The more you are open, the more you see. All this is within you. Let it
unfold naturally by meditation, yoga, study, retreats, Satsangs, devotion to
Guru, service and so forth. Go on purifying yourself. Do not plan and
project and assume and impose. Let things happen. When it comes from within
with God’s guidance, it has a purpose and a mission. Ego’s planning and
scheming and projecting may be just for ego’s own satisfaction; it may not
do good to others. But if your heart and mind are purified and God or your
true conscience is guiding you, then it will certainly be good for anyone.
Ambition is not God’s voice; it is a human ailment. Take refuge unto God and
He will make you what He wants you to be. |
Surrender does not mean just your thoughts. It
has to be your total being: your personality, mind, body—everything that you
are. Then joy is yours; release is yours; you are illumined. You will
realize that you had forgotten your true, ever-fresh, ever-new heritage. You
do not have to live with smog and suffocation. What prevents you from
breathing freshly? “Oh, I am waiting for God to tell me. Unless I get the
voice of God I won’t do that….” You have to first be faithful to the Lord.
God told Noah to build the ark because he had great faith. Others would
simply have doubted or given excuses. “If He is God, why can’t He just save
us without making me build an ark? Why can’t He just tell me how to go where
the flood won’t be? He is telling all this jargon about building an ark and
putting these pairs of animals in it. Why can’t He re-create them as He did
in the beginning?” There is no end to excuses and questions. But where there
is faith, God has only to speak and Noah responds, “Yes, I will do it.”
People jeered and laughed at him—then what? He went on doing what the Lord
told him. |