Mother
(MAA)
Surdasji went to a God's temple, where people said - "What brings you here?" He said - "I have come to see my Lord" People said - "You do not have eyes, how will you be able to see God?" He said - "If I do not have eyes for beholding God, but does Thakurji (God) not have eyes? God will be able to see me! He will become pleased on seeing me, then my work will be done."
Now Brother! Sister! Pay attention. Just as I have no eyes, but God has eyes, with that He sees me. Similarly gentlemen! If you do not have awareness of God, then is God not conscious of you? If God is not known by me, but am I not in God's awareness and consciousness? When I am in His consciousness, then I have never to worry about anything at all. Just as a child is in his mother's site, till then no one can do him any wrong and whatever is needed for the child, the mother will arrange everything for him. Similarly, in God's presence, we are never distant from him, then our protection, provision, welfare etc. whatever is needed, that all He will provide.
Now Brother! Sister! Pay attention. Just as I have no eyes, but God has eyes, with that He sees me. Similarly gentlemen! If you do not have awareness of God, then is God not conscious of you? If God is not known by me, but am I not in God's awareness and consciousness? When I am in His consciousness, then I have never to worry about anything at all. Just as a child is in his mother's site, till then no one can do him any wrong and whatever is needed for the child, the mother will arrange everything for him. Similarly, in God's presence, we are never distant from him, then our protection, provision, welfare etc. whatever is needed, that all He will provide.
God says in the Gita - Ananyaascintayanto maam ye janaah paryupaasat
tesaam nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogaksemam ahaamyaham. ( 9:22)
"To those men, who worship Me alone, thinking of none but Me, who are ever-devout, I make provisions to protect what they have and I also provide them with all the necessities that are required." (Gita 9:22)
"macchitah sarvadurgaani matprasaadaattrishyasi" (Gita 18/58);
"By fixing your mind on Me, you will by My favor, conquest all difficulties, "; and
"matprasaadaadvaanoti shaasvatam padmavyayam" (Gita 18/56)
"That eternal ever-lasting post can also be attained by My grace."
The point is that the Lord knows of our presence, His grace is on us, therefore He will protect us from the inauspicious and will make us attain Him. However our mind must remain fixed on Him. Our trust and faith should all be on God. Even if our trust and faith is not on Him, His grace will shower on us. He is already making all the provisions for us. Whatever is for our welfare, and eternal good, He is naturally doing that for us.
We see pleasure and pain in two different forms. Pleasure is separate and pain is separate. However in God's abode, pleasure and pain are not separate. Just as "laalane taadne maaturnaakaaroopnyam yathaarbhake | Tadvedeva maheshasya niyanturgunadoshyoh||"
Mother does not have two different feelings while loving or scolding. With only one feeling, the mother loves and scolds. In other words, with a heart filled with love, she loves the child, and seeing towards what is for his good, she also slaps him. Then does she do anything that is harmful to the child? Never ! In the same way, when God does what is in accordance to our wishes and other times not and slaps us, then too in His doing, we must see that He is our mother! Maa! If He does that which is favorable or unfavorable, whatever He does, in that is our welfare, whether we understand it or not.
From "Jivan ka Satya" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji
tesaam nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogaksemam ahaamyaham. ( 9:22)
"To those men, who worship Me alone, thinking of none but Me, who are ever-devout, I make provisions to protect what they have and I also provide them with all the necessities that are required." (Gita 9:22)
"macchitah sarvadurgaani matprasaadaattrishyasi" (Gita 18/58);
"By fixing your mind on Me, you will by My favor, conquest all difficulties, "; and
"matprasaadaadvaanoti shaasvatam padmavyayam" (Gita 18/56)
"That eternal ever-lasting post can also be attained by My grace."
The point is that the Lord knows of our presence, His grace is on us, therefore He will protect us from the inauspicious and will make us attain Him. However our mind must remain fixed on Him. Our trust and faith should all be on God. Even if our trust and faith is not on Him, His grace will shower on us. He is already making all the provisions for us. Whatever is for our welfare, and eternal good, He is naturally doing that for us.
We see pleasure and pain in two different forms. Pleasure is separate and pain is separate. However in God's abode, pleasure and pain are not separate. Just as "laalane taadne maaturnaakaaroopnyam yathaarbhake | Tadvedeva maheshasya niyanturgunadoshyoh||"
Mother does not have two different feelings while loving or scolding. With only one feeling, the mother loves and scolds. In other words, with a heart filled with love, she loves the child, and seeing towards what is for his good, she also slaps him. Then does she do anything that is harmful to the child? Never ! In the same way, when God does what is in accordance to our wishes and other times not and slaps us, then too in His doing, we must see that He is our mother! Maa! If He does that which is favorable or unfavorable, whatever He does, in that is our welfare, whether we understand it or not.
From "Jivan ka Satya" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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