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Omkarananda AshramDiary 2001Sayings ofSwami Omkaranandafor Every Week of The Year
Comment: The decoration between each week leads back to the top of the diary. 1st week I
have come to serve. I
know the world and I have already conquered it in my heart.
I am not trying to find fame or shelter here in Europe, I
don't want a shelter on earth. If it is necessary for me I
can walk though the burning fire, I have done it many times
and I can do it again. I need nothing. I did not come into
the world, I am not born on earth in order to find a little
peace or a little rest, or a little shelter or a little
shade. I have perhaps been sent by the Grace of God to work
for Him, to the extent possible, under whatever
circumstances, great strain, struggle and suffering - it
matters not. I
am not fond of anything in life. I am already finished, the
world is dead to me and I am dead to the world. Long, long
ago that has happened, and no more I will open my eyes on
the world. The world is not a temptation to me, but the
world has always been a field of suffering for me because I
am conscious of the Treasures there are in the higher
Consciousness within ourselves. 2nd week Planning
is not successful. I
may forget your services but God will not forget you, or
your services. He will always stand by you, He is watching
you. It is God's Work that is going on. You know it is God's
Work, and that is why it is growing, that is why there is so
much of blessedness - by planning we can never do
anything. Man
plans, proposes - but God disposes. By
plans you can do nothing. By calmness, peace, love and hard
struggle God will do wonders through us. We should have
patience and watch how God is working. By
our planning it cannot bloom. We don't want it, but
everything is happening, happening - who is doing? - Nobody
knows. God is doing! Recognising the fact that it is God's
Work we must be supremely happy. God is most eloquently
present here. He is invisible to us, whenever we are too
human. He is visible to us when we are calm, dignified,
standing back and seeing and marvelling at what is
happening. Genius can achieve nothing, planning can achieve
nothing. What man plans God disposes of - what God plans
will be executed, even if we do not cooperate. 3rd week What
mighty difference is there between the Light that is in me
or the Light that is in the Divine Mother? If you sit down
and try to analyse and understand you will find that there
is absolutely no difference between the Light that is in Her
and the Light that is in me. The reason is this: My whole
soul, heart and mind are in Her, and I am not separated from
Her at any time. All my Joy, Glory,Wisdom, Strength and
Power emerge from Her Light. She
is always with me, by me, around me, and I have done nothing
in my life which was not Her work and Her Own Doing. Neither
Europe nor Switzerland nor anyone in the world had the power
to bring me here. She has brought me here. What She does I
don't object to; all Her doings are acceptable to me because
She Herself is doing and executing Her Own Plan. Wherever
She places me, there I am deeply happy in Her. Therefore
there is absolutely no difference between the Light that is
in Her and the Light that is in me; and the Light that is in
Her is the same Light that is in Jesus. There are not two or
many lights - there is but one Light. 4th week Very
clearly the mantra, myself and the supreme Divinity are one
and the same. There is no difference, because all three are
Consciousness. Mantra is Consciousness, the Master is
Consciousness, Divinity is Consciousness. When you progress
more and more your inner divine Consciousness will unfold
itself, manifest itself, and you become one with the mantra,
one with the Divinity, one with me. Then all the four become
one and the same. God
is always with you, every heartbeat is counted, and He sees
everything and He will guide you. The
Light of the Master you are looking for is here. Use
this Light as much as you want, and afterwards when you have
a deeper and deeper experience you will see the real Nature
of your Master. Going
up and dying and then to rise again is in nature. There is
no reason for you to be sorry, because you are wasting time
if you are sorry and unhappy. God
is always with you, everything is wonderful. 5th week We
must not identify the soul with the body. When you do it,
all troubles arise. Even
when I have fever I do not identify my body with my soul. I
say, I am different from this fever. Fever has nothing to do
with me. It is nonexistent. It does not belong to me, it is
something belonging to the body. Body itself is not mine.
Myself - that is a secret of wisdom. This
is the right attitude and the right way. We have to look at
ourselves in terms of God, or timeless
Consciousness. After
one hundred years what will happen to all our earthly
possessions? I will be no more in the Ashram, only wonderful
work will remain there behind. So with all people. Where are
these millions of people who are rich or poor, good or bad,
who are doctors, professors, great men or presidents of
nations. What happens to them after hundred years? None of
them are there after a hundred years, and a hundred years
will pass away like a hundred hours. 6th week I
think that I am going to die tomorrow, and that you must use
me as fully as quickly, as completely as possible. You must
think like that, then you will progress rapidly. Why
am I working like a mad person - quickly, quickly? Because I
am thinking tomorrow morning I die; therefore, whatever good
I have to do, I must do it quickly. There
are so many books written, but even that is not sufficient.
More has to be written. More has to be given so that people
may have sufficient food, so that even if I die they will
not miss my presence. That
is why I am trying to do as much good as possible, as
quickly as possible. The
greater the demand for God, the more I am forced to stay
here. The greater your demand for Wisdom, Peace, Joy,
Strength and Immortality, the more I will be forced to stay
here. 7th week I
am giving you the Strength and the Light of Wisdom.
Therefore you must thank God, your stars, your birth's chart
and your astrological chart that you have come across
someone who could give you the Strength and the Light of
Wisdom and put you on the path which belongs to you by your
own right. One who can help you to see the gold in your own
heart, to see the power in your own heart. Someone who is a
pure and selfless person, who has nothing to profit by you,
the world, or by anybody or anything, and whose pleasures,
life and power are independent of his own body, mind and
work, and the external world; therefore, when you have such
a wonderful opportunity, you must thank God a million times
every morning. 8th week You
are paid a hundredfold and thousandfold more for every
little step and pain that you take on the spiritual path. No
effort of yours is lost - not even the preparing of the cake
and giving it to me is lost - it is an integral part of your
inner movement towards perfection. Every wink of our eye is
being noted down in the Registers of God. Even if you had
given me a cake mentally, it has already reached me; so
perfect are the Laws of God. God counts and values your
heart's activities, your inner motives and thoughts. When
your time for arriving at high divine Perfection draws
closer and closer, naturally God Himself will build his
Temple on earth through your hands. What
you have done in this Ashram for all humanity is what God
has been doing through you all the time. That means your
heart has been accepted by Him. If there were no acceptance
on His part of you, He would not work through you. He works
through no imperfect instrument, so He is always on the
lookout for those ones who are ready. You are most blessed,
and I humbly trust and hope you will continue to build the
Temple of the Divine, the Church of the Divine, the House of
the Divine more and more so that hundreds of people might
move towards the Divine; for there can be no real faith,
peace, joy or perfection anywhere except in the
Divine. In God alone is our Perfection. 9th week I
am wholly in the Arms of the Divine. I do not care for
Europe, I do not care for India, I do not care for the
world. I am always happy, peaceful; wherever I go people say
they will give money; wherever I go people will say they
will give me their house, and give me food. In whichever
country I go, wherever I go, whatever place I go, everything
is provided for me by the Hands of God, and the Grace of
God. If
you follow what is being told you by the Divinity you will
be most blessed, and you will be a chosen instrument in the
hands of God for the spread of Love and Light. You will be
blessed a millionfold, and you will see for yourself how
peaceful and happy and illuminated you are, and how God's
Grace works, and how all the world begins to love
you. Everything
depends on you. You must shine as a great daughter or son of
God, full of love, understanding, faith and power. Never
forget that we have the greatest admiration and love for
you. I beg you to shine as a god-chosen daughter and use me
for the spread of your glory and peace. 10th week If
you ask me whether I am a master, I will say no. I am not a
master. If you ask me if I am a prophet, I say no. I have no
interest whatsoever, either in the functions of a divine
Master, or in the divine Mission of a great prophet. My
whole interest, being, life and intelligence, are rooted in
the Divine, and that is all-sufficient for me. My joy and my
delights are laid in the Kingdom of Heaven, my power and my
strength are there laid in it, and I have nothing to do with
this world. So,
if you find some activity in my life, it is not my doing,
and with it I have no relations. I do not acknowledge the
reality or the presence of all these activities and
environment that you see around me. The greatness or fame
accompanying the mission of a great divine Master are
absolutely non-interesting to us. They cannot secure our
attention. If
you see that hundreds are being guided by me and many have
spiritual experiences as a result of my presence, and if
many miracles are worked or many are healed I wish to tell
you it is not my doing. It is the Self-expression of the
Divinity. And I have not myself wished that God may so
express Himself through me. 11th week In
my heart there is no wish at all. There is only one thing in
my heart: my relations with the Divinity. I have no other
mission in life except to keep my relations with the
Divinity absolutely intact. Therefore it is difficult for me
to say, "Yes, I am a guru, I will guide you!" It is
impossible for my nature to say, "I am a guru," and I will
guide you. However, I am full of love for all beings, and
when somebody is in real need of help I am ready to any
degree of sacrifice and help for that person. But this would
be something that is the spontaneous expression of my inner
nature. It is not something deliberated, something governed
by logical processes, but something that has spontaneously
escaped my inner nature. And
they get all that they seek or desire to get by that
relationship they establish. That is the point. As for
myself the world of this physical universe, of humanity,
does not exist. What is, is an infinite divine
Consciousness, and we are, in our own eyes and experience,
Flames of that divine Consciousness. And we have no field of
activity outside this divine Consciousness. 12th week I
have no consciousness that I am a divine Master, a prophet
or a guru; all such thoughts are foreign to me. At worst my
relations with people are governed by a great love. At worst
I see in everybody the same Divinity. The idea that they
should be taught, guided and led onward is not present in
me. The idea that I am happy in their presence and that I
must serve them in one way or the other is alone present.
That is why sometimes I am very happy to carry a cup of tea
to somebody who calls himself my disciple, devotee and
slave. So I am always playing the role of apparently a
servant for all these disciples of mine. Therefore there is
no such a thing as a disciple in my eyes. All are my
masters, all deserve my services. If you ask me if I want
some services from them I have no wish. I don't want anyone
to serve me in any way. And I have no respect either for
their possessions or for their money, no respect for their
talents and their abilities. I have overwhelming love for
them, and I have the greatest respect for the Divinity they
enshrine. All talents - if I want any - are already with me.
And an all-fulfilling, all-wishfulfilling Divinity is always
with me. Therefore I am all-sufficient in myself. Therefore
I do not need anybody's services in order that my life may
be complete. It is at all times, in all conditions,
self-complete. And if you see something contradictory to
what I am saying remember it is only an outer guise; if you
break the outer guise you will find the truth of my
statement inside. 13th week It
is because of the tenderness of Heart that I give mantras to
people. Now, most of these people have no way out, and
therefore I am moved, not by my judgement, but by a Heart
other than the heart which is in my physical body. That
Heart is the real giver of the mantras. Because my Heart is
completely tender I am childlike, therefore the slave of
everybody - somebody comes and puts me in the car and takes
me away to Zurich, somebody comes and calls me to the
hospital, somebody wants a letter to be typed, somebody
wants me to come to their house, somebody prepares a
programme without my knowledge and I have to be there. And
hundreds of people say, "We all want to come today!" I say
yes to everybody. This is my nature. There are no airs of
Divinity or Holiness around me. There is no advertising
board that I am a divine Person, and I gain nothing by the
role of a divine Master. The fame of a divine Master or a
divine Personality does not interest me in the least. Such a
circumstance and fame I regard deep down in my heart as a
tremendous nuisance from which we have to run many
miles. 14th week If
I were not deeply interested in the welfare of all these
people, if my heart were not constantly throbbing for the
blessings for all humanity, how would the Divinity put me
here now? What attraction have I here in Europe? What
pleasure or gifts are you giving me? What am I enjoying
here? - It is as though I am in a hell. If
I am putting myself in this hell you can understand how much
more I love you than you love me. What greater sacrifice I
am making for you than you can ever think of making for me?
If I am in the hell of these circumstances here, it is by an
overwhelming love for humanity. It is under the Command of
the divine Grace and Light. I have seen wonderful women not
of the earth but of the divine Worlds. There are wondrous
Treasures in the Heart of the Divine and in the Worlds of
the Divine compared to which all the wealth of the world is
ashes and dust. Conscious of these Glories of the Kingdom of
Heaven having had a direct experience of the Grace of God
and all those Splendours of the Kingdom of Heaven it is
impossible for our nature to be attracted by the greatest
thing in the world or to be interested in any thing which
the world considers most precious. We
are living in another World. And to live here on earth is a
torture for us, not a pleasure. We don't feel this torture
because the inner mind is constantly in the other
World. 15th week All is God's Grace. Not
I was coming. It is God bringing us. It is all divine Plans.
We do not come, we do not go anywhere of our own choice
according to our own plan. It is all set for us by the Hand
of the Divine. I am with you. After
six thousand years my photograph will be there. If you are
thinking of me as the photograph I come to you as the person
looking like the photograph so that you can recognise
me. I
have no form, no shape, no time, no space, no body, no eyes,
no ears, nothing because I am supreme Consciousness; I know
what is happening in your inner Heart, you are thinking of
me as the photograph, - well, I take the photograph's form,
so that you can see me, and I will talk to you. The Divine
Mother also does the same thing. You understand now? - A
secret. 16th week I
never felt that I am in Europe, I am thinking that I am in
the same place where I always was. I never for one moment
had the idea that I am in Europe. Nothing has come to me
that I am here, it has made no difference whether I am in
India or here. I still feel that I am in my own room and
still in the same India. I
have not allowed my circumstances and environments to make
an impression on my mind, and if the ground from underneath
my feet is cut out, here, I would not be sorry. I am not
attached to anything here. Nothing
has interested me here, nothing has caught my emotions,
nothing has enslaved me. I am attached to nothing, yet I am
behaving as if I were attached to everything. This
is a great art. It is like living as a lotus-flower is
living in water. It is in the water, but nothing of the
water touches it. You pour endless water on it, not a drop
sinks into it. On the other hand put a small piece of cloth
in the water, it is full of water, it is wet. Put a
lotus-leaf in the water and take it out - it is not wet. I
am living like the lotus-leaf. I am not affected by anything
around me. It is dangerous to involve ourselves emotionally. 17th week There
is no need for control and correction, you are being
protected by the Holy Mother. Spiritual progress and
development is a slow process, we cannot hasten matters. It
is an inner matter, we cannot see how we are growing. You
are growing ever since your contact with me, but you are not
able to see it because it is an internal phenomenon; all
that you know is a few of the external effects. Therefore,
remembering these facts, I would tell you that there is no
reason for correcting you, and no need for examining
you. The
Divinity in me knows all about your progress, even if you
are six million kilometres away from me. After death,
wherever you may be, still the Divinity in me will know of
your spiritual state and progress. Even if you are on Mars
or Venus or on some other plane of consciousness and
existence, it does not matter in which world you are -
psychic world or astral world or physical world - the
Divinity in me is conscious of your condition. 18th week There
is absolutely no need for examining and correcting you. The
wonderful Corrector is seated in your hearts, He is
correcting you always. He is already doing the work for me.
I need not from time to time examine you and correct you.
The Self-Teacher is already placed in your hearts. There is
an intimate relationship between that Teacher and myself.
That Teacher within your hearts will teach you more and
more, as you are trying to become more and more pure, more
and more full of longing for God-experience, more and more
full of love for God, increasing practice of the Presence of
God. The
path we have chosen is a path of love and wisdom, it is a
path where there is no cheating, no illusion, no deception.
While all the time you consider me as God, I am considering
you, though you are the pupil, as my God. So there is
God-experience here, God-experience there. We are trying to
see, experience, know, live in the Kingdom of Heaven within
each other. The Guru is seeing God in the pupil, the pupil
is seeing God in the Guru. If the pupil has more purity,
endless purity, he will be as wonderful as the Master, he
will express in his daily life more of God's Perfection,
Peace, Joy and Wisdom. 19th week The
very mission of my life, or everybody's life, is: we are
sending constantly waves and waves of blessings and
grace. God in everything I
speak from the point of view of mystical experience - my
experience. I don't see the corpse, I see God is in the
corpse. I see another dimension because there is no thing
where God is not present whether it is a corpse, or anything
else whatsoever. There
is a dimension in all these physical , dead , dirty, ugly
things, and that is the dimension of the infinite
Consciousness. Our contact is with That only. Such
is the wonderful nature of a man of God-knowledge that even
if he gives poison with his hands, it becomes nectar. Even
if he presents to you an untruth, it becomes a
truth. 20th week Don't
doubt if I hear or not hear you. The hearing Light and
Presence is right beneath voicing. You can always be sure
that I am already with you before you had called me. Because
I am not serving people as a personality, I am not doing
anything by myself; something is done by divine Grace and
divine Presence. That Presence is everywhere; It is
prompting the thoughts in you through your prayers.
Therefore you need not doubt. Another
point: Your real Parent, Strength, Life and Light and your
unfailing Grace are God Himself. He is always with you. When
you are thinking of men of God-experience or great saints
like St. Francis and so on, God is immediately listening to
you, and will answer to you in the way in which you are
thinking. Your sincerity and faith in God is your blessing,
your love for God is your magic. Wherever you are, He will
always stand by you and protect you with His million Hands.
Therefore, wherever you move, carry in your heart a sense of
His living Presence. Living in your house, know that you are
living in God's own house doing all the services in the
house; know for a certainty that you are doing God's service
and that you are doing everything for God. Eat in the name
of God, drink in the name of God, make no difference between
Jesus Christ and the omnipresent and omnipotent
Godhead. 21st week If
you are insisting on approaching or seeing the Divinity in
me, then you can consider me as Father, or as Beloved, or as
Son - all these attitudes are wonderful - but all these
attitudes are dangerous if you are not conscious only of
that all-perfect infinite divine Consciousness. There
should not be the danger of your mistaking me for the body,
no danger of confining your attention to the outer
personality. Your business is with the highest divine
Consciousness deep inside the Love of my Being. The moment
you hear my name or think of me, always think of me as a
Light, as a Consciousness, as a representation of God's
Love. Then you are safe. I
never decide anything for anybody, because I am free, I am
not here at all on earth. Internally I am totally different,
my way and style of life and everything is different.
Whatever you decide is all right for me, the decision lies
with you. I never ask anybody to come here or anybody to go
from here, they come of their own accord; they decide, and
when they decide something, I am ready to help them in any
way. 22nd week If
you follow the Light in your heart, God will not fail you.
Try to be more good, more pure, more wise, and God will
bring you the best forces, angels will guide you, your
conscience will become brighter and brighter and guide you.
Help comes to you in many ways, through noble literature or
noble people. From most unexpected corners and quarters the
help will come to you. Stand irreconcilably upon your
aspiration, and all the great all-knowing Forces of God will
work with you and through you. Try
to be the medium of God's Love, Power, Grace and Wisdom.
Tell your heart, "I don't want to be the medium of any power
less than God, less than Jesus Christ." Try
to be the medium of infinite Wisdom, infinite Love,
unconditioned Joy, absolute Purity and absolute
God-Consciousness. Don't fall down from this standard. God
will fulfil your wish, you are blessed. You heart mixes and
mingles with God's Heart and there is a perfect
harmony. 23rd week If
God cannot teach you so well, the world is not going to
teach you so well. God plans for our life the moment we stop
planning for our life. You
are always planning. What shall I do tomorrow morning and
the day after tomorrow? - If you are going on planning for
your own life, how is God going to plan for you? In my life
God is planning for me. I don't want
anything, I am never planning, God is planning. But you are
not allowing God to plan for you. God
does not harm anyone, punish anyone, destroy anyone or
disturb anyone - His very Presence is saving. What destroys
you, disturbs you, weakens you, punishes you or troubles you
is your own weakness. God is all-merciful, and He never
punishes or destroys anyone. But the moment He appears with
the repetition of the mantras, or when He wants it, our
ignorance is destroyed. And when we are bad, our own
weaknesses punish us, and we have to reap the consequent
suffering. 24th week The
central strength of a man of God-experience lies in his
inner truthfulness. The inner truthfulness has nothing to do
with what apparently seems to be on the surface. Since Truth
is the central strength of the man of God-knowledge,
whatever he says will come true. If he says to somebody,
"You will be all right," he will be all right. If he says to
someone, "After one year you have this prosperity or this
type of happiness," after one year he is bound to have this
type of happiness and that type of prosperity. If he says
that you have difficulties ahead, you are bound to have
them. If he says, "Just repeat 'Jesus,' and you will get
divine experience," you will have it. Whatever he says, God
makes it absolutely true. Such
is the power in the words of a man of God-experience. His
inner life is rooted in God, and as God is the ultimate
Truth, the words of this man have great power, great value,
and will come true - if not immediately, then after some
time. The Power and Presence of God are resident in the
words of this man even if these words may be apparently
meaningless. 25th week Until
you are established in the infinite Wealth, Prosperity and
Wisdom of the objectless, infinite, divine Consciousness,
you should believe that whatever I am talking to you is
absolute truth. If you disbelieve, you harm yourself. If you
believe, your results are double, triple, fourfold,
fivefold. Remember,
I have no interest in the world. That there is an Ashram
here, I do not know. My heart is completely pure and
detached from the Ashram and from the whole world. I am not
interested in anything, I am merely watching what God is
unfolding for the welfare of humanity. And God does for
humanity only what His Wisdom and Will desire. So,
I am merely a witness of the grand expression of God's Grace
for mankind. What I speak is charged with the Presence and
Light of God. If
you have patience, your blessings are indescribable. If you
are impatient, you will harm yourself now and
hereafter. 26th week In
the forest I have been very close to deadly, huge snakes.
Nothing could have prevented those snakes from making a good
meal of me. I was only one foot away from them, yet instead
of beating their heads on me they have beaten their heads on
the other side, and got frightened and slid away. I have no
power, I have no hatred for them, nor am I afraid of them,
nor did I say, "Please go away from here." Yes,
there is a magnetism, which is all-wonderful, and that
magnetism is an emanation of inner purity and goodness. If
you have these two, the whole world and nature disclose to
you the Secrets of God, and wonders happen - wonders in the
outer life, and wonders in the inner life. Constantly let
the heart say, "I am the infinite Light, I have no body, I
am unlimited, I am unborn, I am beginningless and
endless." Thus has my heart stated from early boyhood. 27th week My
blood is royal. The Nature of God is my nature. I am here to
transfer all the Treasures of God to the earth. My nobility
lies in my capacity to draw from the Heart of the Divine
Light and Love, and pour it on the creation. I
am a beggar at no one's door, nor do I depend too much upon
my genius and my capacities. I depend upon the boundless
Love of the Divine, and I steal the Treasures of the Divine
which belong to me from the Heart of the Mother Divine, from
the Heart of the Father Divine, from the Heart of the
Reality Infinite and pour them upon the poverty of humanity,
spread them in all creation. Let
this be the story of your inner life. Accept nothing other
than so great a task as your rightful task. Great
kings and emperors of the world have died like flies; that
is not life, that is death which has enstaged a brief, petty
drama. Dissolve
all that is human in your blood. Live, breathe in the Light
and Love Divine, unlimited, infinite. Let all your works, thoughts and feelings reflect the Grandeur and Glory of God. 28th week It
is impossible for you to understand me, unless you are in
the same condition and state of inner Soul and Consciousness
as I am. My
life is not on the surface, nobody can see it, not even
saints can see it, because there is a contract between God
and all great men of God Consciousness, there is a Law of
God which keeps the personal things of a great man
completely shielded from all scrutiny. Only those will be
given an insight into it, whom that person wants or God
wants, and that does not happen without the common consent
of God and that person. So,
you gain much if you do not try to judge my actions. You can
try to understand them only by development of your own inner
purity and wisdom; to the extent you grow in purity and
establish contact with God, to that extent my conduct
becomes visible to you. Without this equipment your
judgement will mislead you; it has no influence on me, but
it misleads you, and to that extent the loss is yours. So
try to suspend judgement. Whatever you think is wonderful
assimilate it if you have the strength. 29th week The
highest Truth of our inner experience is that God is
all-sufficient, all-wonderful, all-marvellous Reality. We
have caught Him in the net of our divine Knowledge. We have
caught Him in the ecstasies of our divine Love. We have
received Him as a result of our inner secret occult
practices. We hold Him in our experience as a result of His
own boundless Grace. My
blood is so pure that the idea of the disciple never comes
there. The joy inside and the light inside are so wonderful
that great prophets and saints want to be my disciples: I
will never look at them. If in daily life I pretend to be
the master, it is purely on account of compassion and
respect for the needs of the people who come to
me. That
is purity. I close my eyes, there is only one object, God. I
open my eyes, there is only one object, God. I work hard, I have no time to repeat the mantra, only God is visible. That is Purity. 30th week Look
at me, why should I leave my joys in the Himalayan mountains
and suffer here in the heart of Europe? You
are suffering with your body and your one family. I am
suffering with thousands of bodies and thousands of
families. For whose sake am I doing it? For the welfare of
humanity. When I have taken this much of suffering on myself
and under this suffering doing so much work, why not take a
little suffering on yourself and demonstrate God's Power and
Peace? So,
take your family life as your cross, and show that death is
nothing, that trouble is nothing, that world is nothing.
Say, "I have overcome the world." Now,
if somebody comes and spits on me, what has he touched?
Nothing. I am the very soul and life of that person. I am
the Lord of that person. So unless we have this experience
we cannot be said to be really spiritual. 31st week When
a person is a pure Child of God he does not take in any
impressions; the moment you take in impressions you are a
sinner. We
should not take in the impressions, but we must be full of
the Light, Power and Consciousness of God. My
body is being burnt, and I am being broken to pieces, yet
there is not a disturbance either in my mind, or in my
heart. I am full of joy and peace. I am a Son of God. Do you
see the difference?
My
power is purely a divine Power, it is not under my control;
because it is so pure a power it is purely a divine Power.
It begins to function and many miracles are done for many
people, automatically. They think of me, it is done. Who did
it stir? - No conscious human mind; and it was done in no
conscious human way. In
some cases there is no answer. Why? - The Wisdom of the
Divinity knows why. Where the Divinity thinks it is very
essential to bring about the change, it brings about the
change at once. 32nd week There
is time for everything. There should be no anxiety what God
wants to do for mankind, He will somehow do it. Patience
and continuity of effort are necessary; you are on the right
path, but try now to intensify your inner spiritual powers,
touch the Divine in many ways and you will see the obstacles
disappear.
As
for me I have no duty, no plan. What is happening is
happening by Grace. Grace is doing everything, and I do not
know what Grace is doing. People say it is wonderful, it is
Grace's work, and what the Grace is going to do tomorrow it
is purely the Divine's business. We do not have to know; it
is not necessary. It is enough for us to be in this minute
in God-Consciousness, and go on expressing as much of love,
power, faith, goodness and sweetness, as possible. Do it in
the name of the Divine as a divine work, as your spiritual
practice. Begin it with the Name of the Divine, and end it
with the Name of the Divine. Feel the divine Presence, know
that it is Its energies that are working. 33rd week It
is the Infinite from which you have come and to which you
are going to return. You may be a Napoleon and have
conquered half a dozen countries - at the end you will end
up in a prison and your empire is destroyed. You are never
safe anywhere except in the Divine; you can never be happy
anywhere, except in the Infinite. You can never hope to be
really strong, wonderful and wise, unless you are in the
Infinite. The
world will always fail us, it is not self-sufficient, it is
full of limitations. Sons have killed their fathers, wives
have betrayed their husbands, daughters have murdered their
mothers. This
is a world where friends turn out to be enemies, enemies
turn out to be friends. It is a big drama, and nobody is
safe in this drama unless he is in God. By
divine Grace everything has been wonderful till now. Now
consider what is happening now also as wonderful, and face
it most bravely. 34th week You
are bound to become divinely perfect; already the saints in
you are rising up. This spiritual path is the most wonderful
path. It gives to you immortal, eternal Life, eternal Joy
and eternal Peace. God
most eloquently lives in the hearts of His saints. My heart
is more delicate than the petal of the rose. How it has
become so delicate? - Through years of love of God, life
with God, years of intimate conversation, years of complete,
total purity and total meditation. Even my blood is full of
God-Consciousness. Whether my eyes are closed or opened,
they are face to face with God. Nothing
interests me except the all-sufficient, all-marvellous
Divinity, God. Whatever may be the work, it is all being
done by God, in God, for God. And who are the people who are
sitting around me? - They are not people for my heart; they
are God Himself for my heart, because I am not in contact
with their outer personality, I am in contact with God in
them. I am adoring them, because I am seeing God in
them. 35th week The inner Heart is for ever. Christ
was deprived of his body. Christ may be deprived of his
religion, He may be deprived of anything, but not of His
Heart. That is of His inner Reality, of the Father in Him,
of the Truth in Him, of the subtlest Essence in Him. That is
the Kingdom of Heaven, and so long as Christ has that
Kingdom in Him, and lives in It and lives of It, he can make
any number of heavens. He loses nothing by the death of the
body. Therefore
endeavour to recognise this central possession of yours,
this central wealth of yours; it should be dearer to you
than anything else on earth, for everything in life changes,
nothing can be trusted. You can be deprived of everything;
everything can be burnt down, destroyed or removed out of
your experience by the hand of time, but the inner Reality
cannot disappear from you. And so long as you have it you
can create any time-space-order. You
can create any world of experience. You have unending peace
and happiness, you have unending knowledge. 36th week Do not forget who you really are! Man
carries with him all that he inwardly gains here on earth,
nothing is lost. We survive beyond the grave, and we carry
with us the result of everything that we think and the
fruits of our feelings, endeavours, strivings, longings, and
our desires in self-expression. We are the Creatures of the
Immortal. We are artists by nature, we carry infinite genius
in our soul. We are not matter-moulded forms with a brief
history on earth. Our destiny is timeless, and outlives the
body in which we live. We are blessed but we need saints to
tell us this. We need men of God-Consciousness to lead us on
this path. We need true education and culture that give us a
hold upon the Indestructible, the Infinite and the Timeless.
We are neither moths nor flies that can come to a close in a
brief time. We
are Children of the Immortal, we are Children of God. Our
relations with the Divine are inseparable and inalienable.
These relations have to be recovered in conscious experience
and in every aspect of daily life. 37th week I am responsible for you for eternity. The
moment you touch the mantra you are touching the Infinite,
the moment you repeat the mantra you are claimed as a Son of
the Infinite. So
on account of me all these powers of the Godhead are always
around you. Your mantra has got Life and Consciousness from
me; therefore what is happening? All the gods who are
managing several domains are frightened of you because your
power is greater than their power. Therefore, angels are
always around you. Grace redeems man from death. That
is really life which is blessed with the thought of the
Divine. That is real, abundant and everlasting life which is
devoted to the Divine. Life
without God is worse than death. People who are completely
lost in a godless life do not know the true joys of
existence, they mistake their wretched condition for
happiness. This is disease, and remains as such until they
are awakened one day by Grace; then their standpoint
changes. 38th week An
extremely poor man who finds it difficult to get food, finds
himself in heaven even if he gets only a little food. An
exceedingly rich man is not happy if he gets lots of money.
He wants more, he is full of regret that he gets
less. Standpoints
are different. Those who are devoted to the Divine have the
highest standpoint, from their standpoint life with all its
riches and pleasures is worse than death; it is essenceless,
it is without support and without name, it is devoid of
colour and fragrance. It is only the Touch of the Divine
that makes life real life, full of creative possibilities,
full of endless Peace, Joy, Light and Grace. It is life
liberated - a life illuminated. It is a life infinitely
enriched, it is a life that is blessed with all-independent
joy, a life ensouled by the peace that passeth
understanding, a life which is full of splendours and
beauties. Therefore the spiritual individual, with all the
strength of his heart, quickly clings to the
Divine. 39th week Trust
in the Divine works miracles. Miracles need not be something
extraordinary but can be just normal and silent; even the
unfoldment of a bud into a flower can be a miracle. There
are miracles of numberless types or forms. A
person who has love for the Divine and devotion to the
Divine is full of trust in the Divine. Everything will be
ordered wonderfully by the hand of the Divine. The Grace of
the Divine is unfailing and the Love of the Divine is
unfailing even though when things are at the last end. Every
individual is a miniature God, is a nutshell of the whole of
the Kingdom of Heaven. From this nutshell the entire Kingdom
of Heaven can emerge. Every
man carries in himself the rays of infinite Knowledge,
absolute Peace, infinite Power, absolute Beauty and all the
countless qualities of the Divine? When
one day or the other man is shaken to the foundations there
arises from him that which is godlike. 40th week The
lover of the Divine is full of trust even in the jaws of the
tigress. So that is the reward of trust in the Divine: Not
only miracles are worked by trust, but in all situations, in
all difficulties, the trust of the Divine works wonders; not
necessarily where the question of saving life from certain
dangers is concerned Maybe
the divine Grace waits until the very last second before the
miracle is worked. Ordinary
persons completely lose trust at the very first step. It is
only the true lovers of the Divine who keep up this trust
even when all seems to have been completely lost. The
rewards of trust are indescribable; not only that, but the
health improves, the inner nature becomes all-resistent, the
peace inside is undisturbed, the happiness within is
self-sustaining, and one is calm even under the worst
challenges. 41st week Love
is the inextinguishable Flame in the inner Being of man. In
the bad it is completely hidden; in the good it shines dimly
through veils, and in the pure it is fully visible. This
Flame of Love has in it Beauty, Power, Art, Science, Heaven
and Perfection. God
is Love. The living Presence of this Love in us awakens our
aspirations, urges us to do good, impels us to seek higher
knowledge, causes in us the longing for perfection and sets
our will and energies striving for the attainment of true
freedom, peace and illumination by the transcendence of
human limitations. Of
Love we are born, by Love we are sustained, and in Love we
shall subsist for ever and ever. If
God were not Love, our breath would be pain and our life an
inextinguishable sorrow. If
God were not Love, the human affections and sympathies would
have no foundations. If
God were not Love, a flower would be neither colourful nor
fragrant, there would be no desire in life to live, and
hope, faith and trust would be nonexistent. If God were not
Love, truth would have no substance, beauty no reality and
life no meaning. Love is all. 42nd week For
Love, the world is beautiful, and everyone is wonderful and
worthy of service. And Love has the strength to make the
world beautiful. It has the all-conquering softness and
wisdom that ejects venom from the bad man and makes him an
angel. Where love is limited, and therefore human, it does
not always succeed, and fails as it should. Such a love is
not love, but only a semblance of real Love. Love
feels the world with the Heart of God. It sees the world
through the Eyes of God. It enables you to live in the world
with the Life of God. It breathes Peace, emanates Wisdom,
and disseminates Light. Its substance is Truth.
Never
be in a negative state of mind, don't be anxious. The body
is not everything. Why do you say that you are losing trust?
It is not so! I want to tell you one small thing: You must
understand there is no refuge for you except God. This God
is all-merciful, you are dear to Him, infinitely more than
your own son or daughter is dear to you. 43rd week You
accept every trial as an answer from God to your prayer,
because from the trial will be born your Kingdom of Heaven.
If there were any person who should have complained against
God and who should have lost trust in God, it was Jesus
Christ, because though He is said to be always praying to
God and always in meditation, always in God-Consciousness,
He was the person who was most deserted by God. He was
insulted, beaten, called names, abused and crucified. Is
this the answer of God to the prayer of Jesus? So I beg you
not to judge the Answer of God from the outer conditions.
Let them be what they are, you go on loving for loving's
sake, keep up your love, trust and faith under the worst
circumstances. Tell your heart and mind, "Dear ones, now you
are in the Kingdom of Heaven, you are most blessed.
Experience His Presence most intensely, enjoy heaven here
and now, behold the wondrous Presence of God". This
is the Truth. Your outer condition of imperfections has
nothing to do with you, it is purely a temporary affair, and
it does not affect you so long as you are with God. Let us
not pray for relief from suffering, let us pray for a
stronger faith and a stronger love. 44th week True
spirituality is a matter of the inner Heart. Spiritual
people are full of nobility, full of the highest wisdom,
full of peace and trust in the Divine. God is the best
place, the best treasure, the best protection, the best
answer to all problems and the source of unlimited strength
and intelligence. Trust If your heart
is always moving towards the Divine and there is a sense of
security and full faith and trust in the Divine, and the
trust that everything is wonderful in the knowledge and in
the protection of the Divine, then be sure your heart is
becoming divine, spiritual and pure. Believe in God, trust in God, and go on with your work. 45th week When
love becomes devotion and when devotion ripens, it puts
forth a million eyes. One begins to see the Divine
everywhere; one discovers the Divine in the walls, trees,
flowers, stones, air, space, table, spoons and in all beings
everywhere at all times. Only such a devoted heart is the
true discoverer, the true inventor, the true
scientist. Scientists
discover merely a few laws in nature. All these discoveries
are like children going to the seashore and bringing home a
few pebbles. They are just the discovery of something
present in the effects of the phenomena, the creation.
Nobody knows the cause. Nobody has the capacity to discover
the cause which is full of treasures, splendours and
wonders. It
is only the devoted heart that perceives everything, that
penetrates into the cause of all creation. It discovers the
Divine everywhere - therefore it is quite natural for St.
Francis to see the Divine in the sun, the moon and the
river. That is a primary experience, it is the first
discovery. This discovery extends further until the Divine
is experienced in all Its dimensions. 46th week Try
to perceive the Divine everywhere - in the mirror into which
you look, in the plate from which you eat. Speak to the
Divine in the open space, in the water, in the air, in the
earth. The
air, the earth and the space all become your friends. The
mirror, the table and the plate all become your friends. All
open their heart to the impact of your love and adoration.
It becomes easy to perceive the Divine in them. They help
disclose the Divinity they conceal and of which they know
nothing.
So, the most aesthetic, the most blessed, the most
scientific, the most divine heart is the heart of devotion.
Develop devotion. Devotion is not sentiment, nor is love
sentiment. Sentiment prevails in human nature. Love is
ensouled by wisdom, by reason, by intelligence. Love itself
is supreme intelligence; it is wise, dignified,
self-controlled, powerful, all-embracing, all-penetrating,
all-revealing and all-illuminating; it is self-sustaining
and it is self-contained. If you want the wonder of wonders, possess devotion! 47th week Carry
complete belief and trust in the Divine. You see in daily
life how people do not believe in the Divine, even though
they cannot subsist without It, even though no life can be
life without the Divine as the foundation of it. Even
though the Divine is the Soul of all souls, the Life of all
life, yet people do not believe in the Divine.
Trust God more
than anything else. Continue to
love God more than you love those people. Continue to place
your trust and faith in God more than you would in anything
else. Don't take the responsibility of any good result that
emerges from your services to these people. Whatever help
you could give them, feel that it was the help given
directly by God's Grace and that you have done nothing and
you have no reason to be happy or proud about it. Then what
happens? - Your capacity and power to help them becomes
stronger and bigger and bigger. 48th week Like
the blooming of a bud into a flower, the spiritual
development of the inner Being is imperceptible. Common
observation labours under the deceptive feeling that there
is no progress even though one is working hard spiritually.
This is only a deceptive feeling. Even as the flowering of
the bud is a gentle, invisible process of time, so is the
development of the soul an imperceptible affair. But every
little mantra-repetition, every little thought and
reflection upon the divine Being and Its Nature, every
earnest appeal to some infinite, invisible Intelligence,
Power and Grace contributes tremendously to the inner
unfoldment. Ordinary
persons do not perceive this progress. The physical mind
cannot perceive and understand this subtle process of
unfoldment, as it is accustomed to crude realities which
subsist on a single band among the millions of bands of
experience that the human individual can attain
to. Though
a physical mind is unable to perceive the spiritual
realities the progress is there. Whether one observes it or
not it is unmistakable and it produces certain specific
results. Though these results are not startling, they seem
to be startling only if a person perceives them after the
lapse of a long time. 49th week Devotion
is the first thing which can enrich your personality and
make your life full of the quintessence of joy. A man of
devotion, no matter how humble, how small, or insignificant
he is, is the real king of the world. He has the magic which
no other has. Everything comes to him, he is always
constructive, he is the Mouthpiece of God, the Heart of God,
the Temple of God. If
God wants to dwell somewhere He does not dwell in the
Vatican, though that is the richest church in the world. He
does not dwell in the heaven, though the environment is most
celestial there. He looks for the heart of the devotee to
dwell in. What is this surrender to the Divine? Why should you surrender yourself to the Divine? Because it is the Imperishable; whereas everything that you love and surrender yourself to in the world, is perishable. 50th week God helps only when the strength of man is fully exhausted. People
work far below their capacities and abilities. That is why
they are the same old miserable people without any progress
and no matter what they have done. Unless we work to our
full capacity, to the strength of all our capacities,
energies and abilities, God does not help. He helps only
when our strength has come to an end. God's
Intelligence takes possession of us and leads us further
only when we have used our intelligence fully. God's Will
works through us only when we have used our will fully in
the divine service. God gives wealth only when we have used
up all our wealth. God gives us unending Happiness only when
we have expressed all the hidden cheerfulness within. God is
satisfied only with that work which demands complete and
full employment of all the energies, capacities, abilities
and possibilities of an individual. 51st week Truth
and our inner experience are one and the same. As to
victory, the Nature of Truth itself is victory, it wins over
death, wins over every condition of life, every challenge of
fate or whatever you will, every circumstance, every
situation. It does not touch Omkarananda. A truth which has
to be helped to win is no truth, is a half-truth, a worldly
truth. It introduces no change. You
see, nobody can offend Omkarananda. If you write endless
nonsense and insults or calumnies, it means absolutely
nothing, and does not touch him. If you scold space, what
harm do you do to space? - Nothing. It
is wrong to demand a victory for Truth, for we do not need
it. Truth itself is Victory. But the world recognizes this
Truth now or later, or once recognizes it and then no longer
recognizes it, or recognizes it at a later period - but this
is the human mind. In the human mind these opposites are
always there. 52nd week There
are many Aksharas, many sounds, tones, and syllables which
are immortal and indestructible. These are there in the
cosmic Consciousness. Beyond these manifested Aksharas,
Saguna Aksharas, there is the Nirguna Akshara, the
Non-manifested, the Immortality, the Indestructibility,
Reality, the Never-passing. The
Divine Mother is indestructible. She never dies, She is
eternal, infinite, absolute. She is Reality, not illusion.
Our world, our life, our cosmos are illusions, passing
things. The life of every human being in the world is
illusion-centred. You think, you have firm ground under your
feet, that is self-deception. Nobody has firm ground under
the feet except the God-loving person, the one who is beyond
desires and whose consciousness is filled with the Divine
Mother's Grace, Light and Nature. Only
the person who loves the Divine Mother is immortal, eternal.
His foot is on Truth, Reality, Immortality,
Indestructibility. Akshara means all that. No one can
destroy it, no one can grasp it. There is no other power
apart from this Akshara.
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