January 2020

Deception and the fake seems to be everywhere we go.  When we buy flowers, they are not all as fresh as they look.  When we buy oranges in crates or Medjool dates in boxes, often the big and best ones are at the top and at the bottom are the small and unhealthy ones.  When we get into a taxi some of the metres are misleading and fixed… One day I complained to the taxi guy… and then his reply was: “Pay as you normally pay.”  Which meant he knows he is cheating me and couldn’t get away with it! 

When it comes to having dinner at the restaurant then you always book a table in advance.  When it comes to travelling by plane, you also need to reserve your seat and buy your ticket in advance.  So how about reserving the life that you want… in advance?

Dada came to recognize that despite becoming rich and famous, that above everything else it was important to become pure and make the soul pure once again.  There are so many people aspiring to become professional athletes, professional celebrities, professional chefs etc., but how many of us think of becoming ‘professionally pure’!  This is one thing Brahma Baba focused on and finally attained what we define as the angelic stage.

There does not need to be a ‘reason’ for happiness.  When I say: “I am happy because… I can now drive, or I got a new car; because I have a new hair style; because I graduated; because I got married…” What does that imply?  That I was not happy before?  And if I am happier now, then will that state last or, am I simply waiting for the next hit to make me happy… again!  In real deep happiness, there is no ‘because’, there is just being happy. Pure happy.  Happy and eternally happy!