Swamiji says …
” We become the receiver of God’s blessings and His responsibility from the moment our mother conceives us in her womb. This life that he gifts us with is a blessing from Him…and He showers His blessings on us, in abundance … from that very moment in various ways … by ensuring that our foetus form is positioned correctly in the womb, our healthy growth and development and finally our birth…in accordance with our past karma.”
” Every breath that we take, every grain of food that we eat, every requirement of ours that is fulfilled are blessings that we receive from God. But engrossed as we are in material pursuits, we fail to see the hand of divinity blessing us all the time. Forget about seeing ! Rather than accepting these blessings gratefully, catching them deftly and holding them carefully, lest we let go of them… most of us are unable to understand, handle and safeguard His blessings…but complain constantly that He doesn’t think or care about us. ‘Hum blessings ko sambhaal nahi paatey hain’.”
” We are so deeply embroiled in the web of ‘maya’ and rituals that we fail to see the mysterious effect of the words…uttered by a ‘guru’ , an elder family member or a poor, wretched soul …in the form of a blessing, when they fructify before us … take a definite shape and form … and turn out to be true and come to our rescue when we are in dire need of relief. Remember … Blessings have an intriguing way of showing the power that words can have when they rise from a pure, genuine and grateful heart. The beauty of such soulful words reverberates in the space around us … enigmatically become a part and parcel of us… and we, undoubtedly, will reap the dividends of these blessings… at least, once in our lifetime.”
“Rituals, totally meaningless at times, play such a predominant role in our lives, that we continue to follow them blindly and perform them regularly… without pausing to reflect on the consequences of doing so. Do you ever think and ponder … Am I gaining something truly beneficial from the rituals that I have been observing since years ? Am I any closer to understanding who I am? Is it time for me to move to the spiritual course from a life steeped in rituals? Have I shown any inclination to know where have I come from? Do I understand the divine import of the words when a ‘sachcha sant’ tells me – ‘I will help you attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death?’ Do I detect the hidden, divine blessing in these magical words ? Can I hug this blessing close to my heart … nurse and raise it with faith and belief and say…Yes , one day, this blessing from my ‘guru’, will surely colour me in identical hues of his divinity, and help me attain ‘moksha’?”
” Count your blessings, reverentially, as they reward you most unexpectedly, at the moment chosen by Him.”