Discourses-----Day 10
October 21, 1939
Sri Sri Thakur was sitting on Khepuda’s verandah this
morning. Many mothers and brothers were standing around.
Sri
Sri Thakur : “Yaajan
means nothing more than explaining to a man how he may conduct his daily life
and elating him in such a manner that he becomes actively interested in Ideal.
Talks about Thakur can come later. If you start with the preaching ‘Nothing
will come of anything without Thakur’, what can that mean to him, however true
it is for you ? Whatever you do, you must proceed through his problems. The
building becomes strong if you will start with that foundation stone. Don’t you
see how strong a house is if iron reinforcements are put in its foundation ?
Once must start with a man from where he is and what he is interested in. He
will be interested in your Ideal as he develops interest in you.”
Manmathada asked, “What sort of Yaajan should women do ?”
Sri
Sri Thakur said, “Women are different from men. They have to maintain
their own instinctive quality. After all women can not go about in different
places and do Yaajan like you. All their progress lies through systematic love
service in their family environment. If, instead, they go about like so-called
‘progressive’ women, they love their distinctiveness.”
About Swastyayani Thakur said, “One can start Swastyayani (an instrument of well being)
with the same approach one uses with one’s daily bread. After one has begun,
one can start planning how one can do it every day.”
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