October, Thursday 1st., 2020
Today's Thought for the Day
01 Oct 2020
What is that state of God-intoxication that the great devotees of the Lord experienced, that we all must strive to reach? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us.
You call yourselves devotees, so I shall talk to you about the dharma
of people who seek to acquire devotion. No one can become a devotee by
naming themself so, nor by others calling them so. Devotion involves
dedication, with nothing held back; not even a wisp of ego should
remain. His command alone counts; His will prevails. Like a drunkard,
the devotee has no sense of honour or decency, pride or conceit. The
devotee is a drunkard (matta), a mad person (unmatta),
unconcerned with all that is unrelated to the ideal. The devotee is
deaf to the call of hunger and thirst, misses steps in logic, and
calculates wrongly while dealing in the marketplace. Narada says that
those full of the liquor of ignorance stumble after the shadows of the
world, while those drunk with nectar of wisdom never move away from the
Highest, which they have discovered as themselves.
- Divine Discourse, Jan 25, 1963.