It will happen. You do not feel like meditating for half-an-hour, it is okay
Meditate for three minutes. Can you not? And then see what happens
First of all, you know I have been playing around with my granddaughter
I have a lot of free time with her these days. And I tell you, whenever she picks up a crayon
she does not like to draw it on a paper. She goes straight to the wall
And you can see how many walls she has painted so far, in my apartment
When each time I tell her, “Please do not do that,” she makes up a guilty face
and you know, she will take a crayon and quietly walk, look behind to see if I am watching her.
She will keep watching and she will go into a corner
and find a spot where I am not looking and then she will colour that wall.
I may not be able to watch every corner but God does,
your higher Self does, your higher Consciousness does watch you all the time.
But we are not aware, we are not cognizant enough that somebody is looking not to police us,
but one who is looking to take care of us
If we do the right thing, Grace will follow.
They will inspire us to do things in a better way. But if we falter,if we fail,
He is not going to come and say, “Let me help you.” No
He is going to help us only when we do the right thing.
And it will only intensify. Once we start doing the right thing, take the first right step
It will happen. You do not feel like meditating for half-an-hour, it is okay
Meditate for three minutes. Can you not? And then see what happens
Often I have observed, within my life itself, that I used to practise sometimes at 8 o’clock
sometimes at 5 o’clock, sometimes at 3 o’clock, all varying
But the day I realised that if I fix my timing, however difficult it may be
however short that meditation may be, even if it is for five minutes, I should stick to that time
And the day I changed everything and made my timing fixed 6:30 in the morning means 6:30 in the morning,
that is all. Of course there are days when because of your health, or this or that
it may vary, but that would be very rare. But you fix your time, 6:30 or whatever is convenient to you.
And just wait for three or four minutes, or five minutes, or ten minutes
master that timing and then adjust your time, time of extending the practice further
You see, one day I was in Montpellier, in France. I went there to visit our Medium
I was given a time to visit her, 10 o’clock
But somehow the message that I received was not correct. Some messenger gave me the timing of 10:30.
And why did she call me at 10 o’clock? Because, every morning
it does not matter what happens to her, at 10 o’clock she would sit in her chair,
ready with her pencil or pen and paper.
The day I had an appointment with her at 10 o’clock, it was not to meet me, but
so that we could sit together and receive Babuji Maharaj
When I could not do that at 10 and reached there at 10:30, she was so disappointed,
not for herself, but she said, “You missed Babuji. He was just here and waited for you for a few minutes.”
And that really breaks your heart.
Take it for granted, once we have our own routine, even they know when to visit us
But if you keep on changing the timing, and we remain unpredictable
this biological clock that was going to get established in ourselves will not happen
We are going to meditate anyway, so might as well fix a time
I am not saying, “Meditate for one hour.” I say, “Meditate at least for a few minutes
at least establish that routine,
establish that biological clock, so that even They know when you are sitting.”
So whatever work has to be done, we are cooperating with Them.
And this is a beautiful thing. If you can try to do it, I wish all abhyasis should practise this
I wish that you establish this biological clock in your system, in your practice and see how it changes