We do not need God to forgive us.
We need to forgive ourselves first
and make a resolution that, “Henceforth, I will
tread on the path of righteousness.”
Ask yourself, “What is so unfulfilling today in my life?
What is the gap? What is that lack in my life and how can I fulfill that?”
And all the time, you will come to know
very little of material lack, but humongous deficit at a spiritual level.
At the most, what can you say? “I do not have a car,
or I do not have a driver,” or a woman might say,“ I do not have enough maids to help me in the house”
But these are all small, small things.
When we look at the larger picture in our life, what is truly lacking in almost everyone,
is the spiritual component.
And this spiritual component has nothing to do with religion.
The moment you bring religion into spiritual life, it will destroy the spiritual life.
For example, if a Christian says,
“My spirituality is better than Jewish tradition, or Islamic tradition, or Hindu tradition”then
that is spoiling the spirituality. Spirituality is all about the inner spirit.
It has nothing to do with the outer or inner dogmas. Religion always divides us.
Always
No religion has ever dared to unite people.
It is spirituality which sees the oneness in all.
It sees not only oneness amongst all human beings, but spirituality sees oneness in all
animate and inanimate objects
Religion teaches us to worship.
Spirituality teaches us to love one and al
Worshipping via religion, is only one-thing
the God that fears them or the God that tempts them. That is all.
And more and more people worship all compassionate and merciful God. Why?
Because, we have committed so many sins
We have terrorized so many people that you need a God
God who would forgive you, who would be more merciful and more compassionate
In fact I would be bold to say, “God, I do not need your compassion or mercy, because I have done nothing wrong
I have only loved in my life.” You can stand with pride, challenging God also, “Send me to hell, if you can.”
Of course, there is nothing like hell in the whole Universe.
But with such an attitude of courage, where you can even challenge God. because you are so pure
And this courage can come only when we have experience. When we talk from here
nothing will happen. When we talk from the heart with conviction that, “Yes, I have felt it”
when you do something wrong, even God cannot forgive you
when you have done something right, God cannot also overlook your righteousness.
So it is all beautiful things. Following a spiritual path
is all-encompassing. When we close our eyes,
whether you are in a state of confusion, or in a state of love, it will only take us further.
In confusion, when we meditate, it will guide us towards the right solution in life
When we are in love and we meditate, it will only intensify it further
So meditation, Yoga, it is all for taking our actions to a next level.
It improves our productivity. Yoga improves productivity
because Yogah karmasu kaushalam Anything that we do
it becomes masterful. And focus your attention towards the heart. That is all.
You need not even think of God. Just focus your attention towards the heart.
If you think of God, wonderful
But then you will be swayed away into imagination.
You will think of God as per your own dogmas and belief system, your conditioning, which is always wrong
If I ask you, “How will you think of Lord Krishna?”,
can you imagine Lord Krishna in your mind, so that you can think about Him in your heart?
You will definitely fail,
because the image of Krishna will come, as per the movies we have seen and the photos we have seen
And you will not be able to separate Radha from Him,
because it is so ingrained in your head that Krishna means Radha, always.
Nothing wrong with that, but If you can think of the originality of both,
Radha in Krishna. Not beautiful, but it has to be original, not imagination.
That is why this meditation has to be without conditioning.
If you think of Lord Shiva, for example, how will you imagine Lord Shiva, or think of Lord Siva?
You will fail again.
And when we see all those photographs and movies
on Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna and Lord Rama and all that, everywhere we have seen them meditating
But none of us seem to ask a question, “Why are they meditating? If they are Gods,
why do they meditate? What is the purpose of meditation?
Why do they need to meditate? And if they are meditating,
upon whom are they meditating? What are they still searching for?
Are they weak that they have to meditate?”
As per the common understanding,only weak people meditate; it is so wrong.
If that argument is to be taken,
then the weakest persons should be Lord Krishna and Lord Rama and Lord Shiva because they are all meditating.
Logically speaking, whosoever meditates is a weak person, no?
No, only strong people have the courage to look in themselves.
Weak people cannot look into themselves, because they have done so many things wrong in their lives
The moment they close their eyes, they will be faced,
they will be facing their own self,
“Oh, I did this wrong, I did that wrong,” and that is why, people do not meditate.
They are engulfed with guilt. They are engulfed with recall
of many memories of wrong doings and wrong pursuits.
So one has to be strong, strong and loving to face oneself.
Nothing wrong, you have done something wrong, fine. But that was in the past.
I can always make a resolution that, “Never again.” That is all, that is all that is needed
We do not need God to forgive us.
We need to forgive ourselves first
and make a resolution that, “Henceforth, I will
tread on the path of righteousness.”