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I am the Soul
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What really happens to you, eh? You are like a tiger outside; one roar from you and hundreds shiver. But there is someone who can even make you shiver. Either it would be the Home Minister (your wife) or may be the Income Tax Officer. Where does one become 'poor and helpless? Only where there is powerlessness, not anywhere else. Since there is no powerlessness with Gurudev you will most certainly come here with all your vanity. You will like it only if the ego in you is fed, otherwise you will not even visit the saint. Think, Brothers! Where are you?
Here, it is not so with the disciple. Here the humility has arisen out of the complete discharge of the ego. It is born out of the feelings of faith and devotion towards Gurudev. Seeking refuge at the feet of the Gurudev, you are to repair the infinitely old mistake, you are to avoid the wandering in the infinite, you are to attain the infinite bliss. None of this is possible without becoming humblest of the humble. And that is not just the superficial humility on display but the truly natural modesty arising from the depths of the inner self. The ego is all worn out. Moksa is possible only when ego goes, not otherwise. The disciple has such unwavering faith. Therefore, he has left his ego and is requesting that he be accepted as the slave of slaves at the feet of the Gurudev. He is placing the devotion-filled thoughts from his inner self at the Gurudev's feet.
The disciple repeatedly recollects the benevolence of the Gurudev. He is, in fact, trying to express how the Gurudev has been benevolent. That shall be later ...
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