Taking Away the Rattle

[Chuckles] I’m sorry if I’m laughing a bit, but I can realize how serious it must be seeming to you right now, but it really isn’t. It’s just like a liZle child holding on strongly to the raZle and just waking itself up, and refusing to go to sleep. And you’re just taking that raZle from them because you want the child to rest. So, this which we are sulking about or throwing a tantrum at God about is just like that, like that liZle child thinking that this is what they really want to do, but it’s not really in their best interest at all. They really want the rest from all of this. They want a break from desire and the break from desire does not come from fulfillment of desire. Fulfillment of desire usually leads to more desire, usually. That’s why Guruji [Sri Mooji] says ‘The belly of this one is never full.’ So, I’m happy that you’re realizing that that is not this was about, ever. It was not about coming to a God-assisted life, but more a God-dictated life. And in the switch over (the seeming switch over) of power between individual power and the power of Being itself, in the switch over process this kind of tantrum may happen. But as you are realizing that you are That itself, then how could you resist that? It is a God-dictated life because this life belongs to God. But you are not separate from God itself. But although it may be accompanied by (as you call it) sulking and tantrums, the point is that it’s a beauHful realizaHon and that’s why I’m so happy that you come to it and you see that this whole spiritual game was not a wish fulfillment engine where you found the magic genie who will fulfill your every wish, it was more the opposite, to take away that which has the noHon of desire itself. You say [Reading from chat] ‘I’m happy for this realizaHon Father, as much as there is a not wanHng to let go of the raZle.’

Very good, yes, yes. In our heart, there must be a recogniHon that this is what is good. This is what is good. Nobody likes the raZle snatched, because we don’t think it’s a raZle. When we are holding onto it, we think it is my plan for life, this is the highest that we have learnt. We may even think it is the root of spirituality, or the essence of spirituality, what we think we are right about. And the minute it is poked, it doesn’t usually feel good. It’s like the doctor’s injecHon, it may lead to great benefit for the body but when that injecHon is happening, that moment nobody can say ‘Yes, yes! It’s so great!’ It is like that. I am happy to hear this report that you see it. Because to see is very important, the rest of it will come and go.