Gonzaga University; Spokane, Washington, USA

Hughes Auditorium
22 April 1974

Just for today, I shall pray to God. My prayer is my inner, climbing cry. I know
this cry will reach God’s Palace. My snow-white prayer will knock at God’s Door.
God will open His Door and ask me what I need. I shall tell God that I need His
infinite Compassion to awaken me from my slumbering life. God will grant my
prayer.
Just for today, I shall meditate on God. I know that when I meditate on God,
I empty my heart. When my heart is empty, my Eternal Friend, my Eternal Divine
Guest comes in and sits on His Throne inside the very depth of my heart. In the
inmost recesses of my heart His Life of infinite Concern, Compassion, Love and
Blessings abides.
When I pray, my Eternal Friend listens to my prayer and fulfils my prayer.
When I meditate, my Eternal Friend comes in and fulfils my inner need. When
I pray, I talk and He listens to me. When I meditate, He talks and I listen to Him.
This is how we converse. My prayer and my meditation are of paramount importance
in my life of aspiration, dedication and surrender to the Will of my Inner
Pilot.
Just for today, I shall love my God, my Supreme. I shall not love anybody else,
not even my own existence. I shall love only God, God alone. Has He not loved
me from time immemorial? Will He not love me throughout Eternity? Since He
is all love for me, it is my bounden duty to love Him, at least for this day. I shall
love Him, and my love for Him will immortalise my earthly reality and my
Heavenly dream.
Just for today, I shall become the divine lover and call my Lord the Supreme
Beloved. In human love there is constant demand, constant expectation and
constant disappointment. In love divine there is no demand, no expectation and
no frustration; there is only self-giving. This self-giving is eventually transformed
into God-becoming.
Just for today, I shall love God unconditionally. I shall feel His infinite Compassion,
His blessingful Love in and through my life of aspiration. I shall feel that
God loves me infinitely more than I love myself. When fear, doubt, anxiety and
jealousy assail my life of aspiration, when I cherish and treasure limitation,
bondage, ignorance and death, at that time I hate my life. But my Eternal Friend,
my Pilot Supreme, loves me still.
Just for today, I shall serve God. I have come to realise that there is nothing
and there can be nothing as sweet and as fulfilling as service. When I serve God,
I feel that my life of frustration is transformed into a life of illumination. My
service to God makes me feel that my existence on earth is meaningful and
fruitful. When I serve God, I feel that I have expanded my earth-bound
consciousness into the Heaven-free consciousness.
Just for today, I shall surrender my will to God’s Will, His all-loving, allpervading,
universal Will. Yesterday God surrendered compassionately and
unconditionally to my animal greed. Today God surrenders lovingly and compassionately
to my human wants. Tomorrow God shall surrender joyfully and
proudly to my divine needs. Just because He has surrendered to my animal greed,
just because He surrenders to my human wants, just because He will surrender
to my divine needs, I feel it is obligatory on my part to surrender my earthly life
just for a day to His Will, so that His Will can be done on earth in and through
my life of aspiration and dedication.
Just for today, I wish to share my supreme secret with my Supreme Pilot. My
secret is this: I shall no longer call ignorance my friend. My friendship with
ignorance terminates today. From today on, I shall have God as my only Friend,
my sempiternal Friend. I shall have Him not only as my Friend, but also as my
All.
Just for today, I wish to have peace of mind. In order to have peace of mind,
I must feel that I am not indispensable at all. I must end my song of selfimportance
and realise that the world does not need me. The world existed before
I was born: the world shall exist long after I pass behind the curtain of Eternity.
Who is needed? Only the Supreme Pilot in me is needed. When I feel that I am not
indispensable, I receive an iota of light and achieve peace of mind.
Just for today, I shall be the all-loving child of the Supreme Pilot.
Just for today, I shall be the hero-warrior walking along the path of Eternity.
Just for today, I shall feel that I need God and God needs me and, ultimately,
I have to feel that God needs me more than I need Him. At times, because of my
ignorance, I feel that I do not need Him. But God, being perfect, sees me always
with His all-illumining Light. He knows that I am destined to be His seeker, His
lover, His instrument for manifestation. He knows my potentiality and my
capacity. He knows that I am an exact prototype of His ultimate transcendental
Reality; therefore, He needs me more than I need Him. I need myself at this
moment to fulfil my countless, teeming desires. But when my desires are not
fulfilled and, when I realise that I do not have the capacity to fulfil them, I feel
that I do not need this earthly existence. I want to discard this bodyconsciousness,
for this body-consciousness does not give me an iota of
satisfaction. Since I am a failure, I feel that this life is of no avail. But God knows
that there is no such thing as failure. There is only experience. We work, we
serve, we pray, we meditate each moment in conscious dedication, and the result
of this dedication takes the outer form of either success or failure. But when we
go deep within, we feel that there is no such thing as success or failure. We see
everything as an experience that has come to us in the march of evolution.
Finally, we realise that even this experience is not our possession. It is actually
God’s experience, for He is the Doer, He is the Action and He is the Fruit thereof.
Just for today, I wish to be a conscious garland of gratitude to be placed at the
Feet of my Inner Pilot.
Just for today.