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this world is in such in such turmoil it
always has been
but it seems like as population grows as
knowledge and advances come along
everything increases and that means the
turmoils increase also it's so hard I
know for those of you who are having to
face so many problems today and the
insecurities that the world presents the
master used to say dis remember the only
security the only security only
fulfilment is in God meditate meditate
meditate so deeply practice your create
over you know one of the I would say the
most common questions if not complaint
of devotees seeking counsel is well I
just don't feel that I'm making any
progress
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master would say in the in a very
sweetly divinely mocking way you don't
say so I once thought well this is a
very wise answer to give to master and I
he was asking me to do something that I
thought really was beyond my capacity
what's he still doing
and I said that master he says look what
I have done and he was speaking of how
he for all the things that he was going
through and had gone through to
establish this path and the ashrams and
the temples and I said that master after
all your organ on death
I thought that was a good argument not
with master he just looked at me I
thought there would be some sympathy you
know well start with small things and
work up to it no he just looked at me
and he said the only difference between
you and a Yogananda is that I made the
effort well that left me nowhere to go
but bow my head and say yes master yes
master I learned early on on the
spiritual path fifty the secret of
getting along with God and your guru is
surrender you won't win you won't win in
an argument I had a very fun and I hope
it's a little more balanced now I had a
very logical mind and master very often
encouraged my my thinking of my
suggestions but sometimes I think maybe
I gave more than he cared or needed to
hear and one time he said to me he said
just remember in all of your logic you
could lose much wisdom that's absolutely
true and when I gave up a lot of the
rationalization then masters wisdom was
just became like an open book a flood of
wonderful realizations and
perhaps that was why he he felt that I
could contribute something to the
publication of his writings because I
was not interested in making it anything
other than what master had said and
intended and I always knew when I had
achieved a little at least a little of
that when copy would be brought to him
he would say see what she would have
done and she's so sweetly blessed
sometimes she gave a firm blessing I
like those particularly because I
thought well maybe that one will really
stick but you know no matter what our
what our problems or what our
insecurities of what our difficulties
Master has has given us the the way the
sudden that not necessarily to escape it
and and have nothing but a a joyful free
life but a way to overcome as he loved
to give lectures on being victorious
being the conquerors of oneself and of
one's problems there is absolutely no
reason to think that we are not
progressing I said that very same thing
to master early on the path and he said
just keep on as you are every day and
meditating and serving loving
God and you will find that one day you
will wake up and you have come much
further than you ever dreamed possible