Sparks Of Silence

De Simple Silence.

[modifier] If Angry — Forget

Don't get upset over trivialities. Don't cry for paltry things. Even supposing you do have an excuse or a cause for provocation, and your mood is upset in the excitement of the moment, don't stick to that one petty cause and keep on brooding over it with swollen cheeks and cloudy expression.

Immediately after the excitement dies down, try to cool off and forget what happened. Take the cause of irritation out of your mind for ever.

Meher Baba

[modifier] Living Furnace

Good thoughts, words and deeds of human being create good sanskaras and bad ones create bad sanskaras. But sanskaras can never be stopped unless one is fortunate to have the grace of a Sadguru and become realized.

Over the ages, you have collected a mixture of good and bad sanskaras like the black and white hairs on one's head. Yogis can erase sanskaras superficially as done when shaving but Sadguru can root them out completely.

So to stop the creation of new sanskaras and to destroy the past ones have the company and sahavas of a Sadguru. A God-Conscious Guru is like a living furnace burning away everything good, bad, past, present and future all sanskaras. The varying impressions of sin and virtue are spent, but spiritual impressions are not and always remain to one's credit — ever increasing, but never decreasing.

Meher Baba

[modifier] Domination Of Animal Sanskaras

The experiences and actions created and sustained at the subhuman stages of evolution by egocentric tendencies like lust, greed and anger have left their imprints on the developing mind, and the mind has stored these imprints in the same manner as film records the movement of actors. It is therefore easy to be bad and difficult to be good.

Animal life, from which human consciousness emerges, is mostly determined by animal lust, animal greed, and animal anger though some animals do at times develop the good qualities of self sacrifice, love and patience. If all the animal sanskaras had been bad and none good, the appearance of good tendencies in human consciousness would have been impossible.

Meher Baba

Compiled by Anna Khandale, M.A. Published by Avatar Meher Baba Centre, Rautwadi, Akola. Excerpts taken from old diary leaves of Late Dr. C. D. Deshmukh. © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust