When we use the word “human,” in terms of our language, it is synonymous with love, compassion and gentleness. But the most inhuman acts on the planet are not committed by some other creatures. They are always committed by human beings.
Why does it seem to be so difficult for a human being just to be a human being? If I ask you to be a tiger, and elephant or a grasshopper, it should be difficult. But why is it so difficult to be human? If the quality that beats in the core of every human being could be brought into every cell of his body and mind, it would not be difficult for a human being to be a human being. It is not natural that a human being should struggle and strive to be a human being. Whichever way he is, he must be human. There should be no difficulty in expressing our own nature.
This is the whole effort of yoga – that a human being can just naturally be human. He doesn’t have to struggle to be human. He doesn’t have to work hard to become the human being that he is – the way he exists is like a human being.
If this fundamental nature of what it means to be human finds natural expression in one’s life, one need not go in search of the divine. The divine will come behind you. Wherever you go, the divine will chase you like your servant. Generally, most people have been taught to look up to the divine, to plead for the divine, to beg the divine, to pray to the divine. I think you must keep the divine as your servant, not as your master. You must live in such a way that the divine should be a willing servant in your life. Only then this life is really worth it.

If you live in such a way, if you make yourself into such a beautiful being, the divine should crawl behind you all the time. The divine should have been waiting for such a long time to find such good company! That’s how it should be.
I want people to live in such a way that the divine will crawl behind them. They will not crawl behind the divine. This is not out of ego. It is just that when the flower blossoms, the flower does not go in search of the bee, though the flower’s existence and future depends on the bee. It exudes such fragrance that the bee has to come. If you don’t have the fragrance, you have to take the flower to the bee. If you have that fragrance, even though the very existence of the flower is dependent on the bee, it is still the bee that comes to the flower.

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