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People ask me, “Swamiji, you struggled so much in your life and then reached your goal. Should we also not suffer to reach our goal?” I tell them: I struggled because I was using 10,000 keys to try to open one lock. I experimented for years together and found the right key. Now I have the right key with me. I am ready to give it to whomsoever wants it. It will take you only one moment to open with it! Of course, if you feel that you have to suffer, then that is your freedom; I will not interfere!

Your only effort should be to allow Existence to flow through you. The lesser resistance you pose to Existence, the lesser effort you have to put yourself. It is a directly proportional relationship. When you get enlightened, you are but an empty channel through which Existence flows continuously, that’s all. When all efforts drop on your part, Existence can flow effortlessly through you.

Yes…any questions that you want to ask?

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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We have all along been taught to be wary of nature, of God, of Existence. We have been taught to wear slippers while walking so that the earth does not hurt us. We have been taught to stay away from rain. We have been taught to stay indoors when it is windy. We have been taught to stay away from animals…and what not.

I tell you, Existence is your only friend on Planet Earth. Do you know how wonderful it is to walk with a feel of the Earth? I never used to wear slippers in my younger days except while in college because their rule demanded that I wore them. I just used to walk barefoot, whether it was at home or in school or during my days of wandering.

Even now in the ashram, I walk barefoot most of the time. Of course, the people around me pamper me with my slippers saying that my feet will get hurt. I ask them how my feet that wandered the length and breadth of India bare can get hurt now!

You just completely disconnect yourself from nature by doing these things. So many people ask me, “Swamiji, how is it that your feet are so smooth and flawless even after so many years of wandering in rugged terrain?” I tell you now: I have never felt alienated with Existence, that is why; that is the real reason. I always felt that I was a part of Existence.

I always felt that I belonged to nature. That is why I used to wander without a care, without being afraid of anything.

Just imagine if you had to be alone in the darkness of the jungle with wild animals, with no food and no idea of where your next meal would be and no place to sleep except under the cover of the sky? How would you be? Totally terrified, is it not?

This is because you have never been taught that Existence is your unfailing friend. You have always looked to people for help because you believed that only people help. You fail to understand that Existence helps through people. Your faith has always been on people, never on Existence.

When you place your faith on Existence, you can live like a Lord on planet Earth. I enjoyed my days of wandering. I used to simply walk where my feet led me, with no idea of my next destination. I used to get into any train and get off at any station where the scenery attracted me. I did not know the Hindi language at that time and most of my wandering was in North India, in the Himalayas. I simply picked up Hindi words to find my way about.

Actually, to learn any language, the first difficulty is your thought that you don’t know the language. You first alienate yourself from the language and then it seems difficult. Here again, you alienate yourself with your all-knowing nature.

Anyhow, most often, I wandered on my own and not with any group of sadhus. Never did I feel that I was alone. I enjoyed being part of Existence. When you learn to relate with nature, you will feel the joy of Existence. I never had to beg for food. When I was hungry or even otherwise, food came through someone in some form. This is what I mean when I say, just believe and let go, and Existence will take care.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A beautiful small story:

One man was a very God-conscious and loving man and he did a lot of good deeds in his life.
He came to know that there was a particular book with a person, that had the names of people who loved God.
He was excited to find out if his name was there in the book and went to that person and asked if he could see the book.
He searched through all the pages several times but could not find his name in it.
He was very disappointed and went away.

A year later, he came back to see if his name had been added to the book.
Again, he could not find it anywhere.
As he was turning to leave, the man said, “Sir, please wait. This book has the list of names of people who love God. I have another very small book that has a few names in it. It is the list of names of people whom God loves.”
He showed the man the book.
The man found his name in it.

It is very easy to fall for God. After all, he is so loving, so giving, so powerful and what not. You can continue to say that you love him and remain where you are. But when you start feeling God at the Being level and the transformation happens in you, God will fall for you! You will find yourself being loved in many ways like you have never known before. Such is the compassionate love of God.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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When you open yourself to Existence, it fills you up. How much you open yourself out, that much it fills you up. You all think that you have to work hard to cling on to God. Not at all. Have you seen the way a young monkey clings to its mother? There is every possibility that it might let go and fall. Whereas with a cat, the mother clings on to its kitten; the kitten then is perfectly safe.

You don’t have to cling to God. If you just allow yourself and do your duty leaving the rest, God will cling on to you. Falling for God is not a big deal. Making God fall for you is a big deal! This will happen when you have undaunted faith and live a life of love and service.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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If you go to the Himalayas, you will get a permanent and strong reminder of the profundity of Existence. From peak to peak, the mountains rise, the mountain becoming the valley and the valley rising into the mountain, with no perceivable beginning or end; and the river Ganges flows continuously in the valley in different moods, in different colours and trails, chattering and laughing in the language of Existence. If there is a world not made by man, it is the Himalayas. The Himalayas prove that humans are not the ultimate kings.

When you see the Himalayas, you will see how, over hundreds of kilometers, ice mountains appear as just ice mountains and then become mountains and water and later just water. Such are the wonders of nature at its peak.

What books cannot teach you with words, the Himalayas can teach you through just the experience of seeing. Only you need to be ready to receive it. The Himalayas are a live Energy body with penetrating silence. You just have to allow it to penetrate you. If you understand that you are but a speck of the splendor of Existence, you will accept it with grace and humility, with no questions asked.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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Try to remember this joke whenever something is bothering you. Immediately try to connect with the joke and see with awareness what is bothering you. Go deep down and see whether you are really having a problem or you are simply allowing your mind to play. You may just laugh at the end of it.

One lady was traveling on a long-distance flight.
The airhostess came serving food for everyone. She found the lady fast asleep and so she moved on to the next person.
The lady woke up after a while and asked for her food.
The airhostess brought her food for her.
The lady touched the food and flared up, “What sort of an airline are you running? The food is not warm. I have paid through my nose to take this flight and I can’t even get warm food!”
The airhostess apologized saying, “Ma’am, please excuse us. The warmer is not working. The rest of the people also had their food this way.”
The lady said, “Is that so? Then it is alright.”

(Laughter!)

See, the food remains cold even now, but the lady is no more unhappy because she knows that everyone else also had the food that way! This is what I mean when I say that everything is a play of the mind, everything is an adjustment of the mind. The mind keeps switching its stance and playing on you, because you have allowed it to take over. You have not centered yourself on contentment and so you sway according to your mind.

So as I was saying, if you are not able to laugh at the end of the day, it means that you are still serious about the whole thing; you still feel that you are shouldering the whole world and that it is because of you the whole show is running.

You see, deep down, the Truth is, we belong to Existence, which is the ultimate and all pervading Energy which is controlling the whole show. Our inherent nature is also to find that connection back with Existence so that we flow without a problem. But somewhere, we miss this understanding and disconnect ourselves from Existence and start running behind material things thinking that that is what we are searching for.

If you have visited the zoo at least once in your lifetime, you might have noticed that the longest queues are in front of the cages of the lions and the tigers. Always, you will find people standing for a long time in front of the lions and tigers and admiring them with awe and respect.

We do this because, without even realizing it, we are strangely reassured by seeing things that are bigger or stronger than us. It gives us the comforting feeling that we are not the ultimate power. We know that we are not the ultimate power. Our Being is actually searching for an encounter with any such grandeur that reminds us of our real role in this macrocosmic universe.

People go to the temples only for this assurance that they get, when they see the idols. Those who don’t find this kind of assurance in the temples find it elsewhere. But somehow, deep within we know that we are not the ultimate power. This feeling should become an experiential reality for us. Then we will know for sure.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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When you enter into a space where gratitude becomes your meditation, contentment automatically happens. The normal contentment that we all know always comes with a reason. It is related to something that has happened in the outer world that has temporarily put your busy mind to rest, that’s all. When your mind is restful, you say you are contented. Real contentment is not this.

Real contentment is when you feel permanent gratitude towards the benevolence of Existence. Real contentment asks for nothing more. It simply enjoys everything without a reason; it needs no reason. When you reach this state, you will not know what discontentment is all about.

A small story:

A man once went to a doctor and complained of insomnia.
The doctor asked him, “So, you are unable to sleep at all at night?”
The man replied, “I sleep well at night doctor.”
The doctor asked, “Then what is the problem?”
The man said, “I am unable to sleep in the afternoons and evenings.”

(Loud laughter!)

We are all asking for more and more without any scale of measure. Even if we have a scale, it is infinite; that is the problem. We are completely blinded by our attitude of asking for more. We don’t even know where we stand, because of this. We haven’t looked inwards at all in a long time. We are just deluded by our minds. We are living such an ignorant life. We create suffering for ourselves inside and go in search of relief outside.

You are able to laugh for this joke because you know you are only watching it; you know that you are not a part of it. In life, many times, you are in this same situation and you don’t know it. At those times, you are not the watcher. You are so involved in the whole thing that it becomes such a serious thing for you. It becomes such a solid reality to you.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A small story:

One man went to the market to buy vegetables for his wife.
He bought ladies’ fingers, came home and showed it to his wife.
The wife saw the ladies’ fingers and said, “Oh! These are so over grown. I will not be able to cook them.”

The man went the next day and bought some more ladies’ fingers, choosing carefully this time, and came home and showed them to this wife.
The wife said, “What have you bought? They are too tender to make the dish I had in mind.”

The next day, the man went to the market, prayed to the shopkeeper and said, “Please give me some good ladies’ fingers that are neither too ripe nor too tender.”
The shopkeeper picked the best ladies’ fingers himself and the man took them home and showed them to his wife.
The wife saw them and said, “What? You’ve bought ladies’ finger today also!”

(Loud laughter!)

Appreciation never comes spontaneously for many of us. When we cannot appreciate spontaneously, it means that we are having a complaining or discontented nature in us. Actually, discontentment is food for our mind.

To be discontented is like giving some food for the mind to chew. The mind will feed on it and keep itself busy. What happens when we feel too contented? The mind becomes starved. It doesn’t know what to do. It starts searching for its food!

One lady went to a shoe store.
She asked for shoes to fit her feet and the salesman patiently showed her many pairs of shoes.
She tried on one after another and felt that none of them fitted her perfectly.
Finally, the salesman showed her one pair and asked her to try them on.
She tried them on and said, “It fits too well, I wonder if this is the right size.”

(Laughter!)

When you are determined not to feel contented, then no one can help you. It is a state of your mind, which only you can help. Most of us feel a certain comfort zone in talking and feeling discontented, because there is always something to talk about; the mind is occupied all the time.

To feel contented always is like losing the mind. This is also why, although we claim that we want to feel contented always, we are not ready when it happens. Our mind plays cunningly because it needs something to chew on.

We feel secure when we run behind the horizon. The horizon is only an imaginary line, but we feel secure running behind it because there is something to run behind! The mind has been trained to run always!

When you are like this, you are actually fooling yourself, that’s all. You are creating self-contradictory results for yourself. For example, you want to feel contented at the bottom of your heart, but you keep deluding yourself of contentment by constantly complaining and refusing to see what has been given to you! You want something but bring upon something else on yourself. And you feel comfortable in keeping on trying to achieve contentment as a lifelong process!

Understand one thing: The moment you create self-contradictory results for yourself, your misery starts. Try to be clear on how you would like your life to be and direct every ounce of energy towards making it that way. When you function with this clarity, you will never delude yourself and you will see that you soon become what you want to be!

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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Another beautiful small story:

God and all the scientists of the world had a meeting and a competition.
Whatever item that God made, the scientists reproduced it identically out of some material. The scientists were able to reproduce things with no problem.

Finally, God made man out of dust and challenged the scientists.
The scientists started to pick up dust…
God said, “Wait! Make it out of your dust, not mine!”

Man has to understand that Existence is the creator, the created and the creation. Only then can he simply start enjoying things without a care. Only then can he relinquish possession and doer-ship.

So understand: When you change your attitude from seeking discontentment, worries and depression, to seeking the present with gratitude, you will automatically be able to harness the energy of Existence better. You will then be able to appreciate Existence better and gratitude will then become your attitude.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A small story:

A king used to go on rounds at night in disguise in his own kingdom.
Every night, he would see a Master sitting under a tree in a blissful state when the rest of the city was asleep.
He felt deep respect for the Master and requested him one night to stay with him in the palace.
The Master said, “Alright, I will come today itself. Tomorrow is never sure.”
The king was taken aback at this rather abrupt acceptance of the invitation, but took him to the palace.
In the palace, he gave the Master, the best of rooms and the best of food.
The Master enjoyed everything to the utmost.
The king was observing him as he enjoyed all the material comforts. He did not believe that a real Master would enjoy like this. His respect for the Master was reducing day by day. He felt cheated.

Finally one day, the Master told him, “Something seems to be troubling you, why don’t you come out with it?”
The king said, “Yes, I can’t understand the difference between you and me when I see you enjoying all these things like I do.”
The Master smiled and said, “Alright, let us go for a walk.”
The King agreed and they went for a walk. They walked in silence for a long time.
They came to a river that marked the end of the King’s boundary.
The Master said, “Alright, my stay is over. I am going, leaving your kingdom, are you coming?”
The King said, “How can I? I have my kingdom and my people and so many things to solve!”
The Master smiled and asked, “Now have you got an answer to your question?”
The King was simply jolted at the Master’s words.

Masters know that everything belongs to Existence. That is why they live totally in the moment, enjoying it to the utmost. Every moment is lived with totality. They are not fearful of losing anything because what is yours to lose?

Always remember: Everything belongs to Existence. You are a temporary possessor of it, that’s all. Feel gratitude always whether or not you are in possession of many things. That is the way to a liberating life. You can enjoy tremendous freedom when you understand this one thing.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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In India, there is a thrilling tradition wherein people ask about their future to a parrot!

On the pavements on the road, there will be a parrot in a cage with its owner beside it.
The people who go by will stop and pay the owner some money and faithfully ask for their future.
The owner will open out the cage and command the parrot to step out and pick a paper from a row of stacked papers.
The parrot will come out of the cage, pick a paper with its beak and hold it out to the owner.
The owner will read out what’s written on it. That is the prediction of the person’s future!

A man with 6 senses asks a parrot with 4 senses to predict his future! How is it possible? I tell you: Just leave all these foolish things and start falling in tune; catch the central chord that is gratitude and move in tune with Existence.

When you watch Masters, they appear to be so graceful, so miraculous and so divine. This is because, they move in tune with Existence. But you don’t understand their state, you see only their status. When you understand their state, you will understand that they have simply merged with Existence and that is why they appear so blissful all the time. This is the state that you have to try to achieve.

Instead, what do you say? “Oh! He is a Master; he is always in bliss. How will he know about my problems? I am struggling here for my bread and butter and he is asking me to be in gratitude all the time.”

I tell you: You only see the rose petals at the Master’s feet; you only see his status and think that he knows nothing about your day-to-day matters. Remember: The respect he commands is to his state not his status. You have no idea of the struggle that has gone behind achieving that state.

You talk of struggling for bread and butter. I tell you from my own experience: So many days of my wandering, I have gone without food. Of course, I never thought of it at that time as a shortcoming on the part of Existence. I was so fervently in search of the Truth that everything became meditation, including going without food.

You know, barring a few charity houses, and in Northern India where sannyasis are given great respect, people always shun sannyasis. Sannyasis are always eyed with suspicion. You think that they have come to steal your property. I tell you, never shun them. Why don’t you just give them a bowl of rice? That is enough for them. Never be miserly when it comes to giving people. Remember: If you are not willing to be a dhaani, that is a man who gives a small portion of his wealth, you will be a mahadhaani, one who leaves all his wealth and dies!

Anyhow, please understand that I am talking from my own experience. Even in the deepest of troubles and struggle, if you function with unwavering faith and gratitude, and use your inner intelligence in moving through them, you will see that you will emerge out of it successfully with only greater gratitude and intelligence!

Even if you lose something very precious, just feel grateful for having enjoyed it for a while, that’s all. When you become pure gratitude, you will not cry over anything lost. You will just enjoy it as long as it is there and then continue to feel grateful after it is gone also.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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When your intelligence grows, you will handle your day–to–day activities effortlessly and you will be in peace. Right now, if you are let’s say a manager, you have so many duties, is it not? You hire people, supervise their performance, fix their salaries etc. Are you able to do all these things without getting stressed? With intelligence, you will be able to handle them without getting stressed. You will be in peace. What you need is intelligence, not power. Remember that.

When you understand and experience that Existence is taking care, you will transform and move on to becoming an individual liberated from all these kinds of delusions. We always place our faith on people, astrologers, fortune-tellers, planets and stars and what not; never on Existence that is the very life source of the Universe.


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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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People time and again beg me to do miracles. I tell them that these so-called miracles are not a scale to measure my state. But they don’t want to listen. Even if, just to demonstrate simple techniques like materializing etc., I do one or two things, people will start coming to me to watch these miracles, for the magic show; not for transformation! That is my worry.

One day, upon persistent begging from a few devotees, I teleported a Lakshmi Idol and gave it to them. I explained to them that it is not a miracle. Just because you don’t know the cause and effect relationship of what you see, you think it is a miracle.

What actually happens in teleporting is, just like how the sound waves from your voice over the telephone get converted to electrical signals and transmitted over a medium and then get re-converted back to sound waves at the other end, I just convert matter into energy, move it across air and reconvert it back into matter, that’s all. There is no miracle in this.

So stop searching for miracles. Live with a feeling of gratitude and love for existence and automatically, you will see the real miracles happening to you. Your transformation is the greatest miracle that can happen through a Master! And remember, you don’t need miracles from a Master; you only need intelligence.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A small story, which Ramakrishna used to say often:

Two brothers lived together.
The older brother decided to pursue business while the younger one went on to become a Sadhu.
After a few years, they met each other.
They asked each other what they had achieved in the past few years.
The older brother listed out all the material things that he had achieved in the outer world. He explained about his business and how much wealth he had accumulated. He then asked the younger brother what he had achieved.
The younger one simply took him to a river, crossed it seamlessly on foot and proudly declared, “This is what I have achieved.”
The older brother hired a boat and ferried to the other side of the river and said, “What? What takes two pence to achieve, you have achieved in so many years!”

People think that if they can do miracles in the outer world, they have become spiritual and powerful. No! Understand: Spirituality is not a game of miracles in the outer world. It is a game in the inner world - to change your personality to individuality - which is the greatest miracle! Changing personality to individuality is the greatest miracle.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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When you tune in, you carry the radiance and energy of Existence with you. You will be able to see things getting re-arranged, things falling into place like a jigsaw puzzle so that things happen for you; you will be able to feel people receiving you with a strange spontaneity and enthusiasm wherever you go.

People will look at you differently. They will experience an unexplainable pull towards you. Your life will become a song that is being played by an unseen musician, to which you are simply dancing. Life becomes just music and dance. It becomes a celebration!

But instead of celebrating, we are all the time searching for more, searching for miracles. We are all the time looking for miracles to happen and feel that they are not happening.

I tell you: Miracles are never done, they simply happen continuously around you! It is your recognizing capacity that makes them miracles! Use gratitude to tune yourself with Existence and you will see the miracles that are happening! Gratitude will tune you to the miracles. Either you enjoy them or you miss them. It is your choice!

When you miss them, you will remain discontented. It is like this: The door is open but you are knocking continuously on it! I am telling you that all that you need is already there and you only have to receive it, but you are not ready to believe. You don’t see the miracles that are already happening around you and instead go in search of them.

Understand: Turning water into wine is not a miracle. Turning man into God is the real miracle. PC Sarkar, the great magician will do the former. It takes deep understanding to do the latter.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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When you are spontaneous, it means you are ready to take on any responsibility. I always tell people: Responsibility is the ability to respond spontaneously. Masters take up responsibility for the whole world! How? Because they are so spontaneous and moving with the flow of Existence all the time! They know that if they simply flow with Existence, Existence will make things happen in a natural fashion!

If you talk to the ashramites in our ashram, they will tell you about their experiences with me. It is very hard for them to know things before hand and keep pace with me, because I am all the time flowing with Existence! Over time, they first learn to drop their ideas of needing enough lead-time in order to function, and then slowly they learn to be ready for anything at any time! That is how things happen at the ashram. Things happen on the spur of the moment.

An outsider will be amazed to perceive the orderly chaos that happens at the ashram. Be it poojas or functions, I will tell them just a few hours ahead and things will get done. I will tell them only a few hours ahead because I am flowing continuously and not with any frame or plan.

If we learn to flow with Existence, we can live without any worry. But somehow, we all have mastered the art of fighting Existence. We then suffer. If you tune yourself with the flow of Existence, you will find that every moment, you are being watched over and given what you need for that moment.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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People ask me, “Swamiji, there is so much of suffering around us. Why is this so?” I tell you, this is all nonsense. First of all, there is not so much suffering as you make it out to be. There is suffering alright, but it is magnified by your own mind. If you take a proper statistics and see, you will understand how much your mind plays in these things. It has become a casual social talk to say all these things and magnify the whole thing. Secondly, there is suffering because our faith has disappeared, that’s all. We have become avaricious, driven by our unconscious ways.

See understand: Existence simply orchestrates the happenings in the Universe. All the events are so synchronously conducted that the more aware you are, the more you can perceive the amazing order in what now seems to be chaotic to you. We just need to be aware of this and play our part accordingly; life will then flow like music.

When you become sensitive to this phenomenon, from small events to larger ones, you will start realizing how things are being re-arranged and made to happen with you being a simple instrument in the whole process. The power of coincidence will start revealing itself to you in its entire splendor. You will become aware that you are part of a macrocosmic orchestra wherein you just need to flow with the music and enjoy it! It is only when you fight the flow, when you try to go against it, does the problem start.

A small story:

One day, people came rushing to one man and told him that his wife had fallen into the river and was being washed away by it.
The man immediately ran to the river, took off his clothes and plunged into it and swam upstream.
The people screamed, “Why are you swimming upstream? She would have obviously been washed away downstream.”
The man screamed back, “Only I know my wife…Even in the river, she would have gone only against the current, not with it!”

(Lots of laughter!)

When we fight the flow, the problem starts, because it means that we have allowed our ego to step in between Existence and ourselves. On the other hand, if we understand the flow of Existence and go with it, we will be so spontaneous; we will be able to take on everything that comes our way and we will expand with gratitude.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A small story:

A boy once visited a King’s palace.
He requested to allow him to stay for a night in the palace.
The King agreed and the boy stayed.
The next morning, the boy came up to the King and complained endlessly about the shortcomings of the accommodation provided to him.
The King ordered the boy to be taken out saying that even a day’s accommodation was too much for a person such as him.
The boy felt very bad and went to a Sufi Saint and narrated to him the happenings.
The Saint did not say anything. He simply asked the boy to become his disciple.

A few months later, the Saint told the boy that he was going to visit the king and asked him to accompany him.
They went and asked to be allowed to stay for a few days in the palace.
The king agreed.
The next morning, the king asked the Saint if he was comfortable with the arrangements made for him.
The Saint expressed heart-felt gratitude towards the King for the comforts made for him.
The King was very happy and immediately ordered his men to pay more attention to the arrangements made for the Saint.
The Saint told the boy, “Do you see now? This is the secret of life. Feel grateful and you will be showered.”

This is what happens when you thank Existence instead of finding fault with what has been given to you. By feeling gratitude, you send out positive vibrations that will automatically bring back more than you can imagine for yourself.

This does not mean that you have to praise people with your lips and cunningly deceive them to get more. No! When you are in a state of thankfulness all the time irrespective of the things in the outer world, your gratitude will radiate from you. Then, things will simply start happening for you.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

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A small story:

Two goldfish were inside a fish tank.
One of them asked the other, “Do you really believe in the existence of God.”
The other replied, “What else do you think changes our water everyday?”

If you believe that Existence takes care of all your needs, you will be free from any kind of worry. But remember, as I told you, your needs are different from your wants. Your needs are few but your wants are many. Your needs are automatically fulfilled by Existence. When your wants increase, you lose faith in Existence because you don’t see them being fulfilled.

You see, ordinary belief is just believing, that’s all. Faith on the other hand is belief plus energy to put it into action. You can start with belief but you have to end in faith. With belief, there will be a doubt, with faith there will be no doubt, because you would have experienced it. When you have experienced for yourself the wonders of gratitude, you will attract more and more fortune for yourself. I am declaring this from my own experience.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.