Saint Mira

Author(s): T L Vaswani
Publisher: Saint Miras English Medium School

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PILGRIM OF ETERNITY
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because in his heart was love and every fibre of his being thrilled with faith in Man and God. He kept away from honours of the earth and always rejoiced in wisdom as his wealth and in the service of the distressed and the oppressed as the treasure of his quest.
Dadaji was never tired of asking us to go and break to the needy the bread in love; for to live is to give. Religion, to him, was not rites and ceremonies, not creeds and conformities. "Religion,” he said, “is life, is fellowship, is mingling of the individual with the Great Life. And this is not shut up in the temples. This is moving in the market place. The Great God is not somewhere in isolation. The Great God is in the procession of life Greet Him there! You will not find Him in the temples of marble and stone. You will meet Him in the sweat and struggle of life, in the tears and tragedies of the poor. Not in decorated Temples, but in broken cottages is the Great God, wiping the tears of the poor and singing His new Gita for the New Age !"
Having everything, Beloved Dada chose to live as a fakir, a man who possessed nothing. Knowing everything, he lived as one who knew naught. His humility was profound. This prince among men, this uncrowned king of our hearts chose to live as a servant of the poor and broken ones. His life was a source of perennial inspiration to thousands all over the world. His life was a saga of devoted service to the sick and afflicted, the forsaken and forlorn. He was a voice of the voiceless ones, our dear dumb brothers, birds and animals, who, alas! are being slain by the million, everyday. Every little thing he did was inspired by the vision cosmic.
Beloved Dada's life rings with the message: "Each day aspire to live in the love of God, in compassionate kindness to all, in fellowship with the broken ones and in the pure love of truth."