The real remedy – “Remaining in Maya, but not being of it”

If the Avatar or a Sadguru wishes his disciples to renounce something, he resorts to one of two methods. One way is that he snatches the thing away from him or has it stolen. Another is that he gives it such an importance that the person himself becomes fed up and gives it up.

I have activated Maya’s machine for a definite purpose. I permit humanity to have a thousand and one experiences by passing through various acts. The masses will come out of it all in the end. When they are capable of perceiving it, they will find that all this was a part of a great play, which God, in His unbounded cleverness, had staged with the objective of extricating humanity from Maya, through Maya.

The generally accepted idea of renunciation or detachment is an illusory way of getting away from Maya, because you miss the main point by running away. The inner reaction to such renunciation is that the mind soon goes out of control, leaving the person concerned in a morass, which only creates more complications. To overcome these new complications is still more difficult. The real remedy lies in remaining in Maya, but not being of it.

-www.lordmeher.org, p2080
Feb, 1940; Bangalore

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