Perseverance(3) - thanks Shree Maa and Latha

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OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

Dear Latha,

 

your post really hits me. it makes me think of the recent post

quoting Shree Maa saying "when we really love GOD selfish desires go

away."

 

i feel i "really love GOD" but yet i still have selfish desires.

but then i thought she didn't say that we DON'T really love GOD if

we have selfish desires. but rather, WHEN we DO love GOD they WILL

go away. so i guess all we can do is love GOD the best we can, keep

persevering, and the selfish desires will eventually go away. since

we are all individual souls, all with our own karmic situations, i

don't suppose anbody is able to tell us the length of the "going

away" process.

 

like you said in your post don't worry about the spiritual mistakes.

just make loving GOD the number one idea in life and everything else

will take care of itself.

 

Really love GOD to the best of our abilities, that's what to do.

 

JAI MA

 

 

, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda>

wrote:

> Take up an idea. Make that one idea your life; think of it; dream

of

> it; live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part

of

> your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea

> alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great

> spiritual giants are produced.

>

> To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous

> will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my

> will mountains will crumble up". Have that sort of energy, that

sort

> of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

>

> Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty

of

> life-these failures. What would life be without them? It would not

> be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the

> poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never

> heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never

> mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a

> thousand times; and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt

> once more.