O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !

God has bestowed this human life upon us by showering His grace; we have to make it successful. If we waste it in eating, drinking and merry making etc., it means that our human life is not successful. Human life is successful only, if it is utilized in the worship to God. Without adoration a man is like a dead body-

Life does not mean mere breathing. An ironsmith’s bellow also force air but it does not mean that they live a life. Our life is fruitful only, when we perform activities, which are worthy to be done by a man. Either call a man, a man; or call him ' the candidate qualified (eligible) for God-realization-both "are one and the same. God can be realized only in human life and He can be attained very easily.

All of us are obviously the fragments of God. The Lord Himself declares ‘Mamaivaansho Jeevaloke’ (Gita 15/7),

There is not even a single person who is not loving to God. God has given us birth here. No one can say that they have taken birth of their own accord. God also sustains and nourishes us. He also protects us. No one has the courage to declare that he will stay alive for so many years over here. It means that we have come here by God’s will, we are living by God’s will and we’ll depart from this human body by God’s will.

Therefore we are only God’s. Someone asked a saint, “Where will you go?” He replied, “A football does not know where it will go. It will go in the direction in which the player kicks it. Likewise - I’ll go where God sends me; I’ll do as God wills. By thinking so, we should be free from worry. We should have no will of our own, neither to stay alive nor to die. Whether God sends us to hell or to heaven or to His own Abode or to this mortal world, We should be pleased with His will; depending on Him, we should be free from all worries. Without having any will of our own, we should be a ‘yes’ man to His will. By doing so, our life will be successful. We need not indulge in tall talk. We are sitting here as God wills it, we go from here as God wills so. We have no grief, no remorse at all. If we die just now, what is the harm in it? We have to acquire nothing at all from the world. It is blissful, if we stay alive; and equally blissful, if we die. If people want us to eat food, we should eat it; if they want to listen to spiritual discourses, we should deliver them; if they want to meet us, we should meet them. We have to do nothing of our own accord. While using eatables we should keep in mind that they should be sanctioned by the scriptures and should be wholesome. If anyone provides no food to us, or less food to us or more food to us, it is his wish, we are not worried. If any body asks us to remain silent because they don’t want to listen to our discourse, we should keep silent. If any body doesn’t want to meet us, we need not meet.

There was a holy man. A gentleman invited him to come to his house the next day and take alms (food) over there. The holy man agreed. The next day he went to the gentleman’s house. At the gate of the house, a guard was standing. He said to the holy man, “Why have you come here? Get out or you will be beaten.” The saintly man went away. Next day the gentleman again went to the saint and said, “Sire, you did not come to my house?” The saint said, “I did come. But the guard at the gate ordered me to get out, so I came back,” The gentleman requested the saint to come once again to his house the next day. Next day the saint went there. Having seen the saint again, the guard standing at the gate became angry and said to the saint, “Are you not ashamed of yourself for coming here again, when I had turned you out the day before yesterday. Get out again.” The holy man went back. The gentleman again went to the saint and said, “Sire, why didn’t you come to my house?” The holy man said, “Dear brother, I did come. But when your guard asked me to get out, I came back.” The gentleman again said, “Sire, I was not at home. I am sorry for my mistake. Kindly visit my house tomorrow.” The saint went to his house. The gentleman received the saint with open arms and said, “Sire, you have showered your grace by coming over here. Kindly take a meal over here.” When the saint had taken meal, the gentleman said “Sire, you are a great saint. You were humiliated by the guard, yet you have come. ” The saint said, “What magnanimity is there in it? If you fondle a dog, it comes to you; but if you reprimand it, it runs away. This is the habit of a dog. Should a man also behave in this way?” Our attitude should also be like the saint.

We should deliver the divine discourse, if people want to listen to it. But if they ask us to remain silent, we should keep silent. If they want to listen to the Ramayana or the Gita, recite it to them. If they ask us to recite the Bible and the Koran, we should clearly admit that we don’t know how to recite them, so we are unable to recite them. If someone wants to meet us, we should meet him lovingly. If no one wants to meet us, it is good, we should remain sitting blissfully. What is the difficulty in this ? In this we have not to undergo any penance, we have not to go anywhere, we have not to learn anything, we have not to study the scriptures, we have not to make any one a spiritual guide, we have not to be initiated. We have to do whatever is pleasing to others. Of our own accord we have neither to eat anything, nor do we have to deliver a discourse nor do we have to meet anyone. We have to act as others will, without having any will of our own. How easy it is! Is there any expense in doing so ?

A saint has written, “The world was not pleased with me. I thought why the world was not pleased. I found out the reason that I was of no use to the World. If I had been of any use to the world, the world would have been pleased with me. Only he, who has no desire, is useful for the world. He, who has a desire, can’t be useful for all. Having thought so, I renounced desire. As soon as I renounced desire, a thought came to my mind that if I was not useful to the world, the world was also not useful to me. Thus both of us became equal. Neither the world was at fault nor I was at fault. Now I’ll lead a life as God wills. I have not to insist on eating food or on delivering a discourse or on meeting anyone. If anybody asks me to eat, I should eat. If anybody asks me to deliver a discourse, I should deliver it. If anybody asks me to meet him, I should meet him. If no one is interested in providing food to me, well and good; if no one wants to listen to me, well and good; if no one wants to meet me, well and good. This decision will lead to God-realization. No other work is as easy as God-realization.

If there is anything which can live without me, I can also very happily live without it. A saint said that when he lost his eye-sight, he was very sad. Then he thought that if the eye-sight could live without him, he could also live without the eye-sight. When the eyes did not need him, he also did not need them. So the idea of seeing with his eyes, never came to his mind. Similarly if you can live without me, I can also very well live without you. What a lofty idea and how simple and easy! I should have no desire at all, neither to eat nor to narrate (recite) nor to meet. What can be easier than this? It needs neither chant (the Lord’s holy names) nor meditation nor study of the scriptures.

Our relationship with the world should be to the extent that if anyone offers food and drink to us, we should accept it. If anybody wants to meet us, we should meet him. In this way we can live in the world blissfully. In the Gita it is mentioned-

यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः।

समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते।

“Content with what comes to a Karmayogi without the desire for fruit, free from antithetic influences and envy, even-minded in success and failure, even though performing action, is not bound by it.”

जाहि विधि राखे राम ताहि विधि रहिये |

सीता राम सीता राम सीताराम कहिये,

कहहु भगति पथ कवन प्रयासा । जोग न मख जप तप उपवासा ॥

Kahahu bhagati patha kavana prayaasaa, joga na makha japa tapa upavaasaa (Manasa, Uttara. 46/1)

(The Path of Devotion needs no efforts, neither Yoga, nor sacrifice, nor chant, nor penance nor fast.)

If we fall ill, O.K.; if we recover from illness, O.K.; if anyone dishonours us, O.K.; if anyone honours us; OK. If someone honours or dishonours; provides food or not; listens or not; meets or not, what connection have we with these situations? We need nothing, we want nothing. We have nothing to do whether we live or die. We have nothing to do whether someone comes to us or not, goes away from us or not, meets us or not. We have nothing to do with the performance of an action or its non-performance.

नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन।

न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चदर्थव्यपाश्रयः ।।3.18।।

“For that enlightened soul in this world, there is no gain whatsoever, in the performance of an action or in its non-performance, nor does he have any self-interest in other beings.”

All work has to be done only for God. Nothing is to be done at all for one’s own self, neither going nor coming nor staying and so on. Then all complications and anxieties come to an end; and there is constant gaiety and bliss. We have no need at all-neither for food, nor for lecture, nor for meeting. ‘If anybody offers food, we’ll eat it; if anyone wants to listen to the discourse, we’ll deliver it; if anyone wants to meet, we’ll meet him. By doing so, the human life will be successful. There is no need of performing any scriptural ceremony. There is nothing to do with going anywhere, or coming from anywhere, or giving anything or taking anything, meeting anyone or not meeting anyone. We have no desire of our own. Will it not lead us to salvation?

God, by showering His grace, has bestowed upon us this human body. It is our duty to fulfill the aim of this human life. The human life will be successful, if we accept the three factors “Nothing is mine, I need nothing and I have to do nothing for myself.” Anyone may do right or wrong as he wishes, we have to say nothing to anyone. If we see anyone doing anything wrong and it comes to our mind to forbid him from doing so, we may politely ask him not to do so. If he follows our advice, well and good. If he does not follow our advice, it is very good, we are free and joyful. Is there any difficulty in it?

By doing so our life is full of joy and bliss. If anyone asks us whether we have to go anywhere, we should answer, “No, we have neither to go anywhere nor to come from anywhere.” If someone asks us to sit or to go or to sleep, we should do it. If he forbids us to do so, we need not do it. How easy it is! We should be pleased with whatever God wills. This sort of behaviour is pleasing and blissful to all. If anyone offers food, well and good; if no one offers it, well and good. If anyone wants to listen to the spiritual discourse, well and good; if no one wants to listen to it, well and good. If anyone wants to meet us, well and good; if no one wants to meet us, well and good. Worship God, chant His holy name silently and also loudly with joy and bliss. By doing so our human life will be successful.