Insoluble Problems
(by Karmayogi)
There are nothing like insoluble problems for Mother. But, in the scheme of things, in the life of the devotee many problems are left unsolved which he comes to describe as insoluble problems. If problems of that description are taken up, there are two approaches that lead to solutions. One way is to change the human trait that generated the problem. That is a radical, substantial solution that would not only offer a solution to the problem on hand, but would usher the willing individual into a greater measure of prosperity. The other is to seek a limited solution. By isolating the problem from the man and his life, insulating it from other influences, concentrating our efforts on the solution, we find a solution. Either is possible.
For the first solution, it is necessary for a man to
know why a certain problem arose. If he knows it and he is willing to change in
himself that trait which created the problem, then it is good. Once he makes
that inner change, a prayer will readily remove the problem, however knotty it
appears to be. In case he is unable to locate in himself any characteristic or
attitude or activity that led to the problem, he should come forward to assume
that one exists inside him and be willing to give it up, whether he knows it or
not. Before taking up a prayer to solve the problem, he must pray to Mother to
remove what in him has caused it.
The second is not an attempt to change one’s inside but to aim at a limited solution, which is a
total solution to the problem. A dozen methods are open to him.
1. Intense Prayer:
If one is unemployed for years or a girl’s marriage is getting postponed for 10
years or one is suffering from a chronic disease, an intense prayer will remove
it. By intense prayer I mean that the devotee should go deep into himself, as
deep as the problems constitute a worry in him, and from there resolve to pray
to Mother. Prayer from that depth will be elevating. Should he reach such depth
for prayer, he should set apart three or four days and be fully absorbed in it.
The problems will melt away. As the devotee goes to a depth within himself and voices a prayer from there, the problem receives
the full impact of the prayer whose intensity is equal to the problem.
Naturally, it gives way.
2. Deep Concentration:
The first method of prayer and this concentration are the same in essence but
their forms vary. This can be resorted to only by those to whom concentration
is natural and easy. A concentration should be developed in meditation and
tested for its intensity against the intensity of the problem. If it does not
match, day after day the intensity of the concentration should be increased
until it reaches the intensity of the problem. In a few days, one can reach it.
Once it is reached, the problem can be forgotten and
one can lose oneself in the concentration. The problem gives way on its own.
3. Complete Consecration:
Narrating to Mother in prayer or in imagination the sequence of events that led
to the problem is called consecration. If it is done without reactions of mind,
after a few sittings the knot will be broken. One
significance of this method is all the harassing life events that led to
the creation of this problem, once consecrated, will not recur in the life of
the devotee anymore.
4. Offering the karma:
If the devotee knows now that his past actions have led to the present
situation, he should offer to Mother the original acts so as to dissolve the
karma at its roots. A father whose son had run away from home acknowledged that
in his youth he had run away from home as a truant. His offering of his earlier
actions now to Mother brought his son back to him exactly at the moment when
his mind repented.
5. Offering of the
propensities that have created the karma: This is the same as
offering of karma but is deeper and has a greater purifying effect.
6. Constant remembrance of
Mother: Instead of focussing on
the problem, if one comes away in his mind from the problem and tries to
remember Mother constantly, at the point the remembrance reaches maturity, the
solution is found.
7. Gratitude:
Mother says the god of Gratitude is the youngest in the life of the earth. If
one who is beset with a problem puts aside the problem itself and takes up
other bright aspects of life and feels an intensely real Gratitude to Mother
for each of them, before the list is fully covered, the problem will be solved.
8. Faith:
A renewal of faith in the context of the present problem and fuller affirmation
leads to a solution.
9. Higher Understanding:
If one is of a mental bent, analysis of the problem in a wider context so as to
arrive at a fuller understanding removes it.
10. Grace:
Grace acts on its own. For us to bring ourselves to
move Grace, all that we should do is to withdraw the faith from every other
aspect. That makes Grace act. For instance, when salary arrears of fifteen
years are pending with the government, the mind will naturally rely on rules,
procedures, etc. Grace cannot act as long as faith is there in any other aspect
of life.
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