If we are chosen instruments of the Lord or Divine Mother we have to be pure, conscious beings, not stubborn, dogmatic or defensive. Those who are obnoxious, defensive, liars, selfish, greedy, muddy attached, haughty and arrogant cannot be instruments of the Lord. They are victims or slaves of their ego. In other words, they have ensnared themselves in the cobweb of their own wrongdoings. Those who demand: “What about me?”—how can they be instruments of the Lord? I have researched this for years, how to take a peaceful path to Enlightenment without agitation in us or in others, without disharmony, without fighting. This is not weakness, laziness or lethargy, which may look like meekness from the outside but is not. Go peacefully. Imperceptibly do your practices. If we are fortunate and the Lord chooses us to do His Will, we should be humble and grateful, not proud.
      Once your consciousness expands and you merge into Pure Consciousness, you are childlike, simple and natural. Not only are Divine Mother and Divine Father with you—you are Light-full. You will know you are that Being of which the Mahavakya, the great Vedic aphorism, speaks: Thou Art That—Consciousness, Light, the Source of bliss and love. You are spontaneous. We call it Enlightenment—merging, like a drop of water into the ocean.
      There are many stories about the path to Enlightenment. A disciple once asked, “Guruji, where is Brahman?” Brahman is the Vedic term for God, the Supreme Being. His Guru told him, “Bring a bowl of water and look into it.” When he brought the bowl of water, the Guru told him, “This is Brahman.” The disciple took the bowl of water to his cottage and meditated upon it: “This is Brahman… this is Brahman.” After some time he came back to his Guru and said, “I meditate upon water as Brahman but nothing happened. Water is water.” His Guru said, “Look deep into the water.” The disciple said, “I can see the bottom of the bowl.” His Guru said, “You are thick-skinned. Go and meditate again.” For several months the disciple could see only water, but unknowingly he was developing concentration. He came back a third time to his Guru and said, “I can see only water and if that’s Brahman, what’s the fun in it?” His Guru said, “Leave the bowl here; go and meditate on this bowl of water without having it in your cottage.” So he went again and meditated, and his concentration began to deepen. In those days disciples had to take the words of the Guruji implicitly, whether it seemed wise or nonsense, believing that it has truth in it.