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慾望與虔誠 Desire and prayerfulness

#076 1996/11/20 印度 加爾各答

為了使你的祈禱得到回應，強烈的慾望是必需的。當慾望演化愈烈、達成時間愈遲時，感恩之情也就愈熾熱。

強烈的慾望將你引導到忠誠。為了使慾望趨於強烈，時間與需求是必備的。

當一個慾望達成時，它的吸引力和重要性在強大的感恩下即消失了。

在印度有位農夫的兒子，他一生的夢想就是到英國旅行，為了達到這個夢想他深切地禱告。最後當他的旅行終於有了眉目，他是如此的感恩──以至於成行與否再也不重要了。

經常發生的是當人們的慾望沒有迅速達成時，他們就自認是不幸的。強烈的慾望可以使你受挫，或使你虔誠。在虔誠中存在著感恩與忠誠。任何強烈的經驗均能使你完整。

你的意識有如玉米顆粒，隨著知識之火的加熱，意識就昇華，變得雪白又蓬鬆。

076 THE HEAT OF KNOWLEDGE

Weekly Knowledge #76 Calcutta 20 Nov 1996 India

For your prayer to be answered, the desire has to be intense. The greater the intensity of desire and the later it gets fulfilled, then greater will be the gratitude.

lntense desire leads you to devotion. For desire to get intense, time and the need for the desire are required. The feeling of gratitude is so overwhelming after the fulfillment of desire that it's achievement loses its charm and significance.

The son of a farmer in India had a life-long desire to go to England and he prayed deeply for it. Even the news of his trip to England materializing filled him with immense gratitude -- he did not even care whether he went or not.

Often people think that they are unfortunate if their desires don't get fulfilled quickly. lntense desire can frustrate you or make you prayerful. In prayerfulness, there is gratitude and devotion. Any intense experience makes you whole.

Your consciousness is like corn. With the heat of Knowledge, consciousness pops ups and becomes white and fluffy.

NEWS FLASH

Guruji and his entourage moved from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok. Once again the metal detector beeped. Guruji gave a fiery Satsang to a multi-ethnic audience. It has made teachers busy for the next whole month.

With Guruji's arrival, the City of Joy (Calcutta) was overjoyed. Hoardings and banners all over the city created a stampede at the magnificent GD Birla Sabhaghar city auditorium. But with the pervading bliss inside, everthing fell into place. The garden of Bharti and S.B. Ganguly was respendent with lights and melody -- The birds in the garden, the flowers, the decorations (not forgetting Bengali sweets), and smiling faces everywhere.

The pact of cooperation was signed by the Satsangees and the mosquitoes at the Nalban Park Salt Lake which was the venue for the next Satsang in Calcutta on the banks of the lake on a moonlit night. The team work at Calcutta that was in evidence all through was superlative.

Jai Guru Dev

(Compiled by Arun, Bhanu and Jonathan)