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DISCOURSE 11
who dedicates everything that is his to me. Actually, I belong to him."
LOVE MAKES US SURRENDER EVERYTHING TO THE LORD
Jatashankar became tongue-tied on hearing the divine voice. Taking the empty plate, he returned. He did not get the boon of children but he found the way to attain the Paramatma.. You sincerely love the Paramatma and then you need not ask for anything. Even without asking for it, you will get what you desire; you will get what you desire at any time you desire it. If you go to the temple to beg for any boon; your mind will become shaken and it will be vacillating. The desire to beg for a boon; the desire to attain something produces vacillation in the mind. Your mind cannot remain firm in the temple with such desires. You cannot have a darshan of the Paramatma with a firm and concentrated mind. Can you concentrate on the image of the Paramatma? Even if you can concentrate on the image; how long can you keep up your concentration? Your eyes would look towards various directions. That happens because you go there to receive something and that desire to receive something creates instability in your mind. If in your heart there arises a genuine love for the Paramatma, then you will go to the temple of the Paramatma with a feeling of complete dedication and surrender. Love inspires you to dedicate and surrender yourself to the Paramatma. After this kind of recollection and darshan your feeling of devotion would not remain unexpressed. The glorification of the Paramatma would naturally flow from your tongue. That glorification would contain an element of sadness caused by your separation from the Lord. You will glorify the sublime qualities of the Paramatma and you will pray to attain an emotional and spiritual communion with the Paramatma.
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YOU WANT EVERYTHING READYMADE
From the Audience: We merely utter the song of glorification in a mechanical manner. No emotion of devotion appears in the heart.
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