Words from the Master

Alright, now I want you all to go around and introduce yourselves to one another. We will be creating a group energy when we are here together for these few days. Go around and introduce yourselves to each and every one in the group. Even if they happen to be your family, introduce yourself! Remember: each one is a different person every minute. Don’t think that you know your family well. You can’t know them because they are changing every minute. So now, go around and introduce yourselves.

(The people go around and introduce themselves amidst much talk and laughter…)

Alright, now that you have finished, you must be feeling more comfortable, more at ease. You will not worry about sitting with strangers anymore!

We will be discussing a lot of things in the next few days. Just listen to everything and allow a space in you to open up wherein you can imbibe what you hear. Remember: I don’t want you to preach what I am saying; I want you to practice it. And the best time to start practising is now. So don’t search for a good time to start. It is now here or nowhere!

When you listen to whatever I say, there are two ways in which your mind will work. One is, with doubt and the other is, with belief.

Doubt is the way of the intellectual mind. With doubt, too much logic and reason will come in the way of receiving me into yourself. When this happens, you will miss me completely.

With belief also, if you straightaway believe in me, you will miss. Understand: You don’t need to believe in anybody, leave alone in me. The so-called believers are the weakest people, because it takes great courage to live without beliefs. When you don’t have a belief, you don’t have a fall-back system to support your actions. You don’t have a readymade idea to tell you what to think and how to act. To be without a belief requires great courage, because then, you have to depend on your own intelligence for everything and this makes you feel unsure and insecure.

Both doubt and faith are two sides of the same coin – that is your Mind. At a very deep level, your greatest doubt will carry some faith and your greatest faith will have some doubt in it. I can assure you that!

Then what should you do? How to listen?

Just listen with trust, that’s all. Trust is the energy, the ability to translate teachings into practical life. When I tell you, “The sun rises in the east”, you neither need to believe nor doubt – you simply know, that’s all; am I right? Or if it is something you haven’t noticed, you can always get up the next morning and see for yourself – as an experiment! Yes? This is the attitude I want from you. I want you to take in everything with an open mind and experience what I am saying, every moment in the various situations you might encounter during the day.

So have trust, not faith. Take what I say as a hypothesis; integrate it into your life and see for yourself whether it works or not. To know that an apple is tasty, you don’t have to believe or doubt. Just take a bite and you will know!

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.