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GREAT HYMN OF OBEISANCE: A CONTEMPLATION
SEARCH OF SELF
no use to get involved with them, because even after telling that she is his mother, they might ask what is the proof for this? As is witnessed in the world, lost item is kept in the custody of police, the case is pursued, the item has to be recognised by mixing it with several items and even then it might be given or may not be given.
If my watch is left over here and someone deposits it with police, be sure that it would be extremely difficult to get it back. Case would be pursued, the watch would be mixed with some other similar watches and then I would be asked to identify my watch. I ask you whether you would be able to identify your watch amongst several watches of the same company? No, then appreciate as to how difficult it would be to get back my watch?
Therefore, it is not appropriate to get entangled with policemen. Give answers quietly to whatever they ask, this would ensure welfare. Because, what would happen if they keep both mother and son in police custody?
This world is not different than policemen. It is no good to get involved in it as well. People in this world might ask as to what is the proof that you are a knowledgeable person. Should knowledgeable persons then go around furnishing proof for this? When the proof is provided, doubts would be cast on the evidence produced. Therefore, knowledgeable persons do not entangle themselves with the world about such incidents. This is good for everybody.
Does the child declare that he has found his mother? Search is made here and there when the child or the mother is lost, advertisement is also inserted in newspapers, but nobody notifies when he or she is found, nobody advertises.
Similarly, there may be interrogation in the process of search for soul, this does take place, this must take place, but there is no need for any declaration after soul is found, no need for any advertisement either.
Photographs of lost people have been seen in newspapers, but photographs of people found have never been seen. If published, one would construe this as meanness of displaying one's prosperity. Similarly, dec
larations of being knowledgeable are a tendency or attitude to seek cheap popularity.
It is sufficient that the child got his mother, he does not need any credit for this. Similarly, it is sufficient for knowledgeable persons to find the soul; they are not attracted towards prestige of being knowledgeable persons. For the child, finding mother is sufficient, he is engrossed in this, he is completely satisfied, he is highly fulfilled; he is left with no other desires. Similarly, for religious knowledgeable persons finding soul is itself sufficient. They remain engrossed in it, find satisfaction in it, and feel highly fulfilled in it, they become devoid of any other desire. They are not lured by the desire that the world should consider them knowledgeable.
The child found his mother, well, he is engrossed in this, he is satisfied but mother has a problem. When the child was lost, she had announced that she would give a reward of Rs. 500 to any person who would bring him or trace him. Now whom this reward should be given - to police, to child or to mother?
Police did nothing. It was the child who searched his mother and the mother who searched her child. Police does not deserve the reward and the mother is the one who is giving the reward; now this leaves the child only but the child does not want reward, he wants his mother, whom he has found. Now, he is not interested in the reward. He is so much fulfilled in his mother that the reward is just not his objective.
Brother! It would not be appropriate to say that there was no contribution of police at all. After allthe child searched his mother under the supervision of police only, under the guidance of police. If police protection was not available, some child-lifting gang might have kidnapped him.
In case the policeman did not make him stand up at the vantage point, the child might have been roaming here and there for searching his mother and he would not have found her. The policeman suggested him such a spot from where it was more or less essential for every woman to pass and that is why his mother could be traced.
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