To be is not to be

Practice resignation for it is the master key to love.  All divine precepts and religious recommendations are ways to realize a true resignation.  He who is submitted to God is one with Him and has joined Him.  And this is the ultimate purpose of creation of human beings and the universe...  Egotism disappears with resignation, and in the absence of ego, love shall reveal itself -  the real deliverance and happiness.  All along history, prophets and divine teachers have put emphasis on resignation as the chief practice for their followers and disciples.  Divine trials also put continuously our love and resignation into test.

A spiritual master gives various assignments to his pupils but all he orders them to do is but a method to establish submission in them.  When one becomes completely submitted he has acquired the necessary qualifications to receive important instructions and the greatest teaching as well.  Under such conditions alone a person is approved and is chosen by God and the divine teacher.  At this stage, formal teachings have come to an end and teaching of divine mysteries begins.       

Life is also a process of development and establishment of resignation which increases and consolidates, in its turn, the divine flow in one's existence. 

Man holds everything.  The whole truth and all the mysteries have been hidden in him.  Therefore, there is no need to strengthen or to increase anything. Man needs only to acquire the necessary merit and readiness for the revelation of his divine nature and whatever the Lord has granted him.

The divine teacher entrusts us, first, with smaller responsibilities and then prepares us for more important ones. A well execution of minor tasks prepares us for assuming greater obligations; and accepting and fulfilling secondary duties provide the necessary ground for receiving the principal and ultimate mission.  Prophets and divine masters have adopted this approach to prepare their followers for the manifestation of divine light and the entrance into the divine kingdom.

In fact, with each assignment, a disciple practices and experiments the replacement of his/her desire by the will of a higher intelligence.  Additional and extensive duties require further renunciation of one's will and ego to the point that progressively he comes up to the stage of a complete resignation...

Resignation is the best practice.  It is to practice to fly.  "Be not; for if you wish to be, you have first to be not."  Therefore, practice to eliminate your ego.  When ego disappears, its shadows disappear too.   When you disappear, your shadow disappears as well.  Love and resignation eliminate your ego and its shadows; they remove your selfishness, conceit and self-glorification.  This is the master practice...

One of the reasons a divine master asks a disciple to live with him is to test, to deepen and to refine his love and resignation.  During the period of discipleship, he often stimulates his student's egotism and selfishness and brings them into view. Then he melts and eliminates them in his own methods and he makes flow in his disciple whatever flows in himself.  Every moment of life is a trial to see whether one is a friend or a foe of the Lord.  Does one serves God or other than God?  Is he submitted to the Lord or to other than the Lord?..

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