If you are all together, no one can do anything to
you, but if one is against another, then nothing will work. In the
Gospel, Christ showed also the ‘humbleness’ that we all have to
have towards each other, the understanding towards each other,
the Love towards each other. Love is there, but very often understanding
is not there. So, this also the all-knowing Christ showed:
that He knew everything that was happening and what would
happen in advance, but he had also to fulfil what was written in
the Scriptures; what God had talked to the prophets: He had to fulfil it. But there were expectations among the disciples of Jesus of
how the Master would be: a lot of them were expecting Jesus to be
a great Master, who would come and raise everything down and build
up something new. If there is this kind of expectation among the
disciples, and when it is not like that, they feel bad. That’s why Judas
went and betrayed Christ. They expected “Oh, He will do this and
He will do that”, but yet Jesus knew what His work was. He knew
His duty. He knew for what reason He had incarnated and He
did, according to His job. But yet the disciples didn’t know what their
duty was. But yet they thought they knew, but when they realised
their mistake, it was too late. Very often - it
happens to everybody,
actually, it was not only the disciples of Jesus, you know -
but whenever you go to a Master, to a Teacher, in your mind you already
expect certain things. You already create in your mind “Oh, you
know, the Teacher will do this and this and that to me, He will tell
me this and this and that to flatter me”. You already create it in your
mind, but if in your mind you already have some expectations, then
even if the Master would talk to you ten times, you would not hear
anything. Easy
example: last week, when I was travelling, they called me and somebody
asked me something. For half an hour I explained to that
person “Please, don’t do this!” But the person would not listen. What
can you do? You can’t do anything, no? Pritala was
enjoying it.
He said: “Well, don’t worry. He will never listen, because look at the
way he is talking, he will never listen to anything”. So: “OK - I said
- look, I can’t do anything. I can just pray for you”. And the person
did what I told the person not to do. And of course, the result
was not what the person expected. But this is how it is, you know.
People always think that they know better. But, if you know better,
then why do you ask? If you don’t know, then you ask, then you can receive it. You can take the advice and accept it and change, but
if you can’t, don’t ask! If you are not ready to change, don’t ask. What
is the use of asking then? The
same was with the disciples, even in 2000 years nothing has changed
- the same betrayal, the same procedure. When I read this
part of the Bible, the Gospel, and I look at my own life, it’s so similar.
That’s why, while reading it, I was laughing about it, you know.
Every year, when I read that, I laugh, because it is exactly that,
you know. And people will not change, like I said, as long as they
don’t want to change really, sincerely. As long as they
don’t say
to themselves “I really want to change - not to the Master, not to
God, not to anyone, but to themselves - I want to change”, only then
they will change. Then you will develop this power inside of you,
where really you will change. Know
one thing: the world is not the same. Twenty years
ago and now
is different. Two thousand years ago and now is different. And
the next few years coming, it will be different. When we look at
nature, Mother Nature is reacting in such a way that it’s not pleasing
to see. But when we look
at humans, the way they are
reacting is even worse than unpleasing
to see. It’s about time
to change one’s mind; the way
we see things. It’s about time
to look at ourselves and say “What
can I change? What am I willing
to change?” And I said: “If
you really want the Love of God”
because many people put the tag, ‘I love God’, but really they don’t.
They only want the quality of God. They want only
to get and
get and get from God, but they don’t really want to receive and manifest
the Lord inside, the Divine within themselves. And I tell you:
if one doesn’t want to change, Mother Nature will make them change.
Sometimes, if they don’t want to change in a certain way, Nature
reacts in another way - sometimes painful, but there is a change. So,
with this Gospel, let us learn to become humble like Christ. Let
us learn sincerely to love one another. Let us learn to be in unity
with each another. Let us build one family. Like we say in Sanskrit:
Vasudeva Kutumbakam, which means: “the whole world is
one whole family”. And the peace can come firstly within you and through
you to everybody, only when you are in unity together. When
you work together with each another, you will be stronger. But
if you work against the others, you will be the weak one.
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