We are all under a barrage of information from others that can appear to be from credible sources of expertise, and we can choose how we receive it: as simple information or whether it defines reality and who I am. For instance, being involved with the health care system I have been told many things—quite often what I am told by one is different from what another “expert” has said before.
I remember just such a moment in Mother Hamilton’s life, a night she verged on leaving the body. The doctor told the family that he did not expect Mother to make it through the night. Mother’s son Gari, said powerfully, “You don’t know my mother!” and indeed it was true, Mother not only continued through the night, but for years after—the doctor had delivered information based on his experience and training, it was not a definition of who Mother was.
Sri Yukteswarji, when speaking of astrology, gave this wise counsel to Master (A/Y page 105):
“The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate—the result of past good and evil—but to arouse man’s will to escape from his universal thralldom. What he has done, he can undo. None other than himself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in his life. He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by his own actions in the first place, and because he has spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure.
“Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automaton, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets—which is to say, his past—by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever-free; it is deathless because birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars.
“Man is a soul, and has a body. When he properly places his sense of identity, God is harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss. His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.”
Replace here astrological law with any natural, or man-made law, rule or principle with the superiority of Spirit. Let man-made limitations arouse your innate spiritual dynamics, a challenge to God to rise up in pre-eminence—a superior Creator to His creation.
I have been watching a series in which they describe the great inventions and inventors of the 21st Century. Time after time these inventors of revolutionary ideas, that we take for granted today, were told that what they had thought was impossible to do. They took an idea and would no let go of it, sometimes for years and years they stuck with it in endless experimentation, then the doors opened and the answer came; the world was improved.
We have all come with a unique spark of God that cannot be replaced by another. It may be an invention, insight into Divinity/Truth, a simple service to another, raising your family, performing at work—it may seem mundane to you, but that is only the limits of your vision. Sacred forces are at work in your life, the more you consciously access that fact the greater God will reveal what you have come to express of His Light, Love and Intelligence.
The veil of Maya can lower like a curtain and make you believe there is only so much, and not more. In your response you let that limitation arouse in you unlimited Spirit. It is then you have set yourself a new course with open-ended potential. It is true you may find that you are immediately surrounded by those limitations. But, each limitation only arouses greater focus on God for more Light, Love and Intelligence and a determined will—to propel you to seek out and consciously connect with the Creator of all that we see, and much, much more; then you have taken the first steps to free yourself of the tyranny of man-made limits.
When Gari said, “You don’t know my mother!” He set off a revolution and touched on the Divinity in the form or our dear Mother whose Light continues to embellish the heavens and emblazons a trail to Spirit’s vast potential.