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
we are doing this only indicates that we still do not have the keenness in our desire that is comparable to the desire the child has to search his mother. Therefore, I say that the types of efforts that are required for achieving soul are not being undertaken. This is the reason, we are not acquiring soul.
This is also not the issue that the child would starve. Eat, he would also eat but he would find the food tasteless. He might sit in the shadow when sunshine becomes unbearable but his attention would be focused only towards search of his mother. The question of his playing or having amusement does not arise.
Similarly, the seeker of the soul does not starve but he does not find essence of life in eating and drinking. Although his food would be compatible with his health, the question of his eating non-esculent food does not arise. Because of weakness, he might live in comfortable circumstances but his focus is always on the soul. The question of his wasting human life in playing and having amusement does not arise.
When the child's mind does not engage in playing and amusement while searching his mother, how can this be tolerable to the one who is searching the soul?
Associations occur on the basis of merits and demerits. One lives his life accordingly. In case there is the rise of merits, he would have maximum worldly comforts; he might have even a palace for residence. Although he would live in the palace and would not convert it into a cottage; even then he would not get engrossed in those favourable associations; his inner-self would be engaged in meditating on the soul Bhagwan
As the child must find his mother before sunset, we must similarly get the soul Bhagwan prior to the twilight of our lives. Such should be the determination of each seeker of the soul, then only success could be achieved.
Suppose the fair started at 10 o'clock in the morning and is scheduled to be terminated at 6 o'clock in the evening. Thus fair is for a total period of eight hours. Suppose our total life span is 80 years. On this
basis ten years is equivalent to one hour. Suppose, we are born at 10 o'clock, we would be 10 years old at 11 o'clock. Similarly, 20 years at 12 o'clock, 30 years at 1 o'clock, 40 years at 2 o'clock, 50 years at 3 o'clock, 60 years at 4 o'clock, 70 years at 5 o'clock and complete 80 years at 6 o'clock.
It is 2 o'clock in the afternoon, but mother has not been traced and he becomes restless and feels disturbed because he is able to imagine as to what would happen in case mother is not found by evening.
"Oh brother! Our life is already at four o'clock stage. It is four o'clock i.e, we are now 60 years old and we have not vet been able to locate the soul. If further two hours elapse in this manner and another ten-twenty years pass then what would happen to us? Similar to that child, have we also imagined this thing? For once, think about this seriously.
This valuable life is passing like this only and we are engrossed in worldly pleasures, what will happen to us?
The vision of the soul seeker must be similar to that of that child. In the process of search of his mother, the child watches several women, but his vision does not get fixed on any one woman. No sooner he realises that the woman is not his mother, he turns away his eyes: he do keep watching her. He does not think that she is not my mother, but she is beautiful; she must also be mother of someone or the other, why not find out whose mother she is? He does not get involved in such issues. He does not prolong his thinking on such issues; instead, he instantly abandons thoughts in regard to such issues.
Similarly, the seeker of the soul, while knowing external objects, should not get unnecessarily involved in issues related thereto for long. The purpose for which it has been known, should be allowed to rest immediately after the purpose is served. It is not the hallmark of the seeker of the soul to know external objects with purpose or without purpose and to continue to concentrate on them.
The child searching his mother does not get attracted towards the beauty of another woman. He needs his mother, what he is going to get from other women? Where does the child, who is busy searching his
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