You Get What You Seek

Take the time to quietly contemplate all 18 teachings below and then respond:

(a) Truly, to what extent (0% to 100%) have I turned away from

the worldly world?____________%

(b) To what extent have I truly turned away from even from seeking

the joys of heaven? ___________%

(c) What is it that I really seek in this lifetime? (List the

3 or 4 main things you seek, and then rank order them.)

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“Having found yourself born into this transient and joyless world, turn from it and take delight in My teachings.

___ 1) If you follow rituals, pray for heaven, and do good, you will attain the pleasures of the heavenly planes.

___ 2) In heaven, when the merits you earned in life are spent, you return to this world for another birth.

___ 3) If you become attached to pleasures (even to the joys of heaven), you continue to come and go life after life.

___ 4) When you faithfully make offerings to other deities you are worshipping Me, though by a more limited path.

___ 5) Pray to minor gods for worldly things and you get those things, but they just entangle you more.

___ 6) I alone fulfill prayers without snarling you in attachments.

___ 7) Worship the minor gods and you go to them; worship Me and you come to Me.

___ 8) Whatever you offer in true devotion, a leaf, water, a flower—I will accept as a gift of love, the dedication of your heart.

___ 9) Devotion alone gains access to Divinity.

___10) I, God, am equally present in all beings, none are hated and none dear—but I dwell in those who become absorbed in Me.

___11) I am even in the misguided and wayward—if they turn to Me in utter devotion they can soon refashion their nature.

___12) No one, no one devoted to Me falls.

___13) All who take refuge in Me, of whatever birth, gender, or position in society, will attain the supreme goal of merging into Me.

___14) Whatever you do in the world—what you eat, sacrifice, give up, or give away—offer it all to Me, even your suffering.

___15) When you offer up all acts to God, you surrender your desire for the fruits, and are freed from karmic consequences, good or bad.

___16) Give all your love to Me, the Supreme Divine; make all your acts an offering.

___17) Make Me your fondest ideal and highest goal.

___18) Set your heart and mind on Me as I here prescribe and you will indeed enter into My very being.” – Krishna

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