Serve with Head Bowed Down

How do you honor the insight? It is worth this honoring because what you're discovering, by God's grace, historically has been extremely rare. Sometimes we don't realize its value. We just feel like, 'Oh, it's okay, nothing happening to awareness, it's just there.' Our consciousness is just like a beingness. We use all these big words, but do we realize how many lifetimes people have struggled and what sadhana and tapasia has happened before this darshan has been made available? And the problem with simplicity is the mind can always come and say, 'What's there? Everyone has this, everyone is this.' It's very easy to use big words, but to really honor, as Guruji has said, to honor this discovery—why should we honor it? What is the need to honor? 'Everyone is awareness, who is to honor who?' Don't let this one that is resisting in this Advaita mind—that one must become a bhakta.

Don't waste your life. Don't waste a moment. It is not too late today, but it will be tomorrow. The opportunity does not come again and again. What is Kabir Ji doing? Is he trying to use fear tactics and scarcity principles with spiritual marketing? No, there is no reason to doubt him like that. He did not want anything from us. Why is he saying the opportunity does not come again and again? Because if you look back at history, it's very rare. God-realization, Self-realization—growing up when we used to hear these terms, we used to feel that's one in a billion. It's only with the advent of the internet that you can search satsang and Advaita Vedanta, which was supposed to be kept in secret. These are secret scriptures. Upanishad means to sit close and to share in secret. 'No, don't spread this outside.' But now it's fully available by God's grace. But the immensity of it should not be forgotten, because the mind will not give up playing.

You may have an awakening experience; you may have ten. But how many truly become free? In being with Guruji so many years and being in satsang for more than a decade now, I've seen many awakening experiences, but how many have freely become free? And what has been missing from that freedom? What is the inability to stay with the insight? It is because of the lack of servitude, the lack of love. To make it into more of an academic endeavor or a scientific sort of 'Oh, I came to awareness and that is my thing' is very... who are we talking about? You're talking about the Absolute in which Consciousness is born. Don't just reduce that or normalize that or regularize that because we know these words. Entitlement we must throw out this instant. We must. Because you could have lived the most sattvic life and still not have a right over God. Nobody can go to God with rights; they can only go head bowed down.

So nobody must ever believe that they were worthy of grace, they were worthy of entitlement of enlightenment, they were entitled to it, they were so good in their inquiry and they were so good in their love. Stay away from this pride, because this pride will turn off the fire and you'll become just parroting robots. Just parroting robots. What you heard in satsang, what you take to be true—there's no real authenticity if the fire is burnt out because of pride. That's why I was saying the other day: don't gauge yourself, don't benchmark yourself, but if you're going to, then benchmark yourself on servitude. Have I taken God to be real or has it become all about me? It's a very important question. Have I taken God to be real or is it all about me? Am I living as if I am somebody and something?

How do I recognize that nothing in the story of this universe—even this tiny universe—my role is not even that of a two-second extra? Nothing. One in seven billion, one in so many trillions. Nothing. Have I used the tools that grace and the Masters have made available to us? I prayed my heart out and not left anything for myself. Just pray it, pray it, pray it. And do I remember to give thanks for every day? Our life is full of grace and miracles.