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.

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 10 & 11

CHAPTER 10

All your worldly possessions and attitudes have to be given up

to bring in divine love. As you begin to lose the world, you

will begin to find God. Your worldly possessions will possess

you and make you insane. Divine love can make you obsess to

reach the sanity of the Lord Himself. You may appear insane to

the one who is worldly, but do not let the fears of that stop

you from imitating Me.

Bring the change in you slowly, gradually, and yet

intentionally. The change that comes in you must stay to

remain. Too many quick steps confuse the mind and subject you

to disappointing failures. You must be determined to bring

about the transformation, but you must not be impatient.

Remember, all through this process, you are never alone, for I

witness each step; I walk each step with you, and I reward and

bless you for each step of your courage. Transformation of the

soul involves the control over your mind, intellect and senses,

purification of the heart, and instilling within you, a love for

all forms that are the different faces of the Creator.

"Rely" on My name in your minds, "recite" My name on your lips,

and "reside" My name in your hearts, and let the name become the

cure to transform. "Rely", "Recite", and "Reside", let this

human go, let us become divine! When love becomes your thought

and love walks into your heart, then I have given you My name,

"Prema". I have considered you to be My form - "Premaswarupa".

Sai Baba is the name that is given by you, but in the truth of

God, I am the form of love, My name is the truth of love, I have

taken this body to love, to teach you to love, to transform you

to the soul of love, and with love as your path, you will, one

day, reach the heavens - the merging of you in Me forever.

Leave this hell, where the mind speaks and God is silent. Leave

this hell, where the "I" resides and the "Lord" is homeless.

Leave this hell, where the heart is black and the purity of love

is just a fiction. Leave this hell, and walk on this new path

that I have paved with My hands. Reach Me, My child, before you

lose yourself, forever!

Each one of you walks alone on this spiritual journey, so your

experiences must be first hand, for the words of another may be

empty, hollow, and meaningless. Let the faith not waver

anymore, let your fears not consume you anymore, let your

strength to reach Me overpower your weakness of laziness, and

let your love for Me believe in My truth itself! You feel the

pain, for you believe in the separation of Me and you. I, too,

feel the pain, the pain of your ignorance, the pain of your

stubbornness, and the pain to be unable to give you my love

always.

You say that your wounds bleed, that the pain is unbearable and

that has made you a weak human. But yet, your faith in My

remedy to heal your wound and to take your pain is even weaker.

You say that you pray to change, but that God stays deaf, and

your prayers are unanswered. How will I answer, when even you

disbelieve the sincerity of your own efforts? You say, to love

all is hard, and to accept life as is, is even harder. But

truly, you have not learnt to even love your selves. Once the

self is loved, to love all becomes natural. When you cannot

accept your "self" as is, then how can you accept life? When

all becomes true surrender to God's will, then life will

automatically be accepted, too. Do not delude yourselves to

believe that you are the victim to the injustices of the world.

The injustice lies in you letting your mind to win, the

injustice lies in you letting your ego gone to rule, and the

injustice lies in your blame of God Himself, and in all whom He

lives in. Yes, you want "just is" and I want "just you", you

want the "world", and I want to be the world in you. You want

"God", and I want you to find God in you. You want love, and I,

My dear, want you to be love! God will only be found, when the

storm within you breaks, and when you will experience the

monsoons of love.

CHAPTER 11

Love can never belong and in love you can never go wrong. When

love belongs, your search for God will "be long". So make God

your beloved and "be loved" by Him forever. Today, your love

for God is "benign". It has not spread to the rest of you.

Love must overcome each part of you. Yes, make this love from

"benign" to "be nine!" Give Me, today, all the nine forms of

your devotion, and learn to love God. When the love for the

Lord becomes "boundless", all in the world will be forgotten,

and I promise that you will be "bound less". God is ever ready

to bless you with this loan of love, and believe Me, this loan

is the best to own. There is no interest on this loan - His

only interest is you. You can default as many times in your

payment - He will forgive! There is no time period to pay it

off - He will wait patiently, forever. The only collateral you

provide for this loan is your love for Him, and maybe one day,

your acceptance of Him.

Tell Me, will this attitude help you in your change Godward? If

one's action to you is distasteful, then tell Me, is your action

of idle gossip and heartless judgements on this person in any

better taste? If you are not able to help another with his

weakness and faults, then you must rise above your judgement and

criticisms to ignore them and accept them. What right do you

have to belittle another when a whole army of faults lies within

you? Remember, the biggest fault of all is to criticize a fault

of another. It is only a coward that will mask his face with a

weakness of another.

I say, turn the spotlight on yourselves, and bare your own

faults. Acceptance of your weaknesses is your first step in

extending your hand towards Me for help. When honesty comes,

truth will awaken, and God will arrive. Believe Me, no one but

Me is there with you - today, tomorrow, and always. You can

impress all, but if you have not impressed Me, you still are

living life in untruth and unreality.

The play will end, My dears, your act will be over, the applause

will die, all will disperse, and you will stand in the middle of

this stage to face reality all alone. But if you know it to be

a play, you will play the act according to the director, you

will know that the applause lies for His work and not yours, and

you will be ready to go back home, knowing that you played your

part to the best of your ability. Let the truth be known now,

so that I can save you from your biggest fall later. Let Me see

your efforts now, so that I can save you with My grace later.

Prepare yourselves for your end with Me, for, with Me your end

will just begin your eternal life with Me.

How can I explain that it is only My love for you that makes Me

speak these harsh words to you. I want you to face the reality

without fears, to have faith that you all are the little Gods

that live today. A mother must be honest, or the child that is

brought up within the walls of false security and deception,

will one day, rebel to face the real world. My truth may hurt

you today, but it is this pain that will strengthen you

tomorrow. My demands of you may be unfair to you today, but

your giving in with your efforts will be only your victory

tomorrow. Do not judge Me and put limitations on our own

efforts to love. Believe Me, the soul can give and never tire,

the soul can love and rise higher, higher than the mind, your

senses, and all your desires. My words may sound empty and

monotonous to you today, but when the truth will flash in front

of you one day, these words will be your breath, these words

will be your only bread, and these words will be your bliss. So

today, let Me talk, and you shall listen, and tomorrow you will

act, and I will pray for the spiritual success of each one of

you.

Where duty goes you do what you must and not what you can. The

word "can" is a freeway that lets you walk off easily from all

responsibilities. In duty, nothing must remain incomplete.

Your duties in your life must be your priorities, for when duty

stays undone, all other work in the eyes of the Lord are

meaningless. Your sense of duty must be accomplished with pure

selfless love, for that duty takes My form, that duty completes

My tasks, and that duty speaks of your own divinity. The tests

of duty lies in your strength to withstand its monotony, its

lack of gratitude, and the pleasure time it may take away from

you. These tests can be easily passed if duty becomes the God

you pray. Yes! Each one of you work for the Lord everyday, for

your are only His instrument used to complete His duty - the

well being, welfare, protection and love of all.

You stand today amidst confusion, trying to prioritize your

duties. Does your duty lie in family, friends, work, or

country? In all lies your duty, wherever there is God. How do

you prioritize this duty? I say, wherever the need is the

highest, there is where you first belong. Wherever is the love

that is closest to God, there is where you first belong.

Wherever your commitment or promise will lay until your last

breath in this body, there is where you first belong. Wherever

you will obey the rules of dharma, there is where you first

belong. Where God, Himself, will have to take your place in

your absence to perform your unfinished duty, then there is

where you first belong.

I want each one of you to go back in the years of your life and

think. Think, My sweet one, of your life's circumstances at

different stages, think of all the things that have gone wrong.

Yes! They went wrong. You felt pain and then in time, it was

healed. Calamities fall, the storms with their dark clouds

threaten, but then the skies clear; the sun comes out, and its

light and warmth awakens the song of love, again, in all living

beings. Think, My dears, why these circumstances? Why the

pain? What heals these pain? Who, My child, has saved you each

time and made you walk again?

Your previous karmas have determined your life in this current

body. Thus, circumstances are predetermined too. The pain you

suffer is due to your lack of understanding of this cycle. You

think yourself to be this body, the body is very fragile, and

thus, you break at every point when you face physical

discomforts. The body and mind feel every jolt; the mind

weakens and begins to fear every fall. The fear in the mind

will only cause pain in your hearts, for in fear, the heart

feels no love. With no love, the self begins to die, and you

live in this shadow of death. This is when the mother of this

universe will walk in. She comes, in one of Her forms, to give

you the love you have lost. I know, you say, you have not seen

Her, but how can you? Your eyes are as clouded as your minds

and your hearts. Can the mother ever see Her own child lost?

The mother cannot walk for you and she cannot speak your words.

The mother comes to love and teach Her child, but she cannot

live your life. No one can live your life, not even God! The

law of karma must return all your favours. So the Mother, after

every fall, makes you walk again, but then, She too, has to

leave to come back to save you, once again, in another fall on

another day!

Living In The Presence of God (Vol 1) Chapter 09

CHAPTER 9

On this earth is an Avatar, He walks will all the divine

energies of the universe within Him, His name is truth, His form

is love, His mission is to be only on the right path, and His

promise to us, is peace at all times. This is a mother who has

come to take Her children back home with Her. A mother who

never sleeps and will tirelessly work to awaken Her children

from their deep slumber of ignorance. A mother who never

complains, but who patiently listens to Her child's complaints,

even complaints of Her. A mother who is perfect Herself, yet is

grateful to you for your efforts to transform. A mother who

will worry, when you do not give her your worries. A mother who

will cushion your fall with Her own hands and who will grace

your success with rewards of Her love and protection forever.

The mother in Me, looks for the child in you to respond and

recognize My call of love, to work with Me in My task to

spiritually elevate with you all your brothers and sisters of

this world, so that none of you can ever be an orphan again, and

with My light of truth and warmth of love, this mother will

carry each one of Her children to the home of divine peace. The

nature of your existence is to give love and seek peace. So I

say,"Let the fires in your heart burn with love, and let this

fire burn into ashes your thoughts and desires and empty your

mind, only to fill it with peace." My mission is to transform

the bitter to sweet, to melt the stone to butter, to remove the

impurities and polish the jewel of virtues, and your mission, My

dears, is to live My mission from the beginning of your journey

till the end. The Guru can teach, but it is the devotee that

must learn. The Guru can save, but it is the devotee that must

allow Him to save. My mission and your mission, both depend

upon you, for my mission will succeed, only, if your mission

wins. Today, I plead to you as a mother to listen, I instruct

you as your teacher to pass your test, and I bless you with the

divine energies to succeed in your task and to give purpose to

the cause for which this has come. Change to love all, and you

will love the change it will bring in yourselves.

When you begin to experience the beauty of love with the efforts

you make in your spiritual sadhana, and you begin to share this

experience with others, so they too, can feel this wave of

peace, you have become a part of My "team". You have become one

of My hands to complete My task, you have become the hope in My

eyes, you have brought truth to My teachings, you have begun the

process of eliminating the "I" and opening the spiritual eye to

see the Lord yourselves, and you have begun to share the way

with others. If you help one, and the one helps another, then

the truth is not far away, and in the circle of love, we will

find God.

When you have shared love, you have not shared your wealth of

this life, but your wealth of several lives, only to see it grow

to become your treasure. This treasure of love makes you the

owner of this world, without the desire or obsession to own.

You will realize, that the rest of the world is your want "to

need", but love is all you really need. Your urge to share this

love is the divine energy within you that goes beyond the need

of your "self" to the needs of all the "selves" that surround

you. Each of us is a part of this whole, and love is the magnet

that attracts us to each other to come together and become one

spirit, "the spirit of God". The difference lies only in the

body, for the inner beings of each one of us come and go back to

the same Source. Close your eyes, and shut off to the external

physical differences. When you pray, you close your eyes to the

external distractions, so that you can concentrate on looking

inward. In the same way, your relation with others must go

beyond the body. The eyes of your "self" will recognize the

bond in the "self" of another. Then tell Me, who can you hate,

who can you envy, and who is really the target of your anger?

Your own self! You cannot make anyone suffer, for the one who

suffers is you, and the one who inflicts the suffering is also

you. I know this may be hard to understand, for you are reeled

into this wheel of superficiality, but I am the truth, and I

have come to reveal it to you. "God is true love and love is

the true self." All else experienced or known, is unreal.

To live amongst the defects of this world, to overcome all your

faults and ignore them in others, and to live your life in

perfect purity, seems to be only a wishful thought to you. Do

not blindfold yourselves with the idea that all this is

impossible and difficult to accomplish. To Me, most of your

difficulties lie in your disbelief of God, in your fears of

handling the reins over to Him, in the mountain of pride that

stops you to love, and in the lack of confidence in your own

self. Believe Me, you live in a very difficult situation today,

and My path for you is less crooked and very simple. When the

Lord walks in your life with you, the strength of His purity

will compel you to wash away your impurities. His feet, you

will follow, all through your ups and downs, the warmth of His

smile, and the sweet voice of His encouraging words will take

away all your pains, His hands you will hold to overcome the

blinding spells of your chaotic senses, His eyes will be your

guide to help you reach home, and your eyes will find

contentment in only seeing Him. The bliss you can find in your

journey of life with Him is not comparable to your journeys that

leave you alone and lost.

When a person in jail suffers long-term imprisonment, he begins

to adapt to the ways in the prison and begins to find security

in his cell. He fears to be released into the real world

outside, due to his lack of self-confidence. He becomes afraid

of rejection and failure.

You, too, have been locked into several bodies and have begun to

find comfort and security in this unreal world. Your fears of

the unknown, and of your fears of change have limited you in

your inquiries of the self. You are imprisoned by choice and

not by force. Come, open the doors, and breathe the fresh air

of freedom! Come, untie the chains that lock your feet, and

learn to walk again! Come, unfold your blindfold, and in the

brightness of the sunlight, enjoy the true vision and see again!

In such confinement, divine love suffocates and dies.