Living With Gratitude

 

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Living With Gratitude

On the spiritual path expression of gratitude plays a significant role in your inner progress. Being grateful and expressing your gratitude from deep within your heart becomes a celebration.

Be grateful to all – to all those who have helped, to those who have created hindrances, to those who were indifferent – be grateful to all because all together they are creating the environment for you to go deep within, the environment for finding yourself deep within where your transformation takes place.

The greatest gratitude you can show is to your Satguru – how do you express your gratitude to one who knows all – even the deepest secrets lying within you, which you yourself are not aware of. The best thing you can do is become His ambassador, your behaviour, your aura, should be an advertisement for your Satguru. People should say, “If the disciple is so simple and loving, what will be the level of his Master?”

Spread the word of the Master, do His work selflessly – remember ‘you’ are not doing it, but you are just becoming a medium through which the Satguru’s energy does the work. At the end, you suddenly realise how great the work is that you have accomplished, and you realise that you did nothing – things just happened. Again, you feel gratitude towards your Satguru, and your Satguru blesses you very subtly for doing His work!

If you are feeling grateful towards your Master then it is a gratitude of the mind. If you meditate and if you flower in compassion then you will simply feel grateful and not grateful ‘towards’ your Master. This gratefulness which arises in a meditative state is a feeling which is not directed towards anybody in particular, the gratefulness is towards the whole. When your gratitude is directed towards the whole, it actually means that it is expressed indirectly towards your Satguru, simply because he represents the collective whole!

Helping others selflessly is another way to express your gratitude towards your Satguru. If the awakening you have received from your Master is helping you turn blissful, pass on the same to others as a gracious gift. Give it without any feeling of ‘giving’ it, only then is the gift gracious. Give it without any expectation of reward, only then it is gracious. Simply give it for the joy of giving it!