Namokar Mahamantra Ek Anushilan

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla
Publisher: Todarmal Granthamala Jaipur

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GREAT HYMN OF OBEISANCE: A CONTEMPLATION
SEARCH OF SELF
owing to fright, he would not get his mother because that mother too has to accept that he is her son. Even if mother lies that he is her son due to certain constraints, he would not become her son.
You may say as to why woman would say so? But I say that she might saya barren woman may say so out of greed for child and policemen can compel anyone to say anything. Don't you know this? However, the thing is that merely because of this, mother would not get son and son would not get mother.
Similarly, if Guru explains repeatedly and scolds for not understanding and then if one pretends to have understood owing to fright or loss of honour, merely saying so would not solve the problem.
A reputed Seth asked Guruji - "Bhagwan! What constitutes the soul and how can it be procured."
Guruji explained for five minutes and asked - "Have you followed?" Seth replied politely - "No, Guruji." Guruji explained for another five minutes and asked - "Now understood?"
On hearing "no", frustrated Guruji started explaining once again, with an example and again asked, "Have you now understood or not?"
On hearing "no". Guruji got irritated and said - "Do you have any substance in your head or is it full of rubbish?" Sethji felt frightened and said, "Now, I have understood."
Seth was a respectful person and when he was afraid that his honour was at stake, he agreed to have understood, without having understood. But the child is not a respectable person, is it not?
Therefore, he would not say so till he finds his mother, because he is seeking his mother, not honour. Those who love honour greater than the soul, they achieve honour only and not the soul.
When the child kept saying "no" constantly, the policeman said irri
tably, "Why should I stand in sunshine, you are the one who has to search his mother. Therefore, I will sit there in shadow; you watch all women and tell me when you find your mother."
Having said so, the policeman retired in shadow at a distance. Child also felt a bit relieved because the policeman was not helping in any way; instead, he was unnecessarily distracting his attention with constant interruptions.
With his departure, the child could now at least search his mother with full vigour and freedom.
Similarly, when the devotee prepares himself seriously for the search of the soul, he does not relish unnecessary criticism and debate because these disturb his concentration.
When yearning, comparable to the yearning of the child to search his mother, arises within ourselves to search our soul, there is no way we can miss the soul.
That child knows very well as to what would happen if he does not find his mother by evening? He will have to spend extremely dark night in a dark cell of police station alone and God knows what he will have to endure? The thing does not rest at this only. If mother is not traced, he might have to live his entire life through begging. Thinking so, he shivers. Forgetting everything, he concentrates on the search of his mother.
Do we also imagine like the child that in case we do not trace our soul Bhagwan by twilight of our lives, we would have to wander in utmost darkness of four categories of mundane existence and eightyfour lakh nuclei for infinite period and undergo infinite sufferings. In
se we had this imagination, we would not have wasted this precious human life in worldly pleasure and passions.
If someone were to say to the child, "Lot of time has elapsed standing in sunshine, come here for a while and sit in shadow, eat something, play somewhat, get amused and then search your mother, where is the hurry yet, still plenty of day is available."
Will the child listen to him, sit in shadow quietly, eat fondly desired food, play, and get amused? If not, then why are we doing all this, but
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