the total context. Integration of Yoga becomes natural. At that stage, man accepts both good and bad with equanimity. For, there he realises that good and bad are but viewpoints and he starts living above them in the 'I AM', where the view points concede to vision.

"THE MASTER", who transmitted pure energies into Master CVV, permitted him to distribute the energies to those willing to get into synthesis. It was the 29th May, 1910. Since then this day is regarded important and is referred to as "May Call Day". Master CVV stated that on every 29th May, THE MASTER MAY CALL those who wish to get into the Energies of Synthesis.

He worked out certain regulations to be observed, to enable anyone willing to enter synthesis.

1. Morning ablutions:
Arising in the morning, the aspirant should brush his teeth, clear his bowels, have a bath and wear fresh clothes.

This process ensures that he feels light, fresh and pure of body.

2. Time Key:
The invocation has been conceived by the Master for two times in a day, with a gap of 12 hours. He explained that one invocation will activate the energy to last 12 hours. Two takes care of a complete day.

It is therefore necessary to choose a convenient point of time and stick to it, morning and evening, for the smooth flow of the rhythm into the routine.

Master recommended 6.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. as the appropriate points of time.

For those to whom it is not possible, they can start by sitting regularly at any other fixed time in the morning and evening with a gap of 12 hours. This regular practice will enable them to observe the advanced step of 6.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m., in a matter of few years. Any time between 4.00 to 8.00 in the morning and in the evening may be chosen to start with. It may be mentioned that Master CVV was flexible about the ablutions but was strict about the time that the aspirant chose for himself. This is because time adheres to those who adhere to time. This is a Tantra.

3. Direction:
Sit with your eyes gently closed, facing North or East, on a mattress or a plank.

4. Posture:
"Any comfortable posture", said the Master. Not everyone can sit in a crosslegged position. Further, if the posture causes any pain, the mind will be thinking only of that and it cannot move beyond the physical. Also, the energies cannot flow through when the pain is felt.

Therefore, the comfort of the posture is very important. Hence, any posture of comfort. As far as possible, sit with your vertebra vertical to the horizontal. All that is horizontal is the creation. The spiritual practice enables you to rise vertically for which vertebra should be vertical.

Master had asked the aspirants not to bother unduly about the postures assuring that he would slowly make the required adjustments in the body, to attain the right posture.

Ensure that everything is at ease in your kingdom. Let all parts of the body be kept completely relaxed.

5. OM:
Utter OM thrice in a deep, slow, soft and uniform manner and listen to your own utterance. Remain silent for a minute.

Normally, people utter OM so mechanically that they do not even remember as to how many times they uttered.

Listen to the point of emergence of the sound while uttering. Only by observing this point, can we turn inward. If this is observed while OM is uttered, we become inward even without our mind's proposal. If we listen further, we find OM as a happening within. A happening that is continuous and eternal of which our utterance is a spring up. The process of meditation is an inward travel, ie., turning towards one's own being. You can conclude that going out into the outer world, through mind and senses is the opposite of meditation. Therefore utter OM, listen to it and find the source of utterance while uttering.

6. Visualising Master:
Imagine a brilliant golden lotus in your heart centre. Feel that the lotus blooms at your every utterance of OM. Thus, after the three utterances, you would see a fully unfolded heart lotus.

Visualise the Master as being seated at the centre of the lotus. Visualise further that the Master is looking into your eyes, with a smile and with a blessing gesture.

7. The invocation:
Utter forth the following, visualising the Master. "Master CVV Namaskarams".

The sound key given by the Master for becoming a channel to the Energies of Synthesis is "Namaskarams Master CVV". He also added that one need not repeat this many times as a mantra. It is enough if the sound CVV is invoked once in the morning and once in the evening. There was a disciple who was uttering this many times. When he happened to meet the Master, the Master asked him, "Why do you utter the sound so many times? I am not deaf. Do not repeat the sound more than twice a day. Your body cannot receive it for more than two times".

So, two invocations, one in the morning and one in the evening are sufficient.

Thereafter, remain silent for 15 minutes. Master said it takes at least 15 minutes for the energy to spread to all the nooks and corners of the body. The static energy becomes dynamic with the key sound CVV. The movement happens in the body along the spinal column. Necessary adjustments happen in the body. Blockages and congestions are cleared for free flow of energies. Rectifications are conducted. Functional system is developed and co-ordinated for flow of prana. Master calls all this as "repair work". The morning and the evening invocations are understood as "parking the vehicle for repair". Master CVV emphatically expressed that the human body as is now structured is unfit for complete life experience. The 'spiritual' cannot be experienced unless its model is changed. He therefore proposes rectification and development of the models to experience the spirit.

8. Observe within :
After invoking the sound key, observe what is happening within, while you remain silent. What happens? Many things happen according to our experience. The common happening which we will notice is the process of inhalation and exhalation. Since we are born with this, we take this for granted and normally, we hardly notice this. As we observe the process of inhalation and exhalation, the mind slowly becomes inwardly inquisitive and through the process, goes to the point of its emergence. Then, the aura of the heart centre, the seat of love will be perceived. The magnetism of the heart centre gets absorbed into that centre. We become higher conscious and continue to observe as ourselves but not as our mind. The retreat of mind into the heart centre inaugurates many processes of change to the bodies - mental, emotional and physical. The processes are of repair, rectification and restructuring. To make fit the body to experience the pervading consciousness is the goal. The Supra-Consciousness descends into the mind and even further into the grosser plane to turn the man into a Master - an immortal, divine one. Master CVV calls this as "Physical Immortality".

The inturn of mind towards its centre is called 'Dip Deep' by the Master. As we dip in, the mind meets its counterpart, i.e., the respiration. As the two draw near, they both disappear into one and that is pulsation. The pulsating Consciousness only remains, while mind and respiration cease. It is difficult to give a complete expression to this in language. It is a state of stillness where the heart beat stops but you are not dead.

This entire process can be summarised into three points:

- Observe time in the morning and evening

- Invoke the sound key

- Observe within

Anyone belonging to any faith, living in any part of the Planet can work with this process and derive the benefit, i.e., getting the understanding of synthesis. Master said that anyone who practises this for five years will acquire the ability to include, accept and integrate. His outer life will be organised and synthesised with inner life and glimpses of harmony will usher into his life.

The Master also mentioned that one who practices this regularly for 10 years will become his channel. He gave two more regulations for one to become his channel.

1. Meditate upon every form as the Master:
The Master means the background consciousness of all that IS. One has therefore to see Him in all the forms. For that, one has to know that all forms are divine and are manifestations of the one life. Master, tree, dog, friend, and structures - all hail from the same source called God, through a process of gradual precipitation. Hence as we see any form, that shall have to be recognised as a form of God. This practice neutralises many angularities within us.

Likeness is gradually gained, displacing likes and dislikes. Dislike is nothing but our own limitation. We can overcome our limitations only by identifying them, accepting them and then working with them. Even if we fail many times, it does not matter. There is a rise after every fall.

Dislikes have to be transcended methodically. We must remember that what we like and what we dislike hail from the same source. They also survive as we do. We dislike another person only because our quality does not agree with his. There are billions of beings on this earth. Each one has his own way of doing things. It is the personality which decides the way of doing. The personality differs among people but the person in all remains the same. Therefore, if we do not like the other's way of doing, let us not dislike the person. Let us understand that the difference is only at the personality level. When we integrate at the level of person, we grow passive to the personality. Our problem is we try to integrate at personality levels which is varied. We need to meet at the level where we agree. Then, the disagreeables gradually drop off. Since the Master is agreeable to us and since the Master is present as all forms, all times, all places, all names and as all persons, our ability to see Him in all leads us to neutral position, devoid of pride and prejudice. In that state, we agree with every form, even while disagreeing with their behavioural pattern. Our disagreement does not breed discord.

It is interesting to note as to how Master cured a disciple of his limitation of dislike. This disciple had dislike towards many persons and was always complaining. A friend advised him to meet the Master and said that He would make his life sweet.

The disciple went to Master CVV. Instantly, Master understood the disciple. So, the Master enquired the disciple: "Do you have enemies in life?" The disciple felt very happy that Master understood his problem and said "Yes Master. I have many enemies, my life is miserable".

Master said "Don't worry, I will take care of them" and gave him a mantra "ENEMY! BE AWARE OF YOURSELF".

The disciple was happy that he got a mantra to get rid of his enemies and practiced. But, even after 40 days, they did not disappear. So, he went back to the Master and told Him "Master, nothing has happened to my enemies. Your mantra did not work".

Master said, "You are not doing the mantra properly. I will help you. Please collect the pictures of all your enemies and bring them to me".

The disciple had difficulty in getting the pictures of his enemies but Master would not budge. Finally, after great difficulty he obtained all the pictures. He had to befriend his enemies to collect their pictures. He returned in a hurry to the Master with the pictures. "Frame them well", said the Master. The disciple had to further attend on the pictures, frame them at his cost and quickly returned to the Master. He enquired the Master: "Master! where shall I display them for you?" The disciple thought that the Master needed the pictures of the former's enemies to do some magic on them. The Master answered "They shall be displayed for you and not for me. Keep them in your shrine room, displacing my pictures. Worship them as you worship mine". A thunder bolt! The disciple got dismayed. "See the Master in those forms" - another thunderbolt. The disciple returned home and practiced as instructed. The disease of dislike gradually disappeared as he started looking for the one person among the many pictures. He developed friendship with the same persons, in due course of time.

Master advised that such limitations as existing in us can be neutralised only by remembering that creation exists in its threefold fabric. They are explained as the three qualities, viz., poise, dynamism and inertia. They are also called as the three gunas - sattva, rajas and tamas. These qualities blend differently in different people and the blend decides their varied way of doing things. The blend is the personality. The advice of Master is to identify ourself with the person who is beyond the triangle of the personality.

A story will illustrate this point better.

Two walkers, each with a dog in leash meet. Even before they meet and exchange "hellos", the dogs pick up a quarrel. A fight ensues with all the noise which the dogs are capable of producing and the friends are engaged in separating the dogs. The dogs represent the personalities and the owners represent the persons. When personalities meet, the pairs of likes and dislikes manifest. When persons meet, only one remains. Agreeability between personalities is not on the basis of love but on the similarity of viewpoints only. Agreeability of persons generate love, where different view points are accommodated.

2. You shall not work for your gains:
The truth is no one is really working for his profit. We entertain a feeling that we are working for our profit, but in truth, we are only working for others.

When we buy anything, we feel that we are buying it for us. But we are paying the persons who produced the things that we purchase. One can expand this concept endlessly.

The message is that everyone has to work for the other. The Master wants us to orient more and more to that part of our work which is meant to be done for others. If we are oriented thus, we become devoted in doing for others. If we are thus devoted, we will do our jobs to the liking of others.

When we thus do our jobs we not only satisfy others but also accomplish the fruits of our work. So, a job has to be considered as a wonderful opportunity to serve others with love, which in turn fulfills us. If we orient more and more to that which we should get through our work, we do not do our bit to others well. Consequently the job is not well done. Neither others are satisfied nor do you reap the fruits. Thus we destroy ourselves through work.

When you look forward to that part of the work which is meant for others, in the process, you are already taken care of. Hence you do not have to think of your welfare. When you are serving the community, the community serves you. The one who works for others is ever rich. The one who works for himself is ever poor, even if he amassed material wealth. The Master says "whosoever intends to be my channel shall work for others and shall not seek for himself". 'He is a pilferer, who eats for himself' is an occult truth. The seeker is ever poor, while the giver is ever rich. Hence the injunction that you shall not work for your gain. Orient to benefit others through every work of yours. Your benefits are already ensured in that attitude. Be wise to be a server and keep serving. Even the Lord serves the beings. You cannot be an exception. The Lord in the form of Teacher serves the taught. The Lord in the form of Parents serve the children. The Lord in the form of Ruler serves the public. In the form of plant, animals and elements only service is rendered. Follow the path of service and live like the Lord. To serve is the way of the Lord and the way to the Lord. To get served is to swing away from Him. Work is therefore an opportunity to move either way. Decide and move.

Thus, Master gave out the two additional regulations which would enable one to become his channel when practised regularly, for long years, with an attitude of service.

Mind is ever busy. It is in continuous contact with the objective world through its five senses. Senses are the messengers which keep on bringing information to the mind. Senses report. Mind reacts. We are pulled into action. Right from the time we wake up, there is a mechanical reproduction of thoughts, till we go back to sleep. We cannot get out of this pattern created by the mind and senses because it is based on habit that has been developed over many lives.

In the name of regulation, there are many who try to control the mind and senses, using methods of suppression. Spirituality, has become a source of self-infliction to many. Those who adopt such method are approaching the path of self-destruction. They forget that the body, mind and senses are impersonal and divine and that they function according to us only.

We find emotional aspirants cutting the tongue because it spoke a lie. The fool loses the chance of speaking the truth forever if he does so. Such foolishness arises out of wrong understanding. It is not the tongue that speaks a lie. It is he himself bound by his behaviour, who speaks a lie. The tongue is impersonal. According to us it functions. So are the senses and the mind. Many lose common sense in the name of spiritualism.

Spirituality can be arrived at only through a proper understanding. It calls for intelligent action. While man is in action, there is a process of combustion happening through senses and body. It causes its by-products of carbon that need to be cleaned regularly. The intelligence of man shines forth better when the process of cleansing is systematic and regular. Otherwise the accumulating carbon dims the light of intelligence and man becomes queer, abnormal and at any rate not normal. What applies to room-cleaning applies to this process also. Regular washing is called for. Outlet for the waste should remain unplugged. Similarly, necessary purifications and rectifications should be done before thought is translated into action.

"I shall repair from within", said the Master. It was clear to him that we cannot dissolve thought. Therefore, he asked his disciples to merely invoke the energy by keeping the eyes closed so that he would make all the repair, rearrangement and adjustment within the mental, emotional and physical vehicles.

We may recall Master's advice to handle the thought at its root itself. An example will illustrate the efficacy of this method. Drop a few drops of ink in water. Freeze it. We get a blue icecube. However much we try, we cannot remove the colour from this cube. The process of evaporation, decantation and distillation should be conducted before the ink mixed with water is removed. It means that if we get into action without considering the motive of the proposal, it cannot be rectified. It carries the tinge of the colour (Motive). For amending it, we have to trace it back before we proceed further. The blue icecube should be melted and made into water again and then through the process of evaporation, the colour should be removed.

Master advises us that before thought is transformed into speech or action, one should see how far it is pure and impersonal. The orientation makes an act personal or impersonal. If we understand this, even while interacting with the outer world in all walks of life, we can remain in existence and experience life.

Crude methods are not confined to cutting the tongue alone. Foolishness has many avenues. For instance, there are people who consider that businessmen, industrialists and merchants are unspiritual. We get into the pride of service, when we give water to a few weary passers-by. That is the glamour we suffer from. But we forget those whom we make use of on a daily basis. Without them, there will not be shirts, structures, food and a million other things that create comfort for us daily. But we take them for granted and even disregard them.

A mother feeds her child through her blood, before and after its birth. But it is never recognised. But if we donate a drop of blood we seek publicity. The mother does it because there is love. There is no obligation. Krishna said, "I am not obliged to anyone in all the three worlds for anything. There is nothing I need to do. But I do, to show the way". No Master was ever in obligation to anyone. They do not seek remuneration and hence they are not obliged.

The businessmen make their profit. But is that all to it? Can we make, produce, manufacture all the things that we need, by ourselves? It is a proven fact that distribution of profits towards many heads like salaries, wages, licences, procurements, transport, communication etc. etc. far outweigh the personal profits of the businessman.

It is a hard fact of life that we have to pay more than what we receive. The number of events when we pay is much more than the events when we receive. The best way is to feel happy that we have been responsible as channels for making so many payments to so many sources, before we receive.

Also, profit is not merely monetary. Profit motive surfaces in the form of recognition, fame, reputation, popularity and so on. So, it is wrong to blame the businessmen alone for profit motive.

"Never work with an expectation," warns the Master. If expectation is fulfilled, man becomes proud leading to arrogance. If not, he is disappointed which leads to hatred.

He added, "Give without obligation - you are free. If others give without your asking, accept it".

Therefore, anything done with a personal motive conditions us. For instance, we build a house and are conditioned by it. We like particular persons and are conditioned by such a preference; we organise a group and are conditioned by it; we buy a pet dog and we are conditioned by it. The house never comes to us; the persons are not always likeable; the pet dog seldom follows our directions and the group never plays to our tune. Thus we become bound. That which binds us is personal.

On the contrary, if a dog is around us, we need not whisk it away, if a group is around us we can let it remain. If the family, the property and the vocation are around us, we need not feel conditioned. To get conditioned is an aspect of one's own understanding. It has nothing to do with the things around. An impersonal one stands free while surrounded. A personal one binds himself in thought even in a desert.

When there is no bondage, the life is impersonal. By remaining impersonal, we are free; we become winged birds and become a medium to the Master. He starts functioning through us.

The frequency of getting blocked is won over. There is no anxiety about the future for, there is no expectation in the mind. The impulse to project, the urge to speak, the haste to prove, the penchant for criticising - all these disappear. A holy flow to help as many people as possible arises as identity with others increases by the hour.

To be impersonal is to be normal - which is being spiritual. Master promised to give the strength to be impersonal.

Remaining impersonal is very near being 'I AM'.

Master specialised in rebuilding the etheric bodies of the disciples. The invocation of the sound potency, which he gave straightaway, starts the work of reconstructing the physical, mental and emotional bodies as well. The manner in which he distributed the Energies of Synthesis on the physical plane of the Planet itself may be remembered here.

Master was a natural healer and healing was spontaneous with him. Whenever anyone visited him, he used to elicit all the information about the person by sending his wife into trance. Through her, he would ascertain the astral colours of the visitor and also find in which centre he was stuck. Accordingly, he would start the healing process and give the person a healing meditation.

For a Master of such an inexplicably high order, resurrecting the dead was not a phenomenon. There are at least six or seven recorded evidences in his life. He had a son by name Chandu. It was a great soul that descended to co-operate with the work of the Master. For the lay onlookers, the child should have been uncomfortably abnormal - it started speaking even as a small baby; it used to drag the vessel and drink litres of buttermilk alongwith its father; it used to describe the character, intention and the future of anyone who dropped in; it used to discuss abstruse philosophy fluently with strange visitors; it conversed at level with the Mahatmas who materialised in the house.