SELF CONFIDENCE

It is essential to understand the meaning of confidence . The two words ‘self’ and ‘confidence’ always go together only because it means that you have confidence in your self . So, what is self ? It is that little part of you that has attained godhood, that has realised God, that has linked with him. It is not the same thing as your ego.

Your ego is that part that is separate from God . When we tell you all to let go of your ego, you all wrongly think that we are talking of self pride. Pride is only a small part of ego . We are really asking you to drop the separation, the distance, the gap from your maker and to become your Self, that is to link completely with Him and Him alone. So if you have linked completely with your Self, that is really with our beloved Lord, then you must trust in Him completely, you must believe that He will not let your decisions be wrong , you must have faith and confidence in your knowledge because when you link with Him, you link with him completely and then the knowledge you have is not your knowledge but His knowledge . So, how can you doubt that ? When you feel doubt in yourself, you really doubt the ego part of you that is separate .

Now before you all say that I must develop self-confidence you must say I must try to link more and more with my dear Lord. Then the confidence will be there, it has to be there. There can be no room for fear when He is completely within you and you are filled with Him. So confidence that is to be developed is not in your ego, but in your Self .

We are now going to discuss how to take decisions from your soul and not your ego . Then it is easy to be self-confident . My child , when you have to do anything take a few moments to listen to god that is within you . He will guide you . You all think and say and do everything so quickly that God has no chance to speak . Then afterwards you doubt whether you said or did or thought the right thing . That is not the way to function . Now whenever you have to do or say or think , first listen in silence . Let there be complete peace within you . Let the chatter of the mind cease . Let the voice be heard and then whatever you hear , implement it . It will not be wrong and you will never doubt yourself . This will be very difficult at first because it means breaking old habits of so many years . But if you do this everyday , every moment , soon the time you need to hear the voice will become so little that there will be hardly any time gap between what you have to do or say and what you really do or say ?

Q: How can we reduce the distance between us and God?