Freeing Oneself from Responsibility for Oneself by Reliance on the Divine

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There was a young man who
happened to be living at the

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same place during the 1970s who
got into his head the idea that

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the divine was watching out for
him so he could not come to any

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harm.
He walked out into traffic on a

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busy road and with cars honking
and braking, he survived without

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a scratch.
Was this a sign that indeed he

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needed not to worry about
himself, that the Divine was

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looking out for him?
There's the famous story told by

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Sri Ramakrishna of the disciple
who was given the idea of Thou

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art God along with every other
being.

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He took this seriously and went
about his business, walking

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through the town in deep
contemplation of this profound

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teaching.
When an out of control elephant

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came charging down the road at
high speed.

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The driver of the elephant
yelled for the youth to get out

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of the way.
The disciple, however, felt that

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since both he and the elephant
were God, nothing bad could come

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of it.
He was dashed to the ground by

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the furious elephant and left
unconscious.

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His guru came and revived him.
When he awakened, his guru asked

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why he had not gotten out of the
way.

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The disciple replied that
relying on the guru's inspired

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teaching, he felt that he was
safe in the presence of God, who

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was immanent in both himself and
the elephant.

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The guru asked, but why did you
not heed the inspired words of

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the elephant driver, who also is
God?

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Clearly, the question of turning
over responsibility of all one's

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actions and life to the Divine
and not worrying about the

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individual being and its needs
is a subtle teaching which

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cannot be applied with an
immature understanding.

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If one can truly enter into a
state of consciousness where the

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Divine is managing everything,
that is a wonderful outcome.

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As the Mother concludes below.
The cells of the body need to be

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infused with wisdom and common
sense.

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That implies that the state of
consciousness needed is not one

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of heedlessness, as we saw in
the two cases recited above, but

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a state where even the body has
to be able to rise to a new

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level of conscious awareness,
the mother notes quote.

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It is an inexpressible joy not
to have any responsibility for

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oneself, no longer to think of
oneself.

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It is so dull, in monotonous and
insipid to be thinking of

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oneself, to be worrying about
what to do and what not to do,

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what will be good for you and
what will be bad for you, what

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to shun and what to pursue.
Oh, how wearisome it is.

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But when one lives like this,
quite open, like a flower

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blossoming in the sun, before
the Supreme Consciousness, the

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Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme
Light, the supreme Love, which

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knows all, which can do all,
which takes charge of you, and

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you have no more worries, that
is the ideal condition.

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And why is it not done?
1 does not think of it, one

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forgets to do it.
The old habits come back, and

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above all, behind, hidden
somewhere in the inconscient or

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even in the subconscient, there
is this insidious doubt that

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whispers in your ear.
Oh, if you are not careful, some

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misfortune will happen to you.
If you forget to watch over

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yourself, you do not know what
they may happen.

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And you are so silly, so silly,
so obscure, so stupid, that you

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listen and you begin to pay
attention to yourself and

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everything is ruined.
You have to begin all over again

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to infuse into yourselves a
little wisdom, a little common

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sense, and learn once more not
to worry.

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End Quote.
Reference Srioro Bindu and the

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Mother, Looking from Within,
Chapter 4, Ordeals and

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Difficulties, pages 100 to One O
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