How to Acquire Contentment and Joy

When the Lord’s will, the needs of spiritual seekers, and the teachings of great persons produce their combined effect, the happiness of the world will be assured and undiminished. If all humanity prays together with unity for unrest, injustice, disorder, and falsehood to be transformed into peace, truth, love, and mutual service, things will certainly become better. Worrying is fruitless. There is no other way out. This is no occasion for despair. It is against the essential nature of people to plead weakness and want of strength. Therefore, giving up the search for other means, people must try prayer, service to others, and mutual love and respect. They should delay no longer; they will soon acquire contentment and joy.

When we listen to a sentence of Swami, we have to think it over. If we don’t think it over we will not get to the right conclusion and why not?

When the Lord’s will, the needs of spiritual seekers, and the teachings of great persons produce their combined effect, the happiness of the world will be assured and undiminished.

If we don’t think it over we get to the conclusion in our mind that we don’t know the will of the divine and we cannot know it, the mind doesn’t know. 

 But when we think it over and listen to the divine words, we get to a different conclusion, he is the knower and we are in touch with him. 

We have to listen, think it over and absorb, that is divine will. 

It needs the teaching of great persons, that means a spiritual teacher. Swami separates the divine will from the teacher, if we have no teacher who is telling us about the divine will, we are not able to hear it and that is why there has to be the needs of the spiritual seekers as well, the devotee and the need has to be enough serenity and self-enquiry to get in touch with the divine. 

The teacher is talking about the divine and if we listen to the teacher and think it over the divine will is not like unknowable, but he is the knower that is why we have to listen to his words, in his words he is present. It is unknown to the mind, it is unknown to our understanding, but it is known to those who listen and think it over as his is in the word. He makes himself known to those in self-enquiry.

That second part of the sentence that happiness will be assured and undiminished, that part is clear, we don’t need to think it over, but the first part we do. If we just read it we understand it with the mind and not with our soul, if we think it over we listen and it is our soul and heart that is listening and not the mind and that is a different level. The mind is what you and I think, the soul is what he knows and he does. He is the knower, he is the doer.

The mind doesn’t know the divine will, but he knows and he will tell us if we listen, think it over and absorb, he is present and in his presence is also the divine will.

If all humanity prays together with unity for unrest, injustice, disorder, and falsehood to be transformed into peace, truth, love, and mutual service, things will certainly become better.

If we meditate regularly and if we do it all together or Bhajans together, we get rid of stress and tensions, that is unrest, injustice, we get to a level of perfect orderliness, there is no disorder and a level of truth and falsehood should be transformed into peace, truth, love, mutual service and things will become better. 

What about someone being in the divine presence and using the teaching by taking only advantage of it? That was not part of that humanity praying together with others for unity and it was even about pretending to meditate, what was also not true and therefore, it was all falsehood and  in such a situation we have to go and make peace in his dream with Swami, because there was no peace possible, there was no transformation of the untruth and falsehood.

Nothing was transformed into peace, truth, right action (mutual service) and Swami is telling us things will become better if we pray together, but if we don't it cannot become better and if we pretend to pray together but we only take advantage of it, things cannot become better.

He was in the ashram in Swami’s presence. 

If not all pray together in unity, in such a way that unrest, injustice, disorder and falsehood will be transformed into peace, what about the rest of the world? 

All humanity praying together in unity is impossible, we can only pray for it, that is why and how we ask for the Lord’s advent and when he is present, humanity should get better.

That is why he said we just have to pray, may all people in all the worlds be happy and as only one can take care of it, we pray to the divine and he will fulfill the wish if lots of people praying for it, but also the result of the yearning of the soul cannot be known. 

That is what he said in the thought for the day yesterday. 

He is telling us why we pray, may all the people in all the worlds be happy. 

If we think it over, he is telling us that this is the best prayer to get to the advent of the divine or the avatar and he will be able to take care of it.

If we just read it, we just get to a mind conclusion, the same today, if all humanity prays it will get better, we all know that, but how do we get all humanity into prayer, it is impossible, so only he can do it, therefore, we ask for the Lord’s advent so that he can take care of it.

For the Lord nothing is impossible, he is the realm of all possibilities, of omnipotence and omniscience and for him everything is possible.

Worrying is fruitless. There is no other way out. This is no occasion for despair. It is against the essential nature of people to plead weakness and want of strength. Therefore, giving up the search for other means, people must try prayer, service to others, and mutual love and respect. They should delay no longer; they will soon acquire contentment and joy.

Why he tells us worrying is fruitless? There is no way out? 

We have to pray for the happiness of all people to make the Lord’s advent. His words ended with the sentence, this is the responsibility of the people.

It means it is our responsibility that we go on praying until these are firmly rooted we have to go on praying. And now imagine what happens with someone basing everything on falsehood in Swami's presence, it was not about human values, not about truth, wisdom, jnana and love, prema, only about taking advantage of it. How can those human values get rooted if there is only falsehood.

It is our responsibility to pray for the happiness of all people in all the words to get the human values rooted and it means it is not only irresponsible if we don't, it is destroying the divine values and we never get there, nothing can be transformed into truth, if there is only falsehood and we cannot get rooted in the religion of truth and compassion if there is only falsehood. 

Therefore in the dream it said, that I had to go and make peace with Swami, because it was not possible to get there with him. There was nothing left but a ruin and what he could get in garage sales, that is not exactly about going on in prayers that the good human values get rooted and with him it was just impossible and that is why I had to go and make peace with Swami in his dream, because with him it was impossible.

The road laid out by holy people has to be repaired now and then, either by those who travel through it or by those who claim authority over it. That is what is called ‘teaching (bodha)’. It is for the sake of such repairs that the Lord occasionally sends some authorised individuals, sages, and divine people. Through their good teachings, the path opened by the God-people of the past is again made clear and smooth. But how is one to know the consequence of the soul’s yearning for the Lord’s Advent? Since this can’t be known, one has to pray until the world is established in happiness. The happiness of the world is the sign of His arrival; if this is understood, then it is easy to recognise the Avatar immediately. It is then that the religion of truth (sathya), of compassion (daya), of spiritual wisdom (jnana) and of love (prema) will grow and prosper. So until these are firmly rooted, people must continue their prayers. That is the responsibility of the people.

Baba explains here why the divine sends from time to time some authorized individual sages and divine people, through their teaching that path is opened by those divine masters and God-people to make it clear and smooth.  

That is what is called ‘teaching (bodha)’. It is for the sake of such repairs that the Lord occasionally sends some authorised individuals, sages, and divine people. Through their good teachings, the path opened by the God-people of the past is again made clear and smooth.

He was totally wrong in every way possible, he also said the he allows everything to happen, no he didn't. Swami took care of it and he said it was perverted and sick and he ended it.

But how is one to know the consequence of the soul’s yearning for the Lord’s Advent? Since this can’t be known, one has to pray until the world is established in happiness.

It cannot be known the result of the yearning of the soul for the Lord’s advent. It tells us where our knowing ends and he is telling us because of that reason and that is important, we have to go on praying for the highest. We should go on praying until the world is established in happiness and that happens either when all are in happiness or we are enlightened.

The happiness of the world is the sign of His arrival; if this is understood, then it is easy to recognise the Avatar immediately. It is then that the religion of truth (sathya), of compassion (daya), of spiritual wisdom (jnana) and of love (prema) will grow and prosper. So until these are firmly rooted, people must continue their prayers. That is the responsibility of the people.

It is our responsibility going on praying, by the will of the Lord. If we listen and think it over, we are ear him and we feel it or if we just read it, we are in the mind.

And that way we get back to today’s thought for the day. 

In listening to his words, the reflection in our dreams, it is the dream stage and we have to do an effort, there has to be a spiritual seeker and the teacher, all these three together produce a combined effect, what assures the happiness of the world. That is important, he is the doer, he is the knower, therefore, the divine will, the word, the divine principle, the Atmic principle, not unknown to us, we have to listen to hear it. 

 We have to find that effect, as we are the spiritual seekers.

When the Lord’s will, the needs of spiritual seekers, and the teachings of great persons produce their combined effect, the happiness of the world will be assured and undiminished. If all humanity prays together with unity for unrest, injustice, disorder, and falsehood to be transformed into peace, truth, love, and mutual service, things will certainly become better. Worrying is fruitless. There is no other way out. This is no occasion for despair. It is against the essential nature of people to plead weakness and want of strength. Therefore, giving up the search for other means, people must try prayer, service to others, and mutual love and respect. They should delay no longer; they will soon acquire contentment and joy.

We cannot change it, so worrying is fruitless, time waste and there is no way out and that reality present, no way out made it heavy, the waiting, while time went by and no way out was just too much. It was not about despair, but about not wasting time. 

Praying for him to help was probably the only thing to do but we were meditating and that was also our prayer and I went always on with meditation.

It had been all of that, we prayed and we did service to others, but we couldn’t do it anymore and we were looking for actually another way of being engaged in service and the welfare of humanity, that was the focus when we lost the job as meditation teacher and mutual love and respect is really only possible when we listen to the divine words.

He is the doer and not we are the doer, we get the right answer and the right message and it is our responsibility going on with prayer or meditation, Sadhana or spiritual practice.

Therefore, giving up the search for other means, people must try prayer, service to others, and mutual love and respect. They should delay no longer; they will soon acquire contentment and joy.

There is no way out, we have to try prayer, service to other and mutual love and respect. 

That is people’s responsibility and when we do it, and we should not delay any longer, we will acquire contentment and joy. 

We have to listen and act accordingly. There is no way out.

If we listen to him it is our responsibility to go on. 

We have to do service to others and that is what it looked like – he said he would have his job back and mutual love and respect, a perfect Maya, illusion, isn’t it? 

We were in Sadhana focused on Baba’s words and his Darshan, we didn't care about ashram politics, but those permanent living in the ashram they knew it, because it was part of ashram life to know, but we didn’t have any part in that and the ashram stories didn’t interest me at all, because that is mind and also we didn’t get to hear it, so really nobody knew until I met him and he called you his friend, it felt like we would all together go in direction of mutual service, mutual respect and love for the welfare of the world.

He tells us that there is no way out, and we have to go for it. 

I met only people who didn’t listen to his words and there has been nothing in that sense, but the only thing present was falsehood and untruth, Swami was the dream as the man who comes in our dream to awake us, it was for an awakening. In the dream was his face and one had vampire teeth and the other a very long nose. 

It was a warning and a wake-up call. The vampire teeth was the body level, sucking energy, living from the energy of others, the parasite and in a way a pimp, letting others take care of him and work for him and taking only advantage of it, that was the pattern.

Swami's face with the long nose was mind and falsehood, nothing was true, only dreams, he didn't get his job back and there was no friend and no mutual respect and no mutual service and no thoughts about the welfare of the world. 

There was nothing left but a ruin, all what he could get in garage sales and what Swami said, that he took only advantage of it and ‘no more husband, nothing left but an empty Western shoe’.

By thinking it over we get a feeling for it, the words take shape and it is the wake-up call in our dream as he is the man who comes in our dream to awake us.

Focused on doing my best and being able to learn from that lesson, we had to face the vampire with mixed feelings, it was a warning and a wake-up call definitely. it was enough scary so that we began to be very careful. 

I didn’t know that we were in a mud hole, no windows, no door, no opportunities, no possibility for change or transformation, his state of mind was addicted to suffering and a vicious circle. 

It was not possible to get it transformed and in the dream it said that we had to go and make peace with the divine because there was no peace possible in the midst of that. As he said there is hardly any desire for the Lord in the midst of that, it is a vicious circle and the disease it the craving for worldly happiness, but he will never get there as suffering is the drug. 

The mud hole was a trap and the child was gone in the blink of an eye when the mud came in because of rainfalls, a terrible picture. we lived in the idea of a wrong safety, because I thought it was a divine Lila and that was the danger and it didn’t make sense, seeing it  as Lila we expect always something good and not falsehood and we think it is about an ideal and not just taking advantage of it.

It was a wake-up call, Swami with vampire teeth, a warning I couldn’t possibly ignore and the ruin in the air I also couldn’t ignore. Only in listening to his words we get aware of it and we tried always to see good, feel good, do good, but in that situation that didn’t help, it was too bad to be good. 

The divine will is present in his words, truth is his breath, if we listen and think it over, we feel it in his divine presence and if we just read it, that is mind and we do not hear it at all.