Each moment¹

Each moment is an opportunity. Each meditation time is the greatest opportunity, no matter which consciousness you were in in the morning or at noon, or even just before you came into the meditation hall. If you do not meditate well owing to this or that, blaming a third person or the entire world or even blaming yourself does not help at all. Each meditation time is like the Supreme knocking at your heart’s door. He stands before your heart’s door, and knocks for you to open it. If you keep it closed, He just goes away.

Each moment is important in your life, but each second during meditation is of absolute utmost importance. If you have depression, frustration, anger, insecurity, jealousy, impurity, undivine thoughts or undivine ideas or an unaspiring life, during meditation you must throw all these things into the ocean of the Supreme’s Compassion. Otherwise, you become the most deplorable loser.

Once you have accepted the spiritual life, you have to be extremely wise. There are many, many, many — countless — people on earth who have not accepted the spiritual life. They do not know and they will never never know what a divine opportunity is, what a supreme opportunity is. Each moment during meditation is both a golden opportunity and an inner examination. If you do not pass this inner examination, then no matter how many years you stay with your Master or how many times you come into this world, you will remain practically the same human being — the same undeveloped, unillumined human being.

You should feel that you are extremely fortunate, for you are in a divine boat. And you should feel infinitely more fortunate that the Pilot Supreme has infinite Concern and Compassion for you. But most of the time His infinite Compassion, His infinite Concern either you misunderstand or you ignore, you don’t have the receptivity to feel or you do not value.

Nothing will remain permanent in a seeker’s life, nothing except the infinite Compassion of our Beloved Supreme. If you can receive this infinite Compassion, then when you leave the body Heaven’s Door will be wide open for you. But if you misuse this Compassion, then there is nothing that you will be able to show to Heaven’s Door-Keeper. So at every moment try to value the infinite Compassion of the Supreme which, out of His infinite Bounty, He gives you. He is under no obligation to give, but He gives unconditionally. If you do not accept unreservedly when He gives you unconditionally, then nothing will be able to help you or save you, illumine you or carry you to the other shore. Out of anxiety, worry, depression, frustration, anger, fear and all negative qualities, if you forget to value the most valuable thing both on earth and in Heaven — His Compassion — then you are throwing away an unparalleled divine gift.

Unless and until you value the Supreme’s Compassion, the gratitude-flower will never blossom in you. It is Compassion that you have to value first in your life. If you don’t value it, then why should you develop gratitude? And if you don’t develop gratitude, then you are still in the animal kingdom. So at every moment value the Supreme’s supreme Compassion, which is constantly descending from above. If you accept it and value it, if you can treasure it at every moment as something which will always remain unparalleled in your inner and outer life, then yours will be the life of satisfaction, supreme satisfaction.

Name, fame, earthly prosperity and earthly achievements will always prove to be useless, useless, useless even for those who are not sincere seekers. There comes a time when even an ordinary human being, who has not accepted and who will not accept the spiritual life seriously, will not hesitate to say that earthly achievements all end in frustration. The possessions of the desire-life, the achievements of the desire-life, will always end in frustration. Only one thing has the capacity to give satisfaction and will always give satisfaction, and that is oneness — conscious, constant, complete, unreserved and unconditional oneness with the Will of the Supreme.

Who says that you do not know the Will of the Supreme? Is there anybody who does not know the Will of the Supreme? No, if you remain in the heart, then at every moment you will know what God’s Will is. But if you remain in the mind, never, never will you be able to know the Will of the Supreme. You may get grandiose thoughts and lofty ideas, but they will not be the Will of the Supreme. Life’s victory or defeat, life’s acceptance or rejection, are not the ultimate Reality in the Eyes of the Supreme. He laughs at our acceptance or rejection of a thing, at our victories and defeats. But He triumphantly smiles at us when His Will becomes our will. We do not have to become great in the outer world to prove to the world or to Him that we are worthy instruments of His. Never does He care for our earthly status. He cares only for one thing: our constant oneness with His Will.

We think we are beggars, but the Supreme is also a beggar. At each moment we beg Him to grant us millions of things. He begs us sleeplessly to grant Him only one thing: our soulfully surrendered oneness. This is His only desire. You can say, “Why does He have to beg, since He has everything and He is everything?” He begs because He feels this is the easiest, safest and most effective way to bring humanity close to Him. If He shows His omnipotent Power to bring us close to Him, He will break the instrument into pieces. But if the instrument can feel the sweetest Compassion of the Supreme, the infinite Flood of the Supreme’s Compassion, and if he or she can remember this Compassion, this is the safest and surest way.

At each moment you can be the happiest person both in Heaven and on earth. The Supreme’s universal Consciousness, transcendental Consciousness — these can be your constant, illumining and fulfilling friends, if you want to have them as your own. But you have to do only one thing: give what you have and what you are. What you have is willingness, and what you are is eagerness. Willingness and eagerness: your willingness to become entirely His, constantly His, and your eagerness to be utilised by Him in His own way at every moment. If you give these, you don’t have to give anything else. Then you will become His unparalleled, eternally unparalleled instrument.