Monday, November 3, 2003 – 10:00 a.m.
Let your heart remain joyful; it will become an incomparable strength. Maintain it and cherish it constantly, like an offering made to Divinity. Do not forget that the heart is a door opening on the Infinite. Each minute of life is a present when it is viewed from this angle: service, in the acceptance of the ups and downs and the ordeals to be got over.
The key to remain joyful is to show grattitude to this ultimate principle and stay in prayer full mode. Once i asked chariji what is prayer .. he said its way of life where you stay in the state of gratitude all the time. Life presents different situations in different times. Usually uncomfortable situations we like to runaway from it. But if i stay in this gratitude i can face these painful, most uncomfortable situations with lots of joy. That is what truly acceptance mean.
“To live in this state of mind makes things easier. The negative side of life is to be accepted while keeping well in the heart this joy that nothing can affect. How could love better manifest itself? To love with sadness is inconceivable; it is irrelevant at this level. Do not lose sight of this rule of life, which takes on a new meaning in your case. Let your heart open out, without limiting itself whatsoever; it will be a new critical stage for it where it will give its best.
Yes love is not possible while the heart is filled with Sadness. If you say this how life is i am accepting it, that does not mean we truly accepted it. Unless i bring that true JOY( joy is not happiness) , joy is unconditional state of gratitude a state of prayer. Only in joy love manifests , only in joy the higher grace is received. Only in joy we progress. When situations are troublng the question we want to ask what should really happen now? Obviously we can not change what already has passed. This requires immense generosity for yourself and for others. Then it gives us clarity to let go. Here let go does not mean you continue to interact or have relationships with the same person. It could mean move away or it could mean completely forgive and move on with that relationship as usual. Only your heart should decide.
“You are fully involved in this discovery and you do not see this comment as futile, since it is deeply felt. When words truly reflect reality, they reinforce awareness, hence the necessity of repetitions, which sooner or later end up meeting their objective.
Often we think that we have a goal in meditation. Some assume if i can have masters attention i can progress, their objective of mediation is to get that attention. Some assume i volunteer my time and master will take care of my goal. Their mediation is all about what work i can volunteer and full-fill it. Some think if i regularly practice i progress. Daaji and Chariji gave this example so many times a labourer who is working harder than the person who goes to gym but does not develop muscles like the person at Gym. Reason laborer is doing his work with a different objective in mind. You see alway the objective or intention with which we take up mediation yeilds results. If my objective is only to merge into higher essence that is where our meditation takes us. Rest all, whatever we do, how much ever the attention we get from master, how much ever i volunteer it does not take us where we are supposed to go. The real joy of the spiritual journey is to stay in the state of joy and volunteering our time truly happes with the idea of gratitude.
“Work in peace, my child. Accept your life like a present, an unprecedented grace, insofar as it is dedicated to divine love and to service.
“Call this state of grace in you. The time has come for a new turn in your career and to accept it with great gratitude. Continue to live in love, fully, by minimising the burdensome side of your existence and all will be well.”
Like i mentioned above the grace desends into abhyasis heart only when there is joy and complete acceptance.