Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

You know there is a rule here that you should come with empty hands, without even the traditional offerings of pathram, pushpam, phalam, thoyam (leaf, flower, fruit and water). Come with clean hands, hands that supplicate, not supply. Hands that proclaim that they have renounced attachment to riches. Then, I fill them with Grace. I must say that I accept certain things before giving you that Grace: I demand and take sathya, dharma, shanthi and prema. I seek the gifts of truth, virtue, peace and love. I draw you to Me and then reform and reshape you. I am a kind of smith who repairs broken, leaky, damaged hardware. I repair broken hearts and fragile minds, warped intellects, feeble resolutions and fading faith.

 

Do not be under the impression that all these people come to Me seeking worldly favors or blessings for worldly advancement or fortunes. At least ninety among a hundred of them ask from Me spiritual guidance only. They do not ask for worldly boons at all. They are eager to be directed along the path of japam, dhyaanam, naamasmarana or some such saadhana. They are full of prema for the Divine Principle and the Divine is full of prema towards them. It is a question of Prema responding to prema; Prema which is saturated with sathya, as Vivekananda was saturated with viveka.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. V, Chapter 43.