Your Choice!! Me or World ? - Baba

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Shankaram Shiva ShankaramThe true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and

relaxes with them and interacts with people at their individual levels and

takes part in social gatherings, and never forgets God for a single moment. - Abu Sa'id (Islamic Scholar) Being with the world, yet affected by nothing. This is the

objective of life. Life's aim is to become like me. Did the world not spite me?

Don't bother about what the world says.

Don't live for anyone else's certificate. The reason for your misery is you

live for others; you constantly shrink in fear of what others may speak about

you. Let us make a formula: You are not living for yourself, you are living on

the terms of what others expect from you. When you derive the spiritual formula

from this --I am not living for myself,

I am living for you. The angle you are viewing is a false angle. The view I

have is the Truth. This is the difference between materialism and spirituality.

You are always worried about what others think of you. I

don't bother about all that. My only concern is everyone's welfare. But I don't

expect anything from them. This is what you must strive for. Neither must we

get not affected by nor affect anyone. Live

like Fire. Whatever you throw into fire

also becomes fire. That is its magnificence. It is pure enough to purify whatever comes to it. That's what I am

-- Fire.

Fear is the root cause of all your problems. You are always worried

about what may happen, you are afraid of everything in this world -- right from

lightning, thunder, serpents, storms and the dark. This fear has been ingrained

in you right from the time you were in your mother's womb. And then during

school years, children are made to believe that they would be capable of only

taking the cattle out to graze if they do no fare well in their studies. Thus

starts their encounter with fear.

Once you resolve that nothing can harm you because you

are in God's Protection, you will be unaffected by anything. That is the true

mark of a devotee. Rise above fear knowing that you are God's

Prince/Princess. Nothing can go wrong.

 

You can lead a contented life with a few

thousand rupees per month for a worldly living. Or you can choose to grumble

that Rs. 60000/- per month is not enough. The choice is yours. If you sit with a clear mind and calculate,

you will understand that your monthly budget never crosses a few thousand

rupees. But, instead of being happy with what you have, you crave to fritter

away your money, amassing possessions, eating food that leads to ill health,

drinking and making merry and landing yourself in a spate of medical problems. Sundaramoorthy Nayanar puts it beautifully,

'You granted me the Vision of Your Lotus Feet that none has known; it is I who

wandered into vices; the fault is not Yours'. What has God not

done for us? We have the blessing of good vision, hearing, uninterrupted

breathing; God has given us worldly relations to take care of us. We have a

comfortable life. The only reason for our dissatisfaction is that we are not

rich. Analyze the life of rich people and you will understand you are better

off. In most rich families, the man drowns himself in drinks in the bar, and

when he gets home in a drunken state, he has only the servant to attend on him

-- the wife is away at a club! Where is love, then? And what for money, if

there is no life? Money is really

not a required commodity. God knows what we need and He gives us all that is

required. Like a child in its mother's arms, give yourself up to God, in a

state of total surrender and you will never have to ask for anything in life.

He takes absolute care. But it must not be a conditional surrender, 'You do

this for me, and I will surrender to You' -- this is actually a bargain. Your surrender must be total, 'Whatever

happens, be it good or bad in worldly parlance, is no more my concern. I have

given myself up to you. Now, even if my lifeboat capsizes at mid sea, it is

Your choice to let me drown or to lead me ashore'.

 

Attain this state of mind. And be true to yourself, do not do just because

I said it is good for you, but practice this surrender with absolute faith,

trusting that 'God is my Refuge; He takes total care of me', then you will see

miracles happening in your life every minute. Imbibe that conviction and

witness your life becoming a miracle. Hold

on to me always. Never let go of me. Wealth, possessions

fade away and are lost with time; what remains is your effort and resolve to be

established in Truth. The honey in the Lotus flower attracts honeybees from a

far distance, but a frog reclining on the stalk fails to receive it. It is your

good fortune that has brought you to Me at the right time. Proximity to Me might cause lethargy to creep in, snatching

this golden opportunity away from you. My request to you is:

please cease to be frogs that fail to relish the honey despite being near the

Lotus; be the honeybees that drink the nectar from the Lotus. Love BabaChant & be Happy " Shankaram Siva Shankaram"- Maha

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