Passage 9

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A small boy in the sixth class, eleven years old, spoke. He spoke about everything: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Rāja Yoga. His heart is so pure. Even without his own experience of it, there is a kind of joy in the telling. It does not matter that he has not practised it. That boy is content in himself. He may have read in many ways for it. Feelings like these: in our daily life we must make the efforts it takes to be content, little by little. Always discontent, discontent. This discontent cannot be overcome, whatever you may get. “The dog laps water; however full the stream flows, the miser finds no joy,” it is said. A dog cannot drink by gulping it down properly. Whether there is much water or a little, it always drinks with its tongue, poor thing. If we always go after small things in one way or another, there will be no contentment in our life. As contentment asks, take each thing as it comes, “This is mine, this is God's prasād, this hardship too is God's prasād”, and be content with it. If you compare yourself with one who has more, “I eat twice a day; that rich man eats four times a day”, great hatred arises towards him. Instead, “Ayyo, poor fellow, that poor man eats once a day; I am better off than him, am I not! God has kept me in this state”, so you must go on being content. So, even in very small things, we must try to develop contentment. Only then does divinity come forth from humanness. Contentment is the chief of the human qualities. Contentment is not to be had by any path other than devotion to God. So, remembering the Name of God, loving God, make the effort it takes to dedicate even your whole life to winning the Prema of God.