DEVOTION WORKS WONDERS

Recorded Speech by H.D. Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati,
played for all Devotees and Guests, on 25th December 2016,
on the Occasion of Omkarananda Jayanti Celebrations,
in Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, Muni-ki-reti, via Rishikesh, India

The Divinity being Love, Compassion, Grace, Beauty, Mother, can always hear your prayers, no matter, whether they are said silently or loudly, rightly or wrongly, provided it is a prayer of the heart.

The Divinity responds. The Supreme Reality, the Transcendent Reality, nameless, formless, timeless, spaceless, this Reality hears, sees, reacts.

It is present with everyone at the same time.

The Divinity can stand before – let us say, there are two million Mystics in the world, spread all over the world. At the same time the Divinity presents Itself to all the two million persons, as if every Mystic has the feeling that the Lord has appeared only to him and stood only before him at this time of 8 o’clock or 9 o’clock and so on. And then, but, it’s not so. The fact is, the Lord is present with all the two million Mystics around the world at the same time, in the same form, and so on. Such possibilities are numberless for the Divinity.

The Divinity presents Itself, hears you, sees you, understands you, walks with you, speaks with you, eats from your hand, even though It does not need food. Devotion works wonders and makes the unmanifest Divine Reality manifest before you as a person, a personality, a presence you can feel, a person from whom you can demand services, with whom you can speak and who speaks back to you, and so on. So, such an intimate relation is established with the Divine Reality and thereafter you can speak about great Vedanta, transcendental philosophy, and so on.

But prior to that, the heart has to be filled with Devotion, divine Love, purified, uplifted. Without Devotion, divine Love, all knowledge is a waste and it does not carry conviction to the hearers. They find, it is intellectually wonderful, a wonderful structure, built up by the brain of man, but there is Soul missing in it.

The Soul comes into operation, manifests itself, the moment you develop Devotion, divine Love.

Cultivate intimate relations with God, always speak to Him, as your own Heart, as your own Soul, as the Life of your life, and so on.

(Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati)