Make it a commitment as somebody said when you are interested in something you
do it when you like, when you are committed to something you do it whether
you like or you don't like!
Maharaja says be aware that God and Guru are with you and watching you all the
time so this kind of carefulness
requires a great motivation and a great dedication. You need to have complete
lack of carelessness and complete application to the task. This will come
when you have a strong why a strong reason motivating you and the biggest
reason motivating us is that the human form is a golden chance for the
salvation of the soul. If we don't utilize it we will go back
"Aji sahab you are a human being in this life, what are you going to become in your
next life?" "See I am going to become a dhobi ka gadha." My God
after the human being you are becoming a dhobi ka gadha, you've gone that down?! Yes
I did not utilize the chance I had. So the opportunity is tremendous but the
time span is limited and that time is slipping out of our hands
You know like you lift up sand on the beach and you find it is slipping out
until nothing is left so also is human life. We think I've got so many years but
without realizing it, one by one the years go by. It was only a few years ago
that you passed out of college, it was only a few more years before that that
you entered school as a little child. How quickly the time has gone by, how quickly
2015 went by. Half of 2016 has also disappeared and it's never going to come
back! Did we make the best use of it? One moment that we wasted is one moment lost
forever. Chanakya pundit said "quoting Chanakya"
"quoting Chanakya"
he says what is the biggest loss in life? That moment which you don't utilize in
remembering Vasudev, Shri Krishna and why don't we utilize? Carelessness! We know
what we are supposed to do but we don't do it because of carelessness
So that carelessness makes us waste, squander the opportunity. You see when
the motivation is there the most challenging thing becomes easy and when
the motivation is not there the smallest difficulty seems like an
unassailable wall. So this motivation has to come in other words a deep hunger.
There is the story of the three fakirs who went to the Badshah's palace
so the Badshah he said alright we'll take care of you for the night
he asked the servants get them to stay in that residence. The servants escorted
the fakirs there and due to some miscalculation they gave one bowl of
halwa to them. So the three fakirs between themselves had one bowl of
halwa. They said now how to divide it? They decided that let's do one thing
let's all go to sleep now and the one who has the best dream he can eat the
halwa. So they all went off to sleep they woke up in the morning they discussed
what did you dream? The first one said that I dreamt that Allah came to me and
said that you are the next Paigambar after Muhammad I have chosen you. Wow and
they asked the second guy what did you dream he said I dreamt that Allah said I
am coming in your form, you shall be my face upon the earth. Wow! that's
unbeatable he asked the third guy what did you
dream he said I dreamt that Allah told me there's such wonderful tasty halwa
here why are you wasting your time why don't you eat it so I went and I ate the
halwa.
In the same way the opportunity is there the graces are there. You have the human
form this is the first grace, you have hunger for God that is the second grace
you have the guidance of a guru that is the third grace. Jagadguru
Shankaracharya has said "quoting Shankaracharya"
"quoting Shankaracharya" He says these are three special graces
of God. The first is the human form everybody here has got that grace the
second is the guidance of the saints that also we have got the third is
hunger hunger for the ultimate goal now you all have got it to a certain extent
that's why you have come here but that one grace needs to be enhanced in other
words the hunger has to be deepened the deeper the hunger the harder we shall
endeavor and the harder we endeavor the more careful we will be.