Surrender to God is your destiny.

[Guest guest]

Professor Anil Kumar has presented this talk as an extra satsang. He has

selected important messages Baba has imparted to the students gathered around

Him during the afternoon sessions on the verandah at Prashanti Nilayam.

 

One day, Bhagavan turned to me and asked, " How did you like My discourse? "

God wanting human comment on His discourse! Well, it is really a matter of

fortune, a matter of good luck, to be privileged to comment on the Divine

discourse to God Himself.

 

Well, then I said, " Swami, Your talk was fantastic! All our doubts are

dispelled. All our doubts are clarified. It was a beautiful discourse. " Then

Bhagavan said, " Hmmm, you want Me to believe that all your doubts are now

dispelled? No! Your body is full of doubts, top to toe. They will never be

clarified. " (Laughter)

 

Then I said apologetically, " Swami, if my body is full of doubts that can never

be clarified, what am I to do? What is my fate? What is my destiny? " Destiny in

Sanskrit is called gathi. I said, " Swami, what is my gathi, what is my destiny,

what is my fate? If I'm full of doubts that cannot be clarified, what am I to

do? "

 

Then Bhagavan said, " What? Repeat your question! " (Laughter)

I said, " Swami what is my gathi? What is my fate? "

He said, " Sharanagathi is the solution. " (Laughter)

 

Sharanagathi means, surrender. " You surrender to Me. Sharanagathi, that is your

gathi. That is your destiny. " That's what Bhagavan has said. So my friends, the

only gathi or destiny for all of us is Sharanagathi, surrender to God. This is a

nice statement that I wanted to share with you.

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan