True
Devotion
A
true devotee would never get disillusioned at any point of time, nor get bored,
tired or vexed listening to the same teachings. You may perhaps be reading and
hearing the same message over and over again! How do you rationalize this?
Don’t
you take food repeatedly for the same stomach, several times during your
lifetime? Don’t you wash the same face many times in a week? That music, which
you consider as pleasurable, don’t you listen to it, many times frequently?
Consider an even simpler example: you drink coffee or tea – have you ever got
bored of it, despite consuming it for 15 or 20 years? You perhaps wait for that
cup with excitement and enthusiasm, and will even get a headache if it is
delayed by a couple of minutes!
Similarly,
it is essential to listen to such spiritual instructions, ruminate and
experience the joy of devotion without the slightest feeling of
disinterestedness.
Subdue
your Senses
You
hear some good news and a little later, you hear some sad news. Sometime after
that you hear harsh and abusive words. Your ears heard all words of praise and
blame alike. But when happy news was told, your heart felt elated, and it
shrunk when sad news was heard. The same heart got enraged when the ears heard
harsh words and was filled with joy when it heard words of praise! The ears by
themselves are incapable of any reaction; they merely transmit the message.
Thus
the senses by themselves are not conscious, they are inconscient . Then how can
the operations of these senses and the experiences resulting from them are
deemed as Truth or Reality? Understand clearly that as the senses are
unreliable, the reactions produced by them are also equally unreliable. If you
enquire along these lines, you will develop discrimination and can easily
overcome sorrow.
Our
Goal…
The
fruit of love is present in each and every person’s life. To experience the
fruit you need to remove the outer skin. Once you peel the skin of the fruit,
also remove the bitter seeds within it. Then you can extract the sweet juice,
partake it and discard the pulp. Understand that God has given you this body
only to relish the sweetness of Love.
Peel
away the skin of ego and pride. Remove all the seeds of evil intentions,
thoughts and deeds. Discard the pulp of possession and attachment. Then what
remains is the sweet juice of love.
All
of you are farmers. You must engage in spiritual practices to cultivate your
heart. Is there any use for an uncultivated land? Without wasting your life and
keeping the land barren, focus on cultivating your heart to enjoy the sweetness
of the Divine.
Aspire
to be…
A
young woman today aspires to be a good wife but not an exemplary mother. A
student today does not aspire to be an exemplary father, but an attractive
husband. Adding to this woe, parents today encourage such education which
promotes these aspirations.
Youngsters
also forget their responsibilities to be discharged as exemplary parents. A
typical father in today’s society does not want his son, above all, to be a man
of virtue. He wants him to be a man of great education. Those parents alone,
who aspire for transforming their children to be men and women of virtue, are
worthy. Worldly education alone should not be the goal of life. Virtues are the
true backbone of life. Education must be for life, not merely for a living. To
accomplish this, spiritual thoughts and a spiritual path is highly essential.
The
Divine Principle
When
you offer salutations to someone, understand that you are saluting your own
self. That ‘someone’ is none other than your own reflection. See others just as
you see your own reflection in the mirror. When you are surrounded by many
mirrors, you see a number of reflections. Reflections are many but the person
is one.
Reactions,
reflections, and resounds are many but the reality is one. Names and forms may
be different, but all beings are part and parcel of the same Divine Principle.
Divinity is the underlying principle in the apparent multiplicity of this
world. When I am speaking here, My voice is heard through each and every
loudspeaker in this hall. In the same manner there exists the principle of
unity in our hearts which we have to recognise.
