Good evening everyone and welcome again to our Saturday night Maha Abishekam to Mother.
On behalf of all of us, I'd like to express our immense gratitude for your continued support. We can do what we're doing because you support us. And in so doing we can support you.
Without your support, actually it gets pretty tricky. It's a team effort. It always is a team effort. Collectively we can achieve so much, and although you are remote you're an integral part in making all of this happen. So immense thanks to all of you.
Gratitude is about being grateful for all the things you have – the position you find yourself in, the resources you have available. But in a way, more importantly, having gratitude for who you are.
How many times Guru used to tell us; 'get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself what a beautiful human being you are.' Why did he ask us to say that?
He was getting us to relate to our Divinity. For once, to put to bed the egocentric nature and the negative nature of the human mind that wants to tell us, in Guru's words, that we're a miserable sinner.
A good for nothing, useless piece of rubbish – a state of mind to which we so often gravitate. Instead, Guru wanted us to identify and integrate with our divinity, our Paramatma.
So let's do that! Get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, have Guru's voice and vibration alongside you, and tell yourself what a beautiful human being you are.
How many aeons we've been telling ourselves that we are miserable sinners, getting hung up about something that happened a week, a month or a year ago.
We can't even change what happened five minutes ago. So move on. You're finally at the feet of Divine Mother, having spent all of these aeons preoccupied with your egocentric nature.
So for once, let's put this issue to bed. These are very valuable days and weeks. Lockdown might carry on for another month, another two perhaps. Make the most of that time – it might never happen again.
Preoccupy yourself about that divinity within you.
Guilt about the past and anxiety about the future will change absolutely nothing. But identifying yourself with your Paramatma through Mother, Krishna, Buddha – or whether it be through the rivers and mountains of the world – identify with that.
