Make your shariram your body as a theertham [holy abode] for God
so you don’t have to run from one
theertha to another theertha because you are yourself
ennobled theertham
Try to create that within
How to love an invisible entity?
The only answer that comes to my heart at this moment is:
before marriage, especially with girls
they have not even seen their husband
when they are eight years old,
ten years old, fifteen years old
twenty years old
they are yet to see their husband
hey don’t know whom they are going to get married to
Yet, they fall in love with the future husband
Even before seeing, they start entertaining
they make a doll and say, “Oh, this is my darling, this is my husband.”
They fantasize.
So having not seen God in a form
we begin with the known qualities
qualities related to God that we have heard so far
And we try to make it a reality by faking about it
They say in English, “Fake it till you make it”
Artificially also, at bedtime be very genuine about it
be authentic about it and say, “God, I don’t know you
Since I don’t know you, I don’t even know how to love you.
But one thing for sure, I would like to know you.
I would like to love you and whatsoever experience you like to bestow upon me, I am prepared.
And if possible, present such an attitude full of prayers
and shed two or three tears from your eyes and say, “God, I would really, really like to
feel your presence
and I would like to remain connected with your essence”, and see what happens.
It is not about the reaction of God, actually.
Love aspect or even complaining aspect
or disliking God it is not about how God will respond.
It is all about how our heart melts in the whole process
That melting itself is a great response, surrendering also
Do you think that when you surrender to God
as Lord Krishna says, “Sarve dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ vraja”.
“Sarve dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ vraja”.
When we completely abide with saranagati
do you think God will also match that saranagati [surrender]?
He doesn’t have to
Without His love, we would not have been even existing,
so the question of responding from each side does not arise at all.
It is how we respond to His already given love to us.
How we melt our heart, how we take saranagati
it is the act of saranagati to the entire existence, not only to God
Meaning, total acceptance of whatsoever may happen in our life,
be grateful to God and say, “Thank you, my lord
Thank you for having created the circumstances.
” Most of us, we crave for the happiness in the future.
Nothing wrong with it.
If you had some level of happiness or joy or luxury in the past, let us say if it was X
we always seem to expect incrementals of X - means sometimes
“Oh, let it be 2X, let it be 3X, let it be 10X”.,
But the wiser people have always reflected on the past.
What has made them? If you really want to transform your life for good,
see how you have changed in the past.
What circumstances were there that prompted you to change your life
your look-out on life and what you became out of those circumstances.
That does not mean that we should pray for miseries and troubles
because they are the only thing that really makes us, but whatsoever comes our way,
take it and see how you thrive and how you mutate and how you transform your life
around those circumstances without fighting.
Fighting against the circumstances is never going to help us. In fact if you fight,
you will keep fighting and don’t learn anything out of that circumstance
Observe, see what happens as a result of these new circumstances which may not be so palatable.
All these questions of transformation and God’s response are around only this
if I love, how much love will I get in return from God? We are always transacting.
We donate ten rupees or ten thousand rupees or ten crores and we expect much greater
This transaction must be avoided because it only shows your greed and nothing else
In temples also, why do we throw money?
We don’t even give respectfully. We throw money in the temples
Do you think God needs your money, that murthi [idol] needs your money?
What can that nirjiva murthi [lifeless idol] can do with that money or your ornaments or gold?
Nothing whatsoever. But the very act of sharing all that money as well as your ornaments
do you think God will receive in the heavens or wherever He is? If He has a form, He will use it
He doesn’t have a form
Who uses all the money that you give and the ornaments you throw in temples? Think over it.
It goes to the Trust, trustees and you don’t even know who they are and how they are spending
Priests,they live their life apparently so much in a simple way but do they really?
They may be having no shirt, only dhoti as a priest in the temple
but what about the hours when they are not in the temple?
Have you seen all those things? So let us not have any transaction with our worshippable Gods and Goddesses.
Best is to adore, revere, and make the divine life. Instead of moving towards such places
Make your shariram your body as a theertham [holy abode] for God
so you don’t have to run from one
theertha to another theertha because you are yourself
ennobled theertham
Try to create that withinand Heartfulness
practices are all geared towards purifying
our entire system so that God can make a permanent abode in our heart.
Thank you.