43. 82. Even if God thinks...

Zen statements are very simple! But very deep and meaningful! They explain the life principles as easily as inserting a needle in a ripe banana fruit.

• For happy times to dawn in life, a Zen statement: Whether you crave for it or not, when it has to rain, it will rain. This applies not only for rain... This will suit all kinds of expectations in life. Apply it and you will know the strength of this statement.
• There is no relationship between the sounds you make and God's will. So, don't grieve about it.
• It is only natural for a person acting in a drama, to forget himself and along with the drama, laugh and cry as the story requires him to act. In the drama of the world, it is also natural for a man, who forgets himself, to really weep or laugh.
• What is the truth?
• Who am I? Why did I come here? All these will begin to be known when the drama ends.

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Mukundan was having a runny nose. When he went to the doctor, after explaining his troubles, he looked here and there with his eyes filled with fear.

As Mukundan was afraid whether the doctor would give him an injection and was only looking at the hands of the doctor, the doctor interrupted and said, 'Before I give you medicine, you have to finish a job.'

Mukundan asked, 'What is it? Tell me.'

'At least for ten minutes, open the tap and stand under the shower so that your head gets wet; then step out of the shower and stand exposing your body to the cold breeze at least for ten minutes. As soon as you finish doing this, you come and see me. I will give you your medicine.'

'What are you asking me to do? If I do as you say, the runny nose may go away but I will start wheezing.'

The doctor replies, 'What can I do? I only know to treat wheezing.'

• If the doctor is half-baked, the health of the patients who come to him will become a question mark. If your knowledge about God is half-baked, life itself will become a question mark. Man who started saying, 'I pray to God; I bow down to God, ' gradually began to believe that 'God is an individual', and the pre-maturely ripened mind firmly caught hold of this idea.

Not stopping at that, he confused himself about God's love, grace and anger as:

What he thinks as affection as God's 'love';

What he thinks as regret as God's 'grace';

What he thinks as irritation as God's 'anger'.

It is only this confusion which remains as an obstruction for him to understand God fully.

There is no relationship at all between love, grace and anger of the divine energy called God and man's love, grace and anger.

From the day man started understanding God from his own mental point of view, till today he has understood God wrongly only.

Here is a life incident of a religious preacher who used to do religious preaching about God.

'God is suffering for us. He shows love. He is waiting for us.' – In this manner, he would try to explain about God based on average feelings of love and affection.

It was rainy season. Due to some seasonal changes, it did not rain. Then that preacher, prayed piously to God for the sake of the people and told God, 'Make it rain now!' After a few minutes of the prayer, it started to rain.

Immediately the preacher said, 'Have you all seen? On hearing my request, God made it rain. He is waiting only for us.'

The people also nodded their heads saying, 'Yes, yes'.

After some days when the people asked him, 'It will be good if it rains today. Why don't you pray to God for our sake?'

He prayed to God very piously for quite a long time, saying 'Make it rain'. Even after one hour of his prayer, it did not rain. Again he prayed; it was of no use. Even after his praying for five times continuously, there was no rain.

It did not rain at all. The preacher said, 'Have you all seen? This is a test of God. He is testing as to what amount of devotion we have towards Him'.

People also again nodded their heads saying, 'Yes, yes. That is right.'

When the people had all assembled there one day, even without his prayer, it started raining.

Immediately the religious preacher said, 'See, God is very good. He has a heart to help us. Even without our asking, he knows our needs.'

People also nodded their heads enthusiastically, saying 'Yes, yes'.

Unable to think, 'What is happening around us' and not being bold enough to understand, the people also nodded their heads. The religious preacher was going on talking.

Is it right? Fair?

To know the reply to these questions continue to read the article with great attention.

'It is good to keep the connection with God, the divine energy deep in our heart always. But it is not good to be going on imagining about God always.

Living in an imaginary world in this manner is not a symbol of progress in the path of reaching the divine energy, reaching God.

The reason being, that if the mind is caught in the imaginations about God, even if God thinks about it, He Himself cannot save us. Even if God himself comes in person and tells, 'the mind is entangled with these wrong ideas about God', it will be difficult for people to understand.

When the mind is getting mature, it says, 'All actions are done by God. All are his will and action.' It still cannot be true. This is because the mind, like a parrot, will catch hold of what others speak and will begin talking accordingly.

Here the mind merely repeats the words of the matured enlightened Masters who say this from their experience of this truth. When a man who has no experience says this, these are merely words. It is word oriented.

After the mind has matured fully, in a beyond-mind state, experiencing it fully and saying deep from the heart, 'All are God's actions', then only it will be true. This is 'being' oriented.

When a person who has not attained mental maturity, begins to talk, understanding such experiential truths from his own mental point of view, till the end, there is a danger of life coming to an end without knowing the real truth.

For such type of people if you say, 'All are His actions; everything He will look after!' They will then ask what for are we there?

Is it for always asking for alms from God saying, 'Give me this; give me that'.

Or, is it for being afraid always, saying, 'Save me'.

You always search for God outside. It is only when you search within yourself that you can find God in this very body itself. You will experience and enjoy heaven within you in this world itself.

If you cannot understand this, even if God wills it, he cannot save you.'

All of the above statements are that of Jumalki's and are worth pointing out here.

Right from the very old times, man gets caught very easily in the net spread out by the dull mind.

He is struggling not even knowing that he is caught. Read this essay again. Try to understand the truth. Every thing is possible.

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A meaningful incident.

In a meditation camp at Salem one gentleman asked, 'It seems God created man like Him. What is your idea about it?'

'God has not created man in his form. It is only the man who has created God in his form and shape', I said.

'It is me who has created you, you created me. Of the two, who is great? Tell me man!' – If God asks you this, what reply will you give?

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Meditation chisels. Chisel No. 37.

Do not say, 'I am a believer of spirituality.'

If it is true that you are a believer then by reading this book your talking would have lessened, actions would have increased. In actions, hastiness would have lessened, and carefulness would have increased. Worries would have lessened and joy and independent feeling would have increased. All this would have happened if you had experimented with this book so far!

Without experimenting and examining, if you have read just like that, your talking would have increased a little. Within this time a few people would have commented, 'This man knows things'. But you will remain as you were.

If no change has occurred within you so far, please read once again and experiment with the truths said in this book.

Examine what all you are going to read further.

If people are not so prepared to change these truths into experience, taking the wisdom truths as 'fodder for the brain', this will result in great danger for themselves as well as others.

Their ideas which are not experienced and are only half-baked, will register in the minds of the listener, only as utter confusion. Such people can only create one more confused people like himself.

Don't fail to experiment with the wisdom truths you have read.

Do not say, 'I am a believer of spirituality.' And stop with that.

Spiritual principles are ultimate truths. But they are truths only for him who has made it as an experience.

For a new reader, spirituality is only a good philosophy. You should not try to believe in the principles. You cannot believe.

Even if you believe, they cannot become truths. Because they have not yet become experiences!

What is the use if you deeply believe that honey is sweet? For a person who believes so, he cannot know the taste of honey. What is the difference between him and a person who does not know even a single word about honey?

A man who says, 'I believe honey'; another says, 'I do not believe honey'. Both do not know about the taste of honey. Both will be in the same level only.

Instead of playing... I believe; I do not believe; leave it aside and just taste a drop of honey, by putting it on the tongue, the problem is solved. The idea that honey is sweet will become a true experience.

Just examine and see whether spirituality gives a joyful life...Problem will be solved.

If you do not experiment, then the believer in spirituality will remain in the same level of the person who does not believe in spirituality. Therefore experiment. Experiment fully.

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