God is within us
It’s a story of a small town. There the inhabitants were jubilant as they were celebrating Mother Marry’s Birthday. The only church of the town was decorated very beautifully. On the very day, everyone of the town with all new dresses they started to come to church with gifts in their hand for mother Marry. There lived one infant teenage girl in that town too. She was very poor. She uses to show gymnastics in the streets to earn her livelihood. On that very day that girl also went to the church with her best dress and in empty hand. But the gatekeeper stopped her on the gate as her dress was not good enough for the occasion though it was her best dress and moreover she was without gift for mother.
The girl repeatedly pleads the gatekeeper to allow her inside. Even her tears couldn’t yield any result. She then with her broken heart slowly went back to the garden of the church where there is a very beautiful statue of mother Marry. Sitting beside the statue she wiped a lot and prayed to mother to forgive her as she has nothing to offer. She then thought – I can show gymnastics to mother. That is the only thing she is capable of. So she stated her show in front of the statue of mother.
In the meantime, the father of the church noticed tears in the eyes of mother. Father thought, how this is possible. There must have been something wrong. He asked everyone if they can identify something wrong. Everybody started looking for something which might have caused mother shedding tears. Within a short time Father noticed that very girl in front of the statue of mother doing the tricks of gymnasts. Father approached the girl and asked what she is doing. She replied that she is doing to please mother as she has nothing else to offer her.
Father understood the wrong. Mother’s child cannot be left behind in the celebration.
This simple story has a deep meaning. We are always busy in worshipping God with different rhymes and rituals but we forget to love God. God is not just an idol. God is within us. God is for everyone. Only to Him money or status doesn’t matter. We can love Him with what we have. We gift Him food, flowers, cloths etc. but we keep away ourselves. We are the most beautiful creation of Him. Can we say that God has created all the rules and regulations that we maintain?
There are no rules to please Him. The main thing is devotion that we can gift Him. He will love us in every condition.
Sun is unable to do any partiality with all the creatures of the world. It depends on our ability to grasps the energy from the Sun. Like that it depends on us to being loved by God. His love is superior to everything in the world because only He stays with us in every condition.
We cannot hear His voice as we are busy with this materialistic world. He is really there and if we cry like that poor girl we will also get the divine touch of Him

From bhagavan

THE 68th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF BHAGAVAN, THE FOUNDER AND THE CORE OF INTERNATIONAL VEDANTA SOCIETY WILL BE HELD AT
KHEMKA HALL,
BALLYGUNGE SHIKSHA SAMITY,
51A, GARIAHAT ROAD, (Near Pantaloons)
KOLKATA-19.

Vedanta in use

A child starts going school at an early age of four years. His parent starts showing the things around so that the child gets accustomed with the nature and civilization. From the childhood we try to construct their mind. A child starts getting training to know the world around. This is how our character is created. As we don’t know our Self we can’t lead a prosperous life. We do know the world and its attire but we are not sure about our Self. It is our poor knowledge which leads us in the path of confusion, desperation, depression etc.
Vedanta is the subject which let us know that everything is inside, within us. From there we get the power to work. We think the work we do or the things we use or the entertainment we enjoy gives us pleasure. But actually pleasure comes from inside. It does not depend on any thing or work we are dealing with. If the work or amusement can gives us any pleasure then it would have been permanent. Is it so? Do we always enjoy pleasure within us by doing any work or having something? It is not so. We have to plan again and again for something new to get happiness back to us again. This is because we are unaware of Self. We have learnt to enjoy, but from where this enjoyment is coming? We don’t know the source of our pleasure and we depend on the external things.
Vedanta teaches us to complete every path we are marching on. Spirituality is not a dry thing. It teaches us to enjoy fully. Vedanta teaches how to enjoy the life to its full. The knowledge of Vedanta transforms one from a brute man to a Buddha man. It will give the taste of Oneness. This will remove the limitations of us and will present one a big reason to be happy always and i.e. “You are the Brahman or Atman or the King.” Then only we can do whatever we want. Everything is within us. This will increase our will power. From our childhood we hear from others that we are small, we are limited, and we use to have depended on some external power to lead a healthy life. But by knowing that we are the Brahman or Self and by realizing that we actually become free. Then we are not a slave of our mind any more. We are free. We are free to do everything. We are free to enjoy life without being sad or depressed. We then find no confusion with us any more. All the decisions comes from inside. For our disturbed mind we are unknown to that. This will show us the light to walk on the right path. We even don’t have to depend on anyone; we even don’t have to think whether we are right or wrong. When we will get the touch of Supreme in spite of many barriers we will see that we can march on and on freely.