Thanksgiving, Baba's Birthday and the Security Guard

All that I seek from you is that you love your fellowmen, share their sufferings, and engage yourselves in serving them.

Rich people and those in power have plentiful servants. But the distressed, the poverty-stricken, and those who suffer have no one to serve them. Go to such people and be their friends, their kith and kin, and their closest well-wishers. Let them welcome you as such.

If you pour spirituality into the ears of those who are tortured by hunger, it will not be assimilated. First satiate the hunger. Give them God in the form of food and in the form of clothes.

Give God in the form of peace to those who are afflicted with anxiety and in the form of medicine to those who are suffering from ill health.

Give God in a form that will assuage fear, pain and sorrow. It is only when this is done that spirituality can soak into their hearts.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

Today America celebrates Thanksgiving and in India Baba's birthday celebration already began, no wonder I have all day the feeling it is Sunday and a Holiday.

Today the joy of that Lila took over and it feels like a different level. We had to remember to put things right and into sathva to be able get back to our own self.

I enjoyed the thought of your security guard we have to show our pass.

Baba uses the metaphor. If we want to see God, who is the king of the universe, it is like with a VIP, we cannot just walk in, we have to pass two security guards, patience and perseverance.
To look at Angel thinking of perseverance and patience... that is great.

But it is not with her we need it, but in ourselves to get there, if the source is vailed, whatever the reason. It seems that difficult to see things how they really have been and to get it together to a sathvic state, to the source, the beginning.

Only if the source is known we can understand it.
And somehow that source got shadowed or lost or changed. 
It feels like the right light was not there to be able to see it. It has to reflect the proper situation and then things fall in place, the proper motivation or the agreement. 
Angel is just making sure we do our best to be in sathva and not to get stuck in passion or delusion. 

It needs that perseverance and patience to get there to be able to realize the big picture.

Usually we don't even notice that it is wrong and illusion and think everything is fine and in reality it is not and then it is standing above in the air 'illusion' like it was with my father when he planned the house in Spain.

And above Baba in the darshan when I reflected about illusion was, 'I am real', that was the difference. 

It is reflection, Darshan, our own mirror.
The reflection is only possible in the mirror and that is sathva,  everything else is reflected in it. 

Today I didn't feel like writing, relax and celebrate.
We can be greatful for Baba's amazing grace which makes it possible to see the reflection. Often when I get in touch with my own self it feels like Christmas, a holiday of lights and a new birth, a new beginning, a new year, a birthday. 

The higher self is also on the level of 'bigger than the biggest and smaller than the smallest'. 

Only Sathva knows truth.
That is the level of intuition and often we don't need to think, because the answer is reflected, beyond doubt, but it is not always just understood and we have to inquire to get there and if the source is not seen, it cannot be understood.