________________ from the soil and threw it on the ground. Every day the boy used to pass from there at 9:30 am, uproot the plant and throw it. Every day it rained between 10.00am to 10.30am and the roots would merge with the soil. This continued for a week. Now what happened? The plant would merge with the soil but it could not get firmly rooted to the ground because it was being uprooted regularly. The plant did manage to grow somehow but it could not bloom like the other firmly rooted plants. Other plants gave fruits and flowers where as this plant could not bear any fruits and flowers. Gradually it reached the state of destruction. Every day, the plant was uprooted and every day, it rained and the roots merged with the soil. Every day one listens to discourses. We are like the plants and our Guru is like the boy, HE tries to uproot us from this worldly life. But soon the worldly life rains so heavily that we again get involved in the worldly matters. The torrent of the worldly shower is so strong that you again get stuck in the mundane life. However, because of being uprooted by Guru repeatedly, we will be connected to the worldly life but will not be able to have a strong foothold in the worldly life. One will not be able to merge with the materialistic world because he is more firmly connected with the Divine.