<p>If your search is intense, authentic and uncompromising, you will certainly attract the Grace of a Mahatma. But if your search is superficial, rest assured that you will attract a similar outcome.” <br /><br />Sadguru Sri Sharavana Baba once said: “Do not come to me or be with me with the expectation of better days to come.” What this means is that the sadhaka or seeker should understand that once he or she has come in contact with a Mahatma, they must realise that the good days have already arrived. <br /><br />It is another ways of saying: “Know that your tomorrow has already arrived and know that your tomorrow is actually today”. This perhaps explains why spiritual masters always exhort their devotees to live in the present.<br /><br />On another occasion, Babaji was asked by a seeker whether he would eventually reach his destination under his guidance and when and how would that happen. Babaji responded by saying: “When you are with Me, you will always be watching and listening very carefully to what I either say or do. Then you will ponder on why I say the things I say. Such reflection will prompt you reflect on my words and when you understand them, you will come closer to me”.<br /><br /> And on yet another occasion, when Babaji was asked whether the different moods (laughter, joy, anger, disappointment and so on) he displays from time to time are put on or are they for real, he responded by giving a very beautiful answer.<br /><br /> “You have asked a very good question and understood me correctly. When I display multiple moods, I am acting and yet the feelings I display are indisputably genuine. I respond to situations by examining what that context needs. A mother will persuade her child to eat at meal times in a variety of ways. She will tease, cajole, plead, threaten, encourage and sometimes even force the child to eat if the situation warrants it. The mother is actually acting each of those roles, but you cannot jump to the conclusion that it is not genuine. Each role is for real.”<br /><br /> Finally, Babaji was asked what makes his utterances so pure, so poetic and yet so pregnant with meaning. <br /><br />He replied by saying: “I am a poet. I am the voice of feeling. I am the voice of the heart. I express the innermost essence of things.” A Mahatma’s words touch us deeply because their spontaneous utterances stem from the Universal Self.</p>
<p>If your search is intense, authentic and uncompromising, you will certainly attract the Grace of a Mahatma. But if your search is superficial, rest assured that you will attract a similar outcome.” <br /><br />Sadguru Sri Sharavana Baba once said: “Do not come to me or be with me with the expectation of better days to come.” What this means is that the sadhaka or seeker should understand that once he or she has come in contact with a Mahatma, they must realise that the good days have already arrived. <br /><br />It is another ways of saying: “Know that your tomorrow has already arrived and know that your tomorrow is actually today”. This perhaps explains why spiritual masters always exhort their devotees to live in the present.<br /><br />On another occasion, Babaji was asked by a seeker whether he would eventually reach his destination under his guidance and when and how would that happen. Babaji responded by saying: “When you are with Me, you will always be watching and listening very carefully to what I either say or do. Then you will ponder on why I say the things I say. Such reflection will prompt you reflect on my words and when you understand them, you will come closer to me”.<br /><br /> And on yet another occasion, when Babaji was asked whether the different moods (laughter, joy, anger, disappointment and so on) he displays from time to time are put on or are they for real, he responded by giving a very beautiful answer.<br /><br /> “You have asked a very good question and understood me correctly. When I display multiple moods, I am acting and yet the feelings I display are indisputably genuine. I respond to situations by examining what that context needs. A mother will persuade her child to eat at meal times in a variety of ways. She will tease, cajole, plead, threaten, encourage and sometimes even force the child to eat if the situation warrants it. The mother is actually acting each of those roles, but you cannot jump to the conclusion that it is not genuine. Each role is for real.”<br /><br /> Finally, Babaji was asked what makes his utterances so pure, so poetic and yet so pregnant with meaning. <br /><br />He replied by saying: “I am a poet. I am the voice of feeling. I am the voice of the heart. I express the innermost essence of things.” A Mahatma’s words touch us deeply because their spontaneous utterances stem from the Universal Self.</p>
