Words from the Master

When you drop the mundane logic of your mind, you will flow like a river – choicelessly, effortlessly, joyfully with the flow of the current. You will then play your role and enjoy every moment of it. You will then understand that you are a part of a wonderful drama, where in the more sensitive you are to the conductor, the more effectively you can play and enjoy your part!

When you go against the current, you need to put in effort and exercise choices. When you go with the current, you don’t need to make any effort; you will not feel tired; you will not feel frustrated; you will only feel a flowing lightness and joy! Everything will then appear beautiful to you.

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

Words from the Master

A small story:

A Sufi Master, Junnaid used to pay his gratitude to God five times a day.
At one time, he and his followers were wandering through some villages where Sufism was not accepted as a religion.
In the first village, people accused them of begging, and threw meager alms at them.
The next day, the people refused to give them any alms.
On the third day, the village they passed through was so hostile that the villagers drove them out with sticks and stones.
That night as usual, Junnaid knelt down and offered his gratitude to God.
His disciples were watching him. It was too much for them. They could not understand why Junnaid was thanking God. They were furious.
They cried out, “Master! For three days we have gone without food! Today we were even driven out of that village like dogs! Is this what you are offering your gratitude for?”
Junnaid looked at them and said, “You talk about three days of hunger! Have you thanked God for the food you have received for thirty years? And know one thing: My gratitude is not for receiving or not receiving anything. It is simply an expression of the deep joy and love in my Being; it is a choice-less and prayerful expression, that’s all.”

When you live with overwhelming gratitude in you, you have found a space wherein nothing else is needed. It means that you have fallen into meditation. Then, you will not worry about anything else. You are on the right track. Your mind is no longer a hindrance to your growth. Your mind has disappeared. The mind cannot step in because you are brimming from your heart. There is no space for your mind. When there is no space for your mind, where will discontentment come from? Discontentment cannot come from the heart. It is purely a product of the mind.

Your mind always stands between you and Existence. It prevents you from hearing, seeing, feeling and emoting with Existence. Once you go beyond your mind and see the beauty of Existence, gratitude will become your prayer and bliss your Being! You will then enjoy liberation and permanent joy!

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

Words from the Master

Most of us pray with fear to God. You can see mothers telling their children that if they don’t do certain things, God will get angry with them. These statements take root in the child at a very young age, and give them a wrong concept of God. All these are the conditionings that you give to your child at an early age. When they grow up, they face serious dilemmas because of this. Instead of embracing Existence with love and gratitude, they stand apart from it with respect and fear.

Religion if followed out of fear will not take you anywhere; it will not pave the way for a transformation to happen in you. You might progress materially by the faith that you have in your asking, but you will remain where you are at the Being level. The purpose or real fulfillment of life can never happen in the material path; it can happen only at the Being level. People who undergo what is called depression of success will be able to relate to what I am saying, in a better way. We have discussed a lot about depression of success in the earlier sessions.

Religion has to be followed out of deep love and gratitude for the Divine or Existence. Although society teaches you to worship God in the name of fear, I tell you: Never do it. Always pray with love and gratitude towards the Divine.

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

Words from the Master

You might think: giving your gratitude can be a social habit, how can it be a meditation? But you will understand what I mean when you actually start giving your gratitude. When you start giving your gratitude, you will understand the value of your life.

I tell you: You are only aware of the people who are directly responsible for providing and caring for you. But during all these times and thousands of other times that you are not even aware of, you are helped, protected, and cared for by Existence, by the Cosmos, by the Universal Energy.

But you always think that whatever was given to you, was either because you deserved it or because it was an accident. When you start seeing and feeling the invisible hand of Existence taking care of you, you will understand that you are wanted here by Existence. Only then you will understand that you are being showered upon continuously by Existence.

The fact that you are alive is enough to show that Existence wants you here and cares for you. It is only when you don’t understand this, you feel dull and depressed and keep asking as if you are the most deprived person in the world.
If you listen from your Being to what is being said here, you will be able to tune yourself and become sensitive to the wonderful giving ways of Existence!

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