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do. You have to work also and wait, otherwise waiting can become just being lazy. Work hard and wait -- both are needed. Working hard means that you really intend to do something, and waiting means that you know well that man is helpless. Unless God helps, nothing is possible. We work to show our sincere intention -- nothing else. All spiritual pratices are nothing else. They don't lead you anywhere -- they simply make your prayer meaningful. They simply show God that you really mean it. You are ready to do whatsoever you can, knowing well that just your doing is not going to help.
Our hands are very small and the sky is very vast How can we hold the sky in our hands? But we try. Knowing well we are bound to fail, we try. That effort shows that we are not asking out of laziness. We have done whatsoever we could -- now we ask God to come and help us. And immediately whenever a person has done all that he can, God's grace becomes available and things start happening.
They never happen to a person who simply goes on doing and never asks God's help. They never happen to a person who goes on asking for help and never does anything about it. The grace comes to a person who has synthesised these two things -- will and surrender, effort and prayer, work and waiting.
God Is Not For Sale
Chapter #3
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14 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Deva means divine and dheeraj means patience -- divine patience. And that is very significant to remember. On the path nothing more is needed than patience. Man can do everything that he is capable of, but still there is no necessity that the ultimate happens; it may happen, it may not. We can grope in the dark; the door may open, it may not So if one has not infinite patience, one starts getting tired of the search. There is no short cut to it -- and there cannot be because of the very nature of things. The journey is long and many times one starts losing hope. Those are the moments when patience will be needed.
Patience is nothing but a fragrance of trust.
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