Gurudev Ke Saath

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

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1) There is the flame of love.
2) There is the freedom of love.
Fire and freedom
Love means to pass through fire. We have to go to that Almighty, and then shall we go with our dirtiness - dirty belongings? We will have to burn down our dirtiness, our Ego and Desires in fire.
Sikander Alexander had come to Peshawar, seated in front was a Devotee of God. Sikander Alexander ordered him rebukingly:
"Move aside........otherwise I will kill you with this sword".
Reply was received: "Whom will you kill?"
Form where that Devotee acquired this much Fearless strength and this much Freedom? Because he had love God that is why.
Love is medicine of several diseases:
"Allopathy, Homeopathy, Naturopathy - of all these 'Pathies' Love is the greatest Pathy!"
What will happen of his patients, if the Doctor brings medicine with him but not 'Love'? Then let there may be his bill of Rs. 500/-!
Sarojini Naidu had come to Santiniketan once; Mania of getting Autographs was there too in those days. She wrote down to one boy:
"Love is the hunger of the soul".
Body requires food (-and the Educated people go on eating four times in a day!). Mind also requires food in form of big big volumes Books. Then, why not for the Heart and the Soul? We are not only body, not only mind. We are something different, something more than that. That is soul-ATMA-our original form, which needs the food of love.
Love wants to sacrifice, extinguish its own self. That only is the blessing of its heart. "LOVE REDUCES ITSELF
TO A ZERO".
These Saints, Sais, Faquirs have burnt their Ego, they have zeroed themselves and even then what tremendously their power has increased! Because of their becoming ZERO, they are standing near TEN, they have become TEN. When I become zero, then I become TEN by becoming one-by mixing-with God. But when we make ourselves ONE then? Then sometimes the Police only come to call us - scoundrel of Number Ten that we became!
If not so, the Devotees might not have been saying since centuries this "You will not get glass of love to drink unless you will not get your HEAD beheaded--- sacrificed".
We are not ready to get our "HEADS" beheaded before God, we only remove our "CAP" from the HEAD and place it before him! We cheat him. Poor 'HE' also weeps!!
Will any Mother be pleased when the Son will give her present on the DEEPAVALI day and will go on evading her on all the remaining days? Now-a-days, the boys go to study away from Home and only on 27th date, write a letter to Mother:
"Ma! Send me Money order immediately". That's all. No time to write even one post card in other days. Such is our love for Mother! In the same way we cheat God also in the name of Love, cheat Mother also and cheat Human Beings also!
For Gurudev, LOVE WAS ALL-IN-ALL - Love unto ALL, Love unto God, Love unto Nature, Love unto Humans, Love unto Animals, Love unto ALL! When, with God's grace, the SUN of this LOVE shined in Gurudev's heart, then that SUN and SKY also got assimilated, got absorbed in his deeper self. From then, he became a resident of the City
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