At times we wonder, why isn’t the Lord giving us His guidance and grace. What should we do to receive Divine guidance & grace? Bhagawan lovingly explains today.
The Message (the Avatar brings) can be grasped only by those who yearn to know the Duty to which they have to be loyal. Or else, it will sound hollow and mechanical, like the prattle of a phonograph record. But if the heart is ploughed by that yearning and made ready for the seed, the harvest will certainly follow. Arjuna was the brother-in-law of Krishna; he was a close companion and even a chum of the Lord for many decades! But yet, it was only on that battlefield that the Message of the Bhagavad Gita was imparted to him! Why? Arjuna developed the requisite attitude for the reception and retention of the Message only then. First Arjuna was puzzled about his duty and was tremendously anxious to get light thrown upon it. He was torn between two paths, and in spite of all his discrimination and detachment he was at a loss to discover what his Dharma was. Second, he surrendered his judgement to God, and declared, out of the deepest recesses of his heart, in indescribable agony, “I am Your disciple; I dedicate my entire being to Your Will; tell me what to do and I shall obey.”
– Divine Discourse, July 1970.
