*Chapter 2 - Offering & Gratitude*
From Waves of emotions
Why do you give flowers? Is it because others do it? Do you feel like a flower? Are your feelings just as light?
Then your giving flowers to me is genuine There is no way that you can let out your feelings.
You need a proper way to express them, and you think you can do it with flowers. But if you do not feel like a flower then the giving the flowers is no good.
If a friend or a relative visits you after a longtime, you greet them with flowers because you feel the visit is very precious.
Renew your spirit everyday. All that it needs is being blown on like hot coal or charcoal. You need to keep blowing on it again and again.
There could be hot charcoal, but it may be covered with ash. You have to look at it and blow. It is of no use if you look somewhere else and blow.
We usually do this but we look elsewhere and keep blowing. Blow at the source of the fire. That is satsang.
At the satsang sing bhajans and the moment they are over, write down the knowledge given. When you go through it sometime later, you will remember.
From the memory the intelligence is awakened. Otherwise, it will remain like a hot charcoal covered with its own ash.
The ash, which is generated by the burning charcoal itself will finish it off. So too, the impressions which have arisen in the mind will swallow it.
If you do not keep blowing away the impressions regularly, they, like the ashes of the charcoal, will suppress the mind.
Then the fire will get put out and you will become depressed. What is satsang? It is the process to blow away the ash and expose the glowing charcoal again.
The fire is present anyway. You just have to keep coming often and getting the ash blown away. So keep coming every week, get brightened and return happy.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
