If you attach yourself to the Lord through the path of love (prema), it will be possible to realise Him. God’s love is like an infinite and endless ocean. Simply because God’s love is infinite and endless, you cannot carry all of it with you. What you can carry with you will depend on the size of the pot you take. So the first thing to do is to enlarge the size of your pot, and this can be done through spiritual practice (sadhana). The first step in Sadhana, is respect for your mother. The devotion towards the mother should be such that you recognise the great love and affection with which your mother has brought you up. You must return gratitude to your mother in the form of love or bhakti. The mother will also showbhakti in the form of vatsalya (affection of mother for child), in return to the love of the child.
In listening to his words we get actually away from the form as that is for some people as it seems still a big issue. Here Swami talks about the path of love and if we attach ourselves to the Lord through the past of love we will be able to get God realization. But the next sentence he talks already about the infinite ocean and that is beyond the form and the question for us is how much of it we can put our own vessel. And he explains how it is done, be spiritual practise, Sadhana, that is not only meditation, but all spiritual practises.
But how are we getting away from the form. That is actually easy if we know how to listen. If we listen to his words, we get with his words aways from the form and on an universal and infinite level. If people tell they have a problem with the form, it is not right. They don’t have a problem with the form, the have a problem with listening. If they would listen to his words, there would not be any problem with the form.
If you attach yourself to the Lord through the path of love (prema), it will be possible to realize Him.
The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realizing oneness with the Divine. - Baba
Look at a piece of cloth. Truly it is a bundle of threads; and if you examine it more carefully, you will say that it is just cotton. The first stage is cotton, second stage is thread, and the final stage is the cloth. What would you do if you do not like that cloth? You remove the threads one by one and the cloth disappears! In the same manner, your mind does not have any specific form. It is simply a bundle of desires. These desires themselves come from the thoughts of your mind which can be compared to the cotton. Thus in this analogy the three stages are the cotton or the thoughts, the thread or the desires, and finally the desires constitute the mind which is the cloth. So you must try to diminish these desires as far as possible. Desires are like heavy luggage in the journey of your life. Less luggage, more comfort for you!
If we ask about the basic quality as oneness, what does it mean in our practical everyday life?
There is only one and we have to be at the side of that oneness and not on the side of all what is not real and doesn't exist, what is called illusion. We need to discriminate. Oneness actually knows no second, but we live in the world and there everything has two sides, therefore, to be able to be one we have to use discrimination.
In the West if we hold up the ideal of argumentation and the right of it, with other words we use our critical mind trained already in schools to be argumentative, we talk in the spiritual sense about an obstacles. And why an obstacle? It doesn't allow us to realize the underlying oneness. It is based on duality.
If we don't use right discrimination and we don't know how to get to a right conclusion, we look at oneness and call in a kind of confused and stupid way everything God as we had a meeting where we talked about everything and never got to the point, it seems he didn't know how. What was said was in other words that the satsang was also the divine behind and it made the question come up, what is he talking about as he didn't get to the point. If it is not a right conclusion, it is not right no matter how we look at it. It was just the confused notion of oneness and we all had to listen to it.
Embodiments of Love! Vijaya Dasami marks the conclusion (samapti) of the sacred Navaratri festival. Samapti confers prapti (deservedness) in every possible way. Today I bless you with the deservedness to develop selfless love. Love contains all the other human values like truth, right conduct, non-violence and peace. Whatever you do, do it with Love. Your heart is like a big tank, and senses are like taps. Fill your heart with the water of Love. Then you will experience Divine Love through all your senses. Undertake good actions from this moment. Let everybody be happy. The essence of all scriptures is: “Help ever, Hurt never.” Do not hurt even an insect, for God is present in every being. Surrender to the Lord and say, “I am Yours,” and live up to it with strong faith. God will protect you at all times and under all circumstances. I bless you to have noble feelings, join good company, give-up vices and attain Divinity.
Here Baba talks about the human values and about the conclusion of the sacred Navaratri festival. Listening to his words we have to get to a right and not wrong conclusion, therefore, the conclusion is important. And Sampti and prapti have to do with deserving it and the way it is done to get to a right conclusion.
With other words, we have to be careful to understand it right, to get to correct understanding and such a festival and the way it is done shows us the way. It is for sure sathvic, what we don’t know always about all our activities and often we just cannot know. By listening to the words of a self-realized authority we get a feeling for it and if we don’t do that, we can be quite sure that in the conclusion is in the mind and not the atma. In another thought for the day Swami said that we cannot know right from wrong or good from bad without listening. In the relative field we always have two sides and it depends the situation, what is good at one time can be bad in another situation, therefore, when we listen to him and inquire about it we get aware of it and it should make us careful to do the right thing and to go in direction of correct understanding and to not trust our mind.
We live in the mind since we are born and we count on it and we are not used to it to think that it is not real, that it is based on illusion and that it is not right. The Western ideal is the opposite, with science it seem we got also the right of argumenting to get right and with the path of sathva we cannot argue and get right, we have to learn to listen and accept truth, if we accept truth there is no more argument.
Embodiments of Love! Vijaya Dasami marks the conclusion(samapti) of the sacred Navaratri festival. Samapti confers prapti (deservedness) in every possible way. Today I bless you with the deservedness to develop selfless love.
If you attach yourself to the Lord through the path of love (prema), it will be possible to realise Him. God’s love is like an infinite and endless ocean. Simply because God’s love is infinite and endless, you cannot carry all of it with you. What you can carry with you will depend on the size of the pot you take. So the first thing to do is to enlarge the size of your pot, and this can be done through spiritual practice (sadhana). The first step in Sadhana, is respect for your mother. The devotion towards the mother should be such that you recognise the great love and affection with which your mother has brought you up. You must return gratitude to your mother in the form of love or bhakti. The mother will also showbhakti in the form of vatsalya (affection of mother for child), in return to the love of the child. 
