O great instruments of our Beloved Supreme, I wish to offer to each of you my heart’s soulful gratitude and my soul’s fruitful blessings. At the very start of your spiritually historical and historically unprecedented journey, only one thing I am offering to you, for you to carry with you all the time: an unconditional surrender to the Will of our Beloved Supreme.
Two hours ago, when each of you offered us messages, you used a most significant term – a mantra or incantation, let us say. It was the word ‘opportunity’. What is opportunity? Is it something that occasionally appears before us and knocks at our mental or psychic door, or is it something that we forcefully or consciously create? Or is it something that we receive as a supreme, unconditional boon from Above?
I must say, in all divine wisdom, that opportunity is nothing short of an unconditional boon from our Beloved Supreme. In the ordinary life, in the desire-bound life, opportunity knocks perhaps only a very few times. Sometimes it knocks only once at the dawn of one’s journey and then, during one’s entire life, it does not return. But in the spiritual life, the opportunity-boon descends from Above again and again, countless times. It is the seeker in us who has to avail himself of this constant opportunity.
As seekers, we want to manifest this opportunity in a concrete, solid and tangible form. Therefore, we have become chosen instruments of our Beloved Supreme. Whenever we undertake something great, significant, illumining and fulfilling, we must know that there is supreme necessity of having a leader. Here the leader is Shambhu. He has worked untiringly and sleeplessly. And because of that, the Supreme in me and the Supreme in all of you is offering him the leadership. It is my fervent wish and faultless hope – truth to tell, it is my inner assurance – that he will meet with his responsibilities most adequately. Also I understand that Martin has helped him considerably. Therefore, I am also deeply grateful to Martin. To all of you who have worked and who are going to be working very, very hard, I am offering my most blessingful and soulful gratitude.
Not who has done it, but whether the thing has been executed: that is what is of paramount importance. Who has done it is of no consequence. Then comes something higher and deeper: the way it is done. Is it done by hook or by crook, or is it done soulfully and unconditionally? If it is done soulfully and unconditionally, then my heart is all admiration for you.
Not who has done it, but how it is done: that is what matters. Then, an even more significant question arises: why is it done? It is one question, but it can be answered in many ways. If it is done because of an inner command, an inner decree, then that is all that matters. Finally, there comes a question that is still far more important: when is it done? For everything there is an hour; we call it God’s choice Hour. For this bicycle relay, it is now God’s choice Hour. At God’s choice Hour, we are embarking on something spiritually historical and historically unprecedented.
This is not an achievement of the New Jersey Centre, not an achievement of the New York area Centres, not an achievement of the East and West coasts, not an achievement of the American disciples or the disciples around the world. This is something more than an achievement. It is not something that we have to achieve. It is something that we eternally are: a birthless promise and a deathless progress. This birthless promise and deathless progress is what each individual standing here in front of me is. A birthless promise you are, my sweet children; a deathless progress you are. This birthless promise and deathless progress that you are, you have to offer to the world at large.
Your self-giving reality, divinity and immortality are now beginning, from here, at God’s supreme Hour. Use your imagination-bird to fly higher than the highest, farther than the farthest, and you will be able to see that my pride in you, my gratitude to each of you, is still far beyond your imagination’s flight.
On the practical plane, please, please listen to whatever decisions Shambhu makes, even if you do not see them as perfect. Only keep the atmosphere, the consciousness, as high as possible. Then, when you come back, you can bring your teeming complaints. But on the way, please accept his leadership. There should be no misunderstandings, no quarrelling, no fighting. Keep your oneness-reality. Let there be only oneness-song, which will grant us supreme victory. Again, in this supreme victory, this unprecedented victory, there will be always oneness-song.
Either in the near future or in the distant future, you will see that the progress you will be making on this journey will be astounding. And the progress that you will make here is just the very beginning. For each of you, for all those who are serving the Supreme in this supremely meaningful and fruitful journey, this will be a supreme victory – the victory of the Supreme.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna told Arjuna: “Everything has been done. You just become a mere instrument.” Here also I wish to say, in the Name of the Supreme, that it is all done. Become only instruments, instruments of our Beloved Supreme. It is all done. By whom? By Him, by the Supreme alone. Just become His faithful, devoted and unconditional instruments, Him to please in His own Way.
