_Question:_ Last night you said that we would realise God before your chair would. Does it really matter, since we are dealing with Eternity and Immortality anyway, whether we are first or the chair?

Sri Chinmoy: If the heart becomes great, good, spiritual, then you will say, “What is the difference, since we are dealing with Eternity? If the chair wants to go to God before me, no harm. I will also reach God one day.”

But again, oneness with God’s Will is of paramount importance. God wants you to realise Him as soon as possible. Why? Because He needs you badly to manifest Himself. God has evolved His consciousness in and through you more than He has evolved through the chair, because God knows that you can manifest Him sooner than the chair can. This is no comparison between you and the chair, but the time has come first for you to realise God, reveal God and manifest God, so naturally you will try to do it.

Our so-called sympathetic heart may want to say, “Since the chair is also God’s creation, why should I not act like a perfect gentleman and let everybody else go first? I shall go last to show my heart’s magnanimity.” But God will say, “You stay with your heart’s magnanimity, but you are not one with My Will. My Will is that you realise Me as soon as possible. I am tired; I am exhausted. I want you to do a little work for Me.” Then what are we going to do? God wants us to shoulder a little bit of His burden, to take some of His responsibilities away from Him. At that time, if we become divinely stupid and say, “No, let the chair go first; let everybody else go first. Since God will wait for me, I will go last,” that will be a mistake. We have to identify ourselves with God’s Will first. God is inside the wall and inside the chair, but if we want to deal with Eternity, then we will take hundreds and thousands of incarnations to realise God, and that will be an act of stupidity.

We must identify ourselves with God’s Will, and let God decide whether we should run the fastest or the slowest. But it is a true truth that when we become one with God’s Will, God wants us to run the fastest because He needs more instruments like us, sincere instruments. The more He can get sincere instruments, the sooner He can manifest Himself totally here on earth. We have to be wise. What God wants, not what we feel is best or most spiritual, is the right thing to do. If it is God’s Will, then we will go last. But we already know that God wants us to go very fast, and if we do not do it, that means His manifestation is delayed by whom? By us.

From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol.II-4, No. 1, 27 January 1977, Vishma Press, 1977
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