This understanding of becoming subtler comes through love. What is love, is hard to describe. You can only enjoy it. I enjoy it when a villager brings something so simple and makes Me eat that. Like the small little fruits called ‘ber’ were given to Shri Rama. Shri Rama Himself was born on the right side. Great example for all of you is Shri Ram who was on the right side, who works the right side. When He was born and He was a child… He is a Suryavanshi; He is the son of Surya. I mean Surya – everything comes from the Sun to Him. When He was born and was a little child, He asked His mother that, “I would like to have the Moon.” He started crying, and nobody knew how to satisfy. He said, “I want to have the Moon.” They gave Him any toys, He’d throw away. They said, “What a child it is, funny thing. He wants to have the moon, now how to get Him the moon?” They did not know how to solve the problem. He said, “Somehow you get Me the moon. I don’t want to eat or anything, I want to have the moon.” Here the moon represents the Atma, the cooling capacity. He asked for the moon. You are all on the right side, so ask for the moon, ask for the Spirit. And they didn’t know how to satisfy this Shri Rama, who was the incarnation of Shri Vishnu, asking for the moon of all the things, not for anything else. What’s so important? So, the mother has always an intuition. She brought a – it’s a, it’s a maya, it is a beautiful drama – she brought a mirror and showed Him the moon in the mirror. He said, “Now you can get the moon here.” So sweet! And He was satisfied. Even the reflection of that can satisfy. You are like the mirrors and I want to see the reflection of moon in you.
Shri Rama asks for the moon
January 25, 1982