Gurudev Ke Saath

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

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plain under sky. Within half an hour he used to get oneness with the Nature and used to listen to one voice:
"Oh Ravindranath! You are lamenting of your sorrows, but how much place you occupy in this vast cosmos?.......... Come outside and see that who bothers of your pretty sorrows in this world?"
Let us see our sorrows through this angle, through this perspective only. We must acquire this, such a point of view, such a vision. At the time of sorrows we balme others but our perspective, our point of views does not remain to be correct.
So says Gurudev in one of his poems:
"PRISONER, TELL ME, WHO WAS IT THAT BOUND YOU?" WHEN SLEEP OVERCAME ME I LAY UPON THE BED THAT WAS FOR MY LORD, AND ON WAKING UP I FOUND I WAS A PRISONER IN MY OWN TREASURE-HOUSE "IT WAS I" SAID THE PRISONER XXXXX I FOUND THAT IT HELD ME IN ITS GRIP".
(-- GITANJALI 31)
We have seen Heir Hitler in our life time only. Intoxication of power does not endure for ever, at some juncture it defenitely breaks up. The more early it breaks up, it becomes welfare-providing for our growth. We make use, utilize, knowledge to acquire power. But until and unless character is formed through knowledge, nothing is of any use. Power is a Black Cobra which bites such fatally and seriously that death only is the result. People say, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" well. "BUT FOR BOTH-GOOD AND EVIL!" Ofcourse, everywhere the talk, the concern is of own achievement, own success, but it is for power only. While when the foul weeps, it only wishes----
"NOT SUCCESS, BUT SELF-FULFILLMENT!"
A man of worldly success asks for 'LAMP OF GOD', but he has to become 'LIGHTED LAMP' : "LAMP OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE" (Atma Deepa) for human-equality of human being!
Let you and I, even be small even made of clay, let us burn - let us melt ourselves for eradicating even a little darkness of somebody - if not of others, even of our own selves!
Even the best of people sometimes become hollow of inner character, by falling into PowerPolitics, by sitting on the seat of Designation. If some one who could utilize Power in the right way, they were the persons like Gandhiji and Vinoba.
At some juncture I also was a youth like you! On my mind also was riding the same Ghost that after passing B.A. & M.A., to become a collector and this and that, who is believed to be a MAN of SUCCESS. But I acquired that knowledge after several experiences of life that "I am concerned with THAT only in which there is development of integrated, overall synthesis-possessing Self". Neither my name apperared in News Papers, nor anyone sung of my virtues! I want to be true in HIS sight. I will get that much happiness, as early as I acquire HIS touch. I am telling this by placing my hand on my heart. This is no 'non-sense saying', no imagination. Sometimes when you have time, think over this matter in loneliness. It is possible that after some self-experience only you may find this thing to be true, but do ponder over this. What a man can tell also while departing?-One and only one matter of experience which I learnt in life due to grace of God, Blessings of Gurudev, Seekings of Self, that -
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