Q & A : CONVEYING OUR DESIRES

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Question: Is it enough to convey our desire to Baba once or do we have to keep

asking him for the same thing? Will Baba satisfy our desires even if we do not

ask him for anything?

Answer: If you can ask Baba to satisfy your desire once, and sit quiet in

confident expectation that he will do it, asking once is sufficient. Baba will

satisfy our desires even if we do not ask him. But we cannot sit quiet without

asking him again and again. So we ask him repeatedly till that desire is

satisfied. If the problem is serious we keep asking Baba repeatedly. It is not

that Baba will give us the relief if we ask ten times and he will not give if

we ask him once. We can take it as the relationship between hunger and asking

for food. The experience of hunger is the signal to start seeking food. If we

feel hunger, we cannot stop asking for food. A baby is hungry. It starts

crying. The mother instinctively knows that the baby is hungry and that it has

to be suckled. Does the baby cry once or twice feebly and stop crying in the

confidence that the mother will understand that it is hungry? It cries till it

gets the milk.

Question: How can we be sure that Baba is our father and that we are his own?

Answer: We can know for sure by the security we get from him. We know from our

own experiences as to who is solving our problems, whenever we have a problem.

We may keep a hundred gods in our hearts, feeling that we should cover all the

bases, but when it comes to the crunch, it is Baba’s name that we take for

saving us. We do not know fully that we are his own but we do have an inkling

that he is our saviour. Baba, who is our father and mother, knows with

certainty that we are his children. Take the example of the mother and child.

The mother knows that it is her child. How does the child know that it is his

mother? He realises it as the time passes. He realises by the love the mother

has for him, the way the mother looks after him and takes care of all his

needs. She feeds him and caresses him. So the child, over some time, realises

"This is my mother." In the same way we will realise over some time that Baba

is our father by the way he treats us and solves our

problems.

 

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