OCCULT MEDITATIONS

 MEDITATION 24

Have your friend in yourself, be a friend to others ;

Depend upon yourself, be dependable to others.

Do not expect but demand what is due

to Him from them.

Be a guard and a guardian to the temple not for you,

but for Him.

Be a guard and a guardian for your body and mind,

not for you but for Him.

Commentary:

The friend that never fails is verily in each one of us. It is wise to cultivate friendship with the friend in us. The friend in us is ever ready and never failing. He exists as pulsation in the heart of everyone and he is willing to guide you even up to the Truth. He is your life and your light. He is your very existence and awareness. Note that he continues to be with you, while in life, in death, in birth and in all states. He guards you even while you are at sleep. There can be no friend equal to him. Cultivate friendship with such a one. The joy of his friendliness enables you to be friendly with others. Lord Maitreya holds such a friend and hence he is friendly to the whole world.

Learn to depend upon yourself. This is yet another quality to be cultivated in discipleship. Depend upon yourself and be dependable to others. Depend upon the self, the higher self in you. Draw support from Him in you and be supportive to others. Self-dependency is the real strength. Only kids depend on others but adults do not. See the areas where you depend on others. Carefully learn to eliminate such dependency. The one who develops dependency on others suffers when such others are not available. Know that mastery is in self-dependency but not in gathering helpers without whom you cannot work. Many teachers fall into this trap of dependency when the students start helping them in their personal routine. They become imbecile.

To work is man’s privilege. To expect is burdensome in life. Many times expectations result in disappointments. Until this secret of work is learned, man continues to be affected by the duality of the world.

Demanding what is due to Him can be done only by the Teacher who knows the indebtedness of the students to the Divine. In recent times, teachers like Shirdi Sai Baba made such demands continuously from the followers, not for himself but for the benefit of the followers. ‘Non-expectation’ is to be practised by the student and the Teacher would demand that which is due to God.

The guardians to the temple often become powerful and aggrandise themselves. Instead of guarding the temple, they own the temple. The temple stands for every good work. People in charge of the good work unwittingly fall into the trap of their own personality. The will to power enters into them and they become controllers. They fall down from the status of being a guard and a guardian to the good work. Around every Teacher, people gather to work. By working with the Teacher, they become important. They forget that the importance that they receive is not theirs. They relate to the work and the Teacher. They try to control the people, the work and even the Teacher. This is a very common phenomenon. By doing so, such followers fall. The fall can be very heavy and very deep. It can come as an incurable sickness, as an economic crisis or as a heavy opposition.

Guarding good work is not a privilege but a responsibility. Every student who works with a Teacher should be on guard relating to this trap, which is a very common trap. To be a guard and a guardian of a temple (good work) is a tremendous responsibility and such responsibility needs to be discharged with utmost care and humility.

Similar should be the attitude of the student towards his body and mind. He should be a guard and a gardener for his body and mind. He should know that the mind and the body are God-given and hence are Divine. He should use the body and the mind with utmost care. He should learn to nourish the body appropriately with food, drink, work and rest. He should also learn to nourish the mind appropriately with thoughts of the Divine and of goodwill.

The nourishment has to be like a gardener who takes every care of the garden, eliminates the weeds and nourishes the seeds. This is what the student neglects with respect to his body. The meditation therefore suggests to the meditator to be a gardener also.

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These are occult meditations. Working with them enables psychological adjustments, which would lead to occult experiences. They would ultimately lead to experiencing the Divine.

These are the meditations given to Master EK by those whom he followed (Hierarchy) to those who follow him. These meditations are global in their concept. The sublime spiritual concepts and symbols of various theologies are found therein.

Everyday in the morning, the student is advised to study a meditation relating to that day and to contemplate upon its thought. Such contemplation would enable the adjustment of the psyche and the awakening of the related intelligence (Deva) in him. Master CVV, from whom these meditations emanate, presides over said adjustments.

It is strongly advised to do the meditations in English. For comprehension, they may be translated into other languages. But the potency of the meditation is hidden in the sound, which is given in English. The commentary for these meditations has come forth due to the sincere demand of groups all over the globe. They may help the student and hence this effort.

From the book: "Occult Meditations"

"SEVEN TIMES SEVEN THE WHEEL ROTATES"