Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 20

CHAPTER 20

You experience only a moment of peace, and then, once again, the

mind will begin its race, the tongue feels compelled to speak,

the rapid pacing of your heart will only fatigue your body.

Think, has peace left you, once again, or have you given up

peace, only to please your senses that control you, even though

it may lead you to believe that you are its master. You, My

dears, are the masters that have lost their ability to rule.

Yes! A master, yet a beggar. A master with no control! A

master that knows no leadership! A master that is never

content! A master that only speaks hollow words of love and

feels none.

The ability to make peace is within you and not in anyone else.

Momentary pleasure and rest cannot be mistaken for peace. You,

and no one else is to blame for your lack of peace. One may

argue with you, but you must not find the need to feed the fire

of argument. An argument cannot develop, if you respond with

the strength of your silence. One can only mess with your mind,

if the mind is already messed up. Your anger towards another is

simply the rejection you feel of your egos. The "I" in you is

only a stubborn child that needs to be flattered, that needs to

be favoured and that needs to be continuously comforted. Why?

Because the "I" lacks security, the "I" feels the fear of being

recognized as the "I", and the "I" lacks confidence to succeed,

always. As long as the "I" will mock the Lord, peace, O child,

will mock you. The result in controlling the "I" in you and

letting go of the control of others, will be the "peace" that

will come to stay. The "I" can never be the master, but the

master is the one that removes the "I". It is only when you

will confront the "I" to reveal its ugliness, will the "I" bow

to defeat, for your ego is only a coward with no truth to it and

no love behind it. Behind the calmness in your peace, will

always lie strong waves of warm love and the strength of the

single truth.

You must not criticize anyone for their faults and weaknesses,

especially, if at one time, you, too, have suffered the guilt of

the same weakness. You have the right to criticize only when

you are transparent with all purity. Tell Me, with such kind of

purity, will the heart even be able to recognize and see a

negative trait? No! A person that experiences divine pureness,

will derive his strength from it and will easily overlook and

ignore another's darkness, and in fact, will only react with

patience and compassion to prevent his spiritual downfall even

further.

You ask Me, today, for self-realization and liberation, but how

many of you have the discipline, strength and love to follow the

path of the Guru, without a question. How many of you actually

live your lives to the ideals I set? How many of you understand

that the Guru lives not for the, but only His. I do not favour

a devotee; I only encourage and respond to devotion. You are

all here today to listen to what I have to say, but how many

actually ponder on my discourse, how many are even affected to

act upon it, and how many can accept this as the absolute truth?

None, I say, yet all want to be a bigger devotee and even the A

title is simply useless, if the function and duty does not match

its importance. First, work, then complete that work, then

dedicate that work to Me; then succeed and only then, will you

realize that it is the work that gives you bliss and not the

title.

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 18 & 19

CHAPTER 18

To fulfill a duty, the duty must have a function. Each one must

learn and follow his own function and only then will the task be

a success. The mother cannot behave childish, and the child

cannot dictate terms to his mother. Each one's role specifies

his own functions and that must be followed with utmost

sincerity. Roles cannot be switched, for the task will lack

effectiveness. If you choose Me to be your teacher of life

today, then I must remain teacher, and you must accept the

duties of a disciple. I am here to teach, and you are here to

learn and that must always remain clear. The teachings cannot

be changed to suit your purposes. You must listen to Me with

utmost faith and act with promptness. My guidance 'must' be

your torch to light your road. My word must be the image of

truth of your worship. My criticism of you is only to make you

alert of your faults and not to make you feel inferior. My

encouragement of your strengths is only My approval to

strengthen them even more. Do not interpret this encouragement

or praise only to reign your superiority over others. I can

lead the way for you, but it is you that must follow.

Doubts will arise only in minds that are weak. You seem to

think that in faith you must question. Question who, and

question what, when you are unaware of them both. What

questions can you ask another when your knowledge of Me is so

ignorant? Who else but Me can answer these questions with

truth, patience, and love, with no feeling of frustration,

superiority or being humiliated? You have grown so accustomed

to life without Me, that the possibility of the change of life

with Me, fills you with fear. Yes, it is only your fear that

takes form of doubts. If you must fear, then fear your present

moment that passes you by Me, fear your futures, My children,

for when divinity gets lost in the past, the man of the future

will become the cause of his own destruction. God in man will

be evident, when man will live his life as God. You fear to

love, you fear time, you fear attachments, you fear life, and

you fear God. Today it is only doubts, tomorrow the doubts will

turn to fears, and fears play a game with your mind, the game in

which the mind will mimic your fears - the result being

"insanity", "anxiety", and "panic" of your own selves. Face the

truth, that your fears are not from any outside forces, they are

your own inner forces that fear to know the identity of the

self. You find comfort in recognizing yourselves with your name

and with the body. Beyond that, you cannot see, and you do not

want to see. No! You cannot pretend to be blind, when your

eyes can see. To find God and walk ahead, you must leave your

fears behind. Let your fear be the past, let your change be the

present, and let God be your tomorrow.

Constant repetition of the Lord's name, knowing of His

omnipresence and constant visualization of Him does not come

automatically. It requires a lot of dedication, sincerity,

purity of heart, simplicity, and intense practice. God must

become not only a 'part' of your daily routines, but He must

become the routine itself. Yes! At first, He may be your

imaginary companion, but when true devotion will stir the heart

within, when faith will speak only the words of His greatness,

when your actions will depict only His selflessness, He will

manifest, My dear. He will manifest in you, through you and to

you. Then your imaginary companion will become the reality and

the reality, as you believe it to be, will fade to become the

imagination. The earth quakes in your minds to believe that all

that you see today is not really there. The eyes that you see

with, can only see the world that lies ahead of you. They

cannot see what lies behind you, above you, below you and much

beyond you, all at the same time. The eye that is unknown to

you and that has remained closed until now, can see all the

visual fields, all at once, without making the attempt to see.

This is the eye of the Lord, which, when once opened, will never

blink. These are the eyes that will see the light of truth, the

eyes that will cry only tears of love, and the eyes that can

never be blindfolded by the illusion of the living world. For

the eyes to open, each cell of you must saturate themselves with

the love for God. You are born to create this love and build

this heaven within you, O sweet. You see today, but you do not

look for Me. Without God in the eyes, the eyes will become

blind and be susceptible to all the temptations and corruption.

A blind man does not need sunglasses, for the light of the sun

does not illumine the darkness in his eyes. As long as you will

remain blinded with the illusionary world, My light will never

reach your dark world.

CHAPTER 19

You have lived until now in a very selfish love. "God" is a

common word that you come across starting at your birth. Being

familiar with the word, does not mean that you have experienced

it. You have understood God to be far superior, on a much

higher plane, a place you seem convinced of not being able to

reach. You have accepted Him, only so that you can reject Him.

The sacrifice of God in your lives has made your life your

punishment.

God is the link between the "you" and the "self". You will not

know of the self without God, and the self cannot and will not

emerge to link this "you" without God. With only the "you" and

no "self", there is no selfless love. The "self" is not the

"you", and "you" are actually only the "self".

Your heart must begin your journeys of selfless service. Each

time you must serve more of the self and less of you. Selfish

love will give and find its way back to the "you". Selfless

love will give, only to find its way to My love. The "you" will

become the "self", only when the "self" has become "you".

Enwrap yourselves in God and you have found purity, peace and

bliss. Let Me be the photo and you the frame. The frame

encircles the photo, and the glass over the photo must be

transparent for the photo to be clearly visible. I, too, will

be clearly seen, when your life turns at every point, only to

choose in My direction, and the transparencies of your purity

that develops will emit you to be only a reflection of God.

Prayers must bring peace to you, or else your prayers must lack

devotion. Your daily prayers must not be a ritual that you

dread. Such prayers are only chanted and not felt. Such

prayers will satisfy the ego and not God. God will not see the

length of your prayers. He will only measure the weight of your

devotion in it. He will measure the strength of your yearning

for Him. He will observe the efforts you make to please Him,

constantly. It will not impress Him if you memorize a thousand

of His names. Even if one name of His sparkles with brilliance

in your hearts, even if one name is remembered with all the love

in your being; then that name will come, that name will answer

you, that name will respond with His love, and that name will

forever become your "first name". The prayer of true love, I

will never disappoint. The prayer in which you struggle to

love, that prayer, I will help to uplift to true love. The

prayer of the wretched and spiritually downtrodden will, too,

ultimately, light to seek the help of the divine. Start your

prayers today, but only let the heart speak in the silence that

surrounds you of God.

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 16 & 17

CHAPTER 16

One today is constantly fighting to give another less. You must

know that when you give less, you will receive even lesser. You

battle over who is richer, but tell Me, does money really make

you rich? If this is the truth, then only the ones with no

homes, no clothes, and no food must be around Sai Baba today.

But such is not the case. The fears of the rich are the same as

the poor. The worries of the rich are even bigger than the

poor. You all look for one thing today, real love and peace.

The rich waste their efforts in trying to buy love and buy

peace; the poor, on the other hand, waste their time in being

envious of the rich. The wealth of the universe lies in each

one's very home, and yet each one of you has acquired the habit

of being beggars, robbers, and peace breakers. Money is not

evil, your idea of the usage of money is evil. Being rich is

not evil, it is your greed for material riches that are evil.

Being poor is taken as a curse, but let Me tell you, that you

will always find the footprints of the Lord in the homes of the

needy. Then think and tell Me, what is the blessing and what is

the curse? Think, My sweet, and tell Me, who is rich and who is

really poor?

Begin to develop the faith that you are in the care of the Lord.

On each day, let this faith mould to become stronger. Know

that all will remain unharmed and that His love is the sky that

shelters all. In case of any calamity, the child runs to his

mother for he knows that she will rescue him, even at the cost

of her own life. You, too, must have faith that your true love

for God will even move the world of the Gods in chaos and will

bring them to rescue you in your time of need. Let your faith

become a mountain, and let no avalanche of calamities be able to

crumble it. When your faith becomes sturdy, the presence of the

Lord in your life will be constant. Your dependence and faith

in Him is your freeway to heaven. Heaven, is nothing, My child,

but living your life in love with God. You have lived with none

or very weak faiths until today, and you have suffered the

agonies of unknown consequences. Depend on the One who has

lived with you all through your past, depend on Him, for He

speaks and is guiding you in your present. Depend on Him, for

once He will hold your hand, you will walk into the future with

no fears of the unknown, for He will make each unknown known to

you as "God". Each day, you must reduce your desires and make

yourselves more and more content. Contentment lies in not

receiving material gifts - Contentment lies in receiving His

blessing, His grace and His approval of you. You are all

fighting a battle to love God today, but this battle will be won

very easily, when the Lord, with His grace, will shower you with

His Divine Love. Once you have recognized and tasted the

sweetness of His love, your love for Him from within will

sprout, your wall of desires will begin to fall, and slowly,

peace will find its way to give you the strength to love even

more. The more you will love, the lesser will be your needs.

It is the "pain of wanting", that will make to love bitter, for

the heart that wants grows only smaller each day. In the stress

of greed, you will want to be ahead of God, and in this walk,

where "you" are ahead and God follows, disaster will be

inevitable. This is the disaster where the self will burn, and

only your egos will survive. A body with only an ego and no

God, is the devil himself that will make life on earth a living

hell.

CHAPTER 17

Attachments are like glue, they will stick to you only to

immobilize you, but you must break away and must not let them

follow you. Remember, all that you are attached to, is in the

Lord Himself, but in your attachments itself, God does not

exist. The love for God will also make you cry, but these are

the tears that will bathe you to the freshness of purity. When

you cry for the world, the tears will be only that of pain,

bringing within an empty hollowness. You say, how do I let

these attachments go? You use the word "love" loosely for your

attachments, for true love only gives, forgets, and moves ahead

to tomorrow with no recollection and expectations from

yesterday. It is only attachment that never forgets the love it

gives, it is only attachment that will beg or demand the

security of love or its use back in return. You miss and cry

for the loss of your loved ones, but the one you think you lost,

was already lost when alive, and may actually be found in the

loving arms of the Lord. Then tell Me, what are you crying for?

They are the tears of your own insecurities, how are you going

to live without him? Who will take care of you? Who will love

you like he did? Yes! The tears are for you and the so-called

love is the nurturing of your own ego, and what you are actually

missing are his services to you. Is this selfless love, or is

it actually less love for the "self"?

Love is an energy that acts like a magnet to attract others to

you, but first you must be able to derive this energy

yourselves. This current of energy will flow within you, only

when you are in contact with the main source, constantly. Each

one of you must be receptive to accept this energy. What I am

trying to say, My loved ones, is to be able to love, you must,

at first, recognize the love of God, accept His love, and use

this love to transform all your negative energies within you

into love; for when love generates, God will be the product of

all your efforts.

You desire to communicate with Me, but your actions, today, show

that we lack total communication. You call upon Me to come into

your homes, but you leave your doors bolted. You break several

of your promises that you have made to Me with the lazy excuse

of being human, but you still expect Me to transform you in one

day. Remember, it is you that is the raw material, I am only

the final product. It is you that must go through several

changes, and I am only the cause of your change. In your

process of change, you sometimes forget and expect God to change

for you. God comes to bring change, but He is not affected by

the pressures of your ego. He will not work under your terms of

change, and only you and not He, is affected by your defiance

and your stubborn attitudes. This change is for you and not for

Me, for I have already accepted you, I will always love you, and

I know the true you. The change must come for you to know

"you", for you to feel God, for you to feel like God, and for

you to become God.

Smile, My little saints to be, for I have walked a long way to

come to you with My medicine.... the cure of love I call it; the

love that will inspire you to reach the truth, the truth in

which the Atma (soul) can overcome any pain and temptations of

pleasures; only in the silence of this love. Faith must become

your walking stick, and truth must become your eyeglasses.

Silence must be your mother tongue, peace your attitude, and

love the very nature of your being. Righteousness must be your

path, service your companion, then name of the Lord your

conversation, and your prayers must shape to become the tasks

you perform; His strength should inspire your smile, His love

your tears and His calling must become your journey of life.

Feeling pure love is nothing less than experiencing the vision

of the Lord, Himself. Shut the eye of the "I", become blind to

the "My", and open the eye that will only see "Me". The eye

that sees Me, always, has left the "I" forever. The heart that

speaks of My name, always, is a part of Me that lives forever.

My little saints to be, I have seen you march, but now it's time

for the "forward march" only! I have given the command, I have

blown the whistle, and I have given to you My salute - it's time

for you to respond.

The level of humanity has stooped considerably, and man is shy

to do what is right. In lying to impress others, he has become

one with the herd. If all are lost, you, too, want to be lost

with them. You can see the road that is right, but since no one

else takes that path, you, too, begin to fear the loneliness and

unknown challenges that lie ahead. All will be known to you,

when you realize that the only thing that is unknown to you is

"God". You brag and praise of your own devotion for God to

others, but to Me, this is your devotion to your own egos. You

have hypnotized yourselves to believe that you are pure, and

even if God were to come and point out your faults, you would

dismiss them as unfair accusations. Your pride has made you to

believe that you are the "ideals" and that God, Himself, remains

to be only an "idol". It takes a lot of courage, My dears, just

to recognize and realize your own falls and failings. But

without the realization of this first step, you will not find

the strength to find God. Do not despair, for however much you

have slipped in your virtues and character, the strength of My

love can wash off the dirt, and will, one day, make your walk

again with confidence in the purity of your own self. Yes!

This is all possible now, today and in the present life. All

your mistakes of all your previous lives, can and will be

forgotten and forgiven by Him with your repentance, efforts and

practice. So do not be discouraged, for I have taken the body

to show you the way out of this web of unreal attachments. I

have come to live this life with you, and I will not let you

live this life without Me. I am the life in you, and you, My

sweet, are My life, for the God in you will only live as long as

you will live to become God.

No war can end this world; war can only destroy it, but the end

will come when each one of you will give up every hope to find

Me, the end will come when love will totally lose its meaning,

and only the ego will triumph with the power of self

destruction. When the self is lost, the war has begun, and each

time that the self will allow you to win, more cruelty will

arise, more will climb the ladder of violence and destruction

and even more will spread the disease of evil. The world finds

itself in chaos, because each one's mind has lost its comfort of

rest. The leaders of the world are reflecting the morals,

character and virtues only of you. Yes! It is you that has

chosen them to be in power, just as you have chosen your mind,

intellect and egos over Me. Your fingers may point to blame the

rest of the world for all your unhappiness, but remember the

conscience, My dears, will always point its finger only at you.

You are the cause of every suffering and you are its effect.

Start the change with you, spread the change to all, and the

world will also start its slow process of change. The

responsibility of life lies in each one of you, and each one

must be your own leaders at heart to understand the commands of

the real leader. A real leader will lead only to serve.

Service to humanity and all that lives, must become the voice of

the leader in each one's heart. Start to serve with serving

yourselves. Serve yourselves to My love, serve yourselves to My

strength, serve yourselves to My truth, and only then will your

service for all truly begin.

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 14 & 15

CHAPTER 14

Practice is your key to open the doors to spirituality. Without

practice, your efforts are wasted, and your confidence will

dwindle. A singer must practice her singing, or else she loses

the strength and melody of her vocal chords. A dancer must

practice the steps in her dance, or else she will lose the grace

and beauty in her performance.

You, too, must practice, practice every day to be God, only then

will your imperfections fade and the beauty of the Lord will

begin to become your nature itself. Education of any field

takes several years of study and a lot of dedication and hard

work. You go through several years of preparation to become

doctors, engineers, and accountants. You know that with a good

education, you will be accepted as a member of society and you

will improve your life style.

Then why are you so impatient in dedicating your time towards

Me? Why is it this study of yours remains incomplete in one

life after another? With the search and study of God, you will

be studying your own "self" and the reward of this study is

being accepted by Me, forever. The time factor of this study

does not depend on Me, it depends on you. If you want, you may

know God today, or you may get to know Him tomorrow or maybe one

day, or maybe one life - it all depends upon your efforts, in

your determination to move God with your sincerity, and in your

faith and patience to succeed in this search.

Believe Me, even though God is not seen, God can still be

followed. Even though God is not heard, He can be listened to.

Even though God cannot be touched, He can be felt. Even though

God does not breathe, He lives, My dears, - in you and in all.

To perceive Him, you will have to go beyond your senses, because

your senses are limited to distance. You can see up to a

certain length, but beyond that, all appears blurry. I say,

that God, My child, is standing in that blur. You can hear up

to a certain limitation, but beyond that, it appears as a

muffled sound. I say, O child of God, that God speaks, but your

distance from Him is too far to be able to hear Him clearly.

You can reach out to feel, but beyond the reach of the hand, you

will not be able to feel. I say, O love of the Gods, that God

stands a little beyond your reach. You can hear and feel your

own breath, but can you hear the breathing of all around you? I

say to the one that is lost, that God is the breath in all, for

He is the life and He is the Creator that lives in all.

The mystery of being "Sai" lies in solving the riddle of "Who am

I?" At each point in this mystery, God will leave a hint for

you so that the mystery can unfold with each piece of the

puzzle. The fewer the pieces, the more the guesses, and even

more will be your doubts. Your excitement will grow as the

picture will begin to form slowly, and the search to complete

this picture with the rest of the pieces of the puzzle will

become your obsession. The picture will be "His", yet the

reflection will be "yours". We are of the same nature, we just

have different forms. The difference being, "God is divine",

and "You are in denial". "He knows that you are God" and "You

think that He maybe God". "He thinks only for you" and "You

think all, but Him". "He has come down on earth for you" and

"You have just let Him down on earth". The energies are the

same, yet the efficiencies are totally different. If God is

you, and can still remain God, then why can't you be Him?

Think, today, using this same divine energy. All that remains

latent for too long dies within. Do not let your divinity die!

When God begins to die, My dears, you are living your lives with

death. Live only with God and let only God remain to live. All

else is born to die.

CHAPTER 15

Be pleasant always, and learn that when worldly pleasures are

given away, God will make His presence known to you. Please

all, yet do not deviate from the truth, for truth is God. Let

the force of another not weaken you to displease Him. Love all,

but the love must obey the rules of the Master. Do not be

intimidated to please a loved one only to encourage his own

faults. Love them all, but walk only My way, for they, too, are

lost and they, too, one day, will be found, but until then, hold

the hand of only the Lord.

Your concept of Love, today, is being weak. Yes! Love bends

with humility, Love bends with humbleness, and Love bends to

break the pillar of your egos. But no, Love is definitely not

weak. Love will never bend for an untruth, and Love will never

bend for that which is not right. Love will fight against all

injustices, and Love will even find the strength to part with

his own mother, if she encourages you into wrongdoing. Love is

not weak, My child, it is you that is too weak to love.

You have to learn to live amongst the herd, yet with single

pointedness, focus your goal on God and on God, alone. You have

to be able to spread this joy of love to all, yet let this joy

not be affected by the dislike and disbelief of another.

Starting today, let time not be yours, your time must be only

for giving joy to another; then time will never pass you by, for

time spent to love, is time spent with Me. Yes! No one can

pass you then, for you are only ahead, always with Me.

Your relation with Me is special, and no one else can experience

this bond but you. Each bond of Mine with another is special,

each journey of Mine with another is unique. Keep Me in your

hearts, for I do not need to be displayed. Do not worry and try

to convince another if he is not devoted to Me. Do not let

yourselves deviate, for that is not your mission. Your mission

is to stay unruffled in the midst of all confusions and desires,

to accept all as Him, and to discipline yourselves to be able to

love, no matter what or who challenges you. Each one of you

must study hard and pass this test, for if you waste your time

worrying for another, you, too, will fail.

You have started your study with words such as "surrender" and

"self realization", etc., but when you are still in the 1st

grade level, will you be able to comprehend the ultimate at this

stage? I recommend that you begin your study just at the level

of a child. Even the child understands from birth the concept

of love. He will love his father and mother and will stay only

in the security of their arms. You, too, must begin your

journey today with the simplicity of "love". Love will

automatically teach you the sweetness of selflessness,

humbleness, humility, truth, patience, trust, faith, and the

lesson of surrender will become your practice, more than your

analysis. Self realization is an experience and cannot be a

study. You must first have all the characteristics necessary to

be human, in order to inherit your divinity. Do not waste time,

but do not rush, for that, too, is a waste of time.

You have become weak today, for you lack the love and devotion

to carry out your daily tasks. Weak minds will think only weak

thoughts, and weak thoughts will prompt only weak actions. You

think that God, alone, has all the strengths and that the

devotee is helpless. Let Me tell you, there lies no difference

in the strength between God, Himself, and a staunch true

devotee. The tears of love and devotion in a devotee can even

imprison the Lord and make Him the servant, for when the devotee

calls with his love so pure, the Lord will come, instantly.

There is no difference that lies in the pureness of the love of

a devotee for God and in the love of God for a devotee. They

are truly the same, each playing his own role, and teaching the

world the different forms love can take. Rise with your

strength, My child, rise to awaken the Lord that sleeps. You

have slept enough! You have suffered enough! It is time, My

dear, to end this pain, it is time to wake up today with all

your strengths. My faith in you must light the lamp of faith in

your love for Me. I have come to inspire you and to take you

away from the comforts of your wheelchair. No! You are not

crippled, you believe you are one and you are behaving like one.

Rise, My sweet, and withstand the weight of your own karmas.

You must walk ahead and leave all behind. The strength, I

promise, lies in you, for I am that strength that is waiting to

be discovered.

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 12 & 13

CHAPTER 12

The evil in the world will continue as long as separation from

the Lord exists. Let each one of you live by the expectation

that you are a part of Him and have come with a mission to be

the messenger of His love. You have not accepted Me truly as

your Mother, for if you really had, then you would know that the

child of God cannot falter, cannot weaken, and cannot fear for

he, too, is God! You call me your Mother, but truly in your

heart of hearts you have no faith in Her protection, you have no

trust in Her wisdom, you have no concept of Her love, and you

have no gratitude for all the service she renders to you.

Gather the strength to break this wall, the wall of your

differences between God and you, and end this evil that is

spreading like cancer, and consuming the self, - the God, - you!

Know that the body is human, you, My dears, are not! Know that

the mind is blind, - you, My dears, are not! Know that the ego

is evil, - you, My dears, are not! Know that your hearts today

are small and narrow, filled with impurities, - you, My dears,

are not! You are born today to rise above the weaknesses of the

human body, to remove this monkey that swings your mind like the

pendulum in a clock, to crush the evil of your ego's with the

new strength of your divine identities, and to purify and

enlarge your hearts to welcome all forms that live. You think

you live in this universe, but the universe, O child, lives

within you. When the Lord is enthroned in the hearts, then the

heart is larger than any planet or universe. Pure love in the

heart is bigger and mightier than any strength you have

envisioned today. Love will bend for all and will still remain

king, for only the ruler will know that as long as he will serve

his subjects, he will wear the crown.

You are born with the power to discriminate and with a sense to

recognize God in every situation you face. This sense will

shine and direct you, only if your soul is in continuous contact

with My spirit. I will never drag you or force you towards Me.

Your will from within must arise to choose Me. Until then, you

will live under the terror of your ego and the unjust ruling of

your mind. It is only when you will experience the fears of

travelling in the jungles of life alone, will you look for a

guide to make the journey short and successful. It is only when

you experience the fears of darkness, will you appreciate the

brightness of light. Yes, to experience the bliss of life with

God, you too, must experience the misery of life without Him.

Let this sense to recognize God become your power to reach Him.

In each act or doing, there will be one way in which God will

live and then there will be the other in which God will die

several times to live again and again. Choose to die only once,

and then live to become Him forever. Remember, the more times I

die, the more painful lives you will be born in. Let your

thoughts become My companion, let your words become the message

of My love, and let your acts become the service I render. Then

you will live your lives with God, and life will live to become

God. This journey from being human to God will be successful,

only if you will to choose the sense to recognize the Lord, only

if you will to allow the Lord within to show you the way, and

only when you have the faith in the power of the divine will

that lives in us all. All in you, and all around you will be

God, when you shall be "the wise" to know that "your will" is

"My will"

CHAPTER 13

Your minds are clouded with all kinds of misconceptions of God

and yourselves. I hear you say, "God will punish", "God will

curse him", "God will be angry", "God is more with him than with

me", "The evil eyes of some are on me", and so many more.

Listen to yourselves intently, and you will find that you have

made God the form of your own egos.

Tell me, will a mother punish a child that is already very sick?

No!

She will ignore all your faults with a smile, she will be

patient with your carelessness, and with her medicine of love

and care, she will one day bring you back to your feet. You

have lost your name, and lost your mother. This is your own

punishment, My sweet, then what can I do to punish you more?

You blame your doings and your karmas to be My curses upon you.

Grow up, My child, and begin to see where the blame truly lies.

A mother will never curse her own child, however much she may

not approve of his ways.

A mother may show that she is angry, only for you to realize the

depth of your wrongdoing. But is she really angry? In the very

next moment of her anger, if something were to happen to you,

she would jump to save and rescue you. Then tell Me, is that

her anger, or is she expressing her simple frustration that it

is time for her child to improve and change for his own good.

A mother will not and cannot love one child more than the other.

She will carry the one that needs her the most. She will feed

the one that is most hungry. She will attend to the one that is

the sickest, but her love for all remains equally sacrificial.

It is only your eyes that hold the conceit and selfishness that

will make you jealous of your own brothers and sisters. The

love of the mother is always pure and takes no sides.

You doubt My ability to protect you, and in the divinity that

lies in you and all around. For how can another's evil eye

affect your life, when in reality, My dears, there is no evil.

The envy of others cannot ever take away from you that which God

has blessed you with. Will the mother allow her one child to

cast evil on her other child, and stay quiet? When you do not

even have the powers to stop your own evils entering in you,

then how can you have the power to inflict evil upon another?

Your mind is filled with thoughts that have no logic, yet you

search for the Lord with this intellect and logic, and fail

several times. Your failures are justified with your feelings

of supremacy of your own intellects. With such intellects,

minds and impurities, you will never know God, you will never

find God, and a mind, as sick will never understand God.

To travel from place A to place C, you have to pass through

place B. Such, is also the case in your spiritual travel. Some

stops, which you may think are unnecessary, are in reality,

essential for you to complete your journey. Do not let your

impatience to take a direct route, be the reason for your waste

of time, for it will end in simple frustration, rooting you to

place A forever. When traveling in a train, you sit back and

look outside the window, occasionally enjoying the beauty of

nature that passes you by. If you are restless to reach your

destination, the train will not move any faster, for the engine

driver has already set its speed. He has already determined the

shortest course, he knows when it needs fueling and a check, and

he is aware of all the stops he must make to reach the final

destination. So why worry, place your complete faith in Him,

and know that once you have paid all your dues, you become the

ticket owner, and your place is reserved with His confirmation

of love, and you will reach the end - the end of you in Me.

This Avatar has come with a mission - A mission in which the

change will occur, He will transform you with His love, to teach

you of divine love. The Lord, Himself, has taken the body, to

show you that the body can crack, but the "self" will not. He

has come to fulfill all your desires, to teach you that you will

lack peace, even after all your material wants are fulfilled.

He has come to prove that His name is enough to numb your mind,

the way He lives His life is enough to trample and uproot your

pride; the words of sweetness that He utters is enough for the

stone to melt in your hearts and cry aloud with every beat, "I

want to be You, I will become You! I am You!"

Body consciousness must go! You have come with a body, but the

body is not you! You have come with a mind to destroy, let the

mind not destroy you. You have come with a heart to love, do

not begin to love to hate only. You have come with a mission to

seek the truth, do not let the truth become your fear to fail.

Yes, I am the truth, and I have taken this body to reveal it to

you. This is a game of hide and seek, once you have sought Me,

the hiding of the "self" is over. Good times will end, and

times that are bad will also end. The chapter must close each

time, and a new one will open. Do not attach yourselves only to

the good memories, and do not resent your falls and failings.

At all times, you must concentrate to keep your head above the

water. Be happy, but do not be attached to being happy.

Attachments to happiness, will one day, make you face and climb

the ladder of disappointments. In times that are trying, know

that the pain is only the result of your own doings, and realize

that the remedy to this pain lies in the strength of your own

divine energies to sustain them. Look beyond the pain, look

beyond the darkness, rise and walk through the tunnel of karma.

With burning repentance and sincere efforts of change, the

tunnel will pass, and you will come upon the light - The pain

will be gone, and the attachments will be no more. It will just

be the Me in you and Me.