How can we live in joy and become near and dear to God? Bhagawan lovingly lays down the path for us today.

Cleanse your instruments of Consciousness, devote yourselves to service so that you might weaken the forces of ego and strengthen the forces of unity and cultivate Japa and Dhyana (repetition of Lord’s Name and meditation), so that you might rise towards Godhood — these are the steps by which you can earn and establish yourselves in Ananda. Engage yourselves in your duties as intelligently and as devotedly as you can; but carry out your duties as if they are acts of worship offered to God, leaving the fruit of those acts to His will, His grace, His compassion. Do not be affected when the results you anticipate are not produced; do not anticipate at all, simply leave it to Him! He gave you the time, the space, the cause, the material, the idea, the skill, the chance, the fortune, and you did but little of your own. So, why should you feel as if you are the doer? Do your duty, as sincere Sadhana!