Passage 9

In English

It is God’s word that if you have devotion to God, He will look after all your future. He will look after all the welfare that is due to you. So declared the Lord in the . But when would this be? He said that this would be done provided the devotee spends all his time in the thought of God, provided he accepts God to be all pervading and as present in every being. The Lord never said that He will look after the welfare of a devotee all the time, in spite of the devotee spending only a little while, now and then, in thought of God and even if he goes on doing all kinds of evil and harmful things in the name of God. There are three things which one should keep in mind, namely, “I will not think of anything else except God; I will not do anything else without the permission of God and I will have my attention completely fixed on God.” It is only when you accept and put into practice these three things, that the Lord will look after your welfare. Today, we are not bothering about the injunctions which God has given us; but instead, we are arguing with God and asking Him why He is not looking after our welfare and our safety. By simply reading and repeating the text of the , by merely thinking about the contents of the text, we are not going to get any benefit out of it. It is only by understanding the meaning of the text, by ruminating over the meaning in your mind and digesting it completely and making it part and parcel of your life, can you get the benefit out of it.