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Spiritual progress is gradual and imperceptible

When the time is ripe, the advancement of a person toward Self-knowledge comes about as naturally as the physical body of a child grows […]

The three states of experience on the path — enthusiasm, depression and hope

On the 25th, Baba explained about three stages of experiences on the spiritual path — enthusiasm, depression and hope:

There are three states of […]

Path compared to education levels

“Baba likened the Path to God to four courses of a schooling, i.e. levels of education:

Primary: Observing ceremonies and the dry drills of […]

Why spiritual progress is gradual?

The question was then asked, “Why don’t you Sadgurus improve everyone and lift them up to Realization all at once, instead of advancing them […]

Life’s unending procession

“Baba once told us, he gave us this figure: He said that life was like an unending procession marching along. The people at […]

Balancing the mind and heart

To help others through one’s own example, one must get not only thoroughly drenched but drowned in love. As a prelude one should […]

Every minute is a sort of minor war

On the 24th, a 60-year-old man came to see Baba and said, “Although I have had many minor turning points in my life, […]

Discretion and emotion

heart

“When the intellect discards the dictates of conscience, or when the heart does not respond to what the intellect says, there is disharmony. So […]

The eternal struggle between the head and the heart

[In a letter to Kitty and other western women desciples in London,  Baba wrote:]

…Your heart is so wonderful, always feeling so deeply and […]

Simple, eternal truths

The following instructions, if carried out wholeheartedly by you, will allow you to help my work of spiritualizing the world. They are […]