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Here
is the text of Pujya Gurudev's talk that he gave to the Mission
members on the eve of his First Global Tour in 1965.
"Now that I am going abroad people there will ask me
why are you trying to improve others when you yourselves are
so bad at home? At that time I must have an answer to give
and that answer of mine is the Chinmaya Mission. I can say,
who said we have not started? I am working for the last twelve
years, I have started the organisation, and now it is a question
of a few years before the results from it can be seen. Just
as in a seed there is the possibility of a tree - it has just
started; wait for a few years and you will find a huge tree
coming out. That tree is the Chinmaya Mission.
On
the other hand, if the Mission members themselves say immediately
I go, "Now that Swamiji is gone, let us stop the study
classes." All work stopped, and fights between the secretaries,
group leaders and members also split into rightists and leftists,
if that comes that will be a very bad thing indeed. You regularly
attend the classes and do your sadhana, and that will be your
help to me there. I am going only depending upon and ensuring
thus on your strength. When I am gone you continue with your
study, meditation, japa and sadhana. You must regularly meet
and be in touch with one another and ensure mutual relationships.
As a team, work! Thus, you help me. Be regular in your Sadhana.
In
every walk of life, wherever you be, 24 hours you are a Mission
member, not only on Sunday afternoons. As members, your work
is not by mouth but by your every action, 24 hours.
MORALITY
is never taught, MORALITY is CAUGHT. Moral instructions you
cannot give to anybody. Ears are not as powerful as the eyes.
We easily imitate what we see and not what we hear. Exhibit
the Geeta in your actions. Membership of the Chinmaya Mission
is not available for all. Every member must be an active,
dynamic living member. If one Mahatma Gandhi is good, all
Congress is good - when he went away all are bad now. Now
that I am temporarily going abroad, people will evaluate the
Chinmaya Mission by your actions. Beware of your actions !
Actions will be good only when the thoughts are good, so keep
the thoughts good. Beware, beware all."
Then
looking at the members from other centres, he said: "All
those from Ernakulam and Poona also. This is not only to Bombay.
Don't say it was said only to Central Chinmaya Mission Trust.
It is for everyone."
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