Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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The Presence of God
Winter 2007
Given at the Lighthouse Center 12 August 2006
Namaste, I bow to all of you. If you reflect on yourself, you ask, “Who am I? I am Divine. I will not put myself down in any circumstances." Your commitment is not to put yourself down in any circumstances. The world can put you down, but they don't know you.
How many people remember the breath? How many breaths are destroyed with anger, jealousy, competitiveness, ego, suspicion? Let the breath be the breath of Peace, of Love, of Divine Light. Every breath should be charged with Love and Peace and Divine Light.
One person asked me years ago, “Do you believe in God?” When you don't have, you believe. Do you believe in the sun? No, you have the sun, the sun is there. Belief is not realization, not experience; belief is tomorrow. One man said, "Guruji, I don't believe in God. I feel, I see God in vegetables, animals, in the eye of a child, the eye of a fish.” Where there is life pulsating, the desire to love, there is the presence of God. How can we live without the presence of God? When you breathe, inhale the Divine, the presence of God, and exhale the anger, the hate, the stress, the negative energy.
Don't think of what others are thinking; think of what you are thinking. We are so eager to know what others are thinking, saying, believing about us. But Mahavir's teaching says, “Don't trust even my word if it does not make sense to you. Believe in yourself.” Those who get divorced started with love, and celebration. But over time they don't agree, and thoughts, beliefs and anger separates them. Love is destroyed by anger, jealousy, and hatred. Who has the power to destroy you? No one, unless you give your consent. Our own thoughts can destroy us. If you don't hurt anybody, no one will hurt you. When you have no fear, you do not attract violence. If someone doesn't agree with us, that's fine. But we want to correct them, make them see it our way.
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