Day 50
There is another story about Krishna. Once He had sat down to eat, persons were serving him. He was eating the food when he suddenly got up in the middle of the meal and ran, saying, “My devotee is in trouble.” Everyone kept saying, “Oh, no, don't go, eat the food and then go”
He went to the door and then He came back. He said, “He was calling me, but then he took care of himself.” There are many stories, many events in your own life when you were really desperate and when you dropped all your hang ups the help definitely came.
But if you are holding onto a handle with one hand and then trying to jump, it is like holding onto the diving board and wanting to swim. You are neither in the water nor are you on the diving board. You are hanging somewhere in between.
If it appears that you are losing, everything is going haywire, don't worry about losing anything because you have offered all this, it is already done. Until that perfection is achieved, even before the result appears, keep acting.
Keep acting, but don’t worry about the fruit of action. Don't be attached to the result of an action. Don't think you are in control of everything. This is the greatest illusion. You know, success brings more illusion, because when you are successful, you think you achieved it.
But if someone else repeats all that you did, I tell you, they won't be successful. This has happened. There is no prototype for success in the world, no, what do you call it? Formula. There is no concrete formula for success, I tell you this could be a formula. One formula for success : there is no formula for success.
All these advertisements you see, how to make money, so and so did that, just go a little deeper into it. You will see it is emptier than it is full. It is all hype, isn’t it? What do you say? You know, one gentleman was just an apple vendor in the street, and he made a huge amount of money, became a very successful person.
You think every apple vendor can become so successful? You hear the story and then you think, “Okay, I can also sell apples on the street to become successful like that person” It doesn’t work like that. There is something called karma. The Rishi says that there is no doubt everything works and happens according to karma, but you don't just sit.
Don’t be feverish about the result. Just act with joy. Yes, you heard, Gurudev said today there is no point in pranayama, meditation, why do all this, don't start. Don't stop singing, don't stop meditating, all this, until you get perfectly grounded in the love.
Until you are perfectly grounded in your centre, these things will have to be continued. And even after it becomes your nature, you will automatically sit and be in the state of meditation.
