INNER DISCIPLINE Part 1

The purpose of writing this book is to give the reader an idea and an opportunity to understand the purpose of Life and also to work and progress within this life, whilst living a regular normal life. There are no mysteries attached and no claims made to new theory. Whatever man can write today on this subject has been written in some form, somewhere, by someone in the past. God – that most elusive word, the most exploited word that most misunderstood word, if God be, could He be such that He requires the most difficult and strange practices and spec conditions, in which He can be found by the very few, then He not the God of our age! An average person has a few questions uppermost in mind : 1. What is the purpose of Life and birth ? 2. Can the simple householder understand this or is it beyond his understanding and is best left to the few ? 3. Is free will given to man or is everything predestined, marked and drawn to the least detail for an eternity to come ? Life would indeed lose its charms and there will then be no hope for honest men who sincerely wish to do something worthwhile. 4. There is some Power behind Creation by whatever name we know, Is it possible to know and understand His Laws or have we to accept that as we are finite, we cannot fathom the Institute ? 5. Is there a golden middle road – neither one of extreme indulgence nor of absolute denial ? 6. Must the householder renounce such knowledge and progress or renounce everything else and become a Sanyasi ? From very early childhood these and such other question had oppressed me; “One passions note of interrogation, an unappeasable hunger for enlightenment, on the basic problems.”