focus on what you love

Once a farmer went to a great saint...a discourse was going on.
At the end, the farmer said to the saint, "I don't know what God
looks like. I don't know how to meditate. What should I do?
I really want to know the Truth."
The saint asked him, "What do you love the most?"
The farmer said, "My goat."
The saint said, "Very good. God home and meditate on your goat."
The farmer was delighted. He went back home, prepared a place for
his meditation, sat on a pillow, closed his eyes, and began to think
about his goat...Every day as he meditation he became happier
and happier. One day, as he meditated, the room was filled with white
light. The light was both insidea nd outside. His entire being became transparent.

CONTEMPLATE WHAT YOU LIKE. Through this practice you will transcend the object and be able to see the Truth in it.

~Gurumayi Chidvilasanda,
Kindle My Heart: Wisdom and Inspiration from a Living Master

Once there was a fox who had lost one of his legs, so he could not go and get his own food. He had made friends with a tiger who brought him food every day. The tiger would hunt in the forest and eat half the food. Then he would give the rest to the fox.
A man who was walking through the forest saw what was happening. He was delighted. Every day he returned to watch the tiger bring food to the lame fox. He thought to himself, "This fox does not work. The tiger brings him food. I don't have to work either; I will also sit and someone will bring food. God will provide for me."
He sat down in the forest. Days passed by, and he began to lose a lot of weight. Finally he was near death. At the last minute a great voice from within suddenly boomed, "O man! Do not follow the fox! Follow the tiger!"
"Follow the tiger." The tiger was serving the fox without expectation of anything in return.

-Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Kindle My Heart: Wisdom and Inspiration from a Living Master

...the Truth reveals itself as divine intoxication.
No matter what is happening, you experience a high state.
Someone may be yelling at you, and you think, "Listen to that -
the glory of God!" In everything and everyone you experience
only intoxication, ecstasy.
Some people experience the answer as absolute enlightenment,
complete serenity.

~Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, p.4


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