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Him to lift them up. But how can He? If He were to stretch out His hand to lift them up, and they did not make any effort, they might pull Him down, even as the drowning man will often clutch his would-be rescuer and pull him down with himself to the bottomless ocean.
What is the ultimate purpose of your pilgrimage to this earth? Is it not that you may aspire to a higher level of divinity? And in order to experience that supreme rapture, surely it is not too much to ask that you make efforts to lighten this burden! When the final reckoning comes, you will feel that the spiritual contentment on your credit side far outweighs the paltry material “loss” on your debit side.
I am reminded of an incident which, I feel, has a deep significance. A certain family had migrated from Delhi to Bombay. Now, after many years they were returning to the city of their origin. As they were seated in the train, waiting for it to start, the wife asked: After all these years, do you think we shall be able to settle down comfortably in Delhi?”
Her husband said: “Why should we have any difficulty: You wait and see how simple it will all be. After we came to Bombay we made our fortune,
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