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An Experiment in Multiplying Success: The Token Act/Work

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Purpose of Token Act

The purpose of the Token Act is to see the determining power of human choice which determines the course of future events. Therein lies its characteristic to create infinite results instantaneously. Its functioning in both directions can be seen in any act of life in every small act of ours." (MSS)

A Toke Act or Project
-A token act or project is to embark on the act or experiment as a way to learn the secret behind that one things so that one can repeat it in the future. E.g. if I take a project management project and not only execute it, but study closely what in particular makes it a success -- in terms of one or more factors from amongst one's focus, determination, organization, skill, negative attitude overcome, personal values, etc. -- I can repeat those factors of success for every similar project.

-Thus when you embark on this token act/project you are more interested in learning the inner keys that enable success, the process that led to success, then in focusing on the rewards.

Applying Keys to Success in One Area to Others
We can identify several keys to our success in a small project or work, and apply it to another similar or an even greater work and thereby evoke success there as well. Results will also come as sudden descents of goof fortune -- i.e. life response.

Applying a Token Work's Insight
The viability and utility of the Token Act is becoming clearer to me with every passing year. (I have read most of what Karmayogi has said on this subject.) The central concept is that if we watch what happens to us in a work, we can identify the specific inner and outer human behaviors, as well as the life movements, that created/sparked accomplishment and success. For one person it might be being more self-giving, working harder, and applying the Spirit to specific activities; for another it is to be organized, be peaceful inside, and be passionate about what we want. There are infinite possibilities that can produce infinite outcomes. What worked best IN OUR CASE is the key to what we can learn from that Token Work. For then we can apply it repeatedly in other works. And what works best constantly comes through instances of sudden good fortune -- i.e. life response.

In summary, watch any work you do. Understand what is creating success or retarding it (inner or outer in origin). It will clearly show through life response outcomes. Then repeat those positives in any other work (such as a major undertaking), lifting up the positive causes that accomplished/attracted in the token act, and avoiding those things that repelled accomplishment, attracted negative response. The major work will now unfold miraculously. What you learned from the Token work you apply to the most important undertakings and activities of your life.

The Token Work: Finding the Keys that Continually Evoke the Miraculous
There is an extraordinary technique that we can use to rapidly propel ourselves to the pinnacles of success. Interestingly it is based on our own, individual, unique capacity to evoke the miraculous. It is a matter of identifying what that propensity is, and then repeating that behavior continually to evoke a steady stream of good fortune. Let me explain.

Every one of us irregularly and unconsciously evokes sudden good fortune from life. The trouble is that we don't perceive the qualities we possess and express that attracts these instances of the miraculous. If however we were to isolate those specific capacities, we could repeat them and thereby evoke a continuous stream of luck in our lives.

How then can we indentify this luck-generating trait so that we can repeat it often? We can do it by undertaking what I call a "Token Work." Imagine in the next two weeks that you carefully observe the relation between the sudden onset of good news and a previous expression of higher consciousness or effort that precipitated it. E.g., let's say that you discover that a very positive development came your way immediately after you gave up a hostile attitude toward a co-worker. Now you can duplicate that "life response" outcome by continually identifying all such wrong-headed attitudes in your life. The result is that you constantly evoke the miraculous, leading to vast success and great happiness in life.

One man I know if closely watched the correlation between sudden good news and his previous inner and outer behaviors. He saw that when he overcame his lethargy and made the effort to get in contact with publishers of his book, money started pouring in. He also saw the same effect when he took to higher levels of cleanliness. In fact, when he took to both together, it all but guaranteed the sudden cooperation of life. As a result, now he had the key to continually evoke the miraculous. He thus now saw his own personal path to ultimate achievement and success in life.

We too can each take that very same approach and likewise attract an endless stream of good fortune. We can tie the sudden arrival of positive circumstance in our lives to one or more of the following items that tend to trigger it: Focused intention, making hard decisions, making an effort, overcoming a wanting attitude, higher level of cleanliness and orderliness, accepting what life put before you, being selfless and self-giving, and exercising our psychological strength to mention a few. Through examination of the correspondence between the outer life and our inner condition, we can discover our own personal keys to continually evoke the miraculous.

After a week of working on this relatively short project, you determine that you have four strategies to avoid negative response and five to garner positive response. You write them down and can then use then for something of even greater importance. For one, you can adopt them as strategies to apply on a daily basis to any of the work you are doing, or you can apply them to a very important work in your career or other aspect of your life. E.g. let's say you are now given the responsibility of developing an entirely new web site for your company's intranet -- a vast undertaking -- you can apply all of these strategies when possible. That will evoke great response that will have major implications for the course of your career. That is the power of learning from and applying the strategies garnered from a Token Work.

The Token Act Applied to Larger Acts

The token act is to learn the process, to see the method that enable us to perfect a certain relatively smaller act. Now we know the method to easily apply it to the same or similar corresponding much larger act or endeavor. Which means we have acquired the great efficiency of life to enable vast accomplishment; because the process is the same in the larger as in the smaller, and now we know, we can repeat that process.

The Process Learned in a Token Act

A Token Act is a relatively small act where we learn the process of creating the outer from the inner, which we can then apply to a much larger comparable act. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Knowing Why Results Occur through a Token Act
A client gets a result as a work of the work of the consultant. But does the consultant really know what caused the response. Was it just the knowledge he gave, or was there also other factors that enables the client's satisfaction. We must explore what really enabled the outer response. This is the self-knowledge we derive when we perform a project as a token project; where we study all of our movements that enable outer results. Then we know what are our inner triggers that enabled life respond on the outside. we can then repeat it in the same or other areas.

Anyone can make that observation in any work, in any field. Further he can learn the inner laws of life that trigger instantaneous perfect outer responses, and observe them too in action in the token project.

Token Act's Utility
A token act has the virtue of being a spiritual microscope or a microscope focussing on one's psychological abilities. (MSS)  

Inner-Outer Correspondence in Token Act
In a Token Act we watch closely the relationship between our inner consciousness and what is happening outside us. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Value of a Token Act
The value of this token act lies in one's ability to see every principle here clearly though minutely. (MSS)

The Theory Behind a Token Act
The theory behind the Token Act is the universe is represented by an act - the macrocosm in the microcosm. (MSS)

The Purpose and Utility of a Token Act
-The purpose of a token act is to see in microscopic clarity ALL the rules of life in their effective fullness.

-By seeing what we are unconscious of and knowing what we are actively avoiding we are in for two reversals -- unconscious into conscious and seeking what we avoid. (MSS, extracted)

Token Act
Try this universal principle in a small self-contained act such as a single sale in business, or one case in the court, or with one aspect of treating a patient or one meal in the kitchen or a paper in an exam of several papers. One can select a small act, a single act, self-contained - that which is independent of other things. Follow in this act all the rules of the Spirit, such as silent will, the other man's point of view, soft speech, non-reacting equality, etc. Remembering Mother in every single movement deep enough is inclusive of all these methods.

A small cloth shop owner who wanted to teach his salesmen learnt all this. He was selling for Rs 10,000 a day. Seeing the power of these methods, he himself wanted to practice them. The next customer was a lower middle class lady whom he put down as a Rs. 200/- sundry sale. She readily confirmed his assessment. It struck him that he should not assign any limit in his mind. On listening to him, she felt different, gave him a meaningful look and said, "I came for a Rs 200 purchase. I have a Rs 3000 purchase for next month. Now if what I have in mind is available with you..." He went inside and brought out a sari and she said, "This is exactly what I have in mind." She purchased it. Seeing the power of removing one opinion, he concentrated INSIDE for a moment and decided to follow in his inner consciousness all that he knew. She said, "A wedding is impending. I had no plans of purchase just now. Now that you seem to offer everything, I wish to buy all my requirements of Rs 50,000 here this evening."

Token acts are successful only when the results are a hundred times or at least ten times higher than usual. (MSS) 

Perfection Required of a Token Work
Work, especially work taken as a token experiment of discovering the Infinite out of the finite, MUST be perfect, flawlessly perfect. (MSS)

On Undertaking a Token Act in Terms of the Spirit
When one launches himself on the path of calling the Spirit into one's life, life turns into Luck, failure that alternates with success changes into unfailing success. I have suggested a token experiment to experience this great truth of life, as it is unbelievable or inconceivable in the ordinary state of our mind.

The POWER of this experiment lies in the shift from life to Spirit, Nature to Being, mind to faith. The amplitude of that Power lies in the thoroughness of the efficiency that exhausts one's energies. The measure of the result lies in the silent, unexpectant patience that is calm and QUIET. (MSS)

Applying Consciousness of Divine Mother to Money in Token Act that Enables Its Multiplication

• The Divine Mother's values, skills, and capacities are those of the Spiritual determinants.

• We act all the time. Any act is done by values and skills.

• One who expresses his consciousness in any act through the values, skills, etc. of Mother's consciousness is in Her consciousness.

• Should he earn money, money integrates with Her consciousness.

• The token act I speak of is any act we choose, not necessarily a special act. The choice is necessary as it is not possible for us to convert our whole consciousness into Hers, but a part, isolated from life, can serve that purpose more readily or more easily.

• Money earned in this token act is money integrated with Mother's consciousness which can multiply infinitely.

• Again as Man is the centre and not money, his own view determines the result. When he emphasizes the result, he gets the result and misses the process. He must learn the process.

• In fact, it is not the process but the essentiality of the process -- the Absolute -- that matters. If one can go there it is good, but it is obvious he cannot go to the result disregarding the process.

• The token act in Her consciousness is one that can occupy the whole life of a person. It will be right that from the token act, one should change his whole life to Her consciousness.

• The token act will enable him see Her in the act. (MSS)

MSS Paper on The Token Act

To Be Categorized

Token Effort, Work

Token Work Discovery for Inner-Based Sales

Wherever there is result, there is an indicator, of what inside you precipitated the result. Now that it is identified, repeat it. It is a Token Work of "self-research" that is applied. Keeping a database list of what inwardly precipitated the sale is helpful. I did something similar, highlighting in red that which really stood out. Now I knew what effort or change in consciousness precipitated it. All that was left was to consciously and intensely repeat it.

Token Effort that is a Cosmic Wakeup Call

The response to the "Token Effort" as advocated by Karmayogi can be thought of a "Cosmic Wakeup Call." It is an indicator that the universe will conspire with the change of consciousness you made even in that one small area. It puts one on an entirely new plane of thinking.

This token technique can be applied by anyone -- devotee or not. It is so startling that it shakes us out of our ordinary, physical consciousness. As a result, the road ahead opens wide before us. We can now follow that path and follow the same approach, overcoming all of the remaining deficiencies. Wonders upon wonders will follow.

In fact, there will be an exponential-like acceleration of Results, and therefore Wonder.

How then to remove the subconscious pull that brings us back to earth; that causes us not believe in this dynamic; to not complete the cycle and overcome all remaining obstacles that can bring greater results still?

True Sincerity in wanting to improve our condition will definitely help. As will offering to Mother that we have the intensity of will and perseverance to rectify all of our (or our organization's) remaining limitations, thereby evoking the Infinite from the finite.

It can mature into a fantastic Strategic Plan for near future action.