It was raining incessantly for days. Sri Anandamayi Ma commented on this and said how sorry She was that people had to take so much trouble in order to be able to get to Her. Then She said: “It is pouring and pouring. If everyone’s bhakti rained in a similar manner, how wonderful this would be! It is said that the rainy season is congenial to the feeling of love and devotion for God. In this way even nature can be helpful to sadhana. Let your devotion for Him stream uninterruptedly like this rain. Question - Ma, Why does God not cause us to move towards Him? Sri Anandamayi Ma - He does, indeed. For it is only by His Grace that you are able to remember Him. But you are not single minded, you crave for all kinds of things and therefore you remain unhappy. There is a story which aptly illustrates what your position really is. A dhobi kept a few donkeys to carry the clothes he collected for washing. Since he was poor and his house small, he left the donkeys in the open during the night. Often they would wander far away and the dhobi had to waste hours in search of them. In his plight, he invented a device that worked admirably well. Every evening he touched the four legs of each donkey with a rope. The donkeys, having felt the touch of the rope on their legs, took it for granted that they had been tied to the spot and thus remained standing in the same spot all night long. A similar thing happens in the world. Maya touches you and you imagine yourself to be bound. You think, how can I be without my husband or my wife, my children, parents, my house and comforts and so on. Thus you remain standing where you are, instead of advancing towards Him. For more such amazing posts of Ma, follow the WhatsApp channel of Sri Anandamayi Ma: http://bit.ly/srima_wachannel