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GOD'S MERCY Paramahamsa Niranjanananda
Yesterday, we experienced God's grace in the form of rain. This rain was a special message for our spiritual upliftment. It was the message that humans must know that it is only God's mercy which can make the mind pure, clean and calm.
You must know that God laughs only once in a person's life, and he laughs hilariously. This happens when the person goes to God and tells him about his plans for the future. "O God, I have planned to do this." This is the only occasion when God laughs. He says, "Fine. Let's see how successful it will be!" Then His causeless mercy, His guarding hand is removed.
God's mercy, God's consideration is topmost in a person's life. However, it is possible that under the influence of ego or pride, of his purushartha, a person may forget God for a few moments. When a person does this, God moves further from him.
However, the protecting hand of God is behind this convention. It was God's inspiration that enabled the volunteers and the members of the managing committee to work throughout the night. They arranged for chairs, removed the wet straw and soaked carpets, and reinstated the pandals. We have given a good sign to God that we deserved His mercy, because we showed that we were prepared to go to any extent for it. I bow to such workers who put all their hearts into invoking God's inspiration, blessings and strength, so as to perform purushartha and God's work, Bahujan hittaya bahujan sukhaya, for the benefit of many, for the welfare of many. Now we can tell the world with pride that faith is alive in the hearts of men and women.
This is faith. This is belief. We ourselves were introduced to our own faith within ourselves. You can see that the work is still going on. People are still spreading the dry straw and the carperts. This is a mass yagna. It is a mass sankalpa which certainly will be fulfilled. The prayer and the belief is, "O God, let
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