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twenty disciples. All this is superiority (guruta). One needs to be laghutam in the relative. Then he will not fall; there is no suffering or misery in laghutam.
Otherwise, one will have to become a cow or a buffalo from here. When a person dies, he will take anger-pride-deceitgreed along with him. Separation due to differences of opinions (matbhed) is not going to go away easily in this life! They will go automatically when one's life form changes but not otherwise. There are no such straight men around, are there? On the contrary, one claims, I am something. You fool! What do you think you are?'
Now, who would want to be laghutam in the relative? Does anyone seek this state? If you were to look for such a person, are you likely to find one in this car, train or anywhere else; can you find such a person? Will you find one amongst the ascetics? Every ascetic keeps saying, 'hum, hum, hum, I know this many scriptures...I know this...I know that etc.'
Whatever degree of laghutam you have in the relative world, you will attain that much gurutam in the real - in the realm of the Self. I became laghutam and that is why I attained the state of gurutam. The path is not difficult. The difficulty lies in understanding this.
God will definitely come to you if you take up the laghutam yoga -union with laghutam. People are all in the gurutam yoga - union of gurutam - in this world. 'I am greater than him, I am greater than them...' So why don't you start becoming smaller. If you become smaller in worldly interactions, you will become bigger in nischaya, the realm of the Self, and if you try to become gurutam in the relative world, you will remain laghutam in nischaya (in the realm of the Self). So if one holds on to the union of laghutam, then when he achieves the laghutam state, he will begin to be gurutam on the other side (real). He who becomes laghutam in the worldly life,
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becomes gurutam in the realm of the Self, and thus God becomes very pleased with him. So do become laghutam.
Union of laghutam is a little difficult. It is difficult in the beginning and then it becomes easy. Is there any fear for those who want to be small? That is why I became laghutam first; only then did I attain the state of gurutam. I have not tried to be a guru. Those who become guru will continue to wander in the cycles of different life forms. When they bind merit karma, they are born as celestial beings. Then they return here as a human beings and bind demerit karma, which takes them to a life in the animal kingdom.
People have practiced all other yogas for so long. Man has practiced them for countless past lives, then when someone gives him a little respect, he loses whatever little he gained. Once he gets a little respect he will start, 'Not this, bring me this, bring me that and this...' So then he loses whatever he had gained from all the yogas, whereas laghutam yoga is better because in that practice, no one will come to do your darshan.
Undertake the yoga of laghutam
So 'our' yoga is of laghutam. Nobody in the world has such yoga.
Questioner: What does a person have to do in such
yoga?
Dadashri: You have to become lighter day by day. You have to become laghu, not guru (heavy); you have to become lighter. By becoming a disciple (shishya) of everyone you will become a disciple of the whole world, even of the dogs, donkeys, trees, leaves; disciple of everybody and so you will become laghutam. You become laghutam by making everyone gurutam. Do you like this yoga of laghutam or not?
Questioner: I do like it.
