Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
Oh Wow! I wasn't expecting you to put God as our business partner at the end. I was too busy getting mad at the man in the story who kept the 100%.
Great story plot, btw. You certainly zeroed in on the man's ingratitude effectively. I guess, we all experience a bit of that ingratitude at one time or another in our lives. A big Ooops!
In course of conversation Mataji said:
World means that which is in constant flux and thus illusory. This pandal (canopy) in which you are sitting now will not remain to-morrow - therefore it is transitory.
Just as a tree did not exist earlier and will not be in existence much later, thus it is impermanent.
Why do you not aspire towards Truth and Eternity?
According to the doctrine of Vedanta or Advaita, name and form are regarded as illusory.
To think of name and form as separate from That which Is - this indeed is false.
In the case of a living Vigraha (Concrete External Presence as form) there is no transitoriness.
You are true, enlightened, the Atma (Self) beyond all names. You are the Atma Itself, free, Knowledge Itself.
So long as God has existed, Maya is also in existence. But God is beyond Maya- just like the external relationship between water and ice. Exactly as ice is nothing but water, so Nirakara, the Formless and Sakara, God-with-Form are one and the same.
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