Q : Is it necessary to do the daily Pooja? I believe in God, isn’t that enough? I don’t curse when something bad happens to me and continue to believe that whatever God does is right.

A : Well, if you are happy with this kind of styling, even I am fine with it. You don’t want to do Pooja, so don’t do it. Until and unless you yourself want to do something, I cannot make you do anything.

When you really want to do something then you will create hundred arguments to convince that yes, you want to do this. Even if I say don’t do this, you will say, no-no I have to do this. And, if you don’t want to do something and I ask you to do it, you would still say oh no I cannot do it. So finally, you just listen to your head and not me. That is the truth. So I am just waiting for the time when you will finally surrender and finally begin to listen to me and finally begin to do what I want you to do and that too not for my sake but for your own sake.

But people take so long to come to a final junction where they can say “Yes Master”. The spiritual practice can’t be done successfully, if the attitude of “Yes Master” is absent in one’s life. How can a mother discipline a child, if the child says “No” to everything?
For 3 year, 4 year, 5-6-7-8-9 year old child, mother has to decide, mother has to guide and the child has to listen to his mother.

Sometimes children have to be treated in a way where they don’t feel that they are acting as per the mother’s will. The mothers have to play the diplomatic game with the child. The child thinks that he is working as per his wish but actually, the mother’s wish is being done through the child.

I’ll give an example, mother wants the child to study and the child is not in the mood to do his studies. Then the mother says fine, your friend is going to visit us in the evening and I have heard that he is finishing his homework quickly, so that he can play with you. What’s your program? If your friend comes and you haven’t finished your homework, I really wonder how you will enjoy your time with him.

So, here the mother has presented a competitive scenario to the child, that his friend is studying and the child is not and his friend is coming to play with him in the evening after completion of his work and if he doesn’t finish his homework then he would have to sit in his room and do his school work while the friend would be enjoying doing something else. The mother says that if the child wishes to play with his friend, then he needs to finish his homework.

Sometimes Guru too has to do the same job, he has to take a longer route. There is a simpler way to say things but that the simple ways are very difficult to accept.