SEARCH ENDS IN YOUR HEART

[Guest guest]

SEARCH ENDS IN YOUR HEART

 

Baba said, “My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me,

Who is seated in your heart” in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. XV.

 

Madam Guyon was one of the most beautiful young women of her town. Even as a

little girl, her heart was filled with the love of God. She did not know where

to find Him.

 

As she grew up, she went into society and, for some years, lived a worldly life.

Her marriage was an unhappy one. The yearning for God, which slumbered within

her heart, woke up again. She was built to love: she had a sweet, gentle,

tender heart. Not receiving what she expected from her husband, she turned her

attention to God, whom she had neither seen nor heard nor touched.

 

This unhappy, fashionable woman went out in quest. She sought for Him here,

there, everywhere, but could find Him not! She realised that God is found by

those to whom He reveals Himself. The true approach to God is, therefore, by

the way of simplicity.

 

One day, there came to her town a holy man. She met him and placed before him

all her difficulties. He was a man of few words. To her, he said, “Madam,

accustom yourself to seek God in your won heart, and you will find Him!” The

words pierced her heart as an arrow: and she was wounded with a wound whose

healing lies in a vision of the Beloved. She herself describes her state in

words which are so beautiful:

 

“I felt in this moment,” she says, “a profound wound which was full of delight,

of love, a wound so sweet that I desired that it might never heal. These words

had put into my heart that which I sought for so many years or, rather, they

caused me to find that which was there. O, my Lord, You were within my heart,

and You asked of me only that I should return within, in order that I might

feel Your presence. O Infinite Goodness, You were so near, and I, running here

and there to seek You, found You not!”

 

>From that day onwards, she gives up “running here and there.” She gives up her

“practices” and “exercises.” She has found her “centre”, and for her all

wandering ceases. She quietly surrenders herself to the Lord; she finds Him

within her heart!

 

TAMASO MA JYOTIRGAMAYA….

 

One night at 11.30 pm, an older African American woman was standing on the side

of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm.

 

Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she

decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her,

generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. the man took her safety,

helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab.

 

She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him.

 

Seven days went by and a knock came on the man’s door. To his surprise, a giant

console colour TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached. It

read: “Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The

rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits.

 

Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband’s

bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and unselfishly

serving others.”

 

Sincerely,

Mrs. Nat King Cole.

Celebrate 's 10th Birthday! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web