Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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love for salvation and ultimately you will reach the doors of that supreme state. You will attain perfection only when you pursue that path with love. When you reach that state all your questions will cease to exist. You will get answers to all your questions. I have to impel you to pursue the path with love. It is a narrow and difficult passage. You have to reach the Paramatma by means of love.
Sant Tulsi Das says that the passage leading to the Paramatma is so na row that only you can pass through it. You cannot carry with you your wealth or prosperity or your family or any such thing. Leaving all such things behind you have to go there alone. The moment you reach the Paramatma in that state you too will become the Para. mata. We cannot go there carrying anything with us. Once a gentleman asked a Sadhu 'May I ask you a question ?". The Maharaj said, 'Where have you come from?" "I have come from Bombay' ,'What is the price of rice in Bombay ?"
"The price of rice in Bombay is about 6 or 7 rupees a kg, 'And what is the price of rice in your area ?''
He mentioned the price that prevailed there. The Sadhu asked him about the prices of rice in three or four places and then said, 'I cannot answer the questions of people like you. Your mind is full of prices of rice; you may also have in your mind the prices of other things Your mind is full of Bombay and Calcutta I will answer your questions only if you come to me with only your questions in your mind. First go back; empty your mind of all those irrelevant ideas and come with a single minded desire to know the answer to your questions. You must bring with you only your questions. Only then will you get an answer to your quest:ons. You travel by a double deck bus. You keep thinking of your belongings. Thinking of your belongings, you always keep thinking of the market, your shop and your house and family and with such a mind you put questions about the Bhagwan. The questions can never find answers.
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