Gratify all and be happy

God, who is absolutely free from faults, is equally present in all. All failings and foibles are extraneous, they do not form part of one’s nature. If you are prone to perceive failings, failings will come to your view; and if you are inclined to see God, He will meet your eye. There is no objection to your dealing with others according to their external character; but do this for the sake of dealing alone. Bring home to your mind and intellect that God alone is manifest in those forms.

Even if any weakness appears to exist in any one individual cannot be sure that they really exist in him or her. May be they are conjured up by your censorious eye alone. And even if they do not exist, never believe that they will endure forever. That which is adventitious will as well depart.

If you perceive fault alone in any individual, and if you are convinced that they are going to abide in him or her forever you are doing a disservice to yourself as well to that individual you help in substantializing those weakness by virtue of your strong assumption; you render help in perpetuating the weakness in him or her by your firm conviction and, bearing ill-will to him or her by your firm conviction and, bearing ill-will to him or her because of such weakness appearing in that individual you continue to burn and also make that individual burn. Your ill-will towards that individual arouses ill-will towards you in that individual also. In this way you weave a complicated web of malice about you and, getting involved in it, you remain unhappy forever. Or planting a large tree of poison you continue to be worn out thereby.

If you love anyone because you do not discover any weakness in him or her or because you find any virtue in that individual, if you always extend your sweet nectarine good-will to him or her, you automatically do a good turn both to that individual and to yourself. Your loving eye for excellences gives birth to virtues in that individual, develops them and, perpetuating them, helps in rendering his or her life full of nectarine virtues. When you render good offices to that individual in this way, that individual too naturally wishes well of you and renders good offices to you. Know it for certain that whatever you give to others will return to you in an infinite measure. Sow ill-will and you will reap will-will; sow suffering and you will reap suffering; sow love and you will reap love; sow gratification and you will reap gratification.

No one is your enemy in reality: the spirit of animosity that exists in your mind is your only enemy. Even if somebody really bears enmity to you—although in more cases than one when anyone appears to bear enmity to you, it is the spirit of animosity existing in your own mind that gives you that impression—there is no certainty that individual really bears enmity, you arouse animosity in him or her and make him or her in the natural course and rendering good offices to that individual unegoistically and secretly you can turn him into a friend. If you seek your own welfare, if you seek happiness, if you wish to secure nectar for yourself, go on rendering loving good offices to all, go on lovingly gratifying all, and ever go on showering nectar at all. Your unwelcome opinion about anyone will have an evil effect on that individual and prove definitely harmful to you as well as to that individual and good opinion about him or her will prove conducive to the good of that individual. Therefore perceive the most benign and most blessed Lord in all, awaken and worship the Lord indwelling in all at times and, manifesting and unfolding Him, bless all those who come into contact with you as well as yourself.