The sweetest part of liilá – God’s play – is that He is hidden in everyone and everyone is searching for him. He wants His children to go round and He plays hide-and-seek with them. This is so that they may perform certain essential functions in the process. This gives interest and pleasure to both the Creator and the created.
Thus all things are one. There is no distinction due to sex, age, or anything. Male and female, young and old are all actors playing different roles in the drama of this universe. Their forms differ, but their substance and purpose is one. God is male, female, child, youth, and old age.
God has His faces in all directions. No one can hide anything from Him. He sees both our external and internal actions. Do not hate those who are small. You have no right to hate anyone. Do not be afraid of nature either. The thunder and the roar of the oceans hide His sweet music within their apparently frightful sounds. Fear none and hate none. All are One.
This Universal Form of God, Unity in all – you will be able to see in this very life. Strive on – go on doing your sádhana intensively, you will succeed.
Movement is life. Where this is towards God, the Subtle, the All in One – it is progress, otherwise it is degradation. The moment a man is born he starts his journey. The end of his journey is death. The gap between these two is life. It is a small gap. Waste no time. Every minute takes you nearer to the grave. There is no time to waste. This mission of life – to be one with God – has to be fulfilled here and now.
The mind also moves and changes, but it has no relation with this body and its grave. Bodies are given up one by one, but the mind remains the same continuing unit.
All creation is dancing round the Parama Puruśa, whether knowingly or otherwise. The steps and the direction of one’s dance are according to one’s nature. Those who are becoming degraded are dancing away from Him. Others are expanding and moving towards Him. This dance is the cycle of Brahma [Brahmacakra].
Every mind is dominated by one particular desire. Some pray to God, “Please remove my stomach-ache.” Others say, “If my daughters get married I shall leave the world and come to You.” God smiles at these prayers in silence, as laughing openly would embarrass His children.
Every body and mind is structured according to its dominant desire. You can recognize a good man by his face. People with the same dominant desire easily become friends though they may belong to different countries of the world.
This dance of individuals according to their desire is rásaliilá or the play of the waves in God’s Ocean. As a boat goes up and down on a wave, so the human beings go up and down on the Cosmic waves of their desires. As long as one considers oneself separate from the Lord, this dual dance goes on. When one knows the Supreme Being, the rhythm changes and becomes soothing and graceful.
But coming to know Him is only possible through His Grace. Scholarship will not lead you to God. A devotee will always win when there is a conflict with a scholar. The scriptures are like curd which is churned by scholars – while they analyse the butter and buttermilk, the butter is eaten up by the devotees and only stale buttermilk is left for the scholars.
How to get this kindness, this Grace from God? You have to snatch it from Him, just as a little child by weeping bitterly snatches his mother’s love and attention, though the mother at first may be unwilling to leave the kitchen for the child.
But the devotees always plead for God. They justify His actions. They say, we are doing our sádhana not to get pleasure but to please our Lord. He feels happy when He sees His creation making attempts to meet Him.
God’s Grace is forever raining over all but we keep umbrellas of our ego aloft and hence do not get drenched in it. Devotees, however, puncture this ego. They surrender themselves to Him and thus get His Grace.
Since all beings have come out of Rudra, He is also their final Goal; merging in God is as natural as being born. Sádhakas will surely achieve this. Go on doing your part. I shall do mine and help you in establishing yourself in the Supreme. I have come on this earth for this sake.
If someone wants to inject an inferiority complex in you, do not be affected. You are the children of God, not inferior to anyone. Make attempts to meet Him and success will surely be yours.
Victory is yours. You are the dear ones of God. Move on and achieve the Goal.
25 May 1969 DMC, Ranchi
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