Is God the Ruler of your Heart?
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The irony of our life is that God has a lot of power outside but very less power in our heart!
To be unfortunate means – God does not have authority in our heart; He cannot do what He wants to do. Outside He can do but not inside. We are not giving Him the ruler’s status inside. We are not giving God His due place in our heart.
In Bhagavad Gita, Arjun said to Lord Krishna, ‘शाधि मां’ which means ‘Rule me! Prevail upon me!’
Pujya Gurudev used to say that be like a military person with the God: If He says, ‘go right’, you go right; if He says, ‘go left, you go left; if He says ‘stop’, you stop. Let the Lord rule upon you!
Talk to God and tell Him, ‘You rule the whole cosmos, please rule my heart too! You should be the one who should be taking care of what I think, what I do’.
The Antaryami is already present in our heart. He is already saying to us, ‘You are wrong here, you are right here, I want to talk to you, I have a very keen interest in your life’, but what we reply is, ‘I don’t like you to be interested in my life. My life will be my way’!
To make God disinterested is like inviting Kaliyug in our heart. People like Duryodhan and Karna did not allow God to rule in their life and hence they suffered. God was wanting to help them, protect them, but they refused to listen. Lord Krishna showed to Duryodhan who He was. To Karna also, Bhagwan Krishna went and said, ‘I am Krishna, I am the Lord. This war will be lost by the Kauravas so please be with Me!’ But neither of them listened and hence faced the consequences.
God wants to enter in our heart, but we don’t allow, and thus Kaliyug comes in and hits us. It is not that someone outside is beating us and troubling us, it is our thought of attachment that beats us, thought of hatred that hits us, thought of ahamkara (ego) that slashes us. These thoughts keep on hitting us very badly. There is no sound but there is a lot of pain. And the only reason is that we have not allowed the God inside.
Therefore, let us not make this mistake. Let the Lord enter in our heart! Let Him be the ruler within!
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