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.
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