Peace Pilgrim

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I apologise for being irregular in continuing to write from Peace Pilgrim.

Raju

Peace Pilgrim:-

Now, when I talk about the steps toward inner peace, I talk about them in a

frame work, but there's nothing arbitary about the number of steps. They can

be expanded; they can be contracted. This is just a way of talking about the

subject, but this is important: the steps toward inner peace are not taken in

any certain order.

The first step for one may be the last step for another . So, just take

whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps, it will

become easier for you to take a few more. In this area we really can stare.

None of you may feel guided to walk a pilgrimage, and I'm not trying to

inspire you to walk a pilgrimage, but in the field of finding harmony in our

own lives, we can share. And I suspect that when you hear me give some of the

steps toward inner peace, you will recognize them as steps that you also have

taken.

In the first place I would like to mention some preparations that were

required of me. The firest preparations that were required of me. The first

preparation is a right attitude toward life . This means - stop being an

escapist! Stop being a surface-liver who stays right in the froth of the

surface. There are millions of those people, and they never find anything

really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the

surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That's what

we are doing here now.

There's the whole matter of having a meaningful attitude for the problems

that life may set before you. If only you could see the whole picture, if only

you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you

that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribuyte to your

inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize problems as

opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems you would just drift

through life, and you would not gain inner growth. It is through solving

problems in accordance with the highest light that we have that inner growth

is attined.

Now, collective problems must be solved by us collectively, and no one finds

inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective

problems, like world disarmament and world peace. So let us always think

about these problems together, talk about them together, and collectively work

toward their solutions.

The second preparation has to do with bringing our lives into harmony with

the laws that govern this universe. Created are not only the worlds and the

beings but also the laws which govern them. Applying both in the physical

realm and in the psychological realm, these laws govern human conduct. Insofar

as we are able to understand and bring our lives into harmony with these laws,

our lives will be in harmony. Insofar as we disobey these laws, we create

difficulties for ourselves by our disobedience. We are our own worst enemies.

If we are out of harmony through ignorance, we suffer somewhat; but if we know

better and are still out of harmony, then we suffer a great deal. I recognized

that these laws are well-known and well-believed, and therefore they just

needed to be well-lived.

So I got busy on a very interesting project. This was to live all the good

things I believed in. .............

 

"Rest I will continue in next"

Namaskar to all.

Raju.