11/05/07 Life with and without Bhagavan
Bhagavan said:
Today, the first thought that came to my mind was that I am the greatest. I am on the peak of the Himalaya, so you too are closer to that height. You are living your lives in Heaven. Look at the world. No-one is well-off. Everyone is suffering from something. But you do not know how many years are left to you. It is only by the grace of Bhagavan that you are living with Bhagavan. With that, it is too difficult to survive even a single day. It is too difficult to earn money to survive.
However, you are with me, with my thoughts, my work. That is not possible without His grace. People say that, as you are living a spiritual life, you must be sacrificing, but if you look at yourselves, are you better-off now or before you first came to me?
Now you have a life in which you do not need to lie, hear bad words, or say them. You have no reason to be afraid of anything. You feel tranquillity all the time. This is not sacrifice, but the way of truly enjoying yourselves.
Commentary by Koji:
Everything that happens does not happen through our own efforts, but through the grace of Bhagavan. If the desire to elevate ourselves appears in our minds, and we begin to do spiritual practices, how does this desire appear in our mind? By the grace of Bhagavan.
The world is a hard world, which hits you hard, with coarse people that speak coarsely, in which it is necessary to behave coarsely to survive, and one develops the habit of speaking coarsely, and becomes coarse, like everyone else. However, if you begin to transcend the world by the grace of spiritual power, you begin to transcend the coarser aspects, and instead of pulling you down, they pass through you, and you stop being affected by them. The world no longer seems unpleasant, people no longer seem coarse, and the world turns into a heaven. The problem is not the world, but with our own perception, as we are not elevated enough to live like the lotus; in the mud, but unsmirched by it.
We are living in Vrindavan, but being so blind, we think ourselves in a coarse world, and complain that we have to sacrifice to become spiritual. Incredible is the power of Maya!
Today, the first thought that came to my mind was that I am the greatest. I am on the peak of the Himalaya, so you too are closer to that height. You are living your lives in Heaven. Look at the world. No-one is well-off. Everyone is suffering from something. But you do not know how many years are left to you. It is only by the grace of Bhagavan that you are living with Bhagavan. With that, it is too difficult to survive even a single day. It is too difficult to earn money to survive.
However, you are with me, with my thoughts, my work. That is not possible without His grace. People say that, as you are living a spiritual life, you must be sacrificing, but if you look at yourselves, are you better-off now or before you first came to me?
Now you have a life in which you do not need to lie, hear bad words, or say them. You have no reason to be afraid of anything. You feel tranquillity all the time. This is not sacrifice, but the way of truly enjoying yourselves.
Commentary by Koji:
Everything that happens does not happen through our own efforts, but through the grace of Bhagavan. If the desire to elevate ourselves appears in our minds, and we begin to do spiritual practices, how does this desire appear in our mind? By the grace of Bhagavan.
The world is a hard world, which hits you hard, with coarse people that speak coarsely, in which it is necessary to behave coarsely to survive, and one develops the habit of speaking coarsely, and becomes coarse, like everyone else. However, if you begin to transcend the world by the grace of spiritual power, you begin to transcend the coarser aspects, and instead of pulling you down, they pass through you, and you stop being affected by them. The world no longer seems unpleasant, people no longer seem coarse, and the world turns into a heaven. The problem is not the world, but with our own perception, as we are not elevated enough to live like the lotus; in the mud, but unsmirched by it.
We are living in Vrindavan, but being so blind, we think ourselves in a coarse world, and complain that we have to sacrifice to become spiritual. Incredible is the power of Maya!
Koji
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