Guruji speaks...

Every month, I eagerly await the publication of newsletter. I derive immense inspiration and strength inside when I read them. This enables me to face the world outside with a smile. I have recorded a four line poem in Lifeinlines today morning after reading the newsletter.

Here are the glimpses of Guruji's wisdom...

* A journalist asked me, “when we have entered the twenty first century and are living an advanced life, why are you taking people back to Meditations and old centuries ?” I told him that Meditation is the way of the present and the future centuries also. There was no time for further explanation. He had no time. The media has no time for understanding and explaining greater truths. To explain, one has to understand first. To understand, one has to have time.

The media spends so much of time on murders and scams. It has no time for Meditation !

* When I am entering my seventieth year, so much of work that I have to complete stares at me, teases me and challenges me. And I never shied away from challenges!

* It takes some time for many to accept that Spirituality is different from religion. Similarly, Sadhana is different from the Work of God. Sadhana is a personal occupation and involves the individual's growth while the Work involves everyone. When we take up the work seriously, it involves everything in this Creation and Sadhana takes a backseat. Those who are involved in the work are aware of this and may not find time even to meditate. But the Work has its own rewards. Even then, people who take up the work seriously should not neglect Meditations. But they should feel confident that they are doing the Work of God.

* If you believe in any path, go ahead and follow it. Do not stop. If you have belief in anything, please go ahead and follow it. When you reach the end of the road, you will reach the same goal. We may not have enough courage to pursue even the path that we believe in. If you are sincere, go ahead. If we believe in a bit of this and a bit of that, there will be confusion and wastage of time.

* We give too much importance to human relations and interactions, which sometimes bring us pain. A person who takes up Sadhana should try to minimize the relations and expand or shift them to some other area. Try to relate to nature, trees, plants, even inanimate objects. There will be absolutely no unpleasantness or pain.

* Freewill and destiny are inseparable. Because we had freewill, we broke the laws and because we broke the laws and accumulated the Karmas or the effects, we created our destinies. Since we continue to have the freewill, we can undo these effects and create another destiny.

My humble prostrations unto His Feet!