25 January 1987<\/p>\n
GETTING CLOSE TO GOD <\/b><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n
Getting close to God is actually an experience. The journey Itself is an\u00a0experience and finally when you reach Him it. Is another experience. It\u00a0Is an experience among experiences, the super experience when you\u00a0become one with God. We must not rush into this. You should not force\u00a0yourself. It must come to you naturally. When you mentally force\u00a0yourself to get into this deeply, you encounter a lot of problems
\nespecially mental problems. When people begin to force themselves to\u00a0this, they become affected mentally, emotionally and physically.<\/p>\n
As I have said before, enjoy your journey. Don’t be in a hurry. If\u00a0you want to go up to Cameron Highlands, you cannot reach there the\u00a0moment you decide to go. You will have to get yourself into that
\njourney. I t will take time no matter how you intend to go. No matter\u00a0how you force yourself or however impatient you are you are not going to\u00a0reach there immediately. You have to make that journey. So you might\u00a0as well enjoy it with all the patience you have and with all the expectations. Nobody has achieved it overnight.<\/p>\n
How are we going to overcome this problem? I t is a real problem. If you\u00a0are going to build a building on a weak foundation, no matter how\u00a0beautiful that building is, no matter how good the materials are, if the
\nfoundation Is weak the building will collapse. Because you are in a big\u00a0hurry to have that beautiful building you may have built the foundation\u00a0quickly. It can be built very quickly but the foundation will come down\u00a0as quickly as you have built it. The foundation has to be very strong.
\nThen your building will stand for a long time.<\/p>\n
In spiritualism al<\/u>so there i<\/u>s thi<\/u>s f<\/u>oundati<\/u>on. This foundation, is your\u00a0relationship with fellow human beings, your fellow sisters and brothers.\u00a0Many try to reach God through short cuts. They think this is an easy\u00a0way out. There is no easy way out. There is no short cut. It is easy\u00a0and very enjoyable when you start to think of the others first. As long\u00a0as you think of yourself, It is going to be a very painful experience.
\nThink of the others. They should come first. Your concern should be\u00a0for the others. Your care and love should be for the others. You come\u00a0last.<\/p>\n
When your relationship with your fellow sisters and brothers is right,\u00a0then you know that you have a strong foundation. I am not asking you\u00a0not to take care of yourself. You have to take care of yourself because\u00a0nobody else is going to take care. But it must not be, “I and I only”.
\nIt must be, \u201cI and they”.<\/p>\n
If you think of yourself only there will come a time when nobody else\u00a0will think of you. If you think of others only there will come a time\u00a0when there is absolutely nothing left for you. But If you can think of
\nothers as much as you think about yourself, then the whole world Is\u00a0going to think about you.<\/p>\n
A lot of people unknowingly become “thieves”. To a lot of us when I say,\u00a0\u201cSo-and-so is a thief”, the first thought that comes to our mind is,\u00a0“Maybe he has stolen something”. If I take something from someone
\nwithout telling him or without it being given to me, then I have stolen\u00a0It. There is another kind of stealing. Many people make this mistake.\u00a0When I take the credit when it is not mine, that is also stealing. If\u00a0the credit belongs to somebody else I should be the first to say, \u201cIt is\u00a0not mine. I didn’t do it. I didn’t think of It. This Is so-and-so’s”.\u00a0The credit must be given to the person who deserves it.<\/p>\n
This may sound very trivial but In spiritualism all things actually\u00a0matter. When we were young we learnt a beautiful little verse. \u201cLittle\u00a0drops of water, little grains of sand make the mighty oceans and the
\npleasant lands.” That one ocean is made up of billions of drops of\u00a0water. The pleasant lands that we see are made up of billions of grains\u00a0of sand.<\/p>\n
So do not think anything is too small or trivial. We have to take even\u00a0the smallest thing very seriously. We have to be spiritually clean and\u00a0pure. The big faults are very easy to Identify. You also have the
\nsmaller things that are difficult to Identify. You have to be very\u00a0careful. So in all our thoughts, words and actions we have to be clean and pure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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