Part 3: Gratitude
There is no such thing as inauspiciousness. Natural calamities are nothing but nature's ways of adjusting itself to certain actions of human beings. So accept and celebrate the very existence of the world. In the third step, we come to celebrating god, the root and the source for the other two steps that are the self and the world. As long as you carry doubt or faith about the existence of god, you won't experience god. Just like doubt, faith is also an obstacle.
They continue to have faith but never experience god. So now, drop your doubt and your faith about god's existence or non-existence.
Even if you believe in god's existence, you will have only an idea about Him – that He will have ten hands or eighteen heads, that He is tall or short. Whatever idea you may have, even those ideas can be hindrances to finally experiencing god. So drop your faith and doubt. Just remember that if there is a creation, there should be a creato