Gurudev Ke Saath

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

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weil of EGO, we will not be able to understand the Truth of Life! When some matter will go astray and adverse we will have to search in the heart only.
One has to go to meet the Beloved. Sweet time it is of meeting, dark is the night, everywhere prevails peace. One has to go alone only to meet. What great aspirations are - hopes are in the heart! Behind those aspirations and hopes also is a slight Ego hidden that, "I shall tell my Beloved this thing and that thing, etc."
"Love-aspiring lover! The one who has known something about love, if he has to express any word from his mouth, it is one only: "Thou....thou!" and never "I", while here mixed up with hopes and aspirations was Ego!! Beloved cannot be attained in such a way through such an Egoistic approach!!!"
That lover who had set on to meet the Beloved, has reached unto this sacred place, has. proceeded only one step further and understand that the destination reached only. But .......but at that time, that lover all of a sudden experienced one thing: "WHO IS COMING BEHIND ME? I HAD TO GO ALONE ONLY!"
When I looked behind, no body else was there. Tf there was someone, it was my OWN EGO ONLY, wa own PRIDE ONLY, who had accompanied along with him:
"I CAME OUT ALONE TO THEE....
BUT WHO IS THIS THAT FOLLOWS ME IN THE SILENT DARK? SELF (MY EGO), MY LORD!"
HE IS MY OWN LITTLE
"HE KNOWS NO SHAME, BUT I AM ASHAMED TO COME TO THY DOOR IN HIS COMPANY"
-- ("GITANJALI":30 :PP 23, 52)
We have to leave our footwear outside when we go to temple and have to put off our hats & caps when we go to church. What is its meaning? Only this that to keep off our EGO. When we go to any Great Person, let us ask our heart that what thoughts catch hold of us? Only Self-centred thoughts enter in us that "I AM ALL IN ALL!" What a tremendous EGO! What a big PRIDE? To give a blow to such an EGO only death comes in life! Unhappiness and Death are Surgical Operations of the Divine Doctor, who liberates us from EGO. We are vanished till when we hold up person or thing in name of love. The soul of love is free. LOVE IS FREEDOM. We want to bind up, tie up the person whom we love, but Beware! If we intend to tie up in love, then we should tie up ourselves and not others! We should have control on our freedom, not on others!
Due to the inspiration of Ego & arrogance only, the Power-mongers bind & tie up others with the chains of Power. After all with the chains with which he was willing to bind the whole world, the last ring of the same chain comes in his own leg! Then that others' captivating Power-monger cannot get up and free himself! His power imprisoned his own self!! He was willing to bind and imprison others, but he himself only was caught and imprisoned!!!
"If I want to be happy, let me make others happy first. Who doesn't have unhappiness and sorrows in life? I will employ, I will use Spiritual Homeopathy to sorrows and pains through pains. I will forget all of my, small & big sorrows, for Great Ideal, for Sacrifice".
Gurudev had invented one way, one device to forget his own family-sorrows. When he underwent and experienced severe sorrows, he will come out of his small hut and used to sit down silently in open
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