If there is a difference
between the effort of the individual in practising Sadhana, and the descent of
God. You are asking me whether they are two different things. They are not two
different things. God Himself is doing Sadhana through you. God can enter
you and make you feel that you are doing sadhana. God Himself is doing sadhana
through you, so why are you attributing it to yourself? Your individuality is
wiped out completely. He is doing it. He has entered you, and is impelling you
towards meditation. That is the grace of God entering into you, and wrongly you
feel that you are doing it.
In the Mahabharata war all
the work was done by Lord Krishna, and yet the glory went to Arjuna only.
Arjuna felt that he had done the work but it was done by the grace of Lord
Krishna. Everything that we do is by the grace of God only, but when it enters
through us, we feel that we are doing it. It is a mistake on our part. The
sadhana that you are doing is the work of God only, so you must be grateful to
Him. Be happy.
You have not
fully surrendered yourself. You are a shape taken by the grace of God. God
Himself has created you for His purpose. This is actually surrender. You cease
to be there independently working. We have no right even to lift a hand unless
the centre of the cosmos operates.
Everything is
done by God. We are only tools, instruments. God is playing this drama of the
universe, making us dance to His tunes and play the part that we are expected
to play. We have our exits and we have our entrances, as Shakespeare mentions.
Everyone is playing different roles allotted to them in the drama of this
universe. You come, and the curtain falls and there is an exit; another comes,
and the curtain lifts. This is what is happening. It is all One Being, the
Great Master of the universe working, for whose pleasure?
From the bliss of God the
universe has come, by the bliss of God we are sustained, and to the bliss of
God we will enter. We have every reason to be happy, and we have no reason to
be sorry. Be happy.
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