Asked: Mataji, Mrs. Desjardins wants to know what you mean by: “Vipad dilen tini vipad haran koren” {By adversity He destroys adversity}. For various meanings are possible.

Ma: Since you say that, first disclose which meanings are in you mind

I: To be an individual is by itself pain since it means bondage, separation from the One. But immersed in wordly happiness, the individual is not aware of its suffering. So God sends sorrow and adversity so that one may wake up to the fact of one’s innate self.

Ma: Yes, you see that the happiness of this world is ALWAYS short-lived and so you begin to search for lasting happiness. What other meaning do you see?

I: It also may mean that He sends misfortune to prevent a greater disaster.

Ma: Yes, it also happens at times that a great disaster is karmically inevitable, but is blotted out or mitigated by a smaller one. Then also whatever suffering is due to a person due to his karma has to be endured, but then when it is exhausted, it is finished. In this way suffering is beneficial. Then also if a very great difficulty arises, one is obliged to turn to God, since one feels utterly incapable to cope with it. Although one may doubt whether God exists, yet he will undeniably start praying to him in such a case and from this, the seed is inevitably planted.....

why fear this moment
when no thoughts come
at last I lie naked
in the arms of experience
why fear this moment
when no words come
at last I find rest
in the lap of silence
why fear this moment
when love finds itself alone
at last I am embraced
by infinity itself
why fear this moment
when judgment falls away
at last my defenses
fail to keep intimacy at bay
why fear this moment
when hope is lost
at last my foolish dreams
are surrendered to perfection


-- from the Gifts with No Giver: a love affair with m.eye truth

"The seeker is she who is in search of herself. Give up all questions except one: "Who am I?" After all, the only fact you are sure of... is that yoU ARE. The "eyE am" is certain. The "I am this" is nOt. Struggle to find out what you are in real.ity. To know what yoU are, yoU must first investigate and know what yoU are nOt. Discover all that you are nOt -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive~ can be yoU. The very act of perceiving shows that yoU are not what yoU perceive. The clearer yoU understand on the level of mind that you can be described in negative terms only, the more quickly you will come to the end of your search and realize that you aRe thE limitless being."