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THE ALMIGHTY IS EVERPRESENT, GURU DEV IS EVERPRESENT, BEING IS EVERPRESENT AS ARE YOU GJ One of the last words from Maharishi after questioned by Raja Steven Rubin! Who is behind all the Divine help coming to us! Very very special!!! „It's the department of the Almighty, and he takes care of it“ Raja Steven Rubin quotes Maharishi, on Maharishi’s first Birthday celebration after he left his body in Vlodrop 12.1.09 Question: Guru Dev must have been fully enlightened. Now after leaving the body nothing remains in the relative - just absolute. Then how do we invoke and to whom? And if there is nobody to be invoked, so what is the use? MAHARISHI: Some such similar question I asked Guru Dev once. What happened was, naturally people came to the ashram from all over India to pay respect to Guru Dev, once or twice a year according to their own convenience. And when they were come, they were narrating all sorts of stories: the child was sick, they had a lawsuit, all sorts of difficulties. And then, thinking of Guru Dev, that thing disappeared. Hearing all these things for a long time one night I asked Guru Dev: 'What is this? These people don't even write to Guru Dev. Guru Dev doesn't know they are in difficulty on the surface of life. And then, how do they report they had a vision or some thought of Guru Dev and from that time everything started to be smooth? If they wrote a letter and the difficulty came to the notice of Guru Dev and then they got out of their difficulties, I could understand it. But they don't write letters, they just have the devotion to Guru Dev and they have some thought of Guru Dev.' And Guru Dev's reply was: “It’s the department of the Almighty, and he takes care of it.” It took me about two years to understand - because I quite remember the time - what was meant by “It is the department of the Almighty”. How I understand it was this: * We have the picture of Guru Dev when we do Puja. That form, that photo, that picture is the physical expression of the form which had a mind which was fully enlightened and omnipresent. So once we see the form, our eyes associate with the form very naturally, because the physical and the mental run parallel. And once the form is in our vision, in our awareness, then naturally our mind gets in tune with the mind which occupied that form once upon a time. The form was occupied by a mind, that mind is an all time reality, eternal. The barriers of time are no barrier for it - continuum. The body is no more, but the form is there. And once we tune our eyes, perception, vision and cognition to that - because that was held up by a mind that was enlightened - naturally our mind gets in tune. And because that mind was and is and will forever be omnipresent, immediately our mind gets in tune with the omnipresent. And right away the help comes from where we are. Help comes from absolute being, which is the nature of our own mind. But that image, that picture becomes a positive and concrete medium to have that mechanics performed for our mind. So help comes from our own being because it comes through that form naturally our devotion to that. That is 'The department of the Almighty takes care of it'. It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only one way, it is not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is received by our ability to attune with that. And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. These three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. And help doesn't come from outside, it comes from right where we are, from our own being. But those aware of one's own being have this mechanics to help them. And this is true for all the saints in all the times throughout the world.'- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Artist is Francis Knight.