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.
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