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I am the Soul
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All were stunned. Who can handle the great job of the Sun? None had an answer. Just then a tiny lamp lying in a corner uttered :
'O Lord! Pardon me! I am a feeble fellow. My body is very small. But I cannot bear to see your sadness and hence I shall do whatever best I can while you are away.'
And the Sun climbed down the horizon with a content smile.
Brothers! Where there is no sunlight, there a tiny lamp can certainly spread some light. A bright ray of knowledge is sufficient to dispel the darkness of ignorance lying within us. Therefore, let us first manifest the bheda-vijnana of the independent identity of body and atma. Srimadji has said the — same thing - अंधकार अज्ञान सम, नाशे ज्ञान प्रकाश andhakar ajnana sama, nashe jnana prakash - Darkness cannot remain, when the light of knowledge emerges.
Once darkness went crying to Lord Brahma. Tears were rolling down from his eyes. Brahma asked:
“Brother! Who are you? Why do you cry?” “O Lord! I am darkness! I have a petition.” “*Petition? What petition would you have?”
“O Lord! Light has been chasing me. Wherever I go he follows and does not let me stay at all. What have I done to him? Why is he after me?"
"Is that so? Send for Light! What does he think! Everybody in this world has a right to exist."
Light was sent for. He came laughing. He was presented before Brahma. But he did not have any worry. There was no reason to cry. With folded hands he bowed and said, “Lord! Why was I sent for?”
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