Companion On The Way

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CHALAR SAATHI
(Comapnion on the Way)
SRI SRI THAKUR ANUKULCHANDRA

CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

CHALAR SAATHI
(Companion on the Way)
SRI SRI THAKUR ANUKULCHANDRA
SATSANG PUBLISHING HOUSE

SATSANG, DEOGHAR, BIHAR

THE REVEALED
I The booming commotion of Existence that rolls in the bosom of the Beyond, evolves into a thrilling rhyme and upheaves into a shooting Becoming of the Being with echoes that float with an embodiment of Energythat is Logos, the Word the Beginning !
II
He, the Word-the Source of Creation manifests Himself with all His properties into all that hath manifested, but the Beyond comprehended Him not though He shineth in the bosom of the Beyond !
III
It is Energy which lies in the embodiment of Word that remains as He is though manifesting Himself into all that was created That is God, That is Word, That is Divine !
IV

The thrill of Existence which occurs due to Apathy and Sympathy for What lies Beyond, is a stream of Will that tends to make the Word to become conscious in manifesting Himself into many like Him albeit unlike by their mutual impulses, moving spiro-elliptically one round the other !
V
Beyond is what intervenes to make the manifestations unlike, different and discrete, though the Affinity that lies under, tends always to make all to be One !
VI
The inter-action of manifestations of Word in the Beyond makes the unlike, different and discrete, instinct with life from fine to gross ; thus the Divine creates Himself into life surrounded with blood and flesh which are enlivened too !
VII
In such a way, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

different, discrete finer and grosser blood and flesh are manifested ; blood and flesh are embodied with life as beings, as creatures from which Man comes forth by degrees ; discrete individuals with other phenomena become the environment of every individual, and make it awaken, in life and consciousness with the thrust of impulses from mutual affinity : while on the other hand He, the Word became Supreme Being, the Father to the manifested and The Individual who comes forth ever-enchanted with sympathy and love for the Supreme Being, at the crying call of panic-stricken sufferers, becomes the Beloved God in flesh the Divine, the Ideal, The Way to rescue ! VIII Only then recedes the Beyond when, sympathy invokes love to make one attached to Him by Whom Being and Becoming CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

is accelerated ; and then knowledge appears with an illuminating zeal ! IX And knowledge shines and redeems the Being to accelerate fulfilling in a concord the Ideal, individual and environment, towards Becoming towards a superior Becoming with a gradually unfolding memory of the Father by service and surrender unto the Beloved ! X And when rappings on the thrilling tension of attachment to the Beloved occur due to the thrust of environment and complexes directly and collectively, the impressions rebound and set in the individual according to sympathy and apathy, with a tremor of sensation into resultants, and are adjusted with a solution tending towards his interest ; thus knowledge grows with a gradual generalization CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

of experiences into a subtler and subtler harmony of the individual, the Ideal and wisdom ; In this way as varieties of rapping diminish gradually, the individual plunges into the Beloved through a grand generalization of wisdom !
XI
The sympathetic affinity that induces her opposite-equal to dwell in herself, and breeds to beget him measured in different shapes, is Female ; whereas the entity that inclines towards female to fulfill her is Male ; apathy always resists the one to become the other : Female is the shelter that nourishes, absorbs and reproduces one into many ; and the inclination of the Male towards female without something to uplift existence, dwindles them to decease !

CHALAR SAATHI
(Comapnion on the Way )
Roll on like a flood over the sorrow, sufferings and calamities of the World, with love, sympathy and service and with the message of Beloved the Lord, with a knowledge and activity that illuminates the way of the dull, and deteriorating depressed; flow on extremely unresting and undisturbed; if female wants let her run after you, proclaiming admiration and worship, establishing the kingdom of peace and happiness with a wistful soothing gaze after her beloved; but wish not for that at all ! 1
CONTINUITY BRINGS SUCCESS

Whether you understand or do not understand, whether you can do or cannot do, let the continuity of your effort remain unbroken and unobstructed; seek out the way to attainment (siddhi), you will be successful, accomplishment will come, and your establishment will surely establish your Ideal, know it for sure! 2 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

SERVICE ACHIEVES RENOWN

Remain ever serviceable to people in such a way that through your service in fulfilling the needs of your environment as far as possible they can embrace life, glory and growth, and by so doing spread out into everyones heart, and let these things become your character, you will see, renown, with constant victory songs. will make your glorious, no doubt ! 3 NATURES ABHORRENCE Nature abhors those who insult and colour the perceptible which are before their senses, on the testimony of indirect knowledge ! 4 Do not stay troubled by thoughts of sadness; the feeling of sadness cannot gladden anyone! Rather, think how you can make people happy, what kind of behavior makes people happy, how that can be done, and the like, and set yourself to work, you will be happy and able to make others happy too! 5
THOUGHTS OF SADNESS
WISDOM THROUGH LOVE

From mental equilibrium and love comes the advent of wisdom and the vision that sees good; but from conflict, lack of faith, and dissatisfaction ignorance and pessimism are created! 6
PAIN AT OTHERS FORTUNE

If you want to lose your way and fall into trouble by making yourself unfortunate then never in the least renounce the feeling of pain at others fortune. 7 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

WILLINGNESS TO WORK THROUGH LOVE

From love constancy, joyfulness and willingness to work arise; and from aversion come depression, inactivity, sadness and lack of peace! 8
OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST

It is the optimist who finds a golden opportunity for progress and delight within trouble, danger, obstruction, and sorrow! But the pessimist at once finds within all good inability and impossibility ineradicable suffering of misfortune! 9
FAULT-FINDINGOBSTACLE TO UPLIFTMENT
If you want to become elevated, bid farewell to fault-finding forever; whatever good quality you see in a person, think of that, speak of that, and discuss it; if you can, be careful that no ones fait does any kind of damage in you! 10
FAULT-FINDING
If fault is to be found, it has to be contemplated; it has to be brought out by thinking it over; and with that, one is to keep awake a sense of irritation or hostility, and in doing this, just such feelings will be stored in the brain; you will find how after some days you are acting out those faults; so be careful of fault-finding, of contemplating faults, and of irritation and hostility! 11

EMPTYING-OUT THE FAULT

And if you have at all found fault with anyone, and it remains stored in your head, enquiring into its cause and circumstances, properly understanding how it became possible, with a feeling of sympathy empty out from your head what is stored there in such a manner that it becomes abnormal to you for this kind of thing to happen again! 12
HYPOCRISY
Hypocrisy by goading neighbours to an illusion blurs the door of prosperity ! 13 Talk, thought, dealings and activities declare, redeem and indicates what he really is and, what he can get ! 14
DISCERNING OF CHARACTER
GAINING ATTAINMENT (SIDDHI)

Doing, adherence, observation and following, these few establish perception, knowledge, skill, and attainment (siddhi) !15
THE ROYAL SIGN OF SUCCESS

Regarding one whose vision of good fortune and opportunity blooms in times of difficulties with faithfulness, gratitude and skill in work, you can say with utmost certainty, whatever he may be, it is absolutely sure that his head will be graced with the crown of success! 16
EFFICIENCY AND DEXTERITY IN LOVE

Love alone can discover how its beloved can be elevated in life, glory, love and growth, and thus overflow into his environment; so, love alone, gathers normal wisdom in one, establishes the beloved practically with efficiency and dexterity!17 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

LUXURY OF THOUGHT
Whenever you find that any thought or movement of yours does not invoke activity, or does not stick to activity, understand that is only a luxury of your thought or imagination! 18
THE TOUCHSTONE OF PURE DESIRE

For the sake of some desire you have you cannot ignore the complexes antagonistic to it, this is the means of knowing that your desire is not pure ! 19
FOPPISH* WISH
Your go, character, words, behavior, and continuity or adherence do not go near, or find it difficult to go near the way of doing or the way of being by which the object of your desire can be had, definitely understand your desire is not at all pure; it is rather mere foppishness of desire. 20
*foppishcapricious, whimsical. VISION COLORED BY CONCEPTION

In whatever way your thought and conduct has shaped your nature, wherever you go, whatever you see, your nature will conceive the environment in just that way and see it in just that way! 21
VICTORY THROUGH FULFILLING NEEDS

If you want to conquer, not by overwhelming through the application of external force, stand up and be enthusiastic and practical in fulfilling ones needs! 22
YES CAN
There is as much difference between being able and not being able CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

as there is between yes and no; one who does not invite the not into the being able, who has no question about being able, yet depends on doing, who is not stopped in the joy of doing by anything, he can! 23
NO CANNOT
And, one who wants to haggle with the thought of being able by inviting no in to whom no is so trustworthy! for whom there isnt any feeling, any thought or any activity without no, however much he may equip himself with the paraphernalia for being able or doing, everything of his, embracing that no, falls into the numbness of sleep! 24
THE WAY TO PERFECTION

To think I cannot do or to have doubts about being able actually creates the not-being-able; banish the no and the doubt from being able stick to it, try, perfection is before you! 25
NO AS A RELATIVE
If one whose wife is no and whose brother-in-law is it cant be is given a warm reception, the throne of adversity will remain unshaken, no doubt! 26
INSPIRATION FOR EFFICIENT WORK

As easy and swift the inspiration anywhere, so natural and indomitable is the efficiency in work there! 27
HAPPINESS
Enlivening, elevating, and delighting your being, and disseminating it into the environment, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

it makes everyone elated, if anything is to be called happiness, it is this! 28
POVERTY THROUGH IDLENESS

Idleness, I cannot, It cannot be, It cant be done, be careful and alert about all such thoughts and conduct, for they easily infect the progeny, and the environment is contaminated by them; as a result, family, society and country are stupefied, prostrated and depressed, and thus finished off in terrible poverty! 29
FULFILLING NECESSITIES
Do not give indulgence to idleness; be intent on service; felicitate people by receiving them respectfully, to the best of your ability; in whatever way you can, help in the fulfillment of others necessities; remaining pleased and satisfied yourself, please and satisfy others; you will see, even if you dont want them, fortune and resources will freely remain with you; poverty, staying far away, will bow down to you! 30
CHEATING
If you want to keep the love of cheating unbroken, then why should you take any trouble in efforts to nourish the one by whose provision you are being nourished? 31
FRIENDS OF POVERTY
With idleness, distrust, self-concern and ingratitude as friends, you will not have to search for poverty, or even with one of them; each of them is such a friend of poverty CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

that it cannot get along if any are missing; if this kind of wealth has settled in your heart you will not have to bear the distress of lacking sorrow! 32
SPOILING WORK THROUGH PROCRASTINATION

Procrastination is the friend of idleness the guide to the spoilage of work! do bid farewell to procrastination by doing what is to be done immediately; efficiency and success will be your servants! 33
GREED
Excessive eager desire which goes beyond appropriate needs may be called greed; be wary of this transgression, because by leading you into depression, it may end up in your death! 34
DISTRESS THROUGH ANGER

One maddened by anger obstructs others, there being no control over his selfish blindness; distress, all-conquering, follows him with loud laughter! 35
SELF-INTEREST
To fulfill him from whom one gets, to make him exuberant, and to remove anything that restricts acquisition for him is the meaning of self-interest; where receiving has become prominent without fulfilling the source from whom one gets, self-interest, swallowed up by error, withers and falls senseless certainly! 36 Steal not, intelligence chafed with desire, without giving anyone a loftier recoupment, seeks an unjust and secret satisfaction, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
RESULTS OF STEALING

that is stealing; in stealing the intelligence, by going on harming others day by day, disappears into deterioration; through doing in the way by which desire is fulfilled perception and knowledge are awakened and thus the object of desire is achieved; but in stealing this process is wounded and depressed, and one embraces what is contrary to Dharma; for these reasons stealing is so hateful, so sinful, so mean; therefore I say, do not bring destruction upon yourself and your environment by giving indulgence to this thieving mentality, be careful! 37
CONQUERING THE PASSIONS

Do not become disturbed in the effort to conquer the enemies lust, anger, and the like; that feeling of disturbance actually establishes them; instead, make the passions desist by engaging in some subject or feeling which is so attractive that the matter of passion hardly comes up for you; see how easy it is to master a passion! 38 Accumulate savings, but for service! if your savings do not offer worship to service, know for sure they are for something that hurts becoming! 39 Service means that which makes a person fit, at ease, elevated and delighted; when it does not do so, yet attendance is provided, that service invites only denial! 40
SAVINGS AND SERVICE
ATTENDANCE WITHOUT SERVICE

FOOLISH SERVICE
Where service cannot bring well-being, delight and upliftment, moreover, the exertion, anxiety and restlessness all end up in futility. know for sure that service is foolish service! 41 Whenever your ego wants to establish itself by slighting or denying another, then know it to be the devilish ego; engage your ego in such a manner that by directing it you can invite the life, glory and growth of your environment! 42
ADJUSTMENT OF DEVILISH EGO
DEMAND OF THE UNSERVICEABLE

Without doing at least something of service to a person through which he gets comfort, peace and delight when the time comes to get something from someone, dont try to get it by demanding from him, saying that he is your own man; you wont get anything that way; rather, humiliation and neglect with a deadly unexpected blow will make you sorry! 43
DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

As much as you become attached to the many to each according to its kind without aiming at one, then each of those particular attachments separately and in various ways, with the creation of scattered complexes goes to tear you to pieces, and thus clears the path to ignorance and death; and whenever you embrace the many, having taken your stay in devotion to one, then those many things and the complexes created out of them, achieving a state of restraint through that devotion to one, and gradually falling into order, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

will invite immortality with the enkindling of perception and wisdom! 44
EVIDENCE OF IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS
As much as you become dedicated to the interest of the Ideal, so much will skill in service, efficiency in work, sweetness in words and behavior, sympathy and expansiveness anoint your character and become reflected in your environment; the urge which has made you dedicated to the interest of the Ideal which has made his establishment your supreme interest, compelling you, though without your knowing it, will shape you in this way; and this very thing is the evidence of your Ideal-centeredness! 45
CONSCIOUSNESS AND DHARMA THROUGH IMPACT

You are conscious just then when your environment makes an impact on you; and this consciousness is the infallible evidence that you are alive! so, as is the kind of impact your environment makes on you, such will be the way your feeling, perception and passion come together; if this is so, then Dharma is the doing by which you along with your environment can grow in continuous expansion of life, glory and growth; speak, practice and perform whatever makes you and your environment become of this nature, you will see how greatly you are relieved from misfortune, evil and fear ! 46
THE IDEAL AND DEVOTION TO HIM

Service to him, keeping his company, and pursuing him with devotion make a person gradually uplifted in life, glory and growth; when single-minded attachment or devotion is fixed on him, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and when it stays unbrokenly adhered the environment and world being unable to produce any kind of scattering, so that those scatted impulses (from the environment) are related and adjusted and achieve meaningfulness, then that devotion, prospering in feeling, knowledge and perception, embraces immortality, he alone is the Ideal, or the Guide, the Beloved; that is why single-minded devotion to Ideal, Beloved or Guide is so essential in human life; if you want to carry on your life keeping Dharma unbroken, then Ideal, Beloved or Guide is of primary necessity! placing your attachment, devotion or love in him and considering him the supreme interest, follow him; you will be successful! 47
WHAT LOVE WANTS

Prema (supreme love) or love wants to establish its beloved in life, glory and growth by squeezing out all that it has; the beloved is its supreme interest; it searches through its world, and whatever it finds that is beneficial to life, glory and growth, it brings to equip its beloved, and in this it feels itself to be meaningful, and its nourishment, satisfaction and liberation lie only in this; it doesnt want to be independent excluding him; submission to the beloved and service to the beloved comprise its Dharma, wealth, desire and liberation;* while making its beloved abundant in perception, knowledge, work, life, and resources in this way, prema imperceptibly becomes established in abundance itself; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

hence prema is so sinless and so very great ! 48 *Dharma, artha, kama and moksha are the four goals of life in traditional Hindu thinking.
WHAT LUST WANTS

Lust want to get the one it lusts after as a present, and in the way it wishes; it is completely unwilling to bear the difficulty of making the one it lusts after prosper if no breach of any kind takes place in its enjoyment because of that unwillingness; thus lust makes a person foolish, steals from his world, and, to whatever extent greed for enjoyment somehow keeps him enkindled, wants to keep him confined in its boundaries; and the termination of that is the termination of everything! this is why it has no expansiveness; life and glory are in a state of contraction; its stay is in the death-puzzle of the bottomless pit of darkness, that is sin; so it is weak, depressed and unknowing. Considerwhat do you want ? 49
SUBDOING LUST THROUGH LOVE

One who goes to subdue lust without depending on love is generally destroyed by lust in an horrendous upheaval ! 50
IMPARTATION OF THE BELOVED

Spontaneous extolment of the Beloved and a natural tendency to impart him to others comprise one characteristic sign of attraction or love; from this it can be understood that one is well-content and radiant in acceptance of the Beloved! 51

LOVE IN CONTRARY CONFLICTS

If feeling, devotion and love do not become indomitable in conflicts that are contrary to them, then it is of course doubtful whether they were there in the first place! 52
SATANS SORCERY
If, tempted by something, you pas over your Ideal, thought that neither has him as objective nor establishes him, do understand by Satans sorcery you have become entranced and enticed; even now if you turn away from it, you can take hold of deliverance ! 53
CONSCIENCE
The response of the environment which is in the brain as memory and knowledge, to reflect on that is conscience; and one who determines what is to be done by that kind of reflection is conscientious ! 54
TRUE LOVE
Making ones heart overflowing, and extending into the environment, love establishes the beloved through service and Jaajan;* and where this is absent, be doubtful about the love; try to understand! 55
MENTAL POVERTY THROUGH APATHY TO JAAJAN

When you see that your inclination to Jaajan is becoming poor, or has ceased, know for sure your minds perceptiveness and enjoyment day by day have become weakened and are becoming more so! 56

DEVELOPMENT THROUGH JAAJAN

Jaajan, making anew the one who receives it, gives him enjoyment in various ways; that is why jaajan regarding wisdom or supreme love is an easy stairway of progress! 57
ENJOYING THE BELOVED THROUGH JAAJAN

When love or wisdom makes life elated, then only does the inclination to Jaajan become ardent in searching for new persons in various ways; it wants to speak in various ways and in various fashions about what is dear to it, and by doing so wants to enjoy in various ways; whenever you see that this searching and finding is beginning to stop, the perception and expansion of the beloved within you is becoming inert! 58
MANY-GUISED LUST
Where not getting makes you sorry, where someones prospering makes you depressed and someones appreciation of others perturbs you, yet attachment and attraction are making you extremely greedy, do understand that love is not there; what is there is many-guised lust! 59
SHELTER AND ATTACHMENT IN DEPENDENCE

Much better than depending on someone for the sake of getting shelter is depending on someone on account of attachment; in the former case ones character may not be colored; in the second case though it definitely must be but this depends on the person! 60
DOUBT
The doubter, always doubting the tendency to progress, by suppressing activity calls in his own ruin! 61 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

ON GETTING
To get pursue doing; mere consideration often paralyzes the getting! 62
SORROW
If sorrow, by invoking regret, narrows the path to downfall, then it is befitting; otherwise it is best to neglect it! 63
TO DOUBT ATTACHMENT
To deny or doubt or analyze ones own feelings, devotion, and love for someone and to dump the Elixir of Life into the dustbin are one and the same thing! 64
JAAJANEGOISTIC AND LOVING

When Jaajan is a matter of ones own egotism, though done in the name of the Beloved, if it is assailed it falls into depression; by this sign you can determine whose Jaajan you are doing; if Jaajan is born out of love, and is for the Beloved, then in opposition or unexpected injury it becomes so indomitable, victorious, and enjoyable for both that is comprehensible only to the one who has enjoyed it! 65
EGOISTIC JAAJAN UNDER A MASK OF LOVE

Whenever you have become ardent to establish your indispensability, importance and supremacy before your Beloved by speaking about the success, glory and enjoyableness of your Jaajan, and the least lapse in that establishment, making you impatient, is arousing pain and opposing feelings in regard to the Beloved and his environment, understand CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

this Jaajan is not out of love for your Beloved, but merely out of love for ego! 66
WRETCHEDNESS IN DISREGARD OF IDEAL

If a man does not pursue glory for the sake of establishing his Ideal, and is devoted to sex-enjoyment and money for establishing his self-interest, and hence gathers contempt and fruitlessness, it is better not to call him a man, but rather, a wretch! 67
GROWTH AND DOWNFALL IN PREACHING

Whatever you preach about will grow, so watch out not to direct your tendency to preach toward that which brings the downfall of life and growth, do not die, nor cause death! 68
OBSTACLES TO NORMAL WISDOM

One who sees or perceives each and everyone of the world by putting on the eyeglasses of hearsay or of ideas fabricated by his own mind, is never at all troubled by normal wisdom! 69
FEELING IN CHARACTER AND CONDUCT

As is the feeling residing in you in a certain way at a certain time, so, in general, will be your thought, conduct and speech; and however elevated it becomes and thus remains thoroughly absorbing to you, such will be the elevation of your thought, conduct and speech! 70
TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD

That which has existence and expansion, and that which, keeping the being unharmed, leads it in progress, and moreover does not bring discord or cessation to any other being is truth; again, that which harms this being CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and scatters anothers being or causes it to deteriorate is falsehood! 71
SADHANA AND SUCCESS

The harmonious repeated effort to comprehend the means for mastering something is called sadhana; and when as a result of knowing and doing it the character flourishes then success (siddhi) embraces it! 72
FATE AND RESULTS OF ACTION

Your continuous effort in activity affects the environment, and the results of your actions issue out from it and become transformed into various forms through the transmission; as a result of this, what is waiting for you outside the limits of your knowledge is your fate! 73
PROVIDENCE AND PERSONALITY

Inherent instincts born of spontaneous distinctiveness with which one is born and the way the environment accepts one as a result of them, that is Providence; and personality is that power laid within distinctiveness which, making one real, guides one within nature and the environment! 74
SPIRITUALISM
The feeling which weaves through and through existence and by this is inspired and adjusted, and thus is reflected in thought, conduct and activity is spiritualism in substance! 75
SPIRITUALISM AND ACTIVITY

Wherever there is no spiritualism, that is, where being is not made the basis, yet there is vitality in action, that does not establish anyone or make anyone CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

meaningful; and in the same way, where there is spiritualism but no impulse to activity, that does not make anyone blessed or delighted! 76
THE VISION OF BRAHMA*

If you have not been able to know by bringing into your own perception the individual and the whole, then your vision of Brahma is nothing more than a derangement of the brain! 77
*That which being developed and becoming everything, yet remains the same is Brahma.
Sri Sri Thakur: Satyanusaran, p. 97
To be yoked or attached to something is called the yoga of that; so the condition and results of the yoga depend on the consequences inherent in its object! 78 When all of ones determination has been placed in something or someone, that is, when all of his determination, regulating his activity, makes the life and growth of something or someone exuberant, he is a yogi, his is an ascetic! 79
YOGA
YOGA AND ASCETICISM
THE SEER
One who, going through the passions, that is, knowing the passions, integrating and solving them and making them meaningful in One, has achieved the salvation of his mind, is a Seer; hence it is written: The Seer is the seer of the mantra!** 80
**The literal meaning of mantra is that which rescues the mind.
REALITYTHE LIMITLESS WITHIN THE LIMITED

Whether you are a worshipper of God-with-form or a believer in the Formless, if that God-with-form or Formless One is not revealed within your own perception CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

in knowledge and vision, that is, if the limited does not bloom in your vision in a practical way as the unlimited and boundless, then meaningless grimacing imagination will not release you at all! 81
GOD IN REALITY
Do not try to shape your God in the imagination that he is unknowable do not lay a path to eternal depression in futility! Where all or most of your passions become meaningful, there engage your need, love, devotion and prema, your God will become real in your perception there and thus be manifested as Arjuna found his God in Sri Krishna! Fear not, delusion will not be able to lead you astray! 82
MEANINGFULNESS OF PREVIOUS PROPHETS

Experience, vision, science and truth become established in expansiveness in making the previous Prophets meaningful; moreover, they do not insult mans accumulated knowledge, bringing in meaninglessness and deterioration by putting our the light of those previous Ones! 83
One who wants to establish his own view or philosophy by denying or slighting the previous Seers, Prophets or Ideals, who does not accept them with humility or respectfully correct the deterioration brought by ignorance into their utterances in the passage of time, who furthermore doe not make that correction a basis for trying to let those sayings be easily understood, uplifted and lucid by fulfilling and nurturing them in a way that befits the time, who disparages them and makes them naught, who thus is determined to make them utterly futile, do doubt such a one, because true it is the emergence of what the present Prophet is saying or doing CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
DISREGARD AND INGRATITUDE TO PREVIOUS PROPHETS

is based on the incontrovertible utterances of the previous Ones; so he who cuts himself off because of disregard and ingratitude to the previous Ones, and is diligent for self-establishment, by infusing that ingratitude and separation into the followers of the present Prophet, will bring degeneration into the nation and the culture there is no doubt about it; that is why I say do not waver in being cautious about this! 84
THE PREVIOUS PROPHET IN THE PRESENT PROPHET

Where the present Prophet, establishing the previous Prophet, is inspired by his exaltation, know surely it was by that same inspiration that the organization based on the previous one came to be! 85
DHARMA AND ANTI-DHARMA

Dharma means that which lets life and growth embrace immortality by binding them in unison and upholding them with the inclination to life, glory and upliftment; and that which harms life and growth and takes one on the path of contraction, depression and downfall and makes one touch death may be called anti-Dharma! 86 You are practicing Dharma, yet it has not come to be your interest to serve your own life and growth and the life and growth of your environment; rather, an attitude toward them of mean-mindedness, neglect, hatred and the like has come in and made you narrower; know for sure, you have not at all invoked Dharma; you have been worshipping narrowness, ego and hatred, and in return you are getting the same! 87
DHARMA WHICH IS DEVOID OF SERVICE

JAAJAN* NORMAL IN ADHERENCE TO THE IDEAL

You have adhered to the Ideal, yet the emotion of that adherence which is flowing within you is not nourishing the environment with the Ideal and making it pleased with him, not is it issuing out into the environment or flooding it in its urge and maddening zeal to impart and establish him; know that your adherence to your Ideal is only a show, nothing more! 88
*Jaajan: infusing the Ideal into the environment
ALL PASSIONS ENGAGED FOR ESTABLISHING THE IDEAL

Ideal is your father, Ideal is your maintainer, Ideal is your creator, Ideal is your guide, Ideal is your most beloved! Oh you, the wise! Be for the Ideal in all respects, and let your sole and steady effort be to establish him in all respects in your world and to become aglow with meaningfulness so that you can embrace immortality; however many good and bad passions you may have, let your Ideal thoroughly pervade all of them; let not immortality, upliftment and life be insulted in injury by turning yourself away from him, becoming mad for lust and wealth, and surrendering yourself to them, stay alert! 89 Do not become loveless toward your Ideal or void of diligence for him under the sway of anyones service and sympathy; a person ascends to success repeatedly by surmounting the difficulties and troubles that are created in the awakening of love for the Ideal and in the effort to fulfill his desires; and uncalled-for service, cordiality and sympathy infatuate a person and make him tremble with greed, knock him away from the Ideal, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
THE TRAP OF SYMPATHY

and thus throw him from success into annihilation; always stay away from this kind of ignorance the greedy eyes of depression will not paralyze you! 90
ACTIVITY UNDESIRABLE TO THE IDEAL

If one does deeds tainted by meanness, undesired by the Superior, Lord or Ideal, the courage to come into his contact is weakened; but if there is normal and sincere attachment then such pain and repentance surge up because of the obstruction to communion that one dismisses all weakness in a moment in anxious effort bathed in sorrow; in intense attraction one cannot remain without embracing him; but be careful ingratitude and greed for lust gradually humiliate and distress that sensation and thus carry one into stupefying darkness; if this kind of thing happens, turn back at once even though there is trouble, you can find the path! 91
SUCCESS (SIDDHI) THROUGH ALL-ENCOMPASSING INTEREST IN FOLLOWING THE IDEAL

You may perform thousands of acts of worship, practice the repetition of the Holy Name thousands of times, and meditate thousands of times, but as long as you cannot become attached to your Desired One or Ideal in such a way that he comes to be your interest in all respects, that worship, repetition of Name and meditation cannot be installed in your life, glory and growth so as to completely fulfill your necessities and direct your character in actuality. 92
He out of whom your Japa is produced is the objective of your Japa; and if this objective is ignored, then the mental exercise which is to create an enkindlement in you instead calls in deterioration, not becoming coherent through centering on some objective; but if that mental exercise or churning CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
SUCCESS (SIDDHI) FROM JAPA (REPETITION OF THE HOLY NAME)

achieves coherence with the one who is your objective and is set in him, then, by illuminating nature with normal perception, feeling and wisdom, it makes the character overflowing and thus expansive; that is why success comes from japa, success comes from japa, success comes from japa; and there is no doubt about it! 93
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JAPA

The significance of repetition of the Holy Name lies in mentally churning over the subject of repetition and whatever concerns that and awakening perception with thought and pursuit; so if you have not adjusted your repetition of the Holy Name in this way, how much can it do anything for you? 94 Meditation is nothing else than the way in which a person, by thinking of his Beloved, becomes awakened and ecstatic, that is, to feel the one who is the object of meditation, to think about him and talk things over in the mind about him, as he is seen, with whatever there is in him, and whatever constitutes him, and with his doings and speaking, moods and gestures, and thus arrive at perception, meaningfulness, and the means of accomplishment, and to be awakened, overflowing, and whole-heartedly dedicated to him, and thus to become extremely eager and indomitable in making him successful! Again, uninterrupted ness in this kind of feeling, thinking and doing for anyone makes Him beloved to the one who so thinks of Him, and when by doing in this way the object of meditation or the Beloved becomes the one and only within you or eternally emancipated within you, then you also, becoming solely in Him or eternally emancipated in Him will be wholly absorbed, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
MEDITATION

and this condition of absorption will invite Samadhi*; again, through this normal perception will flourish in the brain and normal feeling will flourish in the mind! 95
*Samadhi: complete absorption of the mind in conceiving something thoroughly. LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THROUGH NEGLIGENCE
Negligence shoves aside the understandings load of understanding! 96
ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE AND GROWTH IN DHARMA

You are righteous (Dharmik)! You are always worshipping the Lord, and occupied with offering, meditation at twilight, and daily prayers; yet service, wealth, resources, life, glory, growth, satisfaction, nourishment and the like are not offering you ovations, nor is your environment becoming prosperous by getting these things from you; do understand, in your ostentation of Dharma you have not invited existence and growth; so both you and your environment are being deprived of Dharma! 97
Do try to keep your existence normal and unfluctuating in such a way that you can make your living unobstructed by taking from nature and the environment only the ingredients that are for existence; but if anyone, vanquished in the anxiety of life, comes to you asking for help, then as far as possible make him healthy and strong, giving him more than he needs, so that you come to be the means to what is desirable and what is good for his life and his needs; see, how your life mounts in success so very greatly, and sends illumination to the horizon in the expression of its resounding glory! 98
SUCCESSFUL LIVING

MATINS*, VESPERS** AND PRAYERS

Do not leave off doing matins, vespers and prayers; and the more you can perform them with sweetness of feeling, with understanding, and with eager urge, the more they will brighten and purify your mind, and thus uplift your health and your character; as a result, service, resources, behavior and skill in work will be fertilized and thus make you joyous, there is no doubt! 99
*Matins: morning prayer (both words originate from the monastic Catholic tradition) **Vespers: evening prayer
WEALTH, ENJOYMENT AND LIBERATION FOLLOW DHARMA

Whenever you embrace Dharma practically with service, life, wealth, enjoyment and liberation will definitely serve you; and whenever you become attracted to their service and thus incline toward them, know for certain that they will flee away, dashing you down so that it will be extremely hard labor for you to invite the strength to rise again; take these things and engage them in the service of the environment, you will achieve good! 100
PERSONAL PROSPERITY IN THE ENVIRONMENTS PROSPERITY

The chief indication of life is consciousness, and this consciousness comes into being from the impact of environing life; and out of that comes the upward movement of the mind of integrated passions; again, this mind, by considering the favorable and the adverse, directs a person; so if you really desire to benefit your progress, your mind and your life, then through your service make your environment such that those who compose it become healthy and strong and thus abundant in life and delight! 101

THE ENVIRONMENT A DAILY OBSERVANCE

As a daily observance see to your environment, individual and collective, each and every day, with thought, talk and conversation; and every day do as much as you are able to fulfill their necessities, seethe goddess of prosperity will stand firm with you! 102
MEANINGFUL SERVICE
Know for sure a person is more benefited if one fulfils his requirements by serving and caring for his afflicted mind through remedy, encouragement, help, sympathy and the like, than by attending to his physical needs, disregarding his mind; when you go to serve someone, first observe his mental condition to discover his requirements, and expanding yourself according to the form of those needs, make arrangements for them, so that he can become healthy and prosperous, and thus engage your feelings, words, behavior, resources and capability in service as far as possible; see your service will exult in fruitfulness and be crowned with success! 103
SADHUTHE ACCOMPLISHED ONE

One who implants the clues to success in his character and is regulating his life according to that may be called a Sadhu (accomplished one) in the true sense! 104
JAPA TO AWAKEN PERCEPTION AND WISDOM AND MAKE THEM BENEFICIAL

You are practicing Japa* and offering worship, yet your normal perception and wisdom have not been enkindled, nor has their tendency to be of benefit, know for sure you are little engaged in the thought of him whom you are repeating, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and he whom you are worshipping has not at all become your interest! That is why you have not been made anxious by the concern or necessity to render beneficial your own and your environments life, glory, nourishment, pleasure and expansion as well as his by nurturing and satisfying his welfare and your environment with him in it; this being the case, what can this form of Japa and worship do for you? 105
*Japa: repetition of Gods Name, the Holy Name
CHARACTER AND YOGIC ENDOWMENTS IN SADHANA (SPIRITUAL EFFORT)

In the practice of spiritual endeavor the yogic endowments like sound, light, divine messages and so on which arise through continuous effort and profound attention, indicate the transformation of the state of your brain; they may not touch your real being and character; but what happens through unbroken attachment of devotion and love for the Ideal, or yogic practices which include this devotion and love, attracts the being and character and so directs the person upward in progress, this is definitely certain! 106 When your devotion, incessantly bearing the urge to be meaningful in your Ideal in all respects, is converted into proficiency in activity, from then is the beginning of the end of your weakness! 107
THE END OF WEAKNESS
THIS LIFE DETERMINES THE LIFE IN THE OTHER WORLD

The proof that your Dharma will bring heaven for you in the other world is that you, along with your environment, are being elevated in life, glory and growth in this world; and if this is not the case, do understand,

it is what is happening here that will determine your life in the other world! 108
WHEN RELIANCE WILL GREET YOU

When your everything becomes whole-heartedly engaged in the maddening zeal to become meaningful in your Lord, Ideal or Guide, then and there reliance will greet you! 109
PEACE IN IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS
When everything you have is based on your Ideal, then and there peace will become unshakeable and will uphold and preserve you! 110
YOUR OWN IDEAL AND ANOTHERS IDEAL

Do not seek to establish your own Ideal by slighting anothers Ideal; but rather acknowledge him and respectfully demonstrate the agreement of your own Ideal, you will find that all are becoming yours! 111
JAAJAN, THE TEST OF DOUBT AND DEVOTION

If your prema*, devotion or love growing profuse in its feeling for the Beloved does not become resonant in Jaajan, consider where and in what corner doubt is hiding and peering out like a thief; be careful seek it out and become void of doubt, your environment will surely be flooded in the flood of your devotion! 112
*Prema: The supreme form of love for the Divine. **Jaajan: Exalting and uplifting the environment with pious worship of the Ideal.
Another characteristic sign of genuine love is this the beloveds offense can never cause a deficiency in the attraction by bringing on ill-will, distress or vexation! 113
GENUINE LOVE
FIRMNESS IN CONFLICTS ADVERSE TO LOVE

If feeling, devotion and love are not indomitable in conflicts adverse to them, then it is dubious whether they were there in the first place! 114 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

COURAGE ESTABLISHING WELL-BEING AND PROGRESS

If courage with steady perception spurns, resists and destroys what is opposed to life and growth, and thus is naturally efficient in establishing progress along with well-being for self, environment and the world, it may be called true courage! 115
HESITATION IN DOUBT
Where doubt is smiling, hesitation is normal! 116
VALOR IN IDEAL-CENTEREDNESS
As much as your life becomes whole-heartedly dedicated to the Ideal, so much will strength, courage and valor offer you ovation! 117
THE HERO
One for whom enthusiastic uphill effort is normal, through whose courage, skill and efficiency chaos and error are converted into order and rightness, who diminishes and destroys that which withers life, glory and growth, and thus establishes becoming, he alone is a hero! 118
SELF-ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH ESTABLISHING OTHERS

Remember to establish others life, glory and growth is the only way of achieving your own life, glory, growth and establishment, but actually doing that, not only thinking about it, talking about it, and wanting it! If there is an error in this, all your efforts, all your wishes, all your works will end in error! 119
? WHY THE ENVIRONMENT SEEMS UNSUITABLE

Whenever one thinks that his environment is not suitable for him, it is sure that his service and resources are not so great, or not so well-adjusted, as to make the environments life and growth CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

exuberant and thus render it beneficial! 120
STRONG WEAKNESS
As for the strong one who can make the weak weaker the greater his weakness of strength, the more he makes weakness strong! 121 Foolish humility makes man base; genuine humility exists where, keeping ones nature and honor unharmed, it establishes truth; and the meaning of truth is that which makes mans life and growth exuberant in well-being! 122
GENUINE AND FOOLISH HUMILITY
THE FLY-LIKE MAN

Be careful of the fly-like man! However good the things you do may be, however good the things you say may be, discarding every bit of it, and taking just what is necessary to make the bad thrive, he spoils others in the environment; the remedy for this if such a thing has happened is to be cautious and confront him, or to tactfully persuade him! 123 Another kind of man is the bee-like man; there is no great excess of them in the world; their nature is such that however ugly anything may be, they rightly understand how much of it, or what portion of it, is sweet like honey, and in collecting that they are second to none; even if you get stung, seek them out; if you find any, you will get such nourishment from them as to fill your life and mind with honey-sweetness; if you desire it, be on the lookout! 124
THE BEE-LIKE MAN

POVERTY IMPOVERISHED
No harm if you are poor; but dont be deprived of the wealth of your character be not at all forsaken by service, sympathy, fulfillment of needs, skillfulness, efficiency, protectiveness, true expansiveness and the like; you will see how impoverished poverty becomes and how it flees away to parts unknown! 125
UNMANLINESS IN MANS OFFERING HIMSELF TO WOMAN

Whenever unmanliness becomes the boon companion of a man, only then can a man implore a woman or offer himself to a woman; on the other hand, it is for woman to offer herself to a man, and this is the distinctive characteristic of woman! 126
BROTHERHOOD THAT DISREGARDS THE SUPERIOR

Be careful of the feeling of brotherhood which does not know how to look up to the superior, and moreover, neglecting the superior, itself wants to be looked up to, it is the progenitor of baseness! 127
THE MESSENGER OF DEATH

One who asks for more without suitably nourishing that from which he derives nourishment is the messenger of death! Be careful of him on both accounts! 128 Whenever your capability, efficiency or skillfulness want to establish themselves by humiliating, denying and slighting anothers capability, efficiency or skillfulness, that is when you are being boastful and egoistic; and the more you act in this manner, the more your ability will make you king for a day, and have you ride around the streets on a donkey!* *This refers to the Hindu Holy custom of dressing someone as king to serve as center of pranks while riding a donkey. 129 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
EGOISTIC SLIGHTING MAKES ONE KING FOR A DAY

THE EMPEROR OF MANS LIFE

When the small or lowly come to you, let them not feel at all that they are small or lowly; rather, through your association and help let them see before them the wide royal road which leads a person easily to greatness and wisdom if he takes to it and travels on it, and let this be natural to you! You will find that you turn out to be an emperor in peoples lives! 130 If the hunger to stay alive and achieve growth did not make man restlessly eager, then it is doubtful whether anyone would be helpful to anyone at the time of need; if someone comes to you, do not depress his living and growing by talking of sorrows; rather, do and say what will inspire and uplift him; you will find that constant talk of sorrows will not arouse anyones sympathy; mans spontaneous sympathy will greet you; people will be unwilling to bear that you should have even a little sorrow, and become whole-heartedly eager to allay it! 131 Do spurn sin or wrong-doing, but do not hate the sinner or wrong-doer; if you do so, you will see as you have hated, as you have humiliated the wrong-doer, the hating and humiliating will take form, and expose and catch hold of you in the same way, and insult, ridicule, and oppress you and make you hated; be especially careful about your thoughts and behavior! 132
THE AROUSING OF SYMPATHY
HUMILIATING THE WRONG-DOER
THE STEALER OF FAULT-FINDING EYEGLASSES

One who knows how to see people as bad, seldom comes in contact with the thief who steals the eyeglasses used for fault-finding! 133

INJURY BY HATRED
If ever out of hatred for someone you have caused some kind of injury, at once free him from it through service, sympathy and attention, and thus establish him in well-being; otherwise that causing of injury because of hatred will so injure you and your world that though you cry shame on fate hundreds of times, you will not find the path you will see! 134
CLEANSING FAULTS WITH FAULTS

If one wants to clean up faults by collecting faults, and scrubbing faults with faults, no need to worry his fault will be polished up very well; the misfortune of being deprived of fault will not have to bear his company. 135 When suffering or peace do not relieve or uplift peoples minds, then they attack the environment like disease-bearing flies and engender evil activities! 136
IN SUFFERING OR IN PEACE
GREATNESS THROUGH PURSUIT OF DHARMA

Do understand whoever has become great in any area has pursued the Dharma of becoming so in that area, and that is why he is great; and one who has not done so has become great only in the expansion of remorse! 137
EVER-SICKLY GLORY
If ones sense of dignity is brittle, his glory is ever-sickly. 138
PROGRESS PURSUES ONE WHO ESTABLISHES THE IDEAL

Whatever you do for the establishment of your Ideal, in a way that no injury of any kind comes upon another, progress with various kinds of presentations, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

eager to offer congratulations, will surely pursue you in order to offer itself to you know it for certain! 139
TRUE HEROISMIN SUBDOING DIFFICULTIES

When you see that obstacles can no longer intimidate you, rather you are able to straighten out obstacles in such a way that they help you develop, then only are you strong; when your understanding adorns your character in this way, then only will nature give you a real heros reception! 140
INDOOR HEROISM
When ones heroism and ability are vigorously expressed before womenfolk, when it comes to the field of practicality in the outdoor world, it is sure to fade away and languish in the hot rays of the sun! 141
INJURING THE IDEAL IN A POSE OF HUMILITY

If you neglect efficiency, and with a pretense of humility entertain the feeling of being a servant, devotee or son, the Ideal or Guide is actually established in lowness; what truer means than this is there for injuring him? 142 To receive Grace means that the opportunity for doing or serving is unrestricted; and if one gets that, the path to achievement spontaneously becomes unrestricted! 143
GRACE
HUSBAND AND WIFE ONLY FOR SEX

Mere lust can never make anyone a true husband or wife, and never could! 144
HARMFUL LUST AND ANGER

Lust, anger and the like are harmful when they are hindrances to the establishment CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

of your Ideal, and when they depress and injure the life and growth of your environment! 145
THE WITCHY CALL OF LUSTFUL YEARNING

Whenever you find that you are falling away from the company of the Superior, the Lord, or the Ideal, and if you do go near them you dont feel well, and in spite of your intention, the pull of their association does not attract you, know for sure the witchy call of lust or vain imagining is entrancing you like a fool and arousing your passionate crave, enveloping the path of progress in the darkness of distraction, and filling it with senseless cracked-brain emotion through the futile arrogance of bewildering thought; thus it is throttling your progress with its filthy hands; understand this for sure, be careful, and if you can, be off from it! 146
Look not in the least with lustful eyes, nor be the least bit possessed by lustful feeling; even if you are not given to such evil deeds in actuality, by going on in this way this continuous lustfulness of yours will weaken your go, character, conduct, behavior, and attachment, because thoughts of lust can so master a persons being that no other thought can drive them away and incline your being toward itself; so despite there being many possibilities and resources for your progress, you will not at all be able to catch hold of success or fruitfulness; the remedy for this is CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
TO THINK OF MOTHER WHEN PULLED BY LUST

to remain at a distance and to color and delight your feeling and sight with thoughts of mother; be awareif this sort of thing is happening to you, be careful at once! 147 Whenever you see that scatteredness suddenly comes into the path of progress or upward go and has obstructed continuity or is obstructing it, generally you can understand without a doubt that the reason it has happened or is happening is the lustful inclination to women; generally it happens this way to men, and the more of it there is, the more imperious is the downward drag; but in the case of women, it generally happens in the same form also, as long as they are not in direct contact with any superior, and so are weighed down in the moat of imagination with emotional effusiveness of thoughts; but when there is voluntary direct contact (with a superior) an expansion of progress or gradual upward go takes place, resembling that of the one with whom there is contact; move on, understanding yourself well! 148
THE WITCHCRAFT OF LUST
DEBASEMENT OF LINEAGE THROUGH LASCIVIOUSNESS

If you are not Ideal-centric but lustfully centered on woman as sex-object, you will find that your offspring very soon is deprived of your heredity and reduced to brutishness; and the more given to base feelings you are, the more this is so, because it is this sexual desire which bends your existence down to make it sow the seeds of life; if you want well-being for your children and yourself, then be careful even now! 149 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

THE WEAK-NERVED AND LUSTFUL ARE DISREGARDFUL

One characteristic sign of the weakness of nerves and lustful craving, which go along with the stale feelings of those who are born out of meanness, is that they cannot bow in reverence; and where there is no reverence, wisdom there is heedless. 150 Greed for enjoyment, making one foolish in activity, deprives one of real enjoyment; if you want be elevated, unfettered and dedicated to activity; greeted by enjoyment, you will find that you are ever delighted! 151
FOOLISHNESS IN GREED FOR ENJOYMENT
CHARACTERISTICS OF MAN AND WOMAN

Man is man because of his manly characteristics, and woman is woman because of her womanly characteristics; when a man becomes infatuated with a woman and wholly given to a woman, and wants to adorn himself with everything womanly, then the death of manliness in man starts advancing gradually; maintaining unrestrained wild hopes and expectations, tossing and turning in dense foolishness and darkness, obliterating himself, the man is melted away in a slippery go; again, when the woman does not foster the growth of man, when she neglects her own distinctive characteristics, picks up the manner and gestures of man, and wants to make herself into a man, then womanliness, converted to ghoulishness, reaches out its weak, lean, depressed, intemperate arm and becomes hideous in futility; giggling in flaunt and hatred with uncontrollable laughter, it ends up in endless misery! 152 The kind of education through which the distinctive characteristics of a person are augmented, elevated and nourished, is irresistibly necessary for life; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN EDUCATION

so the system of education should be such that a person develops continuously in distinctive characteristics and thus becomes progressive and unobstructed; that education, by fostering the growth of life and society, can make one a traveler to immortality! 153
EDUCATION IGNORING DISTINCTIVENESS

To propose an education which oversteps distinctive characteristics and to castrate life are the same thing! 154
The first ingredient of education is the Ideal; realization is there in the Ideal; and by regard, association, inquiry, service, behavior and worship, to take the light of the Ideals realization from him, to realize it and reflect it in ones character is real education! 155 The very purpose of education is to realize the knowledge or vision of another by bringing it into ones own perception; and however excellent and immediate the realization is, the knowledge will be likewise; if education does not enter into your perception, then what are you but an ox burdened with things remembered? 156
DEVOTION TO IDEAL IN EDUCATION
EDUCATION WITHOUT PERCEPTION
COLORING CHARACTER THROUGH IDEAL-CENTRIC EDUCATION

Education that is inspired by envy, spite or inferiority can touch life and character very little, although it may reign over a disorderly and unruly assemblage of resources; but the education that begins from an exuberance of devotion and love for the Lord, the Ideal, or the Beloved, actually affects life and character and thus colors ones very heredity! 157
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
If you want to be really educated, depend on practical doing, and taking your stand on this doing, pursue theory; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

you will find that you need not be foolish in your knowledge. 158
DEVOTION IN THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE

And knowledge can be acquired in various conditions and in various ways, depending on place, time, person and temperament; but in all conditions and within everyone devotion must be there! 159
THE WAY TO MAKE OTHERS UNDERSTAND

Do not try to make one understand through what he doesnt know; rather, making a way through what he knows, try to take him to what he doesnt know; and in so doing your success may touch even his character! 160
INVENTION
Observe well the surroundings of the place where you are staying; think and try to find out what things in it can fulfill the needs of people, and how so; you will find that shortly your minds inventive power or discovering power will be awakened! 161
BRIGHT RECOLLECTION
When two urges or necessities attack your mind jointly, then both of them or one of them is drowned in the water of confusion; then even by searching, it cannot be found; so if you want to keep your recollection bright, allow urges or necessities to enter your mind one after another; if health is good, recollection will remain bright! 162
EDUCATION IN THE HOUSEHOLD

As I think, to lead the society or race in the way of progress, there is a necessity for a form of education in which there can function easily and unobstructedly in every household a laboratory, a cottage industry, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and a garden that can produce the vegetables needed daily; and this education is for everyone, male or female, in every family! 163 If there is anything responsible for peoples condition in life, it is the work of a teacher; the character of the teacher through the students regard affects him without his knowing it in such a way that his later life goes on so directed by it that he cant do anything about it; if the teacher is not eagerly inclined to the Ideal, if his character is not exuberantly active, adorned with feelings for the Ideal, and if it does not open the door of the students wishes, touch his heart, and thus make him free to progress, that teaching is the great refuge of anti-Dharma; there isnt an iota of doubt about it; if you want to teach, do carefully adjust yourself; otherwise misery, with a crooked smile, will devour your life and your race, no doubt. 164 If you are not pursuing the Ideal, research for you is nothing but an itch for conjuring; your incoherent knowledge can never come into order with what comes before and what follows, and thus cannot arrive at any significance; and repeated observation, taking you on an overgrown path in thinking and doing, suddenly revealing the glow of a glowworm and making you lose your way, can do nothing except to make you more foolish and vagrant as a scientist; observe, and test thoroughly; so if research is really the aim of your life, then pursue the kind of science that pursues meaningfulness, since throughout its sequence it bears a single purpose and vision; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
THE TEACHER
SCIENTIST AND RESEARCH

seeyou will be blessed and delighted, no doubt! 165
BRAHMACHARYYACONTINENCE
To move in the way by which a human being becomes established in growth and thus becomes radiant, to think, say and do that by which one becomes animated in vitality, expansion and growth, and thus can become virile and strong, this may be called true Brahmacharyya* or continence; and without doing this, by only being concerned to control the semen** with extreme effort in thinking and doing, one cannot become continent or self-restrained; moreover, he will have to become hated and blamed on account of ugly frowning nervous debility; but such questions cannot even arise in the mind of one who is truly endowed with Brahmacharyya who is engaged in the thought and work of the Vast; and as a result, it is easy and natural for him to be continent. 166
*Brahmacharyya: literally, conduct which is within Brahma. Brahma is defined by Sri Sri Thakur as That which being developed and becoming everything, yet remains the same. (Satyanusaran, P. 97) **Semen: considered as a source of psychic energy. THE CULTURING (SADHANA) OF LOVE
If you want to love anything or anyone, then love him, think of him only, and engage yourself in activity that accords with so doing; furthermore, give no indulgence whatsoever to whatever things are against it; from this form of thought and conduct you will see how your love rolls on like a flood, swift and overflowing with activity; you will be satisfiedno doubt. 167

AROUSING THE WILL

If you want to keep your will-power fit, strong and awakened, do dedicate it daily to some activity for accomplishing good for others; see how quick, dexterous and life-enhancing your will-power becomes! 168
AWAKENING OF WILL-POWER
Whenever the urge to do something good comes into your heart, without obstructing it, do at once start to materialize it through activity; you will find that by this practice your will-power will become lively within a short time. 169 If you want to give up at all any bad habit of yours, or lust, anger or the like, which tends to weaken and distress you, at the very moment when the urge for it is about to engage you in activity, be off from it, or at that moment, as you are being off from it, try to engage that urge in thought and action that will bring you well-being; and continue to do so as long as that bad habit, lust, anger, or whatever it is does not come under your complete control; you will find, if your practice this for some time, you can so control habits or passions that they will kneel down before you like servants and be charmed to obey you; without doing this, with the mere thought of giving them up, you will not at all be able to give them up; rather you will become more obsessed by them! 170
CONTROLLING BAD HABITS

WHERE TO PLACE RELIANCE AND FAITH

He in whom you have placed everything of your whole life for as long as you live, whom you know as the bearer of your life, expansion and growth, who is absolute knowledge as known, only that or he is the place for your whole-hearted faith; not being colored by any thing or any person, apart from him, and remaining neutral, as you understand the situation as it stands before you, by observing it with circumspection in your perception and consideration, shape your reliance and your behavior in that situation accordingly, little will you be deceived in the world! 171
LITERATURE
That, in the attainment, association or discussion of which a human being can be established or uplifted in well-being, can be called literature. 172
NORMAL BEAUTY THROUGH SINGING AND DANCING

There is seldom found a breath-exercise (Pranayama) as easy and pleasurable as singing; and so delightful an exercise as dancing is rare; so dancing and singing which stimulate good feeling make life for both woman and man normal and beautiful. 173 If you can, so control evil that it becomes productive of good for you and if possible, for the environment! 174 Marriage fulfils two of the major human desires, one of them is for upward growth CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
CONTROLLING EVIL
ON MARRIAGE

and the other is for procreation; inappropriate marriage aggrieves both of these; be careful! dont think of marriage as something to play with your life and procreation are involved in it! 175
THE IMPORTANCE OF WOMANS PURITY

A nation takes birth and grows from woman, so, as woman is mother of the individual, she is also mother of the collective; and the feeling with which this woman is devoted to a man the feeling with which she inspires him is the very feeling that comes forth from the man and takes birth in the woman;* so woman is the mother of lives and of the world because she materializes man and measures** out his nature; so, such being the case, do understand the progress of mankind is determined by woman; that is why the purity, life and growth of the nation depends on the purity of woman; so you see how essential for the nation the purity of woman is! 176
*The idea is that the distinctive feeling which the mother has for the father becomes the distinctive nature of her child.(K. B.) **Mother originates from the Sanskrit word matar, which became Latin mater, Greek meter etc. and the words for mother and measure come from the same Sanskrit root! (G. L.)
WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE HER HUSBAND

When a woman becomes able to conceive, at that very time nature empowers her with the ability to select a man; and if a woman wants to choose according to her own wish, she only can do so then; otherwise the person whom the parents accept for their daughter, considering him superior in all respects, will be regarded as her husband; this is the principle prescribed in scripture! 177 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

SUPPORT IN MARRIAGE
Consider whether he who is to support you is capable of supporting you in all respects; what it means to support you in all respects is by bearing with whatever there is in you, coming down to you from your forefathers including your temperament and characteristics and to give it a place in growth and upliftment; and if this be not the case, then how can the marriage be successful? 178 By forbearing and supporting him, you can embrace what is superior in all respects; you are charmed yet awakened in the inducement to thus forbear and support him, and with him your tender and exalted feelings are reverent and free like your long hair when you let it down, he is the one whose bride you should be; you will be esteemed by the community, you will be pure, you will be full of glory! 179 If the Ideal-centeredness and all-around superiority of any man make you humble and reverent with regard and devotion and thus fruitful in his service, if on your lips are songs in his praise that overflow from your heart, you can choose him, you can give yourself to him; by becoming his wife you will be blessed in praise and service there is no doubt! 180 Where the man becomes indomitable to fulfill his Ideal with presentations of victory, renown and glory, and where the woman is charmed and follows him with upholdment, protection, inspiration and service, there in her the living form of Lakshmi, the goddess of good fortune, is manifested! 181
MEANINGFUL WIFEHOOD
IDEALS FOR THE SELECTION OF THE HUSBAND
THE GOODNESS OF GOOD FORTUNE MANIFEST

THE AGE FOR MARRIAGE

If there is a difference in age between husband and wife of at least fifteen to twenty years, then, as the exuberant life-energy of the wife inspires the man and levels out, to a great extent it holds back old age for both; and uplifting life, enthusiasm and growth, and enthroning joy, pleasure, happiness and peace, it makes them possessors of strong children; so it is conducive to Dharma! 182 As the duty of your wife in going on with you lies in your family, environment and world, know surely, that your duty in going on with your Ideal lies in the family, in the environment and in your world; if there is any deviation in this, the result will attack your wife in respect to her distinctive characteristics, the way it does so, depending on the kind of deviation and likewise it will turn disastrous and attack you also in your particular nature in the same way. 183
DUTIES OF HUSBAND AND WIFE
THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD

When woman and man, in the impact both have on each other, become indomitable and free, each in his or her own distinctive characteristics, where the attraction of one for the other, without stupefying them, becomes inspired and whole-heartedly devoted to the Ideal, within Prakriti and Purusha* of this kind God takes form and becomes manifest, and attracting individual and world to the path of expansion, dispenses the nectar of immortality ! 184
*Prakriti: Primordial Nature, which in association with Purusha, creates the universe. Purusha also denotes the soul and Prakriti the Absolute. (From The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna) G. L.

DEGRADATION THROUGH FALLING FROM THE IDEAL

As nothing can destroy your devoted wife if you are there, just so, if you have your Ideal, Lord or Guide, and if your unvacillating devotion to him can keep him fixed within you, destruction will flee far, far away from you; you wont find it even by searching for it! And if you fall away from this, misfortune with lolling tongue will definitely attack you, and at the same time will devour your power to be a husband! 185
REJECTED LOVE
Rejected or distressed love is what primarily invites meanness, brutality and listlessness! If anyone has love for you, do receive and establish him in all respects; be diligent for his continuous progress; allow him to be disciplined and free; but keep a little distance; do not be so very easily available to him; but for that, do not reject him; you will be happy and make others happy too! 186
SATAN ATTACKS THROUGH OBSESSION WITH WOMEN

Where a man surrenders himself in the urge to make a woman his most darling beloved, Satan attacks the society, using him as his means; be alert! 187 Continence which depends only on strained exertion oftentimes brings on a flood of unabated wantonness! 188
STRAINED CONTINENCE
WELCOMING THE OFFER

If someone wants to entrust herself to you, taking all kinds of suffering that may come in giving you support, as occasions of joy, and bowing down in regard and devotion, if she considers it meaningful to do this, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and if that makes you happy because it is appropriate and within your ability, and thus inspires you in your Ideal, do not, under any circumstances, reject her; and if there is anything that could invite the inauspicious, make her desist and assuage her in such a way that without being wounded by you in any way, she may always remain happy in devotion and regard! 189
DOWNFALL FROM WANT OF HYPERGAMY* AND IDEAL EDUCATION

What an inauspicious moment it was how did it ever happen? when hypergamous inter-varna marriage** and Ideal-centric education were struck with illness and laid waste! From that time the race, society, and country started running toward downfall with unstoppable speed; turn back even now you may have time ! 190 *Hypergamy: marriage of a woman to a man of higher cultural heredity than her own. **Inter-varna marriage: marriage between a man and woman of different varnas, or groupings of people according to varieties of distinctive characteristics.
VIRTUE IN HYPERGAMY, SIN IN HYPOGAMY

In hypogamy the higher, normal instincts, being destroyed and despised, are bound to lower and reduce instincts; so it materializes the base in a form still weaker, enfeebling its child and depriving him of the normal and healthy instincts of his father and mother; and that is why it is a sin, though the parents are of different varnas; hypergamy, upholding the higher normal instincts of the man, being astonished in eager delightful admiration, can give its child form in expansiveness in the higher normal instincts CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

of his father and mother; that is why, though the parents are of different varnas, it is virtuous and pure! 191
DISTORTED LOVE
Where the goal of ones love is a woman inflamed with lust, his neck is generally decked with a garland of distress. 192
DOWNFALL THROUGH CHOOSING A MAN WITH NO IDEAL

There is superior heredity, but it is because his ego was wounded and he became maddened with spite and envy that he has earned a high position; and Ideal-centricity has not made him superior in any respect, has not made him expansive, has not made him successful or given him a good foundation in life; when it comes to selecting a husband, remain far away from him, for such selection cannot give form to the superior as far as it is possible to do so; rather, it will demean the heredity by reducing it to meanness; move with understanding ! 193
FATHERHOOD ACCORDING TO THE WIFES INSPIRATION

Whatever bhava* your wifes bhava inspires you with and thus inclines you toward, it is just that bhava of yours which will be embodied which you will father; know it for sure! 194
*Bhava: the condition of a persons whole being at a given time with some element or elements prominent. (K. B.) Thakur also referred to bhava as thought bubble. (G. L.)
THE WIFES BHAVA IS THE CHILDS MOTHER

If your wifes exalted bhava and talks and conversations make you the more absorbed in an exalted and inspired bhava, and if you become inclined to her, being absorbed in that bhava, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

there is no doubt your child will be of that nature, will be that bhava itself; move on, taking this into account! 195
SERVICE TO A MALICIOUS WIFE MAKES A DISTRESSED CHILD

If your wife has become malicious toward you, do not in the least become lustfully inclined to her, serving her in order to mitigate that malice; by that, your child will definitely be distressed in body and mind, and in his life; there is no doubt about it! 196
FORSAKING THE COMPANY OF A FAULT-FINDING WIFE

If your wife has become fault-finding toward you, frantic, feeble-minded, morose, wicked, dissatisfied or the like, stay away from her, making proper arrangements for her well-being, convenience, maintenance and so on, until, through understanding you well, she becomes eager for you, attached to you, and full of praise for you; then there is a good chance that you can be saved from this misfortune and become sound and strong in your life, glory and growth! 197
WELL-BEING THROUGH STAYING AWAY FROM A VEXATIOUS WIFE

You may not be contented with your wife perhaps you are extremely vexed by her; be careful unless there is an extremely serious reason, do not punish her in any way; turn not away from giving her food and clothing according to your ability and whatever appropriate pleasure is possible, nor wound her with unjust behavior; rather, give up her company and remain at a distance; in the midst of cares well-being will serve you certainly! 198

DRONE
Where the man is affected and aroused by the wife, and wants to be blessed by her, yet in his arousal the urge to affect and awaken the environment and the world is not awakened, even if he sprouts wings, he is certainly a drone! 199 Be on the lookout that the first and foremost duty of your wife is to serve your father and mother or the earnest well-wishers by whom you are being nourished; if she becomes averse to this service, do not allow her to serve you; rather, it is better if you do not hanker at all for your wifes service; but there should not be the tiniest flaw in any possible service to them; you will see how your future life, rising beautifully, shines on you with rosy light! 200
WIFE TO SERVE FATHER AND MOTHER
WOMAN MONOGAMOUS, MAN POLYGAMOUS IN NATURE

Temperament lies in the characteristics of the system, and it governs to a great extent a persons perception, thought, character and conduct; the characteristic of the man is to sow the seed of life; the woman receives it, gives it form, and sets it growing and does this generally for one only at any one time; within that same time a man can sow seed into many; that is why it is a distinctive characteristic of woman to be the wife of one man, and this is the wealth of her soundness of mind; but the man by his nature carries on his life with a tendency to be united with many women; so if your husband, while remaining exuberant in his Ideal,

and expansive in his character, knowledge and service, has more than one wife, and if that is not harmful to him, be not saddened, be not jealous; rather love and take care of him; you will find that your husband in being with you, gives you more prevalence in his life dont worry! 201
THE CAPACITY FOR ACCEPTING MORE THAN ONE WIFE

One who is untotteringly for his Ideal, wholeheartedly sincere in establishing his Ideal, whose wife can only incline him toward her by encouraging him, only such a man is actually capable of accepting more than one wife; otherwise, it can only be expected that one who has not these qualities will fall into distress, weakness and dullness by accepting more than one wife; so if you want to select a husband, then select a man who is firm and steady in the Ideal even if he has a wife; you will find meaningfulness! 202
UNITY THROUGH BEING INSPIRED IN ONE

Genuine unity dwells there where people are practically inspired in one; and this is a matter of feeling, not of a display of reasoning; the feeling or perception produces the reasoning reasoning only widens and extends the path of perception. 203 Whenever a number of people, being inspired in one Ideal, collectively go on establishing his meaningfulness, then that united community of people can be called society. 204
SOCIETY
IDEAL AND MARRIAGE-BONDCLUES TO UNITY

There are two main clues to the progress and unity of the masses; one is the Ideal, the other is superior marriage relationships! 205 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

THE CENTER OF UNITY IN DIVERSITY

The more there are opposing and dissimilar people finding shelter in you, and embracing life and growth, taking you as their all in all, the more will you be the center of unity in diversity, and glory and love will worship you! 206
THE CENTER OF INTEREST FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

When a person becomes blinded by needs, then alone does he become selfish; for the purpose of attaching those needed things to himself the need creates desire; again, whenever the desire is fulfilled, the person attains his self-interest or his desire is satisfied or he is set free from it; thus it is seen in man there is self-hood, and for the nourishment of this self-hood wealth or needed things exist; and need itself produces lust or desire, and when the need is attained, liberation from that desire takes place; and all these things are for the sake of mans self-nourishment! When one cannot understand what things go to compose his self-hood, then erroneous interest seeks to make his life prosper with nourishment and growth, and gathers the materials for life, nourishment and growth by depriving him and depriving his environment; yet it does not even cast a glance toward him or them from whom it collects these materials of nourishment and growth; so deprivation and futility follow him all through his life, depriving and frustrating him; if you really want life, nourishment and growth, make your environment a center of interest; you will see that deprivation and futility will follow you no more! 207

EXISTENCE AND DECAY IN THE ENVIRONMENT

Man does not live or grow without environment his existence is in his environment; and if the Ideal of the environment is not favorable to him, then decay is very much a possibility! 208
SURRENDERING THE FRUITS OF WORK

To present to others what is gained by performing activity and to let them share that is called genuine surrender of the fruits of work; so in surrendering the fruits of work, they become multiplied in many ways, and this gives the renouncer abundance in the fruits of action! 209
LIFELESS SOCIETY
If the society has no Ideal then it is lifeless and without a go; so it is finished off in decay! 210 Every society is like a complete system in itself; and the primary organs of the system are bipra, kshatriya, boishya and shudra*; in one way or another in a society which is alive and advancing in upliftment these four types of function surely exist; and however sound and strong they are, so much is the upliftment of the society! 211
FOUR VARNAS IN THE SOCIAL SYSTEM
*Bipra, Kshatriya, Boishya and Shudra: See the following messages for the meanings of the first three varnas. Shudra means, Those in whose nature is service for preservation.
He or they who make the worship of the Lord and attachment to him untottering, with study, research, teaching, contemplation and propagation of him and his worship, and with giving and receiving, who serve the life, renown and growth of all individuals, perceiving them as various forms of themselves, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
QUALITIES OF A BRAHMIN (BIPRA)

who thus dwell in the feeling of Brahma or the Vast, he or they are Brahmin; if you want to be meaningful, try to be Brahmin, and do that in such a way that Brahmin hood permeates your nature and character, so that people may perceive you as the materialized form of Brahma! 212
QUALITIES OF A KSHATRIYA*
He or they who pursue knowledge, research and the like with worship and devotion to the Lord, who save creatures from injury and pain and heal them, who have dedicated their lives in a practical way to service of life, glory and growth, he or they may be called kshatriya; if you want valor, then with adherence gladly take up the qualities of a kshatriya! 213
*Kshatriya: This encompasses the protective class, such as the police force, armed forces etc., doctors, lawyers, administrators and the like, whose purpose it is to protect society. QUALITIES OF A BOISHYA*
He or they who are Ideal-centric and pursue knowledge, research and the like with worship and devotion, who earn wealth and resources by service in fulfillment of peoples needs, for the purpose of bettering and establishing that worship and devotion, and for its development give for the progress of humans, and thus acquire meaningfulness, he or they are genuinely boishya; if through your establishment of the Ideal you want to prosper yourself by making people prosper through service to them, then turn not away from worship of the qualities of a boishya ! (*Boishya: Business class) 214 Remember, the Brahmins dedicated to culture who depend on offerings for their livelihood* are not now and never were CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
BRAHMINS DEDICATED TO CULTURE

greedy for wealth or resources; they are worshippers, servants and directors of knowledge, worship, service to people and protection, and their wealth and resources lie in this; so they are the masters of the race! 215 *the offerings are gifts given them by people out of regard for them and appreciation for their service.
THE TWICE-BORN* ALWAYS TO INFUSE THE IDEAL

One of the primary day-to-day activities of the twice-born is to infuse the Ideal into the environment; if you have even an iota of devotion to the Ideal, then do not forsake this tendency; enjoyment and growth will be your constant companion ! 216 *Twice-born: Brahmins, kshatriyas and boishyas are referred to as twiceborn because, generally in their youth, they perform a ritual which is considered as a second birth.
WHEN SOCIETYS LIFE IS WOUNDED

Just as one cannot commit suicide unless one is terribly senseless, so also, unless senselessness is stupendous, this system of the Varnas and their functions cannot be torn asunder; in whatever limb a poison starts working, it is certain that life is endangered; likewise, whatever be the varna through which wanton disorder enters, the life of society will be agitated and wounded this is very certain; and as it is with the individual, so it is with the collective! 217 The endowment of power which does not relieve and satisfy a person and make his growth prosper, is the dark and slippery road of Satan! 218 One who wants to purify inferiority by being guided by the inferior, will become perfected in pure inferiority, is there any need to ponder over it? 219 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
THE SLIPPERY WAY OF SATAN
GUIDANCE BY THE INFERIOR

THE PATH OF ATTAINMENT

Know for sure if you have any want, then something is to be done, something by doing which the thing you want can be had; and without doing that, the hope of getting is nothing but a frustration! Whenever your doing does not follow the way by which there can be attainment, whatever you want to get, and whatever the manner in which you want to get it, nothing at all ever comes of that doing; so I say, if you want at all, then adjust your doing actually in such a way that attainment will surely come about! 220 Unfailing fault-finding situates life in the enigma of failure! 221 If you want at all to do something, think out, as far as possible, how the work which is to be done can be done, and what is to be used for it, taking the sequence into account; then examine all this and see how it accords with your condition and ability; and along with this, observe thoroughly how easily, in how short a time, and with how little exertion of energy, it can be made possible; and bringing the obstacles to it under control in any way possible, or making them favorable, or paying them no heed, bring the means of doing into your scheme and start in with swiftness and tremendous momentum; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)
THE RESULT OF FAULT-FINDING
THE COURSE OF SUCCESS

success will serve you like a handmaiden, is there any doubt about it? 222
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE

The elixir of life that which is to be enjoyed, that is, the thing by which life can be enjoyed, is attachment which ascends, unbroken, never stopping, keeping one alone before it! 223
WHAT IS WORTH ACCOMPLISHING IN LIFE

And if there is anything worth accomplishing, it is this: as my attachment and interest become properly adhered to the Ideal so that the discord and scattering tendency of the complexes and passions are destroyed, and as normal wisdom becomes meaningful in him, before all my faculties (of sense, action and mind) he stands forth as God! 224 And if there is anything attainable, it is conscious memory which, penetrating life and death, takes one to what ensues! 225 To remove upward-impelling restlessness of ascending attachment which has One alone before it, is to be limited and becalmed in inertness in a scattered fashion, and thus to embrace and kiss eternal unpeacefulness! 226
WHAT IS WORTH ATTAINING
ETERNAL UNPEACEFULNESS
DETERIORATION IN HEREDITY BRINGS SLAVERY

Whenever heredity is deformed or destroyed, in whatever way that may happen, the inventive capacity of the intellect starts to become shattered and depressed; then a persons necessity of staying alive ends up in slavery; keep watch! 227

SLAVERY THROUGH FORSAKING THE IDEAL

Do understand it is slavery to do something in which you have to sacrifice your Ideal for the sake of getting your due from it! 228
HARMING HEREDITY BY FALLING AWAY FROM THE IDEAL

When purpose, without nurturing the Ideal, does something for self-nourishment, through which a falling-away from the Ideal may take place, or does take place, that deed, that conduct, or that thought injures heredity; you can move on if you will take a little care! 229
Whenever you are invited by anyone to help or serve him without sacrificing your Ideal, and as a result of that, for his own satisfaction, he gives you anything, or helps you with anything of any kind which is favorable to your life and go, in plain language this is called an honorarium; and in this kind of doing heredity generally does not become distorted! 230
HONORARIUM
THE DEPRIVATION IN SIN

Know as sin that which deprives you of life, glory and growth, brings in ignorance, meanness and weakness, and thus makes you a traveler on the road to death! 231 The fundamental basis of Dharma is to live and grow, and for that the first and foremost necessity is health; do, move and be unobstructed in your go! 232
HEALTH IN DHARMA
INFUSION OF FEELING THROUGH FOOD

Seers, scientists and learned men say that rice or other food carries in it even the mental condition CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

of the one who serves it; this being so, if I am to receive food from someone, it should be done in such a way that I can receive higher feelings; isnt it so? 233
DISAGREEABLE FOOD BREAKS THE HEALTH

Be aloof from the kind of place, person and food which brings on hatred, aversion, uneasiness, or unsteadiness of mind; by such food ones health is easily broken down; beware!
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APPETITE MEASURES THE AMOUNT OF FOOD

If you wish to be energetic and diligent, do not renounce hunger; hunger makes the food that is eaten suitable for nourishing you, and this nourishment is the fuel for energy! 235 Without reason do not eat in a way that brings improper excitation or depression; eat in a way that banishes the uneasiness and depression of hunger and thus makes you sound and brings you well-being; then you can easily be active! 236
NON-EXCITING AND NON-DEPRESSING FOOD
THE EFFECT OF MIND AND ENVIRONMENT ON HEALTH

As health can control the mind, so also can the mind bring health under control; however pure, sound and strong your mind is, your health also to a large extent will follow after it; and for this matter of attaining health it is necessary to keep watch over the purity of your environment; there is hardly anything that can vitiate health and mind as much as an impure environment can; be careful! 237
SICKNESS
When attacked by illness, as far as possible, stay away from people; be careful that no one gets infected by you; let those who are engaged in serving and attending you, not mix with others until they have purified and cleansed themselves; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and in lying down, sitting, speaking and so on be very careful that due to these your illness does not infect others; in this way do not remain stricken with illness! 238
UNWELLNESS FROM MENTAL IMPURITY

Generally, many kinds of illness originate from mental impurity; mental purity is the first and foremost necessity to rescue health from the hands of illness; that is why seers introduced the practice of penance! 239 Penance means going into ones consciousness, that is, to remove the mental cause of illness by pursuing it and discovering it, and by controlling and exercising discipline over food, medicine and thought, to become sound and healthy; so, as I think, at least once a year if the Chandrayan system of penance* or something similar in its place is observed exactly, that is like ambrosia for health and life ! 240 *In the Chandrayan system of penance, once a day one handful of cooked rice is taken on the first day of the moons waxing, two handfuls on the second day, and so on, increasing one handful daily until full moon, then decreasing one handful daily as the moon wanes, ending up with one handful on the thirtieth day.
BEFITS OF PENANCE
Know yourself to be sound and healthy when there is no question for you about your existence and tendency to work; that is to say, the sign of soundness and wellness is enthusiasm and inclination to work; and if there is deterioration in these you will find that your attention will spontaneously be drawn to your body and your well-being; and this is natures signal that you are advancing toward illness, take care, be aware! 241
NATURES SIGNAL OF ILLNESS

EXERTION FOR ATTAINING HEALTH

As when one eats one must clear the bowels, so also, to receive nourishment it is absolutely essential to clear out the substances thrown off by the body; and for this purpose, appropriate exertion at least until one perspires sufficiently is invaluable and like ambrosia for health! 242
SLEEP
To be conscious is the blessing of God and this consciousness is life; do not invite sleep needlessly; sleep only enough to make you more enkindled! 243
INTOXICATION
In using intoxicants the system becomes excited in such an unrestrained fashion that when this excitement is lacking the system becomes excessively depressed, and thus life proceeds toward decay; so the habit of intoxication dominates life in such a way that there is no alternative but to use the intoxicant again and again; as a result of this the sway of decay over life becomes strong very quickly; for this reason, taking intoxicants is a sin, a great sin; if you want rescue, ignoring intoxicants, seek out nourishing excitement and become very interested in that ! 244 Do not be niggardly*; rather determine to do; niggardliness weakens one and depresses the environment also; as a result weakness increases and attacks !
NIGGARDLINESS
245
*Niggardly: reluctant to give or spend; stingy, miserly. CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

PARASITIC AND PROVIDENT LIFE

If one wants to live off others, but does not become eagerly concerned to nourish others by providing for them, is there any way to avoid being sure that hunger will eat him up? 246 A person can never enjoy himself until the environment, responding in a way that gives him enjoyment, makes him flourish; if you want to make your life meaningful and abundant in enjoyment, apply whatever you have for the sake of making someone prosperous and established; seeyou will be able to enjoy your life very much as it remains new in ever-new ways! 247 As far as possible, provide advantageous circumstances to one afflicted by want according to his ability and yours; see that he is pleased, that he is welcomed, and that he may not at all feel repentant, thinking he has been cheated; seldom will you meet with unsuccess! 248
CONSTANT NEWNESS IN ENJOYMENT
FRUITFULNESS IN WELCOMING THE NEEDY
THE GURU AND THE PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING SUCCESS

If you have not become inundated in worship of the guru and the people, then consider to what extent your worship, vows and penance can result in success for you; so the rule of the scriptures is that the worship of the guru and Ganesh (Lord of the People), that is, the deities dedicated to the peoples well-being, precedes all other worship, vows and penance ! 249
PROFIT IN BUSINESS THROUGH FULFILLING NECESSITIES

If your service can make your profit interlinked through and through with the fulfillment of the necessities of those afflicted with need in a way appropriate to their capacity, through behavior, care and sympathy, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

then take up business; otherwise it is mere impertinence !
250
BEHAVIOR IN BUSINESS
If you want to engage in business, first learn behavior in such a way that people get well-being and satisfaction through your service to them and your way of welcoming them; and to imbibe this in character is the prime basis of success ! 251
IN BUSINESS BE THE GUIDE TO PROGRESS

Through inquisitiveness, experience, activity, adherence and the like, acquire such knowledge that you become the guide to what contributes to peoples unfailing progress; you will find, there will be no occasion for loss in business ! 252
THE CHARACTER DESIRABLE FOR BUSINESS

Extensiveness in proclamation*, efficiency and skill in work, service and welcoming tendency in behavior this type of behavior is the one desirable in business; implant it in your character you will become elevated in success ! 253 *Extensiveness in proclamation: Advertising !
BUSINESS FOR ABUNDANCE FOR THE IDEAL

If out of the wish to let your Ideal have abundance you have acquired such knowledge and if that acquirement has colored your character in such a way that your sweet sympathetic behavior and care fulfill those who are ridden with need and make them expansive, so that profit flows out from it like a blessing, and adherence, efficiency and profitable management are regulated with patience and can invite growth, only then may you enter into the field of business courageously; the roar of your conch-horn* will shake the throne of the goddess of fortune CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and establish it in you! *Conch-horn: horn made from conch-shell used in Indian religious ceremonies. 254
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS
Independent business means to make self-nourishment spontaneous through service to the environment; so, for one who cannot make success spontaneous by his service, or does not know how to do this, independent business is only a ridiculous and frustrating affair. 255
PRAISE AND FLATTERY

In expectation of gain, ones own perception being unimpressed or under the influence of a contrary idea, and inspired by self-interest, to give credit uncontrollably or to delineate good qualities, is flattery; and it is praise when, charmed by good qualities, the hear wells up with satisfaction in extolling someones good qualities; so flattery makes both narrow, but praise broadens, adorns and beautifies the heart and does that for both! 256
RUINING WORK BY HOPING FOR RESULTS

When the hope for results or the inducement of getting makes the work slack, the chuckle of fruitlessness befools you and wants to finish you off with its unrestrained affection! 257
THE LAWYER
If the accused or the accuser, whoever it may be, having fallen into trouble, surrenders to you, in the hope of being saved, let rescuing him be your intense and unassailable interest, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and in as many ways possible, working it out in your mind, surmounting the difficulties, through adjustment, bring it into accord with law; hold him up from depression with hope and encouragement; be very careful that he is not depressed in unjust excess of expenditure; being the priest of justice and peace for the environment, be always ready for service; be not interested in wealth, but in rescuing; be not vexed; be content with what you get from relieving and uplifting, and so make the person happy; move on in this way; you will find that wealth and glory will surely kneel down welcoming you ! 258
RESULT THE SYCOPHANT OF WORK

If work is dear to one, the getting of results is his sycophant*! 259 *Sycophant: self-seeking, servile flatterer.
GIVING ONE'S WORD

If you have given anyone your word in any affair, do not fail in the least to do according to your word; yet if you cannot accomplish it, let him know as soon as possible, and delight him with humility and modesty; and be vigilant; if there is any way, help him sincerely as far as possible in that way; so if you have to give word to anyone, take well into account whether it is something within your normal capacity; then give your word ! 260
THE PHYSICIAN
If you want to be successful, totally doing away with vanity, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

being strict with watchful and normal consideration, be diligent in remaining affectionate; let irritation, slander, impatience or lack of sympathy have not the least sway over you; let hope, encouragement, happiness in exertion, and good behavior resonate with sympathy through and through your character; let healing of illness be your supreme interest; as long as you are not satisfied with the cure of your patient, think it out, maintaining vigilance in examination and discussion; do not give the least occasion for your mind to lag behind in attendance or the neglect being anxious about irritation and pain; be particularly careful that, when treating patients, money does not confuse you in the least; and be careful that no expectation nor discouragement makes you fall off from taking care of the patient's backbone and brain, lungs and heart, and digestive and excretory system; remember, that the vehicle of life is in your Lord or God; in mind, activity, and conduct, bringing Him in, remain alert to implant Him through your medicine, regimen and nursing in your afflicted and dejected ones; satisfaction, glory and wealth will worship you before they do anything else ! 261
SUCCESSFUL NURSING
With eagerness and sympathy, listening to the person's sufferings and necessities, make your nursing meaningful, then realizing his condition through sympathy, removing his suffering and supplying his necessities, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

make life and growth abundant in progress; and this alone is called service; see that your service is crowned with meaningfulness! 262
HAMMERING SERVICE
When nursing does not make service prominent, then service generally is baffled and thus becomes cumbersome; so without knowing the sufferings and needs, do not hammer in your service; be not futile, nor make others so ! 263
THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT

As earning and eating are necessary in order to stay alive, so also doing is necessary in order to earn; ascertain your own and your environments needs and certainly do something or other that will fulfill it, and you will find that by this the path of doing day by day becomes wider and clearer; if this can be implanted in character the unemployment problem cannot be frightening or strike unbearable terror in you ! 264
INCURRING DEBT
If you are to borrow, then be ready to repay it, even if you must cut down on your essentials to do so; otherwise the path of acquiring your nourishment is sure to become blocked ! 265
THE WAY FOR THE UNEMPLOYED TO EARN

If you want to stay alive by having a morsel or two, then earn; and if you are to earn, you must look to the needs of the environment; if your doing can serve the fulfillment of these needs, then your earning, in its expansion, will become actually meaningful; before doing this, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

if you keep fixing your attention on the imaginary screen of getting money, there surely will be no earnings and as you move you will surely stumble; and if you proceed, having thrown off the blinding veil of money in the urge to serve necessities, know for sure that money will certainly welcome you; so being humble and maintaining keen attention in the service of the environment keep your doing always enkindled; what will the terror of unemployment do to you ? 266
GIVING A LOAN
Give a loan with awareness of one's capacity; see that even if you do not get it back, that this does not taunt your tolerance; but be careful as far as you can not to turn anyone away! whenever he may need you expectedly or unexpectedly; you will see you will be prosperous, you will be successful, you will be saved from unexpected suffering ! 267
268, 269, 270 EXPRESSING AN OPINION

Do not oppose others' views; if you have to express your own opinion, do it humbly; you will seldom have to encounter enmity ! 271
SUCCESS IN CONVERSATION
When you are going to say something about some affair to someone, if your regard for him finds a way into him in such a way that your thought uplifts him so that he becomes curious and eager, and then in hearing you, if he becomes content CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and satisfied and attracted to you as your words have considerably encouraged and delighted him, then only both you and he will enjoy this mutually and achieve your end; otherwise bafflement is natural ! 272
IN HIGH POSITION
If you want to remain secure in greatness or in high position, you must make people great, put them in high position, however ungrateful to you they may be for this; but know surely this ingratitude of theirs will again establish you in high position; be a bit alert, move on, don't worry ! 273
KINDNESS TO DISTORTION
To be kind to distortion thickens the distortion ! 274
INGRATITUDE
In as many ways as you can, however you can, do not forget at all to make adjustments to effect the well-being of the one due to whom you have become prosperous, nourished and uplifted in life and glory, no matter how little it is that you have got of these things; and to forget this, or not to do it, or to do the contrary is called ingratitude; almost always when a sin comes to bring about a person's destruction, it does not come alone, without inviting this one to come along with it; beware of this in all respects; there is hardly any other sin so terrible as this one to jeopardize and baffle your life in ruination ! 275 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

HIDDEN INGRATITUDE
When one neglects the benefactor and follows him through whom the benefactor has done good to him, he is exposed to the taunts of heaven and embraces dense darkness ! 276
CALAMITY OF VANITY
One whose self-esteem is easily broken, who can find faults just by thinking, who is satisfied by digging out, thinking about, discovering, bringing out from the environment corroboration of injustice as seen by him or greater injustice, who in his own time of trouble wants help from people, yet considers it a sad fate to be humble and grateful, who in others' time of trouble is weak and incapable and satisfied with slander and lack of sympathy, whose compassion is like ridicule since he is so expert at alienating people and thus at being destroyed in distress and calamity, can anyone be a greater hero at it than he ? 277
THE ADAMANTINE* BAR TO ABUNDANCE WASTING SOMETHING ENTRUSTED

If anyone, depending on you and trusting you, has entrusted you with any work, or for its accomplishment has given money or capacity, and you, for your own interest, or any other reason, waste it, then know for sure you have closed the adamantine door to the path of future abundance, because the propensity which wounded your reliability and caused the squandering, will make abundance for you a matter of nonsense, know it for sure; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

again and again I sayhave care even now! *Adamantine: Too hard to cut, break or pierce. 278
THE FOG OF SLANDER

What will the lamp of wisdom do in the fog of slander? Fire the blank gunshots of ignoring it ! 279
UNCALLED-FOR INTEREST
When someone is engaged with another in conversation, to go there without being called, or to become very interested, or to eavesdrop, and thus to pursue that talk, and to accept downfall by causing wrong and injury are one and the same thing ! 280
CONTROLLING CONSPIRACY
If you find out that a conspiracy against you is going on, whatever the reason for it may be, think it out and ascertain who has become displeased and angry with you, why it happened and how; at once go to him and make him calm, pleased and satisfied, and along with that, think further, with calculation, of someone powerful who loves him and has the capacity to help him (whose oppressiveness may be painful or overpowering to you) he may or may not be connected with the affair who will go to him and make him attracted to you, enthusiastic about you, pleased and satisfied with you, so that he helps you in every way, or at least does not nurture any adverse feeling and does not remain unsatisfied with you in a word, so that he becomes harmless to you; you will find that conspiracy, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

of whatever form, will not be able to do anything to you !
281
PURE DESIRE AND CORRUPT DESIRE

If desire (kama) is not corrupted, its goodness that is, its propitiousness to life and growth and its beauty that is, its adorability, cannot be vilified without cause or for an indirect cause; wherever it is found, yet there is crooked sympathy in affairs relating to women, understand surely it is often the foul stench of corrupted desire ! 282
THE WAY TO HELL

One thing suffices for a person's ill-fate and hell; that is ingratitude to the Ideal ! 283
THE WAY TO UPLIFTMENT

A life that is whole-heartedly given to the Ideal, however low or mean it may be, will not be deprived of the light of upliftment; this is decidedly certain ! 284
IMAGINARY INDEPENDENCE
The Ideal is fuel to his caprice, his guide are his passions; for such a one independence is only an incoherent imagination of his distorted ego ! 285
NATURAL INDEPENDENCE
He is unvacillating in his Ideal; his nature is to serve and to make another prosper; his words, behavior and activity make the environment sincerely regardful and humble; is there any doubt that independence is his helpmate ? 286 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

THE GENUINE LEADER

With sympathy and service, he gives special attention to a person's sorrow, distress, depression and so on anything which takes that person on the path of meanness or death, and lifting him up to delight and forbearance, he can take that person in the direction of progress, he is the genuine leader ! 287
THE KING
In his knowledge of the true Self (Atmajnan), he is inspired to serve in such a way that the life, progress and protection of individual and collective becomes unobstructed; his inspiration, being of this type, actually makes life go on with becoming and progress for one and all, nature itself gives him a place at the apex and declares him to be the king ! 288 ROYAL ATTENDANTS And those who have been given a high place through their service, sympathy and readiness in activity within the society, normally have humble regard for such a man (the king), are attracted to him, and support him with adoration (upward regard); for they only can understand well how and on which path a human being can be rescued from anxiety and become indomitable in progress; so they are the attendants of the true king, provided by nature ! 289
POLITICS
Political rule is the rule which can take a person's existence and becoming in the direction of gradual development by regulating people, individually and collectively, in health, education and character; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and where this is decayed, complicated and besmirched, corruption and revolt are inevitable ! 290
DANGERA KING WITHOUT REGARD

When the king is without regard, respect and love for those in high positions, despite being aware of their efficiency in work, serviceableness and the like, it is very sure that danger is the ruler of individual and collective ! 291
DOWNFALL OF A KING WITHOUT AN IDEAL

When the king has no Ideal, when the environment can mould him in its various moulds, then he deserves to be deprived of his inheritance; when one has no Ideal, weakness is his associate, and where there is weakness, downfall or death is the attendant; and where this has taken place, the degradation of his hereditary line has become manifest ! 292
THE COUNTRY
Those who have attained to high position by service to society are protectors of society; when the people, inhabiting a particular place, depend on one of these protectors and go on following his advice, that place can be called a country. 293
THE TRUE EMPEROR AND THE STATE

And this protector of society is the king of that country; and this protector's Ideal, that is, the one whom this protector follows, who is girdled and supported by many such followers, is the true emperor; and the country or kingdom which is governed in this way is called the state ! 294 CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

HELL AS HOMELAND
If one has no Ideal, and is humiliated at a command, his homeland is hell ! 295
THE SHAPING OF AN ASSOCIATION

If someone becomes whole-heartedly sincere in the purpose of fulfilling some Ideal, those from his environment, who become elated and elevated through the impartation of his sincerity and thoroughly follow him or move along with him in order to assist him, may be called fit helpers; and one normal characteristic of their conduct should be that just as they remain steady in their Ideal, likewise they are unobstructed in their movement; and that unobstructed movement, as far as possible, does not create conflict with anyone, but rather draws support from others and thus makes them elated and elevated; and in their movement or doing they should spontaneously be of such a nature that adversities cannot arise in the path on which they move, and if they do arise, they are adjusted and, if possible, become favorable and further accelerate the forward motion; and this kind of character, spreading into the inspirer's helpers and adjutants, forms such a normal compact body that its go, activity, behavior and service create a unique position, freely bear the crown of success, and thus can come into touch with limitless upliftment ! 296
THE ADJUTANT COMMITTEE

They become charmed, elated, active and sympathetic in all the affairs of those who are working to build the association, and moreover, even though they are engaged in personal affairs, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

they are willing to help those workers in all respects and encourage them with money, ability and advice; however many kinds of obstructions and dangers there may be that arise on the path of those workers' movement, they cannot help but efficiently prevent or remedy them, as they are auto-initiatively dedicated to doing so; those who are like this form the genuinely inspired adjutant committee. 297
COMMITTEE AND WORKERS

For the purpose of fulfilling the Ideal, if at some place a number of people come together and want to establish some organization or have done so, they should actively engage some person or persons among themselves who is or are sincerely whole-time active, conferring the whole responsibility for fulfilling the Ideal's principle upon him or them; and those who agree in that affair and are sincerely willing should help him or them in all respects, so that they may go on working freely, and noticing all the obstructions and difficulties which have arisen or may arise among them, should quickly remove them, and should make him or them well-equipped by giving money, ability, consultation and suggestion, and so on; those who are ready in this way to supply all-around help to those who are actively engaged may be called adjutants that is, the committee; I don't understand what else is meant by committee other than this adjutant committee ! 298
WORKERS AND ADJUTANTS TO FOLLOW THE IDEAL

And he or they who are actively engaged in an organization should always follow the Ideal and his principles in all respects; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

and even though their adjutants should also be like that, the difference is that these adjutants are also engaged in their personal affairs ! 299
CONFUSION OR DISUNITY
If among the committee or the actively engaged persons any confusion or disunity comes about, then put it right, gauging it by the yardstick of the Ideal's principle, and if that doesn't work, settle it in personal consultation with the Ideal; but one should be particularly on guard that as a result of this disunion malice, anger, repulsion or wounded ego do not occur at all; and where these do arise, it indicates that someone wants to establish his ego in place of, or along with, the Ideal; hence it is faulty service ! 300
AT THE IDEAL'S DEMISE

After the demise of the Ideal in case there is this kind of confusion or disunity, if there is anyone whose sole interest is that Ideal, and who all along was actively engaged in him, and still is so, move on by consulting him, or if such a one is not available, by depending on the opinion of the majority of the committee ! 301
SUCCESS IN FORMATION OF AN ORGANIZATION

As I think, many organizations may grow up without clashing and with little trouble if our modes of conduct be of a normal manner and motive; the adjutants or the adjutant committee should pay particular attention that those who are actively engaged be well-managed without being restricted at all when they are moving toward expansion; in case of the reverse, CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

they should be restricted, and thus elated and elevated, and as far as possible not weighted down in a daze of danger ! 302
WORSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATION

And every worker and adjutant committee, desirous of forming an organization, should maintain particular attention that all the materials, goods and wealth born of their activity become meaningful by being applied for the Ideal to whose fulfillment they are whole-heartedly dedicated; and the harassment, suffering, pain, punishment and opposition, which must be surmounted in forming an organization, all become like their individual and collective assets; and this is worship in its real form, and this is called renunciation of the fruits of action; and through this alone real centralization both in matter and spirit can come about, because if someone becomes one's interest nature will make one that someone's interest, and thisto a certain extentinseparably ! 303
UTSAV (FESTIVAL)
Called to this endeavor, people with overflowing delight become prosperous in knowledge and can adjust themselves for life, growth and expansion; such a beneficial gathering is called an Utsav. 304
THE RULE DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION

Whatever makes humans unobstructed in progress, and lets the lowly move on in the path of progress, and as far as possible, without creating tussles with others, makes life, expansion and growth CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

overflowing, that is a rule; so a rule is no one's monopoly there can be many variations in it on account of place, time, situation and person; but its goal should be the Ideal and well-being, this is certain; considering with sympathy and compassion, so that by which the person concerned becomes exuberant in progress, and arrange things accordingly for him, you will become the master of virtue ! 305
PRINCIPLES COMPEL NO ONE

Beneficial principles or rules do not compel anyone to follow them; but if one who wants well-being, follows them, well-being will doubtlessly delight him ! 306
THE SEERS WERE NOT FOR BRITTLE ORTHODOXY

It makes no sense at all to think that the seers of ancient India were in favor of blind or unjust orthodoxy; when life and becoming, along with the Ideal and culture, were threatened with disaster by certain activities, and to recover them was considered hard or impossible, it was only activities of that sort which were taken as cause for loss of position in a varna, so that they prescribed rules in that form; the varna was not considered lost by affairs of ordinary food and drink; if there was no personal hindrance, someone higher, being welcomed heartily with oblations and with satisfaction, used to accept food and drink served by someone less high with purity and good-will; this is seen to be the principle ]of the scripture; moreover if shudras CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

in the service of a twice-born family are maintained there for a long time the scriptures support the acceptance of their oblations inspired by purity and goodwill and food and drink served with glowing cordiality, which in the seers' principles and sayings can be clearly seen; so I think it cannot even be dreamed that there existed or exists a race perturbed with fear because of brittle orthodoxy, or because one's position in a varna could be easily blown away, or one's upholding religion could be lost, a race drenched in meanness, weak, and ridden with so many taboos; know for sure if nothing happens that brings harm to your Ideal, culture, life, procreation or growth, or that destroys and devastates these things even in times of great difficulty for the sake of existence, if a little deterioration takes place then the race remains intact, brilliant like the immovable sun; the scriptures declare it with unwavering indications ! 307
REPENTANCE
If you have hurt anyone in any way, taking your sympathy as your support, putting yourself in his position, feeling his pain with compassion, burning with sorrow, be repentant; and adjust yourself in such a way that you stay away for good from whatever may pain another again in this same way; you will find that divinity anoints you with adoration ! 308

KINDNESS
The weak, distressed, shelter less, afflicted depressed in dejection in whose hearts the pangs of being extinguished are a roaring blaze, speaking to you with a sorrowful voice, looking toward you with lusterless eyes, with eagerness to live and grow and breathe in expansion, are begging your kindness; if your kindness does not take the hand of such a one and rescue him from that condition, if it does not make him feel expansive by caring for him, then who is to say whether you are alive or not? So I say, destroying his danger out of the urge of kindness, even at the risk of your life, do not lag behind in caring for him, that he might know expansiveness; the grace of heaven with songs of well-being will make you blessed ! 309
FORGIVENESS
If you want to be strong-minded then forgive that is, forbear and watch out to hold up the one whom you are forgiving from the fault that has distressed him, and do so in such a way that he may easily be rescued, gaining hope, encouragement, and enthusiasm by taking shelter with you; and if that is not done, then know surely your forgiveness is merely weak, meaningless and adulterous; CHALAAR SAATHI (Companion on the Way), (as translated by Kerry Brace) E & O.E., Compiled by S.P. Chakraborty (Barun)

so I say, forgive the sinner, but not the sin; do forgive, but don't send the sinner to hell by forgiving the fault ! 310
SPIRITEDNESS AND ANGER

Continuous heart-thrilling hungry urge is called spiritedness, and this spiritedness alone invites diligence and thus makes a person radiant in the environment with success in activity; and anger, by burning diligence into ashes and inviting sorrow, benumbs people in depression; so do not endanger yourself by inviting anger under the delusion that it is spiritedness ! 311
THE FUTILITY OF SELF-CENTERED INTEREST

Where interest takes itself as its aim, yet is indifferent and unsympathetic to the life and becoming of the one from whom its interest can be achieved, or doesn't even look at him, can there be any mistaking that it is the prompt inviter of futility and death? And this is so for the collective as it is for the individual. If you want life, if you want becoming, if you want prosperity, then without aiming at self-interest, be effectively active in the interest of others or of the environment without any expectation; you will find that you are freed from the strife of not getting and established in all kinds of getting surely ! 312

SHAMELESS CHEATS
There are many shameless, lying cheats of the kind that for their narrow interest, for self-aggrandizement, or out of self-importance, will speak unreasonable slander, calumny, and obvious lies about you in their unflinching determination to gratify themselves with the base things that entice them; do not cast even a glance at them; keeping your path of movement straight, stay alert about the environment that surrounds you, and wait a little, you will find that your shameless cheat will fly away like ashes! 313
SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
When you take responsibility for anything or anyone, do not spoil it by negligence, failing to accomplish it properly; this is an efficient and easy means to make life eunuch*-like; the negligence which spoils the responsibility by not carrying it out will become alive in your character, depress your whole life in vast unsuccess, and keep your enthusiasm prostrated in paralysis; be very careful! 314 *Eunuch: castrated male
THE LACK OF GENUINE LOVE

You feel whole-heartedly that you cannot do without him; without him all your passions remain unsatisfied, yet remorse for not having become like him tauntingly tells you, he is nothing to your genuine pull of love or desire except a means to achieving self-interest; search your mind through and through and even now do what is proper ! 315

MEANINGFULNESS THROUGH FOLLOWING THE IDEAL

Whatever you are, whatever your nature is, however stained your movements, conduct, and behavior, be whole-heartedly sincere toward your Ideal so that in no way can any form of injury touch him, and become indomitable in establishing him in your world and environment; you will find whatever sin there is, whatever rubbish there is, it will gradually fall away; you will become radiant, and your glow will make everyone glow; you will hear the inner consciousness of everyone saying as they look to you.
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CONTINUITY BRINGS SUCCESS

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SERVICE ACHIEVES RENOWN

WISDOM THROUGH LOVE

PAIN AT OTHERS FORTUNE

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WILLINGNESS TO WORK THROUGH LOVE

OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST

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EMPTYING-OUT THE FAULT

GAINING ATTAINMENT (SIDDHI)

THE ROYAL SIGN OF SUCCESS

EFFICIENCY AND DEXTERITY IN LOVE

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THE TOUCHSTONE OF PURE DESIRE

*foppishcapricious, whimsical. VISION COLORED BY CONCEPTION

VICTORY THROUGH FULFILLING NEEDS

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THE WAY TO PERFECTION

INSPIRATION FOR EFFICIENT WORK

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it makes everyone elated, if anything is to be called happiness, it is this! 28

POVERTY THROUGH IDLENESS

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SPOILING WORK THROUGH PROCRASTINATION

DISTRESS THROUGH ANGER

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CONQUERING THE PASSIONS

SAVINGS AND SERVICE

ATTENDANCE WITHOUT SERVICE

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ADJUSTMENT OF DEVILISH EGO

DEMAND OF THE UNSERVICEABLE

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

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will invite immortality with the enkindling of perception and wisdom! 44

CONSCIOUSNESS AND DHARMA THROUGH IMPACT

THE IDEAL AND DEVOTION TO HIM

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WHAT LOVE WANTS

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WHAT LUST WANTS

SUBDOING LUST THROUGH LOVE

IMPARTATION OF THE BELOVED

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LOVE IN CONTRARY CONFLICTS

MENTAL POVERTY THROUGH APATHY TO JAAJAN

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DEVELOPMENT THROUGH JAAJAN

ENJOYING THE BELOVED THROUGH JAAJAN

SHELTER AND ATTACHMENT IN DEPENDENCE