CHAPTER 7
Meditation is one of the practices that allows you to control
the mind. Meditation will not help if it is done only for a few
minutes a day, for when you get back to your normal routines,
your mind goes back to play. You must practise to be meditative
at all times. Your mind must be controlled constantly, in all
your battles throughout the day.
For your mind to stay in the "stop" mode, you must focus all
your energies on God, in the powers of your own divinity, and
must surround yourselves with the spirits and angels of
goodness. Only when the mind is at rest and pure, will the
heart learn to love. A restless mind will only give you a
heartache. The self will control only when you believe in the
self. The God within each one of you lives, directs, and loves.
No one is good and no one is bad, it is only the temporary
insanity of your minds, it is only a sick and diseased heart,
and a soul that stands behind the curtain of the ego. All is
God, and all is love, but that you must find yourselves, and I,
My sweet, will just stand back and wait!
Loving a person, even though he may resent or dislike you, is an
accomplishment, but to love this person and not feel hurt at his
resentment towards you, not to expect him to acknowledge your
love, to help him in spite of his spite for you, and to continue
to wish him well with your sincere prayers for him, is a sure
sign of divinity.
Love must be universal. Love cannot be "mine" or "yours". Such
love results only into hate, envy or jealousy. Now you ask Me,
why must you love? What will motivate you to love? My answer
to this is, to make 'peace' with your "self", to be born only
once and have no deaths, to end the war between your mind and
God, to recognize your origin, to know your true name -, and to
learn that your dependence on your ego's has become your own
prison. End your fears of life, for when love enters, fear
dies, and life will live for love. The experience of pure love
will only remove the separation of "I" from God. Love has the
power that will kill in you all that must not live, and free you
into living a life without the "you" and only the "self". Yes,
it comes in a storm, where the lightening of truth flashes, the
thundering voice of your conscience deafens you with its
warnings, and the rain pours with love, awakening spiritual life
to grow. Grow with love, to love all, in love with God, to know
"love".
CHAPTER 8
Behind every virtue, lies the backbone of love. Truth is
important in a relationship of love. You cannot lie or be
deceitful, for your love also becomes a lie. Behind patience,
also, lies the foundation of love. Why else would you bear or
endure, if there is no love? You forgive the faults of someone
close, only because of love. You are humble, because you want
to please the one you love. You will want to give away the best
you have, only out of love. Even if one hurts you, you will not
hurt back and you will swallow the anger and pride, only out of
love. Try to love, want to love, for love will make you a
better person. Your virtues are the compartments that follow
the engine of love.
Wake up each morning with a prayer that asks the Lord to give
you His strength to be able to love all during that day. A
mountain of divine strength lays latent within you that awakens
only with His grace. Believe with certainty, that behind every
act are the hands of God. He acts, He receives, He wins, He
fails...you are only the pen with which He writes your life.
Devotion to God is not only for Him, but love accompanied with
the will of strong faith and sweet patience. This kind of
devotion leads to the ultimate surrender that liberates you to
become God. For true devotion to arise, your love for God must
climb over all desires, your faith must not speculate gains, and
your patience must seek no compensations for your wait. Love
for God sprouts when your eyes will clearly see His purity and
your own impurities. Devotion does not count the time spent
with God. Time must become God, or time spent is time wasted.
Life comes in the form of a human, only to give you the
opportunity to know Him, love Him, and realize Him. You are
fortunate to have this birth, to realize one day that the master
exists in the servant, and the servant serves only to become the
master one day.
I will repeat Myself until all your doubts are erased, until all
your hesitations are removed, and until your faith in God,
becomes the power of your will. Use this power of your will to
transform yourselves, using love as a tool, good character as
your discipline, divine virtues as your education, and surrender
to God as faith in your mission. Believe, that in every
failure, there is a strength that lies to succeed ahead, and
behind each success, lies the smile of the Lord. Win the "Me"
in all successfully, and thus, succeed to win "Me".
God's expectations of you are not high, it is only that the
standards of God that you have maintained within your "self", is
too low. You have allowed yourselves to become what you are,
and you have justified within your minds that God is a far purer
entity than your "self". Then tell Me, what is your
understanding of God? Why is God important in your life? Why
must you pray? Why are you here? Who are you, and who am I?
None of these questions can be answered by your justifications.
When you understand God, you understand the self. Without God,
your life loses meaning, and without prayer, your life loses
God. You are here to know God, to know that you are God, and
that I am the God in you. Then tell Me what can separate you
and Me? Only you! - For I see you in Me and Me in you. You,
too, must see the Me in you and know that that Me is actually
you. So when you try, I try; when you fail, I fail; when you
succeed, I succeed; and when you are impure, I become impure
too. You say God cannot be impure, then I say, you too, cannot
"stay" impure. Let me give you an example. The subject of
Mathematics appears difficult to comprehend, abstract to apply,
and in your fear and your lack of understanding, you dislike the
subject, and to mask this lack of confidence, you begin to
ignore the subject, justifying in your mind that the need of
mathematics in your life is unnecessary and unhelpful. But is
this really true? By simply ignoring the subject, it does not
disappear. Its applications in your day to day life are
necessary and so is your understanding. If your basics in the
subject are strong, then even the most difficult part of the
subject gets easier to solve. But it is not that the subject
will always remain easy. Even the master of mathematics will
have to tackle tough problems with a steady mind, have
confidence in his learning and have faith in the love of his
subject.
Similarly, if God appears abstract to you, you cannot ignore His
presence in your life. Your mind can live without God, but in
your heart of hearts, lives God. If you have grown with God,
then it becomes easier to understand Him and His ways. But He
will remain to stay a challenge even to His biggest devotee. It
is only a man that has conquered his mind, lived up to his faith
in God, accepted and surrendered all to His will and has
transformed his heart into the home of the Lord, such a man,
will master his subject to become Him.
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