The ascent must take place. How you ascend is through your attention.

Where is your attention? Either you are counting your money, counting your votes or some people even count lamp-posts I am told. If they have nothing to do, they can go on doing whatever they like.

But count your blessings. Count your blessings and your ascent will start. That is how you ascend in the Realm of God.

There is nothing to be said to feel the gratefulness and thankfulness for the great blessings of God.

For ascent, it is not a mental procedure. It is a procedure of the heart which is thanksgiving.

Look at the flowers. They are giving thanks to God. Their whole being is nothing but thanksgiving. They are not worried that they are being plucked. They will die tomorrow. They are not worried. As long as they live, they are giving thanks.

Look at everything. Look at this candle. What is it? It is thanksgiving. Everything that is created is giving thanks.

It is such a great thing that you have a heart, you have a mind that desires the highest. Be thankful that you are seekers and born in this great time when you have to get your Realization. Be thankful.

I know you have committed mistakes. In your seeking you have committed mistakes. It doesn’t matter. But be thankful that God is looking after you. You are the special people created by His love, guided by Him, so be thankful. Thankfulness is a quality of the heart. That is how, when you feel the beauty of thankfulness, then you start feeling the Spirit within you.

It cannot be expressed. It cannot be returned. It can only be enjoyed. It is for enjoyment only. It is not for anything else, just that you should enjoy the blessings. That is why the blessings are there.

So to achieve the blessings is not the point. The blessings are everywhere. Some of you are not feeling it. That does not mean that God has not accepted you. It only means you have to turn your face a little bit this side. Nobody should feel higher because they are feeling vibrations or nobody should feel lower because they are not feeling vibrations. If somebody tries to help you, do not feel bad.

It is God’s blessing that you are here, that you have this great work to be done. You are now employed by God and He has given you this special job to give Realization to people.

Count your blessings one by one. The best way to understand it is that we are the gainers in Sahaja Yoga. We are going to gain out of Sahaja Yoga, so there should be only thankfulness – thankfulness towards God that He has been kind to give us these things. That is the main thing.

If you have that thankfulness, you can bear up all kinds of troubles because it cushions you up. It gives you a cushion. You won’t feel it. Once you are in that ecstasy of thankfulness, you will not feel anything. Even the thorns of life will not touch you.

So get to that ecstasy. It is such a great protection. It is such a great pleasure. It is such a great blessing.

Get to that ecstasy of feeling how God has been gracious.