Jesus sacrificed His life and poured out His blood to instill Love and Compassion in the heart of man, so that you are happy when others are happy and sad when others are sad. Let Me call upon you today, to give up, in honor of this holy occasion, two evils from your mind: self-praise and talking scandal! Give them up! Instead adopt one habit: the habit of loving service to the distressed. If you spend all your time and energy in worldly comfort and sensual delight, you are disgracing this human existence. Do not spend your life in just enjoying food; eat as much as is necessary for living. Maintain your body as temple where God resides. Keep it clean, fresh and fragrant by developing compassion and love; Let holy thoughts, words and deeds emerge from you. Do not demean it by using it for low, trivial and unholy tasks.
Wherever you are, make this resolution today!
Baba (thought for the day)
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a fulfilling Holiday Season.
Listen, think it over absorb, that is spiritual Tapas, spiritual work that is what Baba is telling us.
We have to listen to the 'insights', they are like stepping stones in our inner view to get to the inner vision, which is about his message and understanding his words.
We have to use discrimination and in seeing it in our own life in the inner vision, as Baba also said, if we see our life with insights in the inner vision, attachment slides away.
We all have to get detached. If we follow the stepping stones of the insights and see it in our own life we get to the 'inner vision' and whatever the stepping stones, in the end only the inner vision matters and his message.
In that way we can get to an experience of inner peace, as he is the insights and the following step.
It is about that experience of pure love.
It was a gift in his presence, now he has left the body and we have to be able to get there in our own self. To understand the path of peace, we have to accept first truth and if we accept the path of truth, we have to accept right action and we get to understand in the inner view that peace. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The inner vision is the whole, the insights are the parts and the sum of it is the inner view, but detachment is only possible, if we see in the insights not the picture, even though we have to see it in our own life, but we have to also get in distance again and being able to let go, because what matters is not the picture, but that it is He only, the divine and his Lila and he is unlimited.
Therefore, we have to use discrimination, to make sure we do not see it on the wrong level; Baba is never in the mind and the body. We have to see it in our own life and go on no matter what obstacles are and use discrimination to know what is an obstacle and what not to not get stuck in wrong mind conclusions if we like the picture better than the divinity behind who is the reason for that picture.
The divine reality of Baba is reflected inside in the heart in a certain way, that are
insights and if listen to his words and we hear that the talks about devotees being water taps and that the grace of God is like an unlimited tank of Grace, but to be able to connect with that tank, we have to have pure love, nothing else can connect the water tap to the tank of Grace of God so that the water will flow again.
Baba was that connection for all of us that is why we felt that much grace in his presence. To get to the experience of pure love, we need to accept truth and if we accept the path of truth, we need to accept right action and if we accept the path of right action, we understand peace. If these three are there, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of 'pure love'. And we need it to be able to connect to the tank of God's Grace and to be like a water tap and the water of God's grace will be flowing.
If we think about it and have that insight that the water is flowing from the water tap and we think it is a sign of wealth that will come in our life, we go into wish fulfilling thinking and we don't use any discrimination and we do not enquire if it right or wrong. We just project the insight and Baba said he is the insight and the following step, we project that divine insight and moment of truth in our own dream on the mind and created objective level of things, the relative level, the world. If we do that everything gets wrong, because the basic understanding that insights are not a relative thought, but a reflection in the mirror of the heart, gets lost and is misunderstood and instead of doing an effort in understanding it right, we go on in illusion and believe that it will happen one day and instead of spiritual progress it gets perverted.
To be able to get to the real meaning of insights, we have to accept truth and if we accept the path of truth and it is impossible without discrimination, truth is always hidden and never directly involved in our experience, we have to find it and we find it only with a spiritual effort.
Like a coward just finding excuses and thinking highly of ourselves and that we are not to one to be blamed, that is not about truth, but it is the mind and ego.
If we don't use discrimination, we will not know truth, we have to find it and the difference to all that what is not true. We have first to accept the path of truth and if we accept truth, we have to accept right action and we will understand peace.
That is the level of peace Baba is representing and not what our stupid silly mind thinks about peace. It is a level of pure love.
To make that experience of pure love, there have to be three things; truth, right action and peace. If we have those three things, we are able to make the experience of 'pure love'.
Christmas is most truly Christmas if we give the light of love to those who are in need. Of there is no acceptance of truth and also no right action and of course, there is no peace, how could there be pure love and a spirit of Christmas?
Let Me call upon you today, to give up, in honor of this holy occasion, two evils from your mind: self-praise and talking scandal! Give them up! Instead adopt one habit: the habit of loving service to the distressed. If you spend all your time and energy in worldly comfort and sensual delight, you are disgracing this human existence. Do not spend your life in just enjoying food; eat as much as is necessary for living. Maintain your body as temple where God resides. Keep it clean, fresh and fragrant by developing compassion and love; Let holy thoughts, words and deeds emerge from you. Do not demean it by using it for low, trivial and unholy tasks. Wherever you are, make this resolution today!
Doesn't it sound like a good Christmas wish to get rid of self-praise and talking scandal.
We have to accept truth and we have to accept right action to get to the inner understanding of peace. And it is still only the beginning, because without truth, right action and peace, there will be no experience of pure love. If there is no ' pure love' we will not be able to connect to the tank of Grace of God and we will in the insight get aware that no more water is flowing from that water tap.
Wishing you all lots of divine and pure love and a wonderful Christmas time.
Baba explained that there is an unlimited tank of God's grace and there are also devotees looking like water taps, but there have to be three things, the tank of grace of God and the water taps and the connection between them. And God is love and nothing else can connect the water tap with the tank of divine grace but love.
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