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HEART CONVERSION TALK SERIES Volume 1, Number 11 DISCOURSE 4 The Blessing in Your Life A Discourse Given by Sri Da Avabhasa on November 26,
1992 SRI DA AVABHASA: [to a departing retreatant] Let Me remember Your face. Come here within a year and tell
Me your story then, tell Me then how much better it is.
There will be no heaven on Earth for anyone. All of this
dies. But that so much weight oppresses a few is not
acceptable to Me. It is not! No Divine Law requires it.
Therefore, I will not eat it! You enjoy Blessing in your
life from now on. There is so much suffering. Do you think God makes
it? There is no such God who makes your suffering. It is
just your own stupidity, all your contraries. It is
unacceptable to Me that such poor people, such poor people,
should suffer so much. All over the Earth there is suffering
and-no, I do not want to talk about it, but I will not
accept this oppression of the poor few. I will take the weight from here. I cannot endure the suffering of My devotees. I can
make it lighter. Even in This Body such suffering is lighter
than in yours. I will not accept your suffering. What do you
know about it? You really do not know anything about it.
Therefore, I will not talk about it. To be naive and free and giving-that is the sign that
humankind should give to one another, especially in so
dreadful a time on Earth. There has not been a time as bad
as this. There has not been. It is a very flexible time.
Everything on any day can go one way or the other. People on
Earth are dying every day, yet what do you know about them?
These are not good times. The time is coming when the
practice of esoteric prayer, esoteric Communion with the
Divine Being, will not be tolerated. The time is coming when
you will have to endure such intolerance. All of you living in the community of My devotees
have the potential, the possibility, of dealing with your
practical requirements vigorously and directly to relieve
one another of so much of the burden of your daily
obligations. This is the sign that I am looking for in the
communities of My devotees, which are not about the
idealization of communalism, as I have said many, many
times. The communities of My devotees are about relieving
each and all of some portion of the burden of ordinary life
so that your energy and attention are released for
Contemplation of Me, for Divine Communion. This is the sign
I am looking for among you. But not yet – it has not happened yet. You are not
urgent enough yet. You are not. You are still relatively
complacent, relatively self-satisfied in your egalitarian,
bourgeois calm. All over the Earth people are murdering one another.
All over the Earth people are starving, murdering, dying-all
over the Earth, even in mighty America. All over the Earth.
If only for the sake of humanity, cooperate with one
another. And that will be the beginning of a new era. At
least cooperate as My devotees. It is the Kali Yuga, you
see, when even esoteric Communion, esoteric prayer, is
already against the law somewhere. How much longer will you
be allowed to engage in the practices you now take so
lightly? It could be that soon it will be against the law
even to make such gestures. You will be obliged to seem to
deny publicly all esotericism. It could be that you will be
obliged to be exoteric, public characters. Here on this Island of Naitauba it is My
determination to make a Sign unlike the world. It is My
determination to make this a place where the Dharmic Law is
manifested clearly, so that every time you come here,
dropped out of the world for a short time of retreat, you
will find a unique place on Earth. While I am here bodily
and after This Body dies, it is My determination that this
Island be such a place, so that forever My devotees can come
here and find a unique circumstance of retreat from the
world. Those who live here, who are Blessed with the
possibility of being in residence here, must accept the
unique discipline of being perpetually on retreat – for the
sake of the whole world. This is My Admonition. This is what all are Called
to incarnate here. That is My Intention. Sri
Love-Anandashram is My Great Hermitage Ashram, a unique
place of renunciation. Those who live here must therefore
make a unique gesture. You cannot live here in the usual
way. And when you come here on retreat, you make a unique
gesture of renunciation for awhile, for a few weeks. If you have some understanding of the direction of
the world then you will understand My Admonition that this
must be a unique place. It must be so, so that when My
devotees come on retreat they enter a unique place and they
see in everyone here the signs of renunciation-not
necessarily monasticism but renunciation for real.