How should we worship the Divine?
Many of you grieve: “It is said that getting the audience of a holy person is destruction of sin. Well, I have had darshan not once but many times, and yet, my evil fate has not left me and I am suffering even more than before!”.
True, you may have come and had darshan, and sowed fresh seeds secured from the holy places — seeds of love, faith, devotion, good company, pure thoughts, remembering His name, etc.
And you may have learnt the art of intensive cultivation and soil preparation. Now you have to carefully sow the seeds in well-prepared fields of cleansed hearts.
Until the new harvest, when the fresh produce comes in, don’t you have to consume the grain already stored in previous harvests?
The troubles and anxieties you experience now are the crop collected in your previous harvests, so do not grieve and lose heart!
- Shivaratri Discourse, March 1963.
A truly Divine-centred person has three qualities: Purity, Perseverance and Patience.
Source: radiosai.org