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Success is Failure
What does it need to create in us a new human being, a new person,
one who from his animal level of existence is going to the divine level
of existence? That needs capacity, that needs courage, that needs conviction,
that needs patience. It needs more and more than anything else - love
from the mind. God - no mind, no heart - cannot love human being, and
cannot love anything else. He is love, but he cannot love. We, on the
other end of the spectrum - we can love, but we are not love. Therefore
comes this, you know, blindingly illuminating concept that we have not
to love, but to become love.
How to create this love? Love the Master. Love Him who loves all. He
is the only person who can ever have the capacity to love all. We cannot
even love our brothers. We cannot love our neighbours. How many of you
are at peace with your neighbours, or with your own brothers in your
home? Where is the family which has not partitioned its assets? Success
is followed by partition. Failure brings unity in the family. One
famous mystic of England has given a beautiful example. In winter when
it is snowbound, when the country is freezing, everything dying, you
put a few crumbs of bread on the window sill, and all the sparrows will
come and eat it cooperatively, each giving place to the other. In the
fullness of spring when nature is bountiful, you throw a whole loaf
of bread outside the window, one sparrow will sit on it and keep everybody
else away.
So prosperity is bad. We need enough. We don't have to be prosperous.
In your foolishness you have lost all sense of what you need. Now you
are in the universe of wants, and wants have no end. You have a right
to expect your needs to be fulfilled, but not your wants. Wants are
many. Needs are few. As a distinct and direct corollary to this Babuji
said, "Simplify your existence. Be simple and in tune with nature."
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