DIABETES

Now, my child your question on diabetes. An illness that so many suffer from. Do you know what diabetes stems from? Can anyone fathom a guess?

A: Lack of Joy.

Aaah! Lack of sweetness in your life. So what does your body do? It overcompensates with its own sweetness without which you cannot live. Lack of sweetness comes from a very, very, very early age. The diabetes, my children, may come when you are sixty, but the lack of sweetness may stem from when you were not even sixty minutes old. The child who tries to deal with it, fight it, experiences the lack. But sometimes, the child who is very, very young and has never seen or experienced sweetness, cannot, does not know how to bring sweetness into its life even though at some sub-conscious level the child knows that it needs the sweetness to survive. So it gives its physical body the permission to make it. The physical body does that and does not when to stop. The physical body will carry out whatever instruction you give it. It does not know when to stop. If you give the physical body an instruction to move your leg it will do so till you give it the instruction to stop.

 The only joy, the only joy, comes from a heart of love. That is the true meaning of sweetness. When the environment is an unloving, uncaring environment it is a very good foundation for this sickness. Now you may look at a person who is suffering from this, and study his environment, and you may think ‘I do not agree. This person’s environment is always very loving and very caring.’ But who are you to judge? You see, my children, all, all of you have a conditioned love. There is no love of the divine in your world. That is true. Now because your love is a conditioned love, the kind of love that his (pointing to one) body, mind and soul will be satisfied with may not be the same as what he (pointing to another) needs. So he may look at one environment and consider it fine. The sad part of this truth is that the person concerned may also look at his own environment and say that it was fine. Why? Because if he were to acknowledge that he had never received the love he needed to survive, where is his survival? Wheels within wheels within wheels.

Q: Sir, but is this a personal thing or environment-related?

It is personal. Your environment merely aids you, my child. Your environment is never at fault. It merely aids you in a process. You, my child, then have to learn from that environment. Now when you know that the basis of your illness is a lack of sweetness in your life, which the environment could not provide, then you must look within. Is it not said ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’? But where is love for thyself? So how can you love your neighbour? Just as you lack the love within, those forming the environment also lack the love within themselves. They can only give you what they personally have. One who is empty has nothing to give. But you choose an environment that is empty because you wish to learn from that environment. You have not been put into an environment without reason. And what do you need to learn? That ‘the more I look outward at my environment the more empty I will be within; joy only comes from a heart of love.’ And you, my child, have control over only one heart.

Your environment, my children, is sometimes a very, very good manifestation of the environment that is within. If you find yourself constantly in an environment of anger, look at your self. If you find yourself in an environment that constantly scorns you, condemns you, jeers you, look at yourself.

Q: Is it a reflection of us?

MIRROR. Because you do not have the eyes to look within, we give you what you can look at. But when you look at it, more often than not, you blame it. There must be no blame, my child. It is personal.

Q: Sir, would an excess of love and overprotection by a parent also work towards the child’s detriment?

There is no over protection, ever, my son. When you find..and this very important for all of you to pay attention to……when you find what seems to physically manifest as overprotection, over caring, and an over expression of love, be aware, my son, that the person is doing this to conceal just the opposite that is within. The mother, who does not really care for her children, will show the whole world and her children and herself, how caring she is. The father who feels no love for his son will do everything physically, outwardly, externally possible, so that everyone can notice his efforts and praise him. There is nothing like overprotection.

Q: Is it a mere façade?

Not deliberate. Do not condemn. Why is it put on? Because that woman, or that man, does not know how to love and care for others, having never loved and cared for themselves. Do not condemn. The word façade is a word of condemnation.

Q: Sir, could it also mean that he is unable to love because he has not received the sort of love he needed?

You may receive love from every single human being in this world, but when you are closed to your own love how can you open the door to another?