Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Do not become a botheration for God!
When you think God is your botheration, then you have become a botheration for God! This becomes a problem.
Once a woman was fasting for 8 days, and she said she will not eat food till she talks to Gurudev. I said, 'This is a big problem'. I keep travelling around the world, the phone connects at some places and doesn’t connect at other places. If people start thinking this way, then there will be a big problem!
Then I had to scold her and say, 'Don’t be like this, first eat your food'.
I said to myself, 'This is not an act of seva, rather it is making me do seva!' I am ready to do seva, but this becomes a headache for me! I said, 'I don’t believe in these kinds of things'.
You should never say this that God has become a problem for you. If you long for God, or for your Guru, in your heart, then that is good. This takes you on the path of progress. If that longing is not there then there is no juice in life.
The day the longing ends dryness begins to come in life. People keep yearning for the materialistic world, people yearn and they die for materialistic things. But you should yearn for God and then you will become realized.
You will rise and attain everything in life; such should be the yearning for god.
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