What do you expect from God?

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You believe that God is omnipresent, omnipotent and all-pervading. In fact, you believe that He is in every atom.

As natural corollary of this belief you must also know that God knows what you want or what your need is.

If the first proposition is true, then second proposition has to be true. It would follow, therefore, that those who know that God is omnipotent and all-pervading are bound to accept that God is all-knowledgeable and therefore is aware of all your problems.

In spite of this fact, we always go to God with certain expectations.

Expectations can be of various types, but are basically self-centered or are pertaining to people or relations you are attached to, and then you pray to God that He should grant you a particular relief, or a job promotion, or some benefit to you or your near ones, etc.

When you go with this frame of mind, then most of the time you are disappointed.

Hypothetically speaking, if your expectations are symolized in A and what you get is, let us say, B; then A minus B is your disappointment.

And then you have to attribute this disappointment to someone.

The pessimists will attribute it to their bad luck and will always curse themselves for not being worthy of God’s favor.

The optimists will straight away blame God Himself, and they say that this God is not good and that we should shift to some other God.

In this way you keep on shifting from God to God, but disappointment is always there. This may even make you anti-God and an atheist, ultimately. Now take a case where you do not go to God with any expectations.

Therefore, the expectations are zero, and let us say that you get B as the reward. Therefore, B minus zero is B which is always surplus.

You should also distinguish between your expectations and desires and pure desires. Pure desire is always for the benefit of the other, and therefore you are entitled to carry pure desires to the Divinity.

Baba Mama, “Expectations”

(Chaitaya Mela, Maharashtra Sahaja Yoga Seminar, Nagpur 1999)