Circle of Good Will - The World Teacher Trust

ourselves in the east and we have to put on the lightof the east. The light of the east is the headlight. Arewe not working here with ceiling lights? Without suchlight nothing is visible. That is why a daily prayer toenlighten becomes the first, preliminary step towards aclean life. We switch on the light when we pray. Whenthe light is on, the chamber of the personality can beseen. What is desirable and what is not can be seenin the chamber. Eliminate what is not desirable on adaily basis. If this is not done, we cannot achieve thefirst step of a clean life. The light that we put on in thechamber is the light of dispassionate introspection.Even a clean life requires so much of analysis andunderstanding. All that shines outside may not shineinside. Outer shine is no measure. All that glitters isnot gold. So we have to see what is inside, in terms ofour emotions, in terms of our thoughts, in terms ofour speeches, in terms of our movements. Just observe!The flux of mind jumps in a zigzag way, like a rabbit. Itkeeps on jumping here and there, no definite coverageof path, no progress. So the flux of the mind has tobe seen, how it is, how the mind is becoming everyfew minutes! It is like the bull that enters into thefield. An untrained bull spoils the field. The untrainedpersons in the society or in the group bring conflict.So the trained persons should have the toleranceto include them and ensure that they also pick up atraining on themselves. An elder cannot get disturbedat the acts of a youngster. If he gets disturbed, he is noelder. What is our elderliness, if we are disturbed everyminute by others? That means, we are not elder, butwe are misleading ourselves to be an elder. If we getfrequently disturbed, we are not mature. We remain animmature. So when we are getting disturbed, we haveto accept that we are immature. Frequent disturbancemeans, very much immatureness. If we accept reality,we can start growing from there. Our problem isthat we are not willing to accept the ground reality.We always tend to take a position higher than wherewe are. That is why, to maintain a position which wehave not naturally attained, there is tension, worry andirritation. So, if someone regularly irritates us, it meansthat such a person is stronger than us, isn’t it?Normally in an etiquette society, when someonecomes into my chamber, he asks, “Can I disturbyou for a minute?” Why should he disturb me? It’sa way of saying. Normally I answer, “You may try.”If he has a program to disturb me, he may try. I mayget disturbed or I may not get disturbed, but he cantry. Etiquette brings wrong words into use. Someonecoughs, which is a natural act, and says, “Excuse me.”Who should excuse whom? Should the cough excusehim or is he excusing the cough, or should the othersexcuse him? Why should there be an excuse at all? It is26 27