God and His Glory

God and his glory. This universe is His glory. People see his glory and forget everything. They do not seek God, whose glory is this world. All seek to enjoy ‘woman and gold’. But there is too much misery and worry in that. This world is like whirlpool of Visalakshi. Once a boat get into it there is no hope of its rescue. Again the world is like a thorny bush; you have hardly freed yourself from one set of thorns before you find yourself entangled in another. Once you enter a labyrinth you find it very difficult to get out. Living in the World, a man becomes seared, as it were.”

How to see God ?

” Cry to the Lord with an intensely yearning heart and you will certainly see Him. People shed a whole jug of tears for wife and children. They swim in tears for money. But who weeps for God? Cry to Him with a real cry.”

Cry to your Mother Shyama with a real cry, O mind!

And how can hold Herself from you?

How can Syama stay away?

How can your Mother Kali hold Herself away?

O mind if you are in earnest, bring Her an offering

Of bel-leaves and hibiscus flowers;

Lay at Her feet your offering

And with it mingle the fragrant sandal-paste of Love

Longing is like a rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

“God reveals himself to devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combine force of these three attractions; the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, child’s attraction for his mother, and the husband’s attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combine force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain him.”

“It is necessary to pray to Him with a longing heart. The kitten knows only how to call its mother, crying, “Mew, Mew!” It remains satisfied wherever its mother puts it. And the mother cat put the kitten sometimes in the kitchen, sometimes on the floor, and sometimes on the bed. When it suffers it cries only, “Mew, mew!” That’s all its knows. But as soon as the mother hears this cry, wherever she may be, she comes to the kitten.”

Is it possible to see GOD ?

“Yes, certainly. Living in solitude now and then, repeating God’s name and singing. His glories, and discriminating between the Real and the unreal - these are the means to employ to see Him.”

God with Form or No-Form ?

“Very good. It is enough to have faith in either aspect. You believe in God without form; that is quite all right. But never for a moment think that this alone is true and all else false. Remeber that God with form is just as true as God without form. But hold fast to your own conviction.”

Life and Responsibilities !!

Pratap’s brother came here. He stayed for few days. He had nothing to do and said he wanted to live here. I came to know that he had left his wife and children with his father in law He has a whole brood of them! So I took him to the task. Just fancy! He is the father of so many children! Will people from the neighbourhood going to feed them and bring them up? He isn’t even ashamed that someone else is feeding his wife and children and that they have been left at his father in law’s house. I scolded him very hard and asked him to look for a job. Then he was willing to leave here. 

When Is It Enough ?

“When, hearing the name of Hari or Rama once, you shed tears and your hair stands on end, then you may know for certain that you do not have to perform such devotions as the sandhya any more. Then only will you have a right to renounce rituals will drop away themselves. Then it will be enough if you repeat only the name of Rama or Hari, or even simply Om.”

Continuing he said, “The Sandyha merges in Gayatri and Gayatri merges in Om”