Let me be your shelter

Life is a turbulence of events that can take us to many points. At the lowest point, even the desire to pray to God might cease to exist. Many of us get caught in these turbulences, and the first thing we do is give up God and find blame with God. We throw the blame on God at all times. During these times I ask you to let me be your shelter, let me cast my shadow over you. In that protection you will be able to go through those turbulences and live in this ocean of maya without even knowing it. That is why we do these poojas for you so that you can overcome these turbulences, and remember your time here.

Understand life differently - that it is more than what you're caught up in. In the Narada Bhakti Sutras, it is stated that only true divine love, intensely true divine love, can pick you up from the ocean of this maya, this world. And that true divine love can only come from God. Therefore, you should always, no matter what the situation is, believe that God will always have his hand out towards you. It's just you who have not reached out towards his hand. No matter the situation, whether in business, divorce, separation or work, just remember one thing: the hand of God is always stretched out to you. You just have to lift up your hand and, without fail, God will hold you. But you have not reached up your hand and asked. You bargained with God. He doesn't like bargaining. He likes you to ask him. Tell him that you need him.

I don't have anything to give you. But what do you do? You buy jalebi and gulabjab and look at it continuously throughout service in case a cockroach comes there. As soon as a cockroach comes towards the food you run to protect the food. We must be able to understand that only God protects, and whatever we give God, we give by our taste not his taste. Some of you believe God only eats saltless food. Really? If he only eats saltless food why did he give us salt? You know, he gave us sugar as well, so if you're diabetic then sugar is poison. If you're not diabetic then you put in four spoons of sugar because to you it's not poison. In the same way, for better or for worse, God is always there. Sugar is sugar whether you are diabetic or not.

Remain as a mirror in your life. A mirror is not a mirror only when it reflects you. It's still a mirror when you leave the room. You're going to merge with God, just how the wave merges with the ocean. Are you ready to merge with paramatma? Not a blade of grass or a drop of dew is possible without God. Have this merger with Shiva. Believe in this universe, and be in love with Shiva. My hands are always stretched out to you, no matter where you are. You are holding your hands behind you and walking. Reach your hand out and you'll see. You'll be safe from the disasters coming towards us in 2012. I believe in God and that God exists. Do you all believe in God and that God exists, or do you believe in temples and that God is in the murthi? Is God in the murthi? He's not in the murthi. But God is. He's within you. But because it's easier than to find the God within, you come to places like this. Or you go to the big shrines, Sibaya and Suncoast, to kill your frustration. That's for big people. We're small people. We don't go there.

When you are frustrated you must sit in one place and meditate, and not put things up on the internet for the guru to see. The guru sees everything, whether I'm your friend on Facebook or not. Some of you write garbage. You have time for garbage. Yet the time I ask you to write likit japa you have no time, but you have time for BBM. It's like someone's degree after their name. Mahen Naidoo BBM. When they're going they say, 'I'll BBM you'. It sounds like they're swearing at each other.

We really get caught up because we forget God, so much so that we've accepted this maya, this illusion, this thing that we think is reality, that we think is real: this building, this car, this grass, this foundation we put on our face. We think it's real. Are we looking beautiful for ourselves, or for society? It's for society. And you like those good comments, 'that dress looks nice on you'. You don't look nice at all. It's the dress!' So we are caught in this maya. It's beautiful. You can sit in your Mercedes, put your foot on the accelerator. Beautiful, but it doesn't last.

You think you have to become a Christian to go to heaven, because the Christian teaching is that on the day of judgment, God will weigh you. He will weigh everyone, Christian and non-Christian. Christian is righteous-living, and non-Christian is non-righteous living. Each one of you will be weighed if there is a day of judgment. But we're afraid so we rather become Christian in case that God is a better God. There's no better God. God is God.

Hari om,God bless you.