Wisdom of Dadi Janki

 

Instruments of Peace

 

The call of this time is a call for peace. In may early morning mediation, I can hear the call of the peace-less world for peace – not just for an end to conflict, but for a deep inner stillness and calm, which all souls remember as our original state.

       If we are to find peace, first we must teach ourselves to become quiet and then we can become peaceful. Becoming peaceful means seizing the reins of the out-of-control mind and bringing the runaway thoughts to a halt. Once we have the mind’s attention, we can begin to coax it to take us into silence, a true silence, not a please without sound, but the of peace and a pervasive awareness of our well-being.

       It is not an empty mind that elicits this state of peace. To move into this state of profound salience we must train it to concentrate. Our wasteful thoughts burden us. Our habits of creating too many thoughts and too much word exhaust the intellect. We must ask, “How can I cultivate the habit of pure thought?”

Who is it that yearns to go into silence? It is I, the inner being, the soul. As I detach from my body and from bodily things, and turn away from the distractions of the world, I can face inwards to the inner being. Like a perfectly calm lake when all whispers of wing have stopped, the inner being shimmers. Quietly reflecting the intrinsic qualities of the soul. Feelings of peace and well-being steal across my mind and, thoughts of benevolence.

       I let go of all thoughts of discontentment and am reminded of my oldest, most intrinsic state of being. I remember this inner calm. Though I have not been here recently, remember it as my most fundamental awareness, and a feeling of happiness and contentment wells up inside me. In this state I know every soul to be my friend. I am my own friend. I am deeply quiet. I am silent and utterly at peace.

       This deep well of peace is the original state of the soul. When I am in This state, I feel the flow of love for humanity and I feel a state more elevated than what I world normally call happiness; a state of bliss. It is when I attain this state that something truly miraculous can happen. When I am in this state of complete soul-conscious rest, I become aware that energy is beginning to flow into me. I feel stretch and a power so expansive that in do, nowhere I cannot reach.

       When this happens, I am experiencing the connection with the divine energy and the flow of God’s power into my inner being. If I stay focused inward, connected with this stream of divine power, even the way I use the physical senses will be different. When I look at the word, I will see through my original nature of benevolence and experience compassion for the world.

       It is in this experience that I know what silence power is. It is this power that transforms me inside, making me pure and powerful. When the soul and God are linked together, there is a power that reaches me and then reaches invisibly across to others, bringing about transformation in them, in nature, and in the world.

       The secret of this power of silence is that I don’t have to do the work of transformation. Divine power automatically transforms. Let Mme do the inner work. Let me go deeply into that experience of the original state of the self, and let there be silence so that God is able to do His work through me, His instrument.