What is the litmus test to determine if our Spiritual Practice is pleasing to the Divine or not?
If you keep awake throughout twelve hours on the festival of the Divine due to illness, the vigil will not win His favour.
If you quarrel with your spouse and desist from food for one full day, it will not be recorded in the book of the Divine as a fast.
Remember, no "enjoyer" can be a "devotee"; anyone with an eye on profit they derive from service to the Divine, can never be a true devotee.
People praise the Divine to the skies one day and decry Him the next, when their fortune is dry.
Similarly, those who declare ‘My Divine is great and others are small’, do not know the elements of spiritual discipline and are unfit for entering the field of spiritual service.
Money is the currency of the world; Spiritual Practice is the currency of the spirit.
The Divine looks for purity, sincerity, simplicity and steady joy in Spiritual Practices, in the contemplation of His name and form.
- Divine Discourse, Aug 19, 1964.
Test all your actions, words, thoughts on this touchstone: “Will this be approved by the Divine?
Will this rebound to His renown?”
Source: radiosai.org