Jai Sai Ram.
Discipline your life and try to remember that it is God who rules the universe and not you. The egoism in you always tells you that you can influence the world but you can’t. Be humble and
understand that you are zeroes without God. Without
the Divine Grace, you are zeroes. Learn to be humble
and pray to Him. First for purity of mind and body and
to do your duty to the perfection that He expects from
you. See how much He helped the Pandavas. But they
were very receptive. Remember that – receptivity is
expected from you. Otherwise, He cant do anything. So,
from today onwards, you start a new life. There should
be a change coming over your mind and it should take
you onwards. If you do not make progress, you will find
that the floods of difficulties, sorrows, and all sorts of
things in this world overwhelm you. Why should you do
it when you can stay out of it and not get wet by that
flood? Let the floods go past you; if you are in God’s
care you don’t get wet. You are getting wet because you
have no sense of the divinity of God that can help – the
power of God that can help you out and the humility is
expected from you. You are so overwhelmed with your
ego; your selfishness. So, there can be no help from God
because, your ego is so strong. He told even the
Pandavas, when the war was on – they were arguing
among themselves and planning what to do. Then He
was talking and they didn’t listen – it is not that they
didn’t want to listen – they were over excited. He said,
“Then, you decide among yourselves. I am going to
Dwaraka”. You understand that if you don’t accept
God’s help, He might leave you; He is not going to give
explanations. You go to a doctor and ask so many
questions about the treatment that he is giving you, he
will say, “ Go and see somebody else”. Nobody is going
to give explanations to you at every time. And can you
expect it from Almighty God? You got to have complete
obedience. There was a story of how Krishna at the end
of Mahabharatha war at Kurukshetra – Krishna was on
the chariot and Arjuna was there and He told Arjuna to
jump down. The chariot was a heavenly chariot given
by Indra. It was not an ordinary human-built chariot; it
was a heavenly chariot given by Indra for them. So, He
told Arjuna, “You jump down”. But Arjuna said, “No,
You jump down first”. He said, “Krishna, you get down
first”. Krishna at once thundered, “You get down at
once”. Then immediately Arjuna got frightened and he
jumped down. Then Krishna followed him and the whole
chariot went up in flames – into ashes. See, why you
should not ask God for explanations. You should have
complete, unshakeable trust and faith in Him. If that is
there, you will find that it works so easily for you. But
unless you try and get that experience, you have no right
to comment on it. Any medicine, whatever it is, if you
tried it you know, whether it works or not. But if you don’t
take it, then you don’t have the right to speak about it.
This is all that is necessary from you. A clean good life
lived in the spirit of surrender to God –
“Yatho Dharmas Thatha Krishna ,
Yatho Krishnas Thatho Jaya”
So wherever there is Krishna, there is Jaya (victory). If
you lead a clean good life, you will find Krishna is on
your side. It is actually the surrender, of - “Ananyas Chinthayanthomam” – He says. That is, you should put absolute faith in Him and Him alone. Not in anything or anybody else. If there is a
small lack of faith in that, this law will not work. You
can be sure about it. You must have the qualifications to
invoke the greatest and highest law - the law of surrender
to Him. You must have the qualification; even if you want
to do something in the world today, if you want to get a
job, they ask you for your qualifications. Is it only here,
that you don’t require any qualifications? This is the
highest of all. A person who has reached that level can
do anything; just anything. There is nothing that he can’t
do after that, because his ego gets merged with God;
and there remains only God. There is no ego. He works
as His instrument. So, to qualify yourself for this, start
at once without wasting time. You can’t come hundred
times to be born in this world– you can’t have hundred
births – can you? So, you leave everything else to God
and do your duty to perfection. That is what is expected
from you. To do that, you must get calmness, which you
can get from Japa, Dhyanam and Parayanam. Once
you get to that level, you don’t have to do Japa or
anything; once you close your eyes to the temptations of
the world you can talk with Him. But, you must come to
that stage, isn’t it? From kindergarten you have to go to
the High School – from there you can go to college, isn’t
it? You can’t go to college straightaway –that is not
possible. You can climb only one step at a time. You must
have the patience, trust, belief and faith in God and
surrender to Him totally - Absolute Saranagathi.
Aum Sai Ram !
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-Anju