HAPPINESS AND MISERY - 2

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HAPPINESS AND MISERY

 

 

2. " I have no peace of mind. Something prevents it -probably my

destiny. " Bhagavan answers: " What is

destiny? There is no destiny. Surrender and all will be

well. Throw all the responsibility on God. Do not bear

the burden yourself. What can destiny do to you then? "

(talk 244)

 

Note: The questioner is a lady - a Maharani - in great

mental distress. Bhagavan is touched. He gives the solace

that everything is borne by God, and on Him all one's burden

should be laid through surrender. This appears to play a

tune different from the previous answer, where the worship

of God has been recommended. Here the tune is " surrender " ,

which amounts practically to the same thing as worship

through contemplation. Contemplation or meditation is also

surrender; for relinquishing all thoughts but that of the

meditation is relinquishing the whole world. In fact cessation

of thinking is the greatest of all surrender. Although

meditation can be sustained for only a limited time every

day, it becomes very powerful if repeated daily for years.

By " there is no destiny " Bhagavan does not mean that

there is no prarabdha: we are all agreed that there is, but his

meaning is that once we surrender genuinely and truly,

prarabdha will pass us by unnoticed: it will work itself out

while our mind is immersed in its thought of God. After all

destiny is as insentient as the body and thus has no power

over the mind unless the mind has fallen an abject prey to

its own thoughts and emotions, like that of the common man.

 

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