Anil Kumar Questions and
Answers
Question 2
Will He
Take Care of Us Now? (22.09.2002)
This is the second question I
received: “As Swami’s mission, including seva projects, are
expanding everyday, will He still look after His devotees of many
years in the same manner as He has been doing from His declaration
in 1940’s? Because Swami is very busy nowadays, will He take care
of us now?”
Oh-ho! This answer is so simple!
Perhaps we have taken Him as a human being. ‘He is so busy with
office work; He's so busy with audit accountancy, inspection and
what not; so, will He have time for me?’ It is not like that!
Bhagavan is not a person! Bhagavan
is not an object! Bhagavan is an energy unto Himself! Bhagavan is
energy! Bhagavan is everywhere! Bhagavan is in everyone. There is
no sense to a question like this: ‘Will He have time for me?’
Because Bhagavan is time,
there is no question of, “Will He have time!” No! Because He is
time and available at all times!
We are not giving
Him time! We have no time to think of Him; we are not giving Him
an audience. He is waiting, waiting and waiting for everyone! Yet
we ask, “Since You are so busy with water projects, universities,
etc., do You have time for me?”
What a thing to ask! He has all the
time because He is everywhere and in everyone.
Someone asked Baba a question last
night about a long and healthy life. “What is the secret behind a
long and healthy life?” Physical exercise? Or meditation or
what?”
Bhagavan said this: “Two things will
guarantee a long and healthy life. What are they? Prema -
love and thyaaga – sacrifice, these two will give you a
long, healthy life. No other thing will, no other!” Bhagavan said
this last night to His students.
The Secret of a Long and Healthy
Life
In this connection, Swami gave this
example of Rockefeller, a man from the United States. Rockefeller
was a millionaire, the richest man in this world, having earned
lots and lots of money. Suddenly he fell sick. All the doctors
declared, “One and a half or two years more to live. You cannot
live longer because you have ailments that are incurable. You are
sure to die.”
So, Rockefeller started distributing
his property and his money to everyone. There is a Rockefeller
Foundation in the United States, which takes care of charitable
trusts. It takes care of the forlorn and handicapped. It also
takes care of students, offering the highest standards of
education in the field of research and investigation. The
Rockefeller Foundation is the biggest charitable trust in the
world today.
After beginning these acts of
charity, Rockefeller lived beyond eighty years. He fell sick at
the age of forty-eight. As per the doctors’ predictions, he should
have collapsed within two years. Yet, this man lived beyond
eighty years.
To live a long life, one should have
love as the food and sacrifice as the medicine. These two – diet
and medicine – are normally required. Every person requires diet
and medicine: if you take medicine and don’t follow the diet, you
will never be free from a disease. If you observe the diet
regulations and don’t take the medicine, well, the disease will
continue. Therefore, medicine and diet are the two requirements –
namely, thyaaga, meaning sacrifice, and prema,
meaning love. Bhagavan said this last night.
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