RELAX IN HIS WILL
Mani Irani
Is it very difficult to be
with a Perfect Master? Well frankly it is not really
easy, but on the other hand what
Baba fills our life with more than makes up for
everything.
Life anywhere is a challenge, but with Baba one
learns that worries are not so monumental as we
thought them
after all. He teaches us to maintain a better
balance of truer values and not to worry over
spiritually lesser
ones. He often brings our emotions to the surface so
we have to face them as this is the way to overcome
them.
We must not take things too seriously, and never
lose a sense of humor. Baba used to have one of us
read jokes
every afternoon, and someone asked why He liked
jokes. Baba replied because the Universe is God's
biggest joke!
I have no idea what you mean when you say, "It is
certainly all my doing." Forgive me for being
outspoken but (whatever it is) when we say that we
are really flattering ourselves. Truly nothing is of
our own
doing except the shaping of our next life, and even
in that there is a greater hand than ours that
guides our
path.
Of course it is not easy -- but would we really want
it all smooth? The obstacles we come across can
become
stepping stones if only we used them so. Baba once
said, "Treat your circumstances like a life buoy and
it
will not let you sink."
Of course one has troubles and worries. We would be
as stone if we didn't, and sometimes they seem too
big;
but Baba teaches us to dismiss them, to snap out of
it (with that He snaps His beautiful fingers).
I think life is much easier when we do not think too
much. You know what I mean? One thought invites
another and another and another, and soon there is
not enough room in the mind for the giant we have
created.
I think the trouble nowadays is that we have
forgotten to relax our mind as much as our body.
I once wrote to a friend who needed comfort: "Don't
shut all the doors within you. You're not holding
anything out, you are shutting yourself in. Relax in
His Love; tell Him you are His to do with what He
likes and
then relax in His Will."
LETTERS FROM THE
MANDALI, Vol. 2, pp. 72-73
ed Jim Mistry
Copyright 1983 AMBPPCT
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