Passage 17

In English

You have to offer yourself to God

What is that you have to offer to God? Not a leaf, a flower, a fruit or holy water. You have to offer yourself to God. Then you become one with the Divine. That is what God desires from you. Instead of realising this sublime truth people seek to offer their hair to to secure petty favours. What is it that Lord lacks? Does the Lord need your overgrown hair? What is it the Lord needs? On the top of the head you have dark hair. That represents the - the quality of lethargy and ignorance. Those who go to should offer to God their and acquire the . Realise that there is nothing of ours that you can offer to God. All you enjoy is from Him. Develop this conviction. Treat whatever good or bad that happens to you as coming from God. What you deem as bad may be like a bitter medicine prescribed by a doctor for your good. Consider all that happens, good or ill, pleasure or pain, is for our good. Only then you will be able to nourish your good qualities. Embodiments of love! Wherever you may be, in whatever condition, consider your hearts as an Ocean of Milk, the abode of God. God is omnipresent. When you lead your life with this faith, there is nothing greater than this. The overseas devotees who were here during the past three days have converted their hearts into the Ocean of Milk and invited the Lord to recline on it. The other devotees should learn from them.