To Feel Needed

 

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To Feel Needed

Our very presence on earth is an indication that existence needs us. We are fulfilling a certain need; we are not useless, we are not accidental as science goes on telling people.

The greatest need of man is to be needed. The moment one feels needed life starts having ecstasy. Even if a single person needs us it gives us significance. A child needs a mother — that’s enough to live for. A man needs his wife and that’s enough to live for. A friend needs us… without us there somebody will miss us, somebody will feel lonely — that’s enough for us to feel meaningful. And the religious person is one who feels that the whole existence needs him, hence his joy is infinite.

If even one person can give meaning to our life by making us feel needed, then we can imagine how much bliss can happen when we come to feel that the whole infinite universe needs us, that we are all fulfilling some purpose. Suddenly life becomes poetry, a song. A dance arises within us, a celebration, a thankfulness. That thankfulness is prayer. That gratitude is the greatest experience. All Master’s teach us to experience and feel the significance of life.

And existence makes no conditions on us. It is not that if we do certain things only then the love from the whole will flow towards us. It is unconditional. It comes to the saint, it comes to the sinner; it makes no distinctions. When a raincloud comes and showers it does not shower more on the saint’s garden and less on the sinner’s garden; it makes no distinctions. So, there are no conditions from existence that we should fulfil this, that we should do that. Human beings make conditions and destroy the beauty of love.

Existence gives us unconditional love. Whatever we want, we do - that’s our freedom. God loves us as we are. But we have destroyed even the idea of God. The entire religious establishment needs us because of our contributions to the church, temple, and mosque and so on. Our need for inner connection is not looked after by the religious establishments – they are only concerned with money and how the business of religion be run – it is just a game of power to control the minds of followers.

God is pure, unconditional love, we are nothing but love – and God is not a person, but universal energy that flows through the physical body of realised Masters. We can feel that pure love in their proximity. We are part of existence, existence is love – and to feel it is to be transformed.