In the radiance of Babaji, in the light of my gurus and in the glory of Christ, fortunately
or unfortunately this is going to be the last namaste for 2014. If 2014
was disastrous for you then 2015 is coming to you like a tornado. Right up to 2019 we’re
going to have a period of depression in all aspects of our lives. We might
think we have everything in this life, all the finances, but there’s one thing we
keep forgetting as human beings that no matter how much wealth we have, if we
don’t have the health then the wealth is worth nothing. We’re going to get many
new conditions and diseases affecting us, including in South Africa. Many things
we’ve never experienced before we will experience in the next 4 years. The only
answer or solution to this is continuous prayer, worship and belief that God
exists.
I don’t know how many of you believe in or experience the
Divine but I’m going to tell you a small story that happened about 3 weeks
ago. I’m sure all of you heard of those children in the Middle East in Pakistan, who were killed. There’s a story of a young boy who couldn’t get up that
morning because his alarm didn’t go off. He is the only survivor in the school.
It is by the grace of God that he was not there. No child on a Monday morning misses
school. He must have prayed very hard in his life to be spared another chance. In
the same way, you need to believe strongly that God exists, God is here and God
created you in his image and therefore we should be somewhat perfect in
everything we do or believe.
God is the unique energy that gives you 2 types of living: lower
living and higher living. As you sit here you are in lower living, sitting in
the material plane and material aspects. In higher living you are living in
the self – the inner self, the cosmic and divine self. And you will experience
things higher than those on the lower plane. This is God’s play and we
sometimes get caught in his whirlwind of jokes and sometimes fall from the
highest to the lowest. Then we blame God when we are caught there because we
got caught in the material aspect of life. No pleasure comes without pain.
So 2015 is going to see tsunamis, massive earthquakes and volcanoes,
many near and dear to you just being taken away by the violence of this
material plane and the environment. Again, to overcome this, only prayer is a
comfort. Nothing else is going to help you. Some of you sitting here believe in
one thing and do something else. Find a
guru and hold onto his feet for dear life. He’s the only one who is going to
show you the light. Without him you will be in total darkness. And that
darkness is total ignorance, no knowledge. I am not your guru. I don’t intend
to be your guru. I’m just an instrument and I will just direct you to where you
have to go.
2015 is going to come with many surprises and
disappointments – especially to the congregation of the Gayathri Peedam, but you need to believe and know at this time that
you have brought this upon yourselves. God was not instrumental in your 2014
disappointments. You are instrumental in every aspect of your disappointments.
And you need to do a divine accounting of yourselves and everything that you
have done for 2014 and see if your good is better than your bad or your bad is
better than your good. Double standards are not becoming of a spiritual being
and you are all spiritual beings.
You need to get out of that and do what is
right, and that is to find God within yourself. And once you find God within
yourself everything in front of you will not be like a maya, an illusion, but
will be total reality of every aspect of the Divine. You need to understand
that. You need to know that and to live by that. And in living by that
you will stand up in this sick society, you will stand out to give advice, to
heal, and above all, you’ll stand out to direct the path to God to whoever you
talk to. In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says, “He who preaches my work continuously
is dear to me”. And what is Krishna’s work? It is God’s work. So it is time for
us all to be dear to God. And to be dear to God we have to continuously live in
the realm of God, speak in the realm of God, and give in the realm of God. We
need to give more than we take. And when I say 'give' I mean that we need to give so that
other people around you can be comfortable as well. We live a very selfish life
and in that we have created this situation in the world presently.
Have you ever wondered why, in this very modern electronic
nuclear time, planes can go down? We have never heard of it occurring in the
last 25 years as commonly as it does now. We are doing something wrong. And the plane
crash that happened recently was predicted on that Sunday night and on Monday
the plane disappeared. It’s not a good way to go. Why would God do such a
thing? We could say that God is angry, but we could also say that God is teaching
us a lesson. Every disaster we go through should be a lesson learned. But I
think that, as human beings, we just live the disaster for 15 days and then
forget about it until the next one – and that’s how we live. If we can forget such
a disastrous thing so quickly, how can we have God at the back of our mind
continuously? We can do it only by practice. And if we don’t practice we’re not
going to have Him at the time of death.
Krishna says that we must call His name
at the time of death to achieve liberation, moksha. If you don’t remember His
name in your lifetime, how are you going to remember it when you are dying? If
you call it continuously then at the time of death you’ll call it too. Try to
practice calling God’s name. Once you practice calling God’s name you will live
by that name, you will sleep by that name, walk by that name and die by that
name. But we cannot call God continuously because we're caught up in this material
plane. And in this material plane all that matters is to show our physical self
as an identity of our successes. What we wear, the name brand we wear, shows
our success on this plane. Yet when you are spiritually inclined the only name
brand that sticks to you is God’s name brand? And what is that? It is to be walking
about like a pauper. He has no trademark. No one can say that Jesus Christ is
only for Christians, there’s no TM after his name. No one can say that
Ganapathi is only for Ganesha worshippers. You can sleep in peace, wake up in peace and walk in peace.
Nothing on this material plane will ever bother you if you have God’s name in
your mind all the time. You will live a life of non-existence on the material
plane. That is how God works and how he works when you remember him continuously.
2015 is not going to be a good year at all so enjoy the few
hours you have left of 2014 and remember them. You might not believe this but when
you are experiencing it, as Suganiya came to me and said, ‘There’s going to be
a tsunami’. So believe it’s going to happen and it will happen. Don’t think it
won’t affect you. It will affect everybody. So, in the name of God almighty,
whatever you want to call Him in sincerity, He will work for you by that name.
The Hindus are very unique. They’ll pick up a stone from the beach, take it
home and call it God for the rest of their lives. And from that something
happens. Whatever you put in you’ll get out. It you believe that stone contains
God then you’ll find God in it. If you see God in a banyan tree then God will exist
in it for you. It is for you to believe there is a unique energy out there.
When Jesus came he said, “Our father who art in heaven”. He is talking about
that energy that only he could see and enjoy. Everyone else followed the
emperor until the messiah came and he said this is the way we should live – and
this is what God’s work is.
So 2014 here it goes, 2015 almost to come. Enjoy. May God be
with you in the radiance of Babaji, in the light of my gurus, and in the glory
of Christ, may 2015 for you be filled with light, with knowledge and with joy.
Hari om.
