Dear Divine Ma,
What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?
“It’s time to perfect tolerance. Patience. Acceptance of people as they are. You can’t impose goodness on others; can’t impose even values that you hold dear. So, perfection is certainly out of the question. We can only accept people as they are, which is really a form of love. Love is all there is. Love and it’s opposite, fear. People need to know they are loved, really loved. Accepted in every cell of their body. Only then MIGHT they be willing to listen to a gentle suggestion or two. But expect NOTHING of them, just like Yukteswar stated when Yoganand returned after a year’s absence. Only then did Yogananda really ‘open his heart to’ his guru, and only then could Swami Sri Yukteswar actually ‘take charge of’ Yogananda’s life.