Duty

There seems to exist a confusion among people today as to what one's duty in the world is.  Is it right to renounce one's duties in order to wholeheartedly follow the spiritual path?  Do I still have a duty to my married children?  The answer is that as long as you feel as an individual entity, you do have a duty.  When you merge in the Absolute, the question about duty will not even arise.  

Remember whatever you are bound to do will happen even after realisation.  Realisation does not mean that one disappears from the world.  On the contrary, there will be no question about one's duty; but one's duty will be performed much more efficiently.  So egolessness is to uproot one's bad tendencies and sense of doership.  It does not stop us from performing the actions we are supposed to perform.  If the enlightened beings had not continued to act, there would be no examples for mankind to follow, no teachings, no spiritual books.

Seer and seen, knower and known, are contents of the mind.  Practice lies in transferring the attention from the seen to the seer.  Hold on to the seer - in due course, one will experience that the seer, as a person, disappears.  What remains?  That which is Atma.  It is uninterrupted awareness.  This is liberation.

Many people come to their Guru saying, "I want peace".  It is very simple - give up the "I" that wants something, let go of desires and you have peace!

Bhagawan Baba says, "Are we not at peace in the interval when one thought ceases and another does not yet rise?"

(From the book "I am I" by Ratan Lal)