Gurudev Ke Saath

Author(s): Gurdial Mallikji, Pratap J Tolia, Sumitra P Toliya
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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given this sword! Well, you only know your ways! Now, I will embrace this present of yours with my heart. You well know that several defects (shortcomings) of life exist in me. I will cut up those defects, those drawbacks, those weaknesses, with this sword of life.....I will cut off and do away these weaknesses, these defects with the power of this sword. With your present (of sword), I shall do away with the help of the power of this sword the false Gods and Goddess; false thoughts shall do away with it, I will remove these all with the help of your present of sword. Then "NO MORE DOLLS' DECORATIONS, NOW"
"Now no more decorations of dolls in life. Not only this, Oh! How much & more precious is this LIFE given by you! What shall I bring it before you loaded with decoration of Dolls? Will you be pleased with it? .... You are asking for the 'present' of pious things, pious 'present' of pure love!"
"That is why one who is a lover, has one sword. With that sword he goes on cleaning and purifying himself, making more and more pure himself. He goes on thinking that if I will go unto him dirty and degraded like this, and then his hands will become dirty! How that Beloved could be seen without purifying the Heart? Because "ONLY THE PURE HEART, SHALL SEE GOD".
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It is the day of some festival. Gurudev has come down to some village of his father's land lordship land. Nearby flowing is river Padma. The Brides and Daughters of the village are coming to the bank of the river, carrying one one lamp (DEEPA) lighted in the plate of shining metal. Dark is the night. There is not even one lamp in many homes of the village. When the village Brides are going with the lamps, at that time, those whose homes are bereaved of light and having darkness, ask those lamps-possessing women - "O sister! Won't you give the light of the lamp to us?" That woman replies, "No, not today... No, No, Not today"..
Some lamp-less lamp-begging women went on remarking, "Oh, the lamp will go useless if you will let this lamp sailing in the river water! What's the use of it over there? The river is being lighted up by the stars of the sky! What usefulness your little lamp will be providing?"
But she firmly says, "Today this lamp is to be dedicated to the Great, it is to be donated for Great Ideal. My dearest of all things is - Atma, the Self. What shall I spend out my ATMA, my Soul, my Purity for ordinary thing? This lamp is meant for 'HIM'!"
This matter will seem silly and whimsical if we look from outward, external vision. The worship of 'SHALIGRAMA', which is a also a stone and with which we grind spices is also a stone! But, what, will any Devotee make use of the SHALIGRAMA stone in the work of grinding the spices?
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There is a beggar woman. Wanders daily from home to home in the village to beg alms. Someone or the other fills up something in her begging bag. One day was seen Golden Chariot from far off distance in which the King is seated. The beggar woman says, "My fortune has risen up today. I shall beg from the King plenty enough for lifelong use today".
The chariot came nearer. With trembling hand the beggar woman says, "Give me alms, O King!" but the King contrarily begs from her: "You only give something" - saying so he prolongs his hand. After.all the beggar woman gives one piece of rice from her bag and the chariot goes away. She says, "Even after taking from me also he did not give anything to me!"
She returns to home in the evening. Takes out the pieces of rice-grain from the bag. On seeing she finds one grain-piece of Gold......... Golden grain!
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