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An oath for truth, meaning "hand on the heart."

HANUMAN

During the time of the Ramayana, Hanuman, by his will-force, utilized certain power or gaseous energy found in the sea-water round about Ceylon for burning the fort and city of Ravana. Whether it is still there or not let modern science try to ascertain. This, which he could do by his will-force, westerners require instruments for. (ERY-60)
Please See FORGETFULNESS also.

HAPPINESS

I wish you to be ever happy, but happiness consists in the due discharge of one's duty. The Gita lays so much stress upon it. It is in fact the very life and soul of spirituality. (SS-383)
It is a hidden dictum of Nature that every soul must live a happy and restful life. If we do otherwise, we are spoiling His world. (SDG-104)

HATHA YOGA

Hatha Yoga lays down mostly physical practices to effect cleaning, some of which are too hard and tedious for all and sundry.(DR-70)
Hatha-yoga has no access beyond Ajna-chakra. Besides, there is also another serious defect in it. When we start with the bodily exercises of Hatha-yoga, the consciousness of our physical efforts, with the idea of self in the background also remains all through. Thus the ego instead of getting reduced goes on increasing thereby. (SS-145)
No practice of Hatha Yoga can bring about such a result it fails after the Ajna Chakra.(ERY-31)

HATRED

God belongs to no caste, creed or society, hence there must be no difference between man and man on that basis. This is a Godly quality and one must try to imbibe it within one's self. If instead we look down with hatred upon the low and small we swerve away from the path of duty or Dharma. God resides within every one, so there is no ground for treating any one with hatred. This is one of the conditions which an abhyasi comes across during his march along the path. Every one must therefore try to be free from this evil. (SS-162, 163)

HEART

The heart is the only point, at which the connecting link between the animate and the inanimate is most clearly felt. This is the reason why meditation on the heart is very useful. (PG-5)
Further heart is the field for action of the mind. Mind is always as it is. It is the heart which, as the field of action of the mind, is to be set right.(SS-349)
The heart is the pumping station of blood. It sends out blood, after purification to different nerves and cells of the body. Now we have taken the heart as the centre for meditation. The blood that runs through our system is affected.(ERY-29)
Why do we meditate on the heart when the brain alone thinks of everything? The heart is the field of work for the mind, and all the points which are in the body and the brain, almost all of them, are found in the heart and, by meditating on it, it facilitates in purifying all those points. (SS-275)
How the heart in its lower state takes the reverse trend onwards is a problem not to be understood so easily. If I try to clear this mystery, I may hardly find words to express it, except that the phase is changed and the life is transformed. Then the heart, instead of being a field for defective mental activities, becomes the ground of Nature. Everything is changed into Real. The position of the heart, though physically at its own place, is also changed. It may be a greater ambiguity to say that 'L becomes 'U but for explanation of it the word 'Silence alone will perhaps serve the purpose best. (SS-88,89)
You know about certain limbs of the body. You find also the heart beating. You feel the respiration, you connect all these things with certain organs working. You also know that all these parts are set in different places of the body. You have the idea of liver, heart, lungs and so on. You are truly playing the part of the body as one unit but with solidity of thing. You have nothing in your mind but this. You do not know the real play of things. You do not know where these dramas are being played. You do not know that you are tossing in your own ideas. You have made yourself quite distracted and disturbed. Why do these things happen? Why do such ideas flash across? Who supported these things to come in? Who has the reins of all these things, or who is reigning? The heart and nothing else. You have yourself made your heart in this fashion, bringing out such results. The consequence is nothing but disturbance. All these thoughts were due to the heart and subsequently all your actions will be governed and regulated by this thing only at the first step, wrongly, if unwisely directed, correctly, if properly directed. It means that it is the master of them all. It is the controlling agency in itself. This is the condition of heart within you. It is working in different ways and colours. The main artery of Almighty with the idea of creation is working through it. The pendulum-like movement in your heart is nothing but the effect of invisible motion below the center. Our heart, being in touch with that invisible motion, plays the part in its own place according to its capacity. Thus its function is almost the same as that of the invisible motion. Lo! the visible form of the Godly invisible motion. It is a drop of the ocean. It is but a unit issued forth from the Centre. It is the same power in a limited sense. The big thing has its unlimited powers. Limitation, however, is the outcome of your own narrow mindedness. Invisible motion descended from the main artery for the creation of the universe and they spread like showers in the vast big circle. These revolving motions constituted the world no doubt, and we see the forms created by the Almighty through the invisible motions all round. This clearly proves that we are connected with the force of power which effected such wonderful results as we see in the world. Thus, though diversely related with each other, all things are finally connected with one and the same thing. These things are all running throughout the bigger circle of which we find our heart as a part. We have limitations created by our own force of will. That is why we find our inner circle of heart separated from the things said above. Every thing abides within this region. (ERY-34,35,36)

HEART-REGION

The heart region is extended from head to foot; All the creation of Almighty is within this circle. The work, of course, is divided and pushed on by different senses. If we go below the middle point of the heart region we find several functionaries at work, of course on different lines prescribed for each one of them. Powers of Almighty are also found in them which can be utilised as such. It is a big machinery of Nature. (ERY-40) What we gain in the region of heart is beyond one's conception. (ERY-46)
It is really a vast circle covering everything inner and outer. The things after the first mind all belong to the region of heart. All the lotuses or chakras are set within its limits. In other words they can well be called a part of this big region. The stages of human approach are lying hidden in it. Superconsciousness lies there: sushupti is a part of it. We are all playing like ducks in the water in that region. The stage of intercommunication with the liberated souls of the brighter world starts from this place. Individual mind plays its part in this region. It is the main artery of God. We cannot reach Him unless we proceed through it. (ERY-33)
Cosmic powers reside in this big region of Heart. Before crossing this region on to the Real Mind you acquire many powers which are utilised in Godly work. (ERY-40)
The top-most portion of the body is the end of this big circle. Such is the sphere of this big circle. There are very many things in this vast circle which can only be felt. No words can express them. The various powers of Nature reside here. Atri rishi is playing his part here. He has not gone far above in this circle although thousands of years have elapsed. Rishi Agastya has his working in this region only. They get command for the work from the Personality who has crossed this region. Besides these there are very many rishis working in this very region. I open a secret of nature. We worship Vishnu, thinking him as our god. I may disclose his strength today. He only keeps the different particles in order, to keep up the creation. His circle of work is within this region.
No God or Devata can ever boast of crossing this circle. It is but for a human being who has at his command the power and means to do so, and thus his flight is far above that of the Gods. It is really we who give them power by the force at our command. I use the word 'we for the personalities who have crossed this region, i.e. the heart region, and entered the region described as the first or Super-Mind of God. Nay, I am using this word for the personalities who have crossed even this region. Still I am incorrect. I must say that it is for those who have gone far above the first Mind of God. ( ERY-38,39)
Beginning our march from the outermost circle we proceed towards the centre crossing each circle to acquire the next stage. It is a very vast expanse.(DR-19). We take up the heart - which is the nucleus - for meditation and go on with it till the goal is attained. There are five points or sub-centres in it which we pass through in the course of our journey. (SS-418)
The heart region extends up to shikhar (top). After that there is the mind region which extends up to the Occipital point. There is also one superconsciousness in it, but it is not very active. Thus the chit lake lies in brahmanda and so also the point of Saraswati. I have stated that the Heart Region is extended from head to foot, and that the entire creation lies within this circle, that is up to shikhar.
All these points are in the sahasrara (shikhar), as after shikhar the Heart region ends, and then we come to the mind region. (SS-441,442)

HEART'S EYE

There are many systems proclaimed as the best and the most efficacious, and all of them no doubt claim Realisation as their goal. But here we must pause a while to weigh them all with the heart's eye. I use the word 'heart. It is the nucleus and creates the vibrant motion whereto it is directed. This is the field for the mind to work, and this is the instrument by which we develop the discriminative faculty. The subtle forces work in this plain for the descent of Divine energy. If somehow our thinking conjoins with it or we train it so that it may percolate the right thing and direct it towards Reality, the problem is solved. But that is impossible unless one tries to have a clear view of what Realisation is. (SS-408)

HEAT

There is a great difference between the Nature's heat and that caused by sun. The former which originates from Reality is totally devoid of materiality whereas the latter which originates from a comparatively material source is heavier. In my view the former may more aptly be called as force or energy. In energy the heat exists in a latent state while in sun it is apparent. The sun's heat is mere warmth while the other is promoter and preserver of life, though the word used in both the cases is the same. It is regrettable that no adequate means of expression of such subtlest matters are available and possible. I have , however, tried my best to explain it through words as far as possible, yet the actual realisation of the difference depends upon practical experience (anubhava) alone.(IB-13,14)
Co-relationship began to spring up. Now one who was more closely attached to it, received more of it for his share. The heat which existed on the first day manifested itself in man, and gradually it went on developing assuming the form of organic growth. Every particle got affected thereby, absorbing its due share of it. A material tinge was thus introduced into it and it remained subject to the influence of that which it was part of. The bigger layer previously formed by the heat maintained its connection with it. Now the influence caused on the greater thing will naturally be reflected on the smaller thing, which will get affected thereby in proportion to its magnitude. (IB-1,2)
The continuance of the flow created heat which was the very basis of life and which gave further stimulus to existence. (IB-12)
The heat caused by motion became the base for the formation of forms and shapes. It exists in us too and is the basis of the whole structure. If somehow we bring this heat to a state of moderation, it becomes almost identical with the original current. (SS-315)

HEAT OF THE SUN

The heat of the sun has been gradually diminishing for some time past and it may be a baffling problem for the scientists to tackle as after some time life on the surface of the earth may become quite impossible owing to insufficient heat in the sun. No solution of it is within their mental approach in spite of all the material powers at their command. I may assure them that it will not at present diminish to that extent. The present decrease in the sun's heat is meant only to expedite nature's process of change and the personality deputed for that work is utilizing it for the purpose. It is an unfailing sign of the imminent upheaval in the entire structure of the world and after it the sun will again resume its full glow. The same sign will appear again at the time of Mahapralaya (complete dissolution) but as it is a far-off thing. (DR-118,119)

HEAVINESS

Heaviness of mind or internal denseness caused by gross forms of worship is thus a great impediment to our spiritual advancement and should be avoided. If they maintain it with ever-increasing intensity they remain entangled in the thorny bushes of grossness and deception far removed from the realm of perpetual bliss.(DR-80,81)
The cause of heaviness is unbalanced movement.(PP-155)
You have written that the worldly worries create heaviness in heart. This proves that the heart is purified to such an extent that even the sweet fragrance of the flower cannot be endured by it. Nevertheless, the worries should be in the flying form so that the heart may not be aware of them.(SS-482)

HERO

In order to controI our thoughts and actions we have to look to the proper working of the mind which is never at rest even for a moment. I have often heard religious teachers rail at it in bitterest terms, ascribing all bad names to it and proclaiming it to be our worst enemy. The reason is quite plain. They think it to be the cause of all evil within us and consequently they advise people to crush it and not to follow its biddings. Besides the present circumstances and the environments too contribute much towards the ever-increasing activities of the individual mind. Almost every one, today, feels his life to be a hard struggle for existence confronting acute problems of poverty, insecurity, distress and rivalry and it is almost impossible to keep himself free from its effect. The result is the constant unrest and disturbance of mind. We breathe in the same thing from atmosphere and are consequently led away by circumstances and surroundings. Our individual mind has become the weathercock, turning its face at every blast towards the direction in which the wind blows. The real hero in the struggle is one, who braves them courageously and keeps himself free from their effect.(DR-32,33)

HINDUISM

One of the greatest specialities of Hinduism, as pointed out by Swami Vivekananda, is that it offers means and methods of attainment of nobler ideals of life to people of every taste, mentality and talent. For this purpose, there is in it for some the worship of idols and images, for others that of gods and deities, for still others that of God with form or without form and so on. Further still for those of higher capabilities there are the paths of upasana, bhakti, jnana etc. For the attainment of still higher ideals there is again the path of Yoga classified under different heads including Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. As for the attainment of liberation or complete freedom almost all the great sages of the past and the present agree on the point that Raja Yoga alone is the path that ensures success up to the final point of human approach, and everyone dedicated to complete freedom must sooner or later come up to it. Sahaj Marg runs closely along the lines of Raja Yoga but with certain amendments and modifications to purge out superfluities from that system hitherto known by the name of the Raja Yoga. (SS-185,186)

HOMELAND

I do not think that one who exerts himself for the achievement of realisation while attending to his household duties shall be a loser any way. On the other hand, he will be soaring high with both wings out-stretched on towards his eternal homeland.(SS-460)
I regret to say most of our fellow associates remain too much occupied with their own self, attaching to it the greatest importance. Innumerable lives have gone by but our return to the 'homeland' could not be effected yet. And even now the craving for that does not seem to have revived in the heart. In fact, all this depends upon the sweet will of God. May they have of me even as much as I may be capable of imparting; and beyond that, if their longing still persists, I will most gladly advise them to seek for another, better accomplished one. The greatest joy to me would be to see people going higher than myself. What or where I am, the Master alone is in the full know of. Only so much am I able to understand that I am incapable of determining the limit of my approach, not knowing how much more I have to swim on yet. However, if any of my associates at any later time comes to a full understanding of it, he may have to repent for not availing of it fully at the time. I wonder why their hearts are not moved even though I remind them of it so often. Perhaps it is due to some of my own shortcomings. (SS-56, 57)

HUMAN EXPERIENCE

If we pay attention to further account (narration) concerning experience of the pain of thorn-prick there are many categories (states), wherein pain is not experienced from thorn prick, or there remains no possibility of telling anything about it. Thorns prick the feet of many animals other than man, but in certain cases there is no experience of that at all and in some other cases there is no experience of the experience. Similar happens to be the cases of the newly born human child. On growing up also the particular part of body can be got anaesthetised by using some drug or otherwise in the case of a grown up human being as well; and experience and narration of pain gets blocked also in the event of vivisection or non-functioning of the relevant part of the brain Thus, many illustrations of this sort are there lying below the level of normal human experience .
There are other examples which may be spoken of as states of higher category. Love or attachment of heart, whether mundane or Divine, in proportion to its intensity reduces the experience (sensitivity) and expression of physical penury: and still beyond and above a certain limit, attachment of heart and mind obstructs the most profound physical experience altogether An anecdote about a prominent scientist is well known, that he was so absorbed in his work that his dog ate his lunch and when in the evening his servant on enquiry told him that he had eaten his lunch and empty plates were taken away for washing by the servant, he(the scientist) was satisfied just that in a state of self-oblivion he had forgotten having eaten his lunch. Whether some body treats it as a state of high level or low level, this story is certainly true at the level of human experience. (SDG-141,142)

HUMANITY

A saint, even at his highest approach, cannot wash off humanity because in that case life will be extinct. This limitation will always remain, and it will play one part or the other. This is the secret of Nature. (SS-360,361)
However high an approach a saint may have attained, humanity, which itself is a limitation, still remains. Kabir says: People are afraid of death, but how I wish to die so that I may have the complete Divine Bliss (poorna brahmanand)! A Persian poet says: Sometimes I am enthroned in the ninth heaven and sometimes I am lower than even my foot.If this limitation or bond is broken up, the spirit flies away, leaving the mortal human body.(SS-452,453)
Humanity though charged with Divinity, is not however altogether lost but exists still, though on a normal level only. So even when one secures closest nearness to God, the human instinct still remains in him.(SS-440)
God loves him who has seen him but remains at a distance from Him. That means one must keep His remembrance alive in his heart, remaining ever within the sphere of devotion, in full cognizance of his own status of humanity.(SS-283)
Mergence is there without doubt. But in such a state a man, having become absorbed in Reality, feels linked with the other side also i.e., the world. It is nature's plan for humanity, because humanity cannot survive without it; and it is also essential because we have to exist as human being first, till we close our eyes permanently. It is secret of Nature.(SS-479)
My view of perfection is that humanity and divinity must go along side by side. Both lines are now in action, running side by side, parallel to each other. As a matter of fact humanity could never have worked so well unless it had proceeded along in conjunction with divinity. It is for this reason that they say that God is within man and the same view is held by almost all religionists. Thus our ultimate purpose can be served only when we keep pace with divinity and link it with our line of humanity. All that we have now to do is to bring them now into their original state (since both have come from one great God) or in other words to restore them to a state of poise and tranquility, so as to keep up its link with divinity. The only way to accomplish it is by introducing into them proper moderation and we do the same in Sahaj Marg. This is the secret of nature which I have exposed herein, in order to bring people to a full understanding of the real meaning of complete divinisation of man. That is why humanity remains even if one is at the apex of realization.(SS-376,377)
In the perfection of the spirit, Divine attributes are developed. If it has bearing on something else then it is not on the point of full Realisation. It has the awareness of having no awareness of the past, and a little moulding will enable it to know the abstract. Humanity remains even if one be at the apex of Realisation. (SS-417)
Sita had a parrot. She loved it very much. It died. Her father, Raja Janak loved his daughter Sita greatly. So, because of her he began to be grieved too. That may bring some to the conclusion that a great saint like Raja Janak was unduly attached to the petty parrot. But whatever may be their justification for it, I believe that if one does not feel grieved at the distress of others, he is devoid of the common sense of humanity or, in other words, he is not a man at all. (SS-262,263)

HUMAN NOBILITY

The perfection of human nobility lies in the devotee being always within the sphere of devotion.(IB-43)

HUMAN PERFECTION

Human perfection lies in realising the Master as Master in true sense, and one self as His slave devoted entirely to His service. By doing so one creates in himself a state of Negation which attracts His direct attention and establishesa link with Him. Now it becomes incumbent upon one to discharge his duties in like manner, keeping the link in tact, so that the Master's greatness be engrossed upon his heart and he may be in His direct view. (IB-57)

HUMILITY

At bedtime, feeling the presence of God, repent for the wrongs committed. Beg forgiveness in a supplicant mood, resolving not to allow the repetition of the same.(IB-57)
The feeling of humility, which may as well be expressed as a state of supplicancy, covers within it the condition of innocence. One who attains it has in a way attained all, though apparently it may not seem to be so. In that case, the mistake no longer remains a mistake, since it has been washed off completely. (IB-58, 59)
To stiffen one's neck, is a defect. So long as it is not removed, one is not aware of one's own Base. What I mean by 'Base' is that when a person is wholly rid of this defect, there arises a state, which has been attempted to be translated by the use of this word. To live in that state is human culture. When that state grows a bit denser, it enters the region of the attribute of Poverty or Humility. When such a state is achieved, then the subject (of the Lord) becomes a subject in the real sense. To achieve such a state, hundreds of transmissions and prayers are prescribed. (SDG-34)
Greatness lies in humility and meekness. So every abhyasi should develop meekness. One rises to prominence only when he thinks himself to be humble and low. Humility brings forth what arrogance cannot. As I could discover after a life's experience, the greatest obstruction on the path of spirituality is offered by our feelings of partiality and prejudice, which may be roughly assumed as a type of ahamkara. One must, therefore never part with this noble virtue of meekness and humility. (SS-346)
You do not consider yourself worthy of being a preceptor. When that idea is there, no more time is required for one to be so. By the Master's grace he can then be raised to that level in an instant. (SS-245)

HYMNS

The hymns and prayers offered generally result in flattery when one is dumb to the real spirit of the essential character. (SS-134)

HYPNOTISM

Please see BASER PRACTICES.