You have to become divine yourself
and it doesn't take long.
It really does not take long.
A few months of heartfelt meditation will transform every cell of your body.
Once I was with Babuji
and I asked one question, “Babuji, how to progress faster?”
He replied with two words, ‘Constant Remembrance’.
“How to do constant remembrance?” He smiled and answered,
“Connect yourself”.
Then the next question to Babuji, “How to?”
Then he said, ”Each time you begin your new work, connect yourself.“
So that's what I have been doing all my life. Even now, I sit, I connect with Him.
I talk, I connect with Him. I get up and go, I connect with Him.
It doesn't have to be mental busyness with connection.
It becomes automatic actually, it becomes effortless after some time.
But in the beginning you will have to try a lot.
I often give this example of a child learning how to use a bicycle
So, what do parents do? They get a four wheeler cycle.
Children get a four wheeler cycle first.
There are two big wheels and on the side supporting wheels so that the child will not fall down
Afterwards what happens?
Parents would remove these supporting wheels and they would be cycling on two wheels.
Then you will hold the child and carry the child upto a block or so and
then the child will get angry at you, “Dad, leave me alone.”
Independence starts very early, you know.
And then you leave him alone and he falls, “Dad it's all your fault, you let me down.”
But, anyway, this is how we learn
Many times we fell, bruised our knees, and learnt how to bicycle - simple things like that
A time comes when you need no help, you are on your bike going to school,
going with your friends on a bike,
singing songs, and sometimes you will let loose your hands and the cycle is going on its own
You see how we have moved from so much effort
and then it became effortless.
Spirituality, I think, also requires
a lot of effort in the beginning. But once it becomes your nature,
then everything will be automatic. It becomes your reflex action, as they say.
While eating, you won’t have to make a sankalpa that I am eating in the remembrance of God.
No, it will simply happen. One has to make that act, a Divine act. You cannot fabricate it, as I said.
You have to become divine yourself
and it doesn't take long.
It really does not take long.
A few months of heartfelt meditation will transform every cell of your body.
and that's what we need.