SURE GUARANTEES OF SUCCESS

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

SURE GUARANTEES OF SUCCESS
God’s grace and the guru’s blessings are in abundance, I assure you. What more is needed?
Sincerity and self-effort. Unless there is a deep desire in you to be saved, to be uplifted, not all the
gods of the Hindu pantheon or of any religion will be able to uplift you.
Therefore, you require mumukshutva. Unless you have this burning desire for liberation all
the other spiritual qualities will be of no avail. You must have a tenacity of spirit, a doggedness, a do
or die attitude that you will not compromise with the spiritual quality of your life, you will not
budge one inch from the insistence on the total perfection of the spiritual quality of your thoughts,
your emotions and sentiments and your actions—your being and doing day by day.
“About that there is no compromise. I stick to the ideal. I refuse to lower it even by a hair’s
breadth. I live, move, breathe, eat, drink, sleep, think, feel, act only to attain the great liberation,
only to regain my total Self-experience.” And such sincerity and self-effort does not mean absence
of humility. When Arjuna declared: “I will act according to Thy word,” he first said, “My delusion
is gone through Thy grace, O Krishna.” So we acknowledge our perennial deep debt to God for His
graciousness.
But God’s grace and the guru’s blessings must be completed by sincerity and self-effort—a
sincerity that is always present, never absent, and a constant, unremitting and unceasing self-effort.
With these two together, nothing on earth can prevent the seeker from attaining liberation. This is
certain! This is the truth and the fact!