Emodiments of Love!
You must be thinking about the
gift you have to offer Swami on this Birthday.
You can be happy that you have
given Swami a proper gift only when you love your fellowmen, share their
sufferings, and engage yourselves in serving them. That is the only gift I wish
for. The present given to God has to be pure, steady and selfless Love.
On this birthday I have only one
desire. I am desiring this only to promote your aanandha.
Rich people and people in power
have plentiful servants. But the distressed, the poverty-stricken, and those
who suffer have no one to serve them. Go to such people and be their friends,
their kith and kin, their closest well-wishers. Let them welcome you as such.
If you pour spirituality into the ears of those who are tortured by hunger, it
will not be assimilated. First, quench
the hunger. Give them God in the form of food. Give them God in the form of
clothes. Give God in the form of peace to those who are afflicted with anxiety.
Give God in the form of medicine to those who are suffering from ill health.
Give God in whatever form which will assuage fear, pain and sorrow. It is only
when this is done that spirituality can soak into the heart. If you act
contrariwise, instead of spiritual feelings you will be promoting atheism
itself.
