The final stage of Navarathri has begun. These
are the last three days, and by this time we should all be ready.
Today we start the
journey to acquire
divine knowledge. We started with Durga in the first 3 days, to
give up all our
vices of arrogance and attitude. In the next three days we
worshiped Luxmi
to develop prosperity and
move forward
toward spiritually to attain wisdom and knowledge. Today we start the three days of
Saraswathi pooja. During these days, we are supposed to be reading scriptural
texts and books. We are supposed to be studying. If you look at
the bigger
picture, our rishis knew where to designate the Saraswathi pooja – just
before your
exams! This was done so that you can have the confidence that God
is with you
during your exams.
Just believe in God. Fall in love with God and
make God your
lover. If you do this you will never go wrong. The bhakti that
so many of us have
for cell phones, take some of that bhakti and let it be for God.
Most of us don’t
know a spiritual or social life because we have this thing called
a Blackberry.
Even at a social function we are BBMing. I remember at school we
had a little
black book. Whenever you were taken to the office or did something
wrong your
name was put in the black book. If you go to any spiritual being
or priest he
will tell you black is a bad colour. For Hindus, black is
especially bad because
it is the colour of Sani. We shouldn’t even be wearing black. Yet,
each one of
us has a thing called a BLACKberry...
Today
you should start
this journey, nurture this journey of falling on love with God. I
can
personally tell you that nothing is better… you can place your
head on the
pillow at night and have a good sleep. You can wake up the next
day with no
worries because God will take care of everything - your good and your bad.
Tomorrow I won’t see you. I’m going home to Sri
Lanka. I
will be there for twenty days, so please continue the next three days –
keep your fast
and as I said just believe!
That is where
I started and it works!
Hari om!
