Meditation:A Waste of Time? - - -

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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Oh Swami! I have one question, why not we do duties to our children?

At the same time we shall have all our devotion to the Lord only.

 

Swami: Your suggestion is quite sounding very well to the ears,

But you will find the reality only when you analyse the concept.

One thing we should remember, we should not bring down the sky

To our level since we are standing on the ground and since

We are unable to fly to the height of the sky, let us agree the truth.

 

It is true that the sky is the goal and it is true that we are on the ground.

This will make us to start our journey, one day or the other you will reach

sky.

You have to be in the constant effort, God will give you many human rebirths

Till you reach the goal, but one condition, you should not stop at any stage.

When you are doing the duty it is love expressed in action, it is proven love.

 

It is far greater than the love through words and through mind and therefore

Your love is ninety nine percent on your children and one percent on Lord.

The Lord is not at all equal even to your children and just you have thrown

One paisa on the face of the Lord treating Him as a beggar for your love.

At the same time you are posing that all your love is on the Lord.

 

It is just the reverse in practice and everything is only the mind and words.

The proven love consists of sacrifice of five items to the Lord.

The first three items are by the ex-pression of love through words, mind, and

brain.

Through words people sing devotional songs and the emotional devotion flows

Through the mind, through the brain scholars discuss the nature of the Lord.

 

These three constitute the theoretical phase, which has a value of one paisa

only.

It is just like sacrificing drinking water supplied by the municipality

freely.

Similarly these three are already supplied to you by the Lord freely without

any

Effort or strain by you, Indians are very famous in sacrificing these three

items.

 

The fantastic fun is that people sacrifice these three items to the Lord and

Ask some practical fruit for the sacrifice of these three theoretical items!

The other two items are practical and their value is ninety-nine paise.

Those two items are sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work

In this sacrifice of these two items only lies the entire real sacrifice.

This alone is the proven love, don’t argue that this is impossible for you.

You are doing the sacrifice of these two items sincerely to your children.

Therefore you are having real proven love on your children only.

The sacrifice of the first three items is not done in the case of your

children.

That means the sacrifice of these first three items is false dramatic love.

The word duty which you just uttered constitutes the last two items only,

Which are the sacrifice of work and sacrifice of fruit of work.

 

Therefore what is the meaning of your statement that resulted finally?

You will sacrifice the false love to the Lord and the real love to your

children.

You designate the false love as the real whole love which is dedication of

mind.

Now you say that you have dedicated all your mind to the Lord only!

Fantastic! And you say that you are simply doing duty to your children!

 

Which is nothing but the real love! How clever you are! You can fool

Any human being in this world but not the Lord who is omniscient.

Oh Gayathri! Let us stick to the truth only at least before the Lord.

Let us accept frankly our inability to sacrifice all the five items.

 

Let us pray the Lord to help us in reaching the sky and let us accept

That we are on the ground only, no need of any false prestige before the Lord.

The Lord is always pleased when we accept and speak the truth before Him

The first three items constitute the drinking water supplied to you freely.

Do not ask any practical fruit for the sacrifice of those three items.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

> I just finished meditating. What a fruitless waste of time! I sat > there

for an hour and did nothing. Okay, well, sitting there quietly > was doing

something, I guess. But what was the point? I watched my > thoughts come and

go. Sometimes I would get lost in my thoughts and > then I would realize it and

go back to sitting quietly again without > thinking. I would just sit there

with mySelf in the sense of 'I am' > and...and...WHAT??? I don't know! So

what? So, I am. Big f**king > deal! I know I am. >

> So...was that the point? If it was, then I really don't think I > missed it.

How could I? If knowing I am is not the point of > meditation, then what the

hell else could it be?

>

> " Silver " (Frustrated)

 

 

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