OM MANI PADME HUM
I am with you. I am not with you, you feel My presence and then you do not. This is the way it will have to be, all through life. The early part of the experiences will be most pleasant because you have arrived at a new blossoming of the self, your mind is opened and your heart is filled with faith. The sensation is new, you are aware, and you are in a new mood, so that is why cultivation is stronger at this stage.
When practices become a habit, and sensations are felt continuously, the thrill will wear off. This is the nature of man and so the pleasant becomes a normal state of being, you have reached a peak and you will need a rest before you can be driven to go to higher levels.
What does it indicate? The mind is satisfied and the desire to rest will be stronger because, that again, is human nature.
Do you feel disappointed that you have not been led further on? At times when cultivation becomes meaningless, how does your mind think? It must not be expected that you be led all through your life because that is not cultivation.
Motivation can be given but effort must come from you. If you are being helped all through life then there is no need to cultivate, to practise, so how can there be any real progress? Then I would have become an obstacle to your path and you will become spoilt and very demanding.
Be glad when you can reach the state of ‘no-help’ and are in the state of normalcy because that would mean that you are ready to proceed on your own, to use your effort and mental strength. This is true cultivation - by your very own self.
Even if My presence is not felt strongly, it does not mean that I am far away from you. How can it be? If you have been calling on Me, honouring Me, and practising My way of living by being a benevolent being in this world, I am pleased and I am always around like a mother who let go Her hands so that the child may learn to walk on his own, so that in future years, he can learn to depend on his own ability, so that the experiences of life are understood and he can find his own way to solve life’s problems!
One must learn to accept falls before one can make it in life because each time you experience the pain of the fall, you become more careful, you will learn to be more steady and more alert, each time you fall, you will refuse to fall again the next time you walk again. That is how life is, fall and rise, rise and fall and how far or how fast you can progress will depend on how fast you can learn to get up and try again. It will also depend on your understanding that to experience a fall is to learn how and why you fell and thereby you become a wiser person.
If this simple illustration is fully understood, then there is no need for you to expect Me to give you the strong sensations of My presence. If you can believe that I am with you and in your heart at all times, then you need only to be confident that you have received sufficient help from Me and that I am pushing you a bit to face the world, to learn about life, and to gain your own merits by your very own efforts, in the search for a wholesome life which will bring some more harmony to the world. Then you will understand what compassion is and what love truly is, for over protecting you will make you into a weak one who cannot stand on your own feet, who cannot make any decision in life, and then my protection will no more be Compassionate!
Saturday, 5th June 1982 (4th Moon 14th Day)