Then the small mind wins over, it is misery and when the Big Mind wins, it is joy.
Small mind promises joy and leaves your hand empty. Big Mind may bring resistance in the beginning but fills you with joy.
The word Guru means great. Jaya means victory. Deva means one who is fun-loving, playful, light. One who is playful is often not dignified and when one is dignified, he is often not playful.
Jai Guru Dev is victory to the Big Mind in you that is both dignified and playful. That is what Jai Guru Dev means: “Victory to the Greatness in you.”
You do not say victory or hail to the Master as he has won over already. You say victory to your own Self, your own Mind, which is being veiled by the small mind.
ACTION-INACTION
The wise is the one who sees action in inaction and inaction in action. When you observe your heart beat, your breathing, what’s happening in your head? In the head, a word cluster ‘you are not doing anything’ keeps making rounds, though everything is happening in the whole body. That is action in inaction.
Ask any convict, ‘What did you do’? He will never say, ‘I have done that which is totally wrong’. Something inside him was responsible for whatever happened. He will say, ‘I have not done anything drastically bad compelling me to be here’.
Similarly ask any successful man, ‘How did you do’? He will say, ‘I have not done anything’.
When you sit and observe, your heart is beating, you are breathing – then something inside you settles down. As something settles inside, you start relaxing deep. When you relax deep, that gives rise to the intelligence. When your intelligence sharpens, you become dynamic.
As you become dynamic, skills comes to you. All this all happens when you are not in a hurry.
When you are in a hurry you cannot come out with anything beautiful, anything creative. When you do a big project, after completion you often feel you have not done it. How many of you felt that you have not done it, it just happened? That is seeing inaction in action.
BE LOVED
You don’t need to worry to maintain knowledge. When knowledge is lodged in you as wisdom, it will never leave you. Wisdom lodges itself in your heart.
Make the Divine your Valentine ( your sweet Beloved ).
This is the last thing to do and the first thing to do. Keep your heart in a safe place; it is too delicate. Events, small things make strong impressions on it. And you cannot find a better place than the Divine to keep your heart safe and your mind sane. When you keep your heart in the Divine, the moving time, the passing events, will not be able to touch it, will not create a scar.
A precious stone needs a setting around it, gold or silver, to hold it and to wear it; so wisdom and knowledge are that setting around the heart which will hold it in the Divine.
See the Divine in your Valentine and make the Divinity your Valentine (your sweet beloved).
Just BE … and know that you are LOVED… That is BELOVED.
