Courage

In one of our Upanishads, it says that the soul is not to be won by the weakling. Courage is absolutely necessary in the spiritual life. It will be fruitless, on our part, to launch into the spiritual life if we do not have courage. This courage is not the courage of a haughty, rough person who will strike anyone in order to feel himself superior. This courage is totally different. This courage is our constant awareness of what we are going to become, of what we are entering into, what we are going to reveal. Here we have to jump courageously into the ocean of spirituality and when we jump, we have to know that we are not jumping into the sea of uncertainty. Uncertainty and spirituality never go together. So when we speak of courage, I wish to say that courage means certainty, it is not by hook or by crook that we are going to have God-Realisation; it is through constant self-offering. Self-offering is the most powerful weapon and it is in self-offering that true courage lies. When we know, feel and realise that God is ours and we belong to God, we get spontaneous courage streaming forth.

God and you are eternally one, one fulfilling the other. If you have indomitable courage or the soul will-power you can fulfil the Supreme and the Supreme can fulfil you. This you feel on the strength of your all-giving, all-sacrificing inner indomitable courage.