Practice small acts of sacrifice and see for yourself the happiness that you derive.
From the book How the Sathya Yuga is Coming
Peak of
‘I’ is Peacock’s Eye
Today
in satsang when I spoke about, ‘I without ‘I’, Fred said, “Amma, we are working
without wages, you are our wages.”
I
replied, “This is correct.”
Evening meditation
Vasantha : Swami is Fred correct?
Swami : Yes.
You receive Truth as wages from Me and give wisdom as payment to them. You feed
them first before giving your wisdom to the world. You eat Me, they eat you.
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I pull Truth from Swami and explain the
wisdom in a way simple and easy
to understand. I share all with the ashramites after meditation. Wisdom reaches
them first before I write it in the books. This is why Swami says, “First you
eat Me and then they eat you.”
When I
was talking to them, I saw a picture of a beautiful dancing peacock on the
cover of my diary, its feathers fanned. I said, “All love peacocks.”
Peacocks
live in the fields that surround the ashram. Whenever a peacock comes in our
ashram all run to look. A peacock looks very beautiful when it dances opening
its feathers. If by chance we find a single feather, its beauty captivates us.
If all were to pluck a feather from the
peacock’s tail saying, ‘I want one, I want one’, the beauty would be lost. The
bird would look ordinary and ugly.
‘Sarvatahpaanipaadam tatsarvato’ksisromukham
Sarvatahsrutimalloke sarvamavrtya tisthati’
With
hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, hands, and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere he stands pervading all.
The
whole universe is the body of the Lord; His limbs are everywhere. If we
separate this world saying, ‘this is mine’, ‘that is yours’, it is akin to
breaking the limbs of God. It is like cutting and separating the One. The
beauty of Creation would be lost. I wrote this principle as ‘Beauty Worship’ in
the book, ‘The Establishment of Prema’. One should not want to keep beauty, as
ones own possession. It should be worshiped by offering it to the Lord.
If you
are not able to remove the small self (i’), become one with the true self
(‘I’). That is verily Eddymayam, Fredmayam. I have said in a previous chapter,
if your name is Rama, then Rama becomes everything, you pervade all– Ramamayam.
If your name is Raja, see all as Raja–Rajamayam, see all as your very own self.
If we do this, we can enjoy the complete beauty, like that of a peacock. We can
dance like the peacock in bliss.
Who is
not captivated by the beauty of the peacock? All experience bliss watching the
male peacock dance, its tail fanned. How to praise the glory of the Lord who
has created the colorful splendor of the peacock’s feathers? A single feather
has an eye shape at its tip. When the bird opens its feathers and dances, it
seems that a thousand eyes are looking at you. How much bliss is derived
looking at a single feather? Lord Krishna sported a peacock’s feather in His
crown. What is synonymous with Lord Krishna? A peacock feather on His head, a
flute in hand.
How would it be if each one of us were to
pluck a feather from the peacock’s tail? The bird would lose its beauty and
look ordinary. The fantail of the peacock is made up of many feathers, which
move together in a blissful dance! In the same way, the Universe is God’s
cosmic form. According to the sloka Sarvatahpaanipaadam, God’s eyes, ears,
hands, legs and face exist everywhere. It indicates God’s all-pervasive nature.
He is in every living being. Sri Krishna asserts in the 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita,
‘Mamaivamso
jeevaloke jeeva bhutha sanatana’
He
resides in the heart of all…
We
should not divide this all-pervasive God.