We have
been singing Jai Ma as the great feast day of the Divine Mother, the
Mother which is seated inside your heart – not the mother who
has given you this body, well she is also the mother – but the
Mother who has given you this soul, who has given you the spirit, has
given you this body to dwell in this world and has given you such a
beautiful world to be in. At the same
time a mother wants the child. A mother is always ready to
care for the children. How can we make this Divine Mother happy? She
doesn’t ask too much from us. She doesn’t ask that we change
ourselves for Her. The only thing that She asks is that each one, by
oneself, decides to change not for Her sake, but for their own sake. I was
traveling and I went to a big city, looking at how people were busy on the
outside. I asked myself this question “Do they really know that
there is something greater than just this life that they are
living?” I was asking my Guru about it. We can say “Yes.” Here, we are all
thinking we know there is something greater in the life of man even
if you, as a human being, have not realised it, yet you have this
sense of feeling that yes, there is something greater and you want to
achieve, to attain this. While
walking, I was thinking how many among these people were really
living a human life. How many were really knowing that life is not just
what they were living? There is much more than that. They can be
really eternally happy. They can really find this great joy, which
nothing can take away. How many? I was wondering. Then a
friend said something about a philosopher, a Greek philosopher,
Diogenes. He went around during the day with his lamp and of
course, everybody would laugh at him. They would laugh at
him; they would ridicule him. He didn’t
bother about anything and one day
somebody asked him “Why are you
going around in daylight with your torch
lit, because it is funny!” His answer was
very simple and clear “I’m looking for
a human being!” There are many
humans, but there are only a few human
beings. What is the
difference between a human and a
human being? An animal can also be
counted as a human. It has a body,
it breathes, but we call an animal, an
animal and a human, a human. The faculty of looking for
something greater is only in the human being. But when you go around,
as I was singing before in one verse of the song, that illusion,
Maya, has caught us. Maya has caught human beings and she is
making human beings play to the tune that she wants. This is
exactly how it is on the outside, until you start to really search for the
truth of your Self. When you start searching for the truth of
your Self, then you disengage yourself from that grief of Maya, but
as you know very well, it is not an easy task. It’s not something
that is very easy to do at all. Everybody
would like to, lots of spiritual people would like to, but only a few
succeed. Why? Because their determination is weak. If your
determination for the Divine is strong, nothing can move you, but if your
determination is weak, then you will be weak, because you make
yourself weak, like I said before. If you
fully believe in
yourself, if you fully have
trust in yourself,
you will fully
believe and trust in
God. Then of course,
the Divine will
always help you.
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