When the mind focuses upon any pain, it immediately experiences its brutal sharpness, in the same way, when you let the mind focus upon the true self within...

One can recover from any disease, miraculously, when one does not see his self as a part of it!

You should not retaliate or wish them ill, you must bear all blows patiently and gladly...

The attitude of forbearance is to refuse 

to be affected or pained when inflicted 

with sorrow, loss, and the ingratitude and

wickedness of others. 

In fact, you should be happy and calm, 

for you should know that these are the 

results of your own actions now recoiling on you, 

and you should view those who caused the misery 

as friends and well-wishers. 

You should not retaliate or wish them ill. 

You must bear all blows patiently and gladly. 

The natural reactions of people, 

whoever they may be, when someone injures them 

is to injure in return; when someone causes harm,

to do harm; and when someone insults them, 

to insult back by some means or other. 

This is the characteristic of the worldly path- 

the path of objective involvement.

If you seek the inner path of sublimation and purification

you must avoid such reaction and exhibit forbearance .

Love should not degenerate into an article of commerce. Love fulfils itself in love...

The lotus leaf is born under water; 

it floats on water;

but it does not get wet. 

You too, must be in the world likewise-in it, 

by it, for it, but not of it. 

This is the special feature of the higher education, 

to prepare you for this role. 

That is to say, with the heart immersed in the Divine 

and the hands busy in work, you must live thus on earth. 

Love should not degenerate into an article 

of commerce. Love fulfils itself in Love.

Helplessness is the sure sign of the hopeless faith one has in one's own self...

Forbearance, therefore, instructs you to do good even to those who injure you...

Returning injury for injury, harm for harm, 

or insult for insult only adds to the Karmic burden, 

which has to be endured and eliminated in future lives. 

 

This burden is termed "Aagaami" (impending). 

You can't escape the task of undergoing the

consequences of your thought, word, and deed in due course. 

 

Paying evil for evil can never lighten the weight of Karma;

it will only become heavier. It might confer immediate relief 

and contentment, but it can only make you suffer later. 

 

Forbearance, therefore, instructs you to do good even to those who injure you.

Prayer is the nectar that relieves one from the poison of one's own desires...

Make another's smile your need, make another's success your inspiration...

Make another's smile your need, 

make another's success your inspiration, 

make another's prayer your service, 

make another's wound your pain - 

be that healing touch that melts 

the disease of hatred. 

It is only hatred and malice that 

invokes the syringe of jealousy within. 

Until one will pamper the "I" 

and ignore the true self - until one 

finds within him the need only to receive, 

with no urge to give - until one refuses 

to behave in a human manner - 

until one perceives himself to be 

the master that controls another -

until then, O child, one will face the 

torments of bitterness, sourness, 

and the spiciness of his fiery passions. 

Sweetness will come, My love, - 

I promise! It will come, once you 

are able to swallow all bitterness, 

withstand all sourness, overcome 

all burning heat! 

Find the strength to digest the pride, 

dissolve the mind, and all that will remain, 

will be the sweet, pure energy of God!

Do not look behind, No, just look ahead, concentrate and follow only that which inspires your faith to move forward...

Remember, always, every worldly possession conquers your birth right of freedom!

The weakness of your past can only be wiped by the strength you show in the present...

The self within you, My child, is indestructible, for it knows that it is the only truth in the reality of your existence...