Are You Ready?

“Bhakti is the mother of jnana.” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi





"It is said that, in the Kaliyuga, if a man can weep for God one day and one night, he  will see Him. The most important thing is faith.

As is a man's meditation, so is his feeling of love;

As is a man's feeling of love, so is his gain;

And faith is the root of all.

If one has faith one has nothing to fear."

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

Do you know what it’s like to love like God does? To BE love?  No words can begin to describe it:

To give totally and universally, like the sun, with no conditions, no restraint and no demand,

Just a never-ending outpouring of life-giving energy and radiance.

To love like the rain loves the earth, like the wind loves the sky, like the moon loves the sea!

To love with the primordial power and heaven-shaking grandeur of a tropical storm, the vast totality of infinite space, the blissful, bone-melting ecstasy of absolute surrender, the deep and perfect peace of immortal union!

You can never know it or acquire it…you have to melt in it like the candle thrown into the sun, dissolve in it like a salt doll that dives into the sea.

Only when you disappear thus do you become this Love, this infinite, wondrous, joyous delight that is the source and substance of all things.

How great is your desire to find Truth?

Do you thirst for the Divine like the traveller lost in the desert thirsts for water?

Is your heart filled with love and longing for Him?

Fortunate is the one who’s faith is unshakable as a rock, for faith is the one element of transformation that cannot be denied!

Beyond knowledge and ignorance, beyond form and formless, beyond all duality, what is that perfect Void that is always full to overflowing?

Can mind begin to understand that which is beyond the mind?

Can all the sacred books teach you anything about God?

Can you expand your heart to embrace all creation?

Can you gladly and joyfully perish in the embrace of the Beloved like the moth in the flame?

O child of Grace, are you ready, at last, to go home?