When You Become Pure Gratitude Itself...

In India, there is a thrilling tradition wherein people ask about their future to a parrot!

On the pavements on the road, there will be a parrot in a cage with its owner beside it. The people who go by will stop and pay the owner some money and faithfully ask for their future. The owner will open out the cage and command the parrot to step out and pick a paper from a row of stacked papers. The parrot will come out of the cage, pick a paper with its beak and hold it out to the owner. The owner will read out what"s written on it. That is the prediction of the person"s future!

A man with 6 senses asks a parrot with 4 senses to predict his future! How is it possible? I tell you: Just leave all these foolish things and start falling in tune; catch the central chord that is gratitude and move in tune with Existence.

When you watch Masters, they appear to be so graceful, so miraculous and so divine. This is because, they move in tune with Existence. But you don"t understand their state, you see only their status. When you understand their state, you will understand that they have simply merged with Existence and that is why they appear so blissful all the time. This is the state that you have to try to achieve.

Instead, what do you say? “Oh! He is a Master; he is always in bliss. How will he know about my problems? I am struggling here for my bread and butter and he is asking me to be in gratitude all the time."

I tell you: You only see the rose petals at the Master"s feet; you only see his status and think that he knows nothing about your day-to-day matters. Remember: The respect he commands is to his state not his status. You have no idea of the struggle that has gone behind achieving that state.

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