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I am the Soul
559 some nondescript woman! What's in this? There seemed something fishy.
Brothers! How perverse is the human mind! It does not spare doubting even the Veetarag, not to mention the ordinary sages. When some devotee spends more time with the sages, then don't you all begin to doubt? What's this? Why does this person frequently visit the sages? What's cooking? What do the sages have but religion to peddle? But does the human mind understand?
Ambad reached Rajgruhi. But the doubt in his mind would not disappear. How is this Sulasa? Should I find out? He went to the outskirts of Rajgruhi and assumed the form of Lord Brahma. People started flocking towards him thinking actually the Lord Brahma had himself appeared. Everybody ran to him, but Sulasa did not go even when somebody called her. So Ambad changed his form to Vishnu, and then Shiva. People came in the thousands. But Sulasa sat at her place unperturbed. Sulasa was not to be seen and Ambad was surprised. He then decided that now Sulasa should come – he took the form of Bhagawan Mahaveer himself.
Now the people flocking to see him, called Sulasa and said, Come now, Sulasa! Now that your Lord Mahaveeer has come.' But Sulasa’s reply was very meaningful, very touching. She said, “No, my Sister, no! If my Lord were to come, my Self would certainly have told me of it! Why only in the city, had my Lord been anywhere near the city, my mind would be overflowing with joy. Here I feel absolutely no vibrations, hence it is not my Mahaveer, but somebody else. Go away!
She never went. Brothers! Think! How her faith for her Lord had got woven into Sulasa's atma! So that when her Lord came, the message would be received from her own inner self. Nobody need carry any message. Unique devotion, indeed! How unwavering this loyalty! How dedicated this faith!
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