Need to feel generous

 

Though many ask for blessings, but only a few will receive. The giver is always giving but the taker is not there - the sincerity is missing. One who gives blessings gives freely, but the one who receives has to be sincere. The qualification to receive blessings is sincerity. And everyone is free to be sincere at any time.

Why do people choose to be sincere only sometimes? Because of the illusion that they are going to miss some mundane pleasure. Hankering after pleasure makes them insincere. When you are sincere, you simply enjoy pleasure without craving for it. Sincerity is being in touch with your depth. 

When you feel you are stuck in life and not growing, or are bombarded by desires, when you feel dryness, no enthusiasm, no juice, what do you do? Here is the solution. Feel generous - right now, not tomorrow, but right now. Both a princess and a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is a quality of the spirit. When you feel generous, your life becomes abundant full of compassion and love.

Is generosity the same as gratitude? No. Gratitude always has self-concern. You are grateful because you have something or you get something. Generosity is independent of external circumstances. No one can make you feel generous. That is something that you have to do by yourself. Essentially generosity is not an act. It is a state of consciousness, but it always finds its expression in an act.

Passion, on the other hand, indicates scarcity. Dispassion is abundance. Dispassion without generosity makes you self centred and causes more dryness. Don't think about what you've done in the past, that only brings doership. Just feel generous. 

Joyous imperfection

 

When we are joyful, we do not look for perfection. If you are looking for perfection then you are not at the source of joy. Joy is the realisation that there is no vacation from wisdom. The world appears imperfect on the surface but underneath, all is perfect. Perfection hides, imperfection shows off.

The wise will not dwell on the surface but will probe into the depths. The things you see are not blurred, it is your vision that is blurred. Infinite actions exist in the wholeness of consciousness, and yet consciousness remains perfect, untouched. Realize this now and be at home.

Legendary is the love that withstands rejection. It will be free of anger and ego. 

Legendary is the commitment that withstands humiliation. It will be one-pointed and will reach the goal. 

Legendary is the wisdom that withstands turbulence. It will be integrated into life. 

Legendary is the faith that withstands a million chances of doubt. It will bring perfection -siddhis. 

Legendary are the events that withstand time. They will become morals for millions. 

Only truth can set you free

 

Truth is that which does not change. Examine your life and identify all that changes as “not truth”. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth. When you identify untruth, then you will become free from it. 

When you do not identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth. As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth, events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body, everything is untruth.

It is only then that satsang, the company of truth, happens in the real sense. A mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby, sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager, sex is not untruth.

Knowledge is also untruth if it is only words. But as existence, it is truth. Love as an emotion is not truth, as existence, it is truth. 

Faith cannot be analysed

 

Do you know the difference between faith and confidence? Faith is the beginning. Confidence is the result. Faith in yourself brings freedom. Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith in God evokes love in you.

If you have complete faith, there are no questions. If you have no faith there is no point in asking any questions because how can there be any faith in the answer you receive? If you have faith in God when you know someone is taking care of you, what is the need for questions?

If you have taken the Karnataka Express to Bangalore, there is no need to ask at every station, “Where is the train going?” When someone is taking care of your desires, why go to an astrologer?

What about blind faith? Faith is faith, it cannot be blind. What you call blind is not faith at least not yours. Blindness and faith cannot meet. It is when you lose faith that you become blind. 

Whatever you have faith in, do not make it an object of knowing. You do not need to know about that in which you have faith. If you have faith in God, do not try to know God. God and self are not objects of knowing. You cannot have faith in that which you have made into an object of knowing. A child has faith in the mother. The child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in the mother. You cannot make love an object of knowing. If you try to do so, the love will disappear.

Curiosity to know obstructs faith by making into an object of knowing that in which you have faith. Often when people fall in love with each other, they don’t let go of curiosity. Curiosity slowly erodes their faith and love. 

Faith is non-analytical. Knowledge is analytical. God, love, Guru, sleep and Self are beyond knowing. If you try to analyse, you get confused. And the moment you make something into an object of knowing, analysis starts.

Does God have faith in us? To know whether God has faith or not, you have to analyse. And in asking this question, you give God a mind which is not there. 

One can have faith without being aware of it. Faith is the nature of a relaxed and undivided consciousness. 

Faith and devotion

 

False securities do not allow your faith to grow. Faith grows only when you have dropped your securities. 

False security is keeping faith where it does not belong. It is the illusion of security in having a job, a house, friends. Even if you have all the material securities, without faith, you will still reel in fear. When you buffer your life with securities, you keep faith away. Faith is your greatest security and brings perfection in you. 

Keep the money in the bank or in the pocket, not in the mind. Keep friends and family where they belong, not in the mind. You must let go of all possessions in the mind. Keep the house where it belongs, not in the mind. 

The Divine is your only security. Your body belongs to the world. Your spirit belongs to the Divine. Faith is realizing that you always get what you need. Faith is giving the Divine a chance to act.

Have faith in sound and then move on to have faith in silence. Have faith in sound when it is pleasant and have faith in silence when sound is unpleasant. 

People seem to have more faith in chatting and gossip rather than in chanting and knowledge. When someone says something bad, you immediately believe it and your mind becomes more disturbed. Believing in an unpleasant sound creates turmoil in your mind. In that situation, shift your faith to silence. Have faith in sound like the chanting of mantras. Have faith in knowledge. Have faith in silence.

Faith is the subject of the head, devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects them both. 

A mature intellect is devoted, a mature heart is full of knowledge and meditation matures your intellect as well as your heart. 

Head puts more faith in matter and the heart puts more faith in the abstract. It is nearly impossible that an intellectual person has total lack of faith or total lack of devotion. In science knowledge comes first and then faith follows. In spirituality faith comes first and then knowledge follows. 

The knowledge that pesticides and chemical fertilizers are good for plants came through science. Based on this knowledge, people had faith in pesticides and fertilizers; they were used all over the world. Then a different knowledge came that these were not good and faith shifted to organic farming. The same with antibiotics.